Dangerous Dreams by Roxanne Riley

Author:Roxanne Riley [Riley, Roxanne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-07-21T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eight

Phillip

“Hemlock? What the fuck is that?” I demand.

“It’s a plant,” Cody replies, “Related to wild carrot or something, I think, except super poisonous.”

“How the fuck did she end up eating it?” I ask in disbelief.

I’m still reeling. I’d been woken up early this morning by a phone call from the director, telling me that our filming schedule was off for the time being because Rory was in the hospital.

I’d booked a plane ticket before I could find my shoes.

And now I was sitting in a waiting room with a frat guy I’ve never met. The kid, Cody, was the one who had found Aurora and Lumi, and he was filling me in on the details. He’d been upstairs, heard a scream, and when he came down, Lumi was out cold and convulsing, and Rory was on the verge of passing out.

“I didn’t see any of it, I’m just kind of piecing this together from shit I’ve heard from Orion and Xander,” he warns, “So I might be wrong, but from what I gathered, it was in an apple pie.”

“Wait…” I’d been under the impression that this was some sort of stupid mishap, but now I’m wondering: “So this was deliberate? Someone put some poisonous shit into an apple pie?”

Cody nods. “Lumi’s stepmom.”

My jaw drops. “You’re fucking kidding.”

“No, there was a detective sniffing around earlier when Lumi woke up and everything. Her dad was here, too, and he went absolutely apeshit when he found out. He’s already been on the phone with a lawyer about a divorce, and they haven’t even found her yet.”

“I don’t fucking blame him,” I mutter, “If my wife tried to poison my kid, I think I’d be ready to call it quits.”

“Yeah,” Cody nods in agreement, “It’s wild as fuck. Like, it sounds like something out of a movie, it doesn’t sound real. It makes Isabella seem like some kind of fairytale witch or something, using some random crazy plant to try to kill her stepdaughter.”

The door swings open and I look up, my heart racing, hoping it’s a doctor or something here with some good news. But the figure that walks through the door is a familiar one. Aurora’s manager. His face is solemn to begin with, but it curls into an outward scowl when he sees me.

It’s pretty plain to see the guy’s got a thing for her, which is why he hates my guts. The way he looks at her? It’s like she hung the moon.

Not that I blame him. I still can’t figure out if I made a brilliant decision or a horrible mistake in auditioning for this movie with her, because while I’m enjoying every minute I spend with her, trying to resist the temptation with her around me all the time is torture.

I want to make a move, but I’ve held back for some reason. Normally I don’t hesitate with a woman I’m into, but there’s just something different about Aurora. She’s worth waiting for.

“How is she?” Cody asks immediately.

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