Heartthrob (Hollywood Hearts, #1) by Belinda Williams

Author:Belinda Williams
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: romance, contemporary romance, romantic comedy, contemporary, hollywood romance, movie star romance
Publisher: BWrite
Published: 2016-11-10T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 23

I decided to use my remaining adrenaline by spending the afternoon tidying my workroom. It was a good idea in theory but at the sight of the mess again, I stood on the threshold fighting the urge to burst into tears.

Lena joined me in the doorway, hands on hips, surveying the mess.

“What are you doing here?” I asked.

“What does it look like?” she replied. “We’re here to help.”

Jay and Tim were behind her like some sort of glamorous Hollywood clean-up squad.

With that, she marched into the room and began gathering shreds of fabric into trash bags they’d brought along. With a sigh, I followed her into the room and did the same. Jay and Tim hauled each bag away when it was full and righted the shelves so we could put my sewing supplies back where they belonged.

Despite the strangeness of the situation, a sort of camaraderie developed between us. At one point Lena disappeared from the room and returned with the Academy Awards dress. She took it out of the bag and hung it on the clothes rack like a statement of defiance.

“It’s not my color,” Jay said.

“I’d say you’re more of a hot pink man,” Tim shot back.

“Nah, lime green’s my thing.”

Lena rolled her eyes and joined me at the worktable where I was rolling up a bolt of fabric that had been spread across the length of the surface.

“At least they didn’t ruin everything,” she commented.

While I was glad I still had some leftover fabric to work with, I would have preferred whoever it was had left my designs alone. I focused on ensuring the last of the fabric went onto the roll straight.

“Ah, Ally?” Lena’s hand gripped my arm tightly.

“What?” I looked up and she pointed to the table in front of us. “Oh . . . ”

FAKE. FRAUD.

The words shouted at me in capital letters, and were surprisingly neat given the circumstances.

I heard Lena bite off an oath and she rushed around me, grabbing a spare piece of fabric as she went. She tried to rub the ‘d’ away but it didn’t budge.

“Lena.” Jay came to her side and gently removed the fabric from her hand. “It’s evidence.”

“It’s not going anywhere anyway,” she said, clearly upset that the letters had been written in black permanent marker. She met my eyes and an apology swam in their blue depths.

I shrugged, discovering I was becoming more robust about this stalking thing. “I guess that answers that question then.”

“What?”

“Who the stalker is focused on.”

Lena frowned, and for the first time since I could remember she looked very close to tears. “You don’t know that.”

I gestured to the table, which Jay was firing off photos of with his cell phone. “But the evidence is stacking up. Someone clearly doesn’t like me here.”

Instead of protesting, Lena’s frown deepened and she fell silent watching Jay. When he was done taking photos she walked over to him. “Are you going to send those to Marc?”

“Already on it.”

Lena nodded and glanced back to me.

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