Princess of Hollywood (The Glitterati Files Book 2) by Maggie Dallen

Author:Maggie Dallen [Dallen, Maggie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-12-01T18:30:00+00:00

Nine

Lila

I glared down at my phone as I waited for Jack to text me back.

I was really beginning to hate this stupid show.

Love on the Range was the only reason Jack was still in town, but it was also the reason I hadn’t seen him in a week. We’d been texting, but I could tell you right here and now that Jack was a terrible texter. He used texts like he was paying per word or something. All monosyllables and need-to-know info.

Jack’s texts basically sounded like old timey wires. Stuck on location. Stop. Can’t see you tonight. Stop.

Okay, fine, so he didn’t actually type ‘stop,’ but that’s how I read them to myself. All week we’d been trying to meet up and failing, and with each passing minute, my nerves threatened to get the best of me. Why? Because after that awful dinner at my mom’s, he’d sent me one text.

You never did answer my question, Princess. We need to talk.

Even now, a week later, my stomach flipped as I thought about the conversation to come. The question he wanted answered. He didn’t need to spell out what question.

I already knew.

It was the question that had been nagging at me. The one I wished I’d answered.

The one I was terrified to answer.

Was any of it real?

I set my phone down on the lounge chair beside me and picked up the romance novel I’d been trying to get into for about an hour now without success. It wasn’t the author. It was me. It was my thoughts. It was my phone.

I scowled down at the page I couldn’t focus on.

It was the stupid TV show that was ruining my life.

I was hiding out in the poolside cabana again. Not because Daddy Dearest was on the rampage—he’d been in a shockingly decent mood this week. I was the one having a hard time keeping my cool around him. It was my guilty conscience getting in my way. Every time I saw my father, I thought about how I’d done something sneaky to help Tess in her quest to get dirt on him.

All I knew was that I’d installed some spyware on my mom’s computer because Tess thought accessing my mom’s banking information would help and not even Tess the tech genius had been able to hack in remotely.

I wasn’t even sure what she was looking for or how it would help her cause, but just knowing I’d done that much made it difficult to face Daddy. Guilt and fear flared every time I heard his voice in the house or saw him working at his desk on my way to the kitchen.

So yeah, for now, the cabana was my safe place.

I had no idea how Tess managed it. How she kept that “yes, Daddy” sweetness and that innocent façade all the time.

It was beginning to occur to me that in this family, maybe I wasn’t the actress. Maybe Tess had been playing us all this whole time.

Me included.

But she was starting to

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