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NG? SHIT. EVA REFRESH

o new messag

jeans pocket right as the di

d of schedule; they were always a week behi

g to her place in the Adirondacks to get some writing done.

Travis Davenport replied to her email that beg

but that wasn't the actual issue. No, it was the fact that the guy had demand

five times her booking fee,

e imagination had her creating about a hundred different s

on him, and Travis appeared fairly bor

mal job. Normal everyth

nd then she could be hea

mn

r vacation; she was itching to move her fing

our extra days. Four da

k to work on her script, she

ready secured two more seasons on one of the primetime networks-it was

away the smoke still settling from the last scene, then d

g about your scr

t off the table near the director's chair as more

pated look on your face when

up. "Oh my G

o, I take it you

d enough to pitch at this rate." She bit int

sweaty and naked, in her living room. God, Eva would give anything for

I'd run out scream

fore we start shooting again. Why

Lake Placid, but I-" "Just pitch it to your da

m the s

est of her donut, relishing the sweet tas

ike Jayme, meant she didn't have to live on salad. Carbs wer

sn't even know I'm trying to make a play for

x injections in her forehead. She'd been on Eva for months ab

or her thirtieth birthday-it'd been game over. Everyone in the film industry knew Harrison Reed, and Jaym

the daughter of an iconic director. And don't get me started on

y from renting the cabins her parents had sold to her as "Eva Sharp," she didn't take a dime from h

re. It's all about who you k

room, taking in the remaining crew. "So, what will you

moothed a hand through the air with dramatic fl

e like she'd eaten s

I didn't love you like a sist

ith Harrison. The way you swooned over him that night . . . pl

oesn't?" S

nd left the studio, following the last few pe

f

ow. I might throw a dart at the

ld be like yo

ced her. "We'll have a girls' trip. I'll get a few of us together, and

ing as th

pt that'll end up in the junk pile u

ave such an un

teeth. "Don't the rumors bother you? I'd lose my shit about some of

ainst the exterior of their usual coffee shop. "I don't care

that means,

whether Travis wants me there or not. There's enough room for the bo

hell is

o late. Eva was a few

ntention of

the final road, his message popped up on her phone: You can'

nd so maybe that's how business people talke

der her breath and stowed he

he cab dr

o myself. Sorry." She clutched her purse against her puffy w

The cabins were several acres apart, and the s

d. You sure you're going to be

ver attacks woman staying alone in the woods during a freak blizzard. Woman turns out to be part of the Hol

her life was uneventful, plain, and super bo

nd nearly choked on the words

on to the drive. "You have food an

by the manager who looked after her place. "Uh,

d to the cabins for a little R&R with no cameras in sight. They hadn't come as a family since her parents split over two decades ago

r playing guitar o

n the lake and dancing

g off with every pretty girl with

owed the past and let it simmer once a

ts flooded her nostrils as she dropped her bags ins

ut her current tenant and neighbor. What if Travis, aka

fore plopping down on the brown suede cou

irport to Lake Placid had taken her longer than expected. The night

r love for the place had more to do with her memo

by, demanding "alone time"? Just because his background check cleared didn't mean

n," she said as a cold bluste

a better idea. Before she could close her eyes, a s

ed from outside, followed by ano

" Norm

e in there. O

e? Her heartbeat took a

t

s Dave

orry." She approached th

her way through

in the woods be

ttle calmer now. But damn, it was still deep and laced with som

erous. Probably even mor

ticked up to the speeds of an Indy race

have it

's gun was still in the safe upstairs. Her father still came to the place once or twice a year when he wanted to escape the publ

and I won't

the door. "I-I promise I'll be quiet, and you won't even know I'm here. Okay?" A tremble poked through her v

her dad use for it?

e. This isn't up

great. Perfect. Nothing like giving him permission to bust the door down and hack me int

't hurt you. I promise. You ran

he placed her hand on the wall,

rt you, I would've

cked on the light and adjusted her gaze in the now lit room. "I'm sorry again

bit through his words, loud eno

dy expla

rt, but we need to leave now

w and shifted the curtains a t

talk face-to-

ont door and rested a hand on t

voice had changed. It

ryt

e storm's going to be bad

you, it

t for a moment. "I need you to trus

ho on repeat. There was something in the sound

spinning around in circles like a dog chasing her tail. She

could find and walked back to the

cour

she tried to steady her heart rate. With

man standing before

ut this tall, well-built man wit

gorgeous-he wasn