Off Limit: Claimed by My Ex-Fiancé's Stepdad novel · Chapter 18 of 32
Chapter 18: The Wig Room
I didn't turn on the light.
I sat down on the linoleum across from her, between two wig stands, with my back against the cabinet.
We hadn't been alone in a room since before Jude.
"Do what?" I said.
"I don't know. I told you I don't know."
"Then why are you shaking?"
Lenore looked down at the wig in her lap.
She started pulling the pins out of it, one at a time, and dropping them in her palm.
"In the car after the lobby," she said, "Mom was happy."
"She just lost four million dollars."
"I know. She was happy anyway. She was humming." Lenore swallowed. "She said, 'Don't worry, baby. Opening night, Cleo stops the show in front of every critic in New York, and that's the end of her.'"
The wig room was so quiet I could hear the dryer ticking in the corner.
"What does that mean?" I said.
"I asked her. She patted my knee and said, 'You'll see.'"
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