How to Land a Movie Star novel · Chapter 18 of 24

Chapter 18: What Saskia Wanted

"Please," Saskia said again, taking a step into the ballroom. "Five minutes, Corin. Outside."

Two hundred phones swung toward her.

"No," Corin said.

He did not stand, and he did not raise his voice.

"You can say it here."

She stopped between the tables with her bare silver head and her plain black dress.

Without the sequins she looked completely out of place.

"I was frightened," she said. "My publicist went too far. I never told her to hurt anyone."

"You told her to send a girl's face to a photographer."

"I told her to protect me."

"From what?"

"From being the woman you wouldn't let in."

It was the first true sentence she'd said in weeks, and the room heard it.

She turned and played it to the tables, and she was very good.

"I'll say it was her alone. I'll stand beside him at the premiere and tell the world so."

"He isn't a stage you get to stand on," I said.

"Nobody asked the reader," Saskia said, without looking at me.

She looked back at him, and her eyes were wet and enormous.

"We were good, Corin. Before it all went bad. Come back to the table, and I'll fix this."

I watched his hands.

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