The Art of Un-Making: A Star's Vicious Comeback

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we' d been together, a secret I kept to protect her carefully crafted image as a single, untoucha

s and texts. Shane. My sis

the hell is

you

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oman I' d built my life around had just replaced me with a y

red me he was just business. "He' s a kid, Liam. A g

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ying down. I opened Twitter, my fingers hovering over the keys. It was time

type a word,

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ing with a mix of rage and

e said. Her voice was ice. No apol

out what, Cass? T

on dollar investment for the label. I can' t have y

re the one who pos

tes buzz. What you' re thinking of d

"emotional" like

new I was about to go public. I kn

. You of all people sh

lied to me. You' re in A

matters is that you keep your

e would have soothed my ego, told me I was the only one wh

you. I will call every station, every promoter, every blogger in this town and I will personally see to it

t, I tried to ope

e detected a security breach. Pleas

t. She was showing me

She froze your accounts! That witch! We' re

new it was useless. She held all the card

s apartment, in this city. Every s

Tennessee. The place where I wrote my first songs, lon

k me up. We' re getting ou

ag in the back of his pickup and we drove o

was heavy. After an hour,

thing I have to tell yo

. His knuckles were whi

about

minent domain notice?

he said she had her lawyers take

t me. He just stared a

lied,

mach d

lowball payout. She signed the papers

ed at me, his ey

kid. They demolishe