Falling for the Starlet

got

holding a tablet with security footage. Lucy and Tiana looked up from the cou

" Caleb sa

phone outside a coffee shop. "David Chen, twenty-four, works in our casting department as an assist

"Walsh? Like

the Elena role before you came along. Appa

y my life over a movie role?" Lu

n camera making the calls, screenshots of his payments from Amber, and phone rec

y that surprised him with its intensi

cking up David now, and they're coordi

hen was led away in handcuffs, a crowd of studio employees gawking from t

suite to find Lucy pacing whil

nnounced. "They're

elief flooding her face

No

all three of them. Caleb cleared his t

you live, where you work. Even with the real perpetrators

?" Tiana asked

be a week. Until

rself. "I can't afford to miss w

urself on paid leave from the

work for the

ngratulations, y

stared at him in shock while Ti

t it?

er face light up with pure joy was doing things to his

asked practically. "Hotels are expensive, an

n't ask. "I have a secured apartm

pose like that,"

. The place sits empty m

e in the city where he could disappear from the pressures of running a studio

cy being unsafe somewh

garage of a sleek high-rise in downtown LA. He'd dismissed his dri

hispered as they rode the priv

windows and expensive furniture. Lucy walked to the wall of glass

t have to do this

the window, close enough to s

er brown eyes searching his

focused on her c

epped closer, close enough that he could see the gold fleck

" she wh

ng the moment. Theresa's

s," he said, steppi

Did you see what they posted about me? My public

e people responsib

us and me... people actually believe I'm havin

he'd been focused on protecting Lucy, Theresa was de

should have cal

ely. How did some nobody actress becom

d at Lucy, who was pretending not to listen

It was about the role

y just cost me a magazine cover. Vogue doesn

, leaving Caleb staring at his phone and

okay?" Lucy a

fering comfort despite everything she'd been through. The urge to tell her everything

he grabbed

e kitchen, and building security

eb, w

or, not trusting him

ything. I know this i

e knew how

descended, he couldn't shake the feeling that he was

s: "Sir, we found something else in Davi

of Lucy plastered across David's bedroom wall, some taken with a telephoto lens fro

ace in every single photo that made him

ed Lucy Martinez