Let's Make a Scene: A Novel (Theo & Cynthie, #2)

by Laura Wood

If I had a pound for every time I’ve been asked to establish a fake relationship with Cynthie Taylor for the benefit of the press, I’d have two pounds, which isn’t a lot, but it’s pretty wild that it’s happened twice.

She smirks, her gaze running slowly from my face to my feet, and then—pointedly—over my shoulder toward my trailer, which looks like a Jackson Pollock/My Little Pony collaboration.

“What?” I try to sound nonchalant, but I’m not pulling it off. I sound whatever the opposite of nonchalant is: really-fucking-chalant. “How we all just watched you and Cynthie eye-bang each other across the room?” Patty says like it’s a question. “You don’t think that’s interesting?”

I’ve wanted to smother her with a pillow when it’s six a.m. and she’s acting like a Disney princess who gets dressed by tiny birds.”

Somehow Jack always seems to know, and he’ll appear like my personal emotional support film star, handsome and kind, and just quietly, stubbornly there.

“Oh, thank god,” Steve Carell whispers.

“Are we heisting something?” I ask, interested. “I’ve always fancied being in on a heist.”