Billionaire's Placeholder: Now Watch Me Shine

t in the back, watching the blurred lights of the tunnel whip by. H

he main theater. It was a side venue, small and intimate.

ll she handed over was money she had ea

of the rough cut faded to black. As she slipped into the back of the room, silence hung h

eyes. She saw a critic fro

her elbow. His

er arm. "They love it. You're not just a p

er arm away.

en room. Zack was scro

alling your performance 'haunting.' We nee

he asked.

ook good together. The press loves a

e NDA. Brittain will sue

don't you want to be famous for something other than being Austin's shadow?" The NDA was ironclad, but a public lawsuit would expose the very

didn't answer. She needed to do some

s narrow. A group of people was coming the other w

at cost more than Cara's father's house. Her eyes raked ov

s like syrup laced with arsenic. "The Muse. Did

jaw. She tried to

t that looked accidental but definitely wasn't, the cup tilted. Brown liquid sp

e didn't look sorry.

to scream. She wanted to grab Hali by her extensions and

a said. The word

d Caryn is back in town," she whispered, leaning clo

ducklings. Cara stood there, staring at the brown stain

ound booth. The direc

The scene where she finds out he's

vie. She thought about Hali's laugh. She thought about Brittain's cold eyes. S

tio

It was a primal, guttural roar that tore through her th

s dead silent. Her chest was

hrough the glass. Ho

She wiped a single tear from h

buzzed. It

hed it,

ain on her shoe. If she played by the rules, she got s

exted

about the pla

e in. It was Burrel,

o know if you are

eply. She stepped over the coffee stai