Chapter 13
Anna
Becka was staring. "Are you freaking nuts?"
Was I? Probably.But I didn't want Becka to worry, so I tried to smile. "Yeah, well…It's good money."
"So?"
"So we need it."
She shook her head. "Notthatbad."
She was wrong, and we both knew it. On the apartment's telephone, bill collectors had been calling non-stop. By now, I was ready to rip the stupid thing right out of the wall – except I couldn’t afford to pay for the phoneorthe damage if I let my despair get the best of me.
To Becka, all I said was, "Who knows, it might be fun."
Yeah, like a root canal.
She replied, "But he's totally crazy. You know that, right?"
"He is not."Or least, I sure hoped he wasn't.
"He is, too," Becka insisted. "Remember what he did to those reporters in Barcelona?"
I did remember, because I'd seen it on the news. Apparently, he'd caught a couple of reporters sneaking into his rented villa while he was supposed to be filming on location.
Due to a change in schedule, he'd returned just in time to catch them going through his things. One thing had led to another, and he'd ended up tossing both of them right off the nearest balcony.
I winced. "Well, yeah. But it's not like they were hurt or anything."
"But they fell two stories!"
"Sure, but into the pool."
She looked far from comforted. "Was heaimingfor the pool?"
Honestly, I had no idea.Still, I replied, "Well I’m sure he didn't mean to kill them or anything."
"And then there was that guy in Malibu," she said. "You remember what happened to him?"
Yeah, I remembered.Flynn had caught some guy sneaking into the women's changing room while Felicity Saint Cloud was trying on some bikinis.
Flynn had dragged the guy out by his ankle – and onto the sidewalk, where the creep had been promptly run over.
I mumbled, "Well, at least he wasn't squashed."
"What do you mean?"
"I mean, the guy that Flynn dragged out – he got run over by a bicycle, not a dump truck."
"So?"
"I'm just saying, it could've been worse."
Becka looked at me like I'd lost my mind. "And you know he does his own stunts, right?"
"Yeah, so?"
