Chapter 2345

Mara’s cryptic text, complete with a selfie, buzzed on Ivy’s phone just as she was engrossed in reviewing the next day’s script sent by Colton..

Sometimes, Ivy had to hash out plot points with Colton, and had she decided to go to bed. early that evening, she would have missed Mara’s bombshell photo. But as fate would have it, she was in the midst of a late-night chat with Colton.

Curious about what Mara could possibly have sent her, Ivy tapped into the conversation thread only to find a selfie of Mara and Balfour!

Disbelief washed over her as she zoomed in on the photo. It was unmistakably Balfour, and there was Mara, grinning like the Cheshire Cat.

would Mara send

open the message again, only

that to the wrong person] came Mara’s nonchalant follow-up.

Mara powered off her phone, content in the knowledge that she wouldn’t be the one losing sleep that night.

rush more intoxicating than the moment the picture was taken. Tossing and turning in her

by now. Oh, Ivy, my dear, Balfour is mine. I’m just giving you a heads-up to face the music sooner rather than later. Bail out now, and you might spare yourself some misery, or stick around and watch the show,” Mara mused before drifting off, lost in

had been staring blankly at her conversation with Mara for

angry when she made a scene about moving out alone. He was concerned that she wasn’t taking her well-being seriously. As an actress, she prided herself on seeing through facades, discerning genuine emotion from performance. Yet how could Balfour, within mere days, be so intimately cozy with another woman? Could it be that even she, the actress, had been fooled by Balfour’s act? Had his pleas for her to stay been nothing but a charade? Was he, in fact, eagerly awaiting her departure so he could be with

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