*
“Aspen, darling, it’s been a while since we’ve gotten to speak with you. You’re a hard woman to find.” Jay Renfro sat across from me in the booth beside an interview attendant, sipping a glass of what smelled like lemonade.
“It has been a while,” I agreed. Almost three weeks in this place felt like a lifetime. “With forty contestants to interview, I’m surprised you had the time to fit me in.”
“We’ll cut that,” someone mumbled on the dark side of the curtain.
I guessed it was the wrong thing to say.
“The viewers have been dying for more details on you and Ranger,” Jay continued. “You have to tell us what’s going on with you two.”
I also had questions.
My smile grew bigger as I folded my hands in my lap. “They know about as much as I do.”
“Come on. You have to give us more than tha
