MUCH LATER, WHEN THE crowd is starting to thin out, Carly drops heavily into the lounger next to Paul’s. “Alex is a f*****g beauty.”
“Don’t let him hear you say that,” he says wryly. He looks across the pool to where Alex is standing in a little cluster of people, including Natalie and Raphael, two of his other co-stars. Paying his respects, probably. While there are a handful of people on the crew and in the cast Alex is genuinely friendly with, including Raph, Natalie is not one of them. Then again, Natalie isn’t genuinely friendly with anyone as far as Paul has ever been able to tell.
“I already told him,” Carly says.
“And he didn’t shove you into the pool?” Paul asks.
Carly raises her eyebrows at Paul over the rim of her glass. “We have an understanding.”
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