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Eli didn’t know how this conversation had gone from a disaster to the equivalent of a nuclear meltdown, with everything spiraling out of control. The idea had seemed like a good one at the time—he couldn’t focus on anything with Adeline on set. He’d kept thinking about how she was standing so close, yet so far, and wondering if she still smelled like a mixture of citrus and chocolate. Was a slight smile playing on her lips, like it usually did, lighting up her eyes?
Or would she be helping one of the crew members that seemed to need it, even though she wasn’t supposed to? In the past couple of days, Adeline had done that several times.
And then Daisy had been looking at Eli like she was going to murder him for not paying attention and making them start again. And he’d realized that n
