The Kiss that Sparked it All

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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.

Mara send her such a picture?

chat, Ivy attempted to open the message again, only

the wrong person] came Mara’s nonchalant

her phone, content in the knowledge that she wouldn’t be the one

with an unspeakable glee, a rush more intoxicating than the moment the picture was

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

at her conversation with Mara for a solid half-hour,

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

into her bones. Mara’s so-called ‘mistake’ message

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