Chapter 8

“Let me guess. Kissing Nadiya in Times Square with hundreds of photographers watching was somehow part of your master plan,” stated Gwen with little conviction. “It’s not like you to think revenge was the way to solve a problem? Were you trying to get even?”

“Gwen, you’d better listen before you make accusations,” warned Nadiya. “Naomi was the one that came up with the idea. We just refined it. You had already kissed Timberline. The photos were all over the internet. People were bound to think he was your new boyfriend. Or worse yet, they’d think that he was your new lover, regardless of how innocent it may have been.”

“I just suggested that we needed to find a way to make it look like it was a planned publicity stunt, rather than a fall from grace by the biggest star in the country,” chipped in Naomi. “It became a bit convoluted. I suggested that the only way we could convince the public that it was a planned publicity stunt was for Steve to misbehave, too. I joked that