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That too-big grin on Corey’s face had me jerking my phone back from view. “Keep your drool off my furniture.”

“Hey, you’re the one who called him the hottest guy you’d ever seen. I’m just agreeing with you.”

It took me longer than it should have to realize all of what Corey had said in the last few seconds.

I’d told him that the guy I’d had a scene with was the hottest guy I’d ever seen, but…how did he know Donovan was the same guy? He’d been masked the entire time in all of our scenes, and I knew I hadn’t slipped with his name.

Maybe Corey was just assuming it was the same guy…

I decided to play dense on the off chance he was just trying to figure things out. “Not sure what you mean.”

“Look at you being cagey, even though the secret’s out.” Corey dug into the sleeve for another cookie. “You must like him a lot.”

“Hold on a second,” I said, scooting to the edge of the couch as a knot began to form in my stomach. “What do you mean by ‘the secret’s out’?”

“The article.” He wiped the crumbs from the corner of his mouth with the back of his hand. “I didn’t know you’d scrub up so nice. I was kinda impressed.”

“Corey,whatarticle? Show me.”

The seriousness in my tone must’ve tipped him off that something was up, because he fumbled for his phone and handed it to me.

And suddenly, I felt like I was going to be sick.

There was a photo of me and Donovan in our tuxedos posing together at the Elysium event, but it wasn’t seeing us together that made my stomach roil. It was the implication spelled out in the article underneath.

DONOVAN TRUITT AND KELLY “SIN” SINCLAIR

STEP OUT TOGETHER FOR A GOOD CAUSE.

Donovan Truitt, son of supermodel Kimberly Thompson, was spotted last week with Kelly Sinclair, the latest “big” thing tocomefrom Xes Entertainment.

The two attended a charity event at Elysium, but seemed to only have eyes for each other as they were photographed entering the event.

Kelly, who hasrisento fame with soaring online success, has stolen that spotlight with a masked mystery man. But after this public outing as a couple, many are now speculating over whether we just got a glimpse of the beautiful face that might be hiding behind that mask.

Beautiful face behind the mask…meaning Donovan.

Oh shit.I dropped my head onto my hand as I read through the rest. “Oh my fucking God.”

The room went dead silent. After a beat, Corey said, “Wait, you didn’t know about this?”

“Does it look like I got a heads-up?”

Corey cursed and shoved the box of cookies aside. “Shit, man, I’m sorry. I just thought—”

“That someone who didn’t want his identity known in the videos with me would just blast that information at an event his parents were at? Fuck no.”

“Oh. Yeah. He’s got a pretty famous family, huh?”

“No shit.” I scrubbed a hand over my face. “And Donovan’s not exactly unknown either.”

“That’s…not good.”

I lifted my head, glaring, and Corey recoiled.

“You know what?” he said, getting to his feet and hugging the cookies to his chest. “I think I’m gonna go. You look like you, uh, need some space.”

I wasn’t even in the mood to argue that because, shit, this was just another layer to an already complicated situation, and I didn’t need to take anything out on Corey.

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