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Her laugh increased after she read the message; glancing up, she saw Lacey staring at her inquisitively. “A friend sent me a funny photo.”

“Sure.” Lacey nodded disinterestedly, pulled her phone out of her pocket, and started scrolling.

‘Tantrum. Why have they done that to you?’Clara replied.

She watched the screen and saw the dots appear; Taylor was messaging her.

‘I don’t know. I think they hate me. It looks stupid. Right, tantrum time.’

Clara giggled; she couldn’t imagine the Taylor she knew throwing a tantrum.

‘You just asked them nicely to remove it, didn’t you?’

Again, the dots immediately appeared.‘Yes, it was a new girl. I asked the chief makeup artist, and she nearly had a stroke, as it was nothing like the continuity photo.’

‘What’s that?’

‘The photos they take to ensure we look consistent from scene to scene. No guy-liner anywhere else in this movie. So they removed it.’

He sent her another close-up of his eye, this time eyeliner-free.

‘So you were just being dramatic?’

‘A little.’

‘You should go into acting.’Clara chuckled to herself as she typed it.

She had a lot of fun bantering with Taylor and found it hard to reconcile the movie star with someone who sent her some kind of ridiculous photo every day.

‘I should! Ops got to go. Being called to set.’

‘Good luck.’

‘You’re supposed to say, break a leg.’

‘As a doctor, I’m very averse to broken bones, as it means more work for me. So I’m sticking with good luck.’

‘Okay, I’ll take it. I’ll see you later at the hospital.’

Clara stared at her phone as her heart fluttered at the thought of seeing him.

CHAPTER 18

The rest of the day passed quickly, with the first delivery she had arranged arriving just before lunchtime. Then, equipment began to turn up thick and fast.

It was amazing how quickly you could get things when you were told money was no object and to use the production credit card to pay for same-day couriers.

When five o’clock rolled around, the operating room was still covered in boxes, so many that there was no way they could use it for rehearsal the next day.

Clara realised she would have to keep working. Glancing across at Lacey, she noticed the young woman looking at her phone more and more frequently.

Until Clara finally enquired, “Are you late for something?”

“No. It’s just that I’ve got a date tonight with one of the cameramen, and I wanted time to go back to the hotel, shower, and get ready. But all this,” Lacey gestured around the room, “is going to take a while.”

“You should go now.” Clara nodded; she didn’t want to get in the way of the young woman going on a date, and as she had saidearlier, she had to tell Lacey where to put everything, so it was almost quicker just to do it herself. Well, it wasn’t, but she was used to long days.

“I can stay,” Lacey said a little reluctantly.

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