Page 25 of No One Was Supposed to Die at This Wedding

Which means Emma and Tyler had a thing. How serious and for how long, I don’t know. But it couldn’t have been something positive in her life. If it was, she would’ve told me about it. And now it’s surfacing like a bad penny, right before her wedding.

That can’t be good.

I mean, it isn’t. Foreshadowing and all that. You know the drill.

“Are you investigating something?” Connor asks me when I wander back toward the front of the boat looking for Oliver and Harper.

“Why do you ask?”

He stares down at me in the same way that he did when we met ten years ago. SeductiveAF. “Because I know you.”

“You were watching me, you mean?”

He raises a shoulder. I think about avoiding the question, but maybe he’s heard something. Connor’s a magnet for scuttlebutt.

“They’re saying there’s something else behind that fight last night. Between Fred and Tyler.”

“That set was full of exes.”

“Like who?”

“Fred and Simone had something years ago when they did their first film together.”

“Gross.”

He smirks. “And you’ve heard about Tyler and Emma?”

Ugh. That means it’s true.

“I don’t want to believe it.” I bite the edge of my thumb. “What about David, the screenwriter? Does he have something against Emma?”

“I heard she got him fired off a picture a few years ago.”

“That can’t be right.”

Connor raises his eyebrows at me. “Actresses.”

“Youweremarried to one.” The wind picks up and blows my hair around. I tuck it into the back of my shirt. “So, Tyler picked a fight with Fred because of jealousy?”

“It’s not just that.”

“What, then?”

He cocks an eyebrow. “Why do you want to know?”

“Because she’s my best friend and Fred is her fiancé.”

“And you like gossip.” He smirks. “I know you, remember?”

I feel a blush creep up the back of my neck. Connor’s always had way too much impact on me, despite everything he’s done. “Didn’t we agree in Italy to let the past be the past?”

“If I recall, our agreement was more of a financial nature.”

“Right,” I say. “You stopped blackmailing me, and I made sure you didn’t go to jail.”

“I keptyouout of jail.”

“The point is—there weren’t going to be any games between us anymore. Right?”

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