Page 44 of Rescued Heart

Bianca smelled onion bagel on his breath. Not exactly comforting.

Stop thinking and remain in character.“What are we going to do without him?”

Carter blocked her face from the camera, and his foot landed on her toe. The bandaged one that had scraped against the pavement. She bit on her bottom lip, strangling her moan. They needed one good take to get a break.

He finally moved his foot and put his hands on her cheeks. “What are we going to do without the clues?”

Annette tapped Bianca on the shoulder. “I’m so sorry for your loss.” She lifted up a notebook. “Before…” She pinched her lips together.

Oh, the poor girl. Please let her remember the line.

Annette jiggled the notebook. “Before your brother passed…he said I needed to give this to you.”

Carter grabbed the notebook and flipped through the pages. He shook his head and pointed to the third page. “This is it. He had all the clues for the jewel the entire time.” He looked straight at the camera. “He lied to us.”

“Cut!” Leo glared at the playback scene and then spoke to one of his other assistants who stood under the shaded tent over the main camera.

The assistant nodded. “We should have enough for that scene. Everyone, take five.”

The wayward curl drooped into Bianca’s vision. She really needed that hair spray. Grace should be able to find Riley.

But before she could move toward Grace, Annette stepped in front of Bianca with tears in her eyes. “I’m so sorry. I don’t even know why I kept messing up. They weren’t even hard lines. It’s like my brain forgot what a notebook was.”

Bianca put her hand on the girl’s arm and offered the encouragement she wished she’d gotten once. “You nailed that last take, and that’s all that matters. We all have our off days.”

Bianca kept her grin instead of massaging her temples.

Annette smiled and headed to the water table.

One of them should be happy. All Bianca wanted to do was take a hot shower and climb into bed. Her legs ached. Probably from a lack of water, which she hadn’t drunk much of today, but it could have also been left over from last night. Her slight headache was from lack of sleep. Every time she’d closed her eyes, she’d seen the car again. However, instead of coming after her, it had headed for Eddie.

And in her dreams, she hadn’t been able to save him.

Just like she’d been unable to completely restore her relationship with her family.

Lord, You haven’t forgotten about that, right?

Her gaze sought Eddie. Grace remained at her location in the corner, but Eddie was gone.

When Bianca reached Grace, her step-in assistant handed over Bianca’s phone while tapping away at something on her own. “Finally. I’ve been needing to send these out.”

Bianca glanced at her screen. One missed call and two messages from the same unknown number.

Unknown

I’ve got good news, Lady B. Answer your phone!

Only one person called her Lady Bianca. And Nathan should not be contacting her. Unless he had news about her money. But if that was the case, then he’d lied to her about not knowing what’d happened to it.

She slipped her phone into her pocket. “Did you see where Eddie went?”

Grace didn’t look up from her screen. “Had to leave.”

Bianca deflated. “Was he in pain?”

She should have tried harder to check on him. He had been slipping out during the takes and probably talking to different extras and crew members. The real reason he was actually here.

Bianca pulled out her phone. “Maybe I should send him a text and see if he’s okay.”

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