Page 87 of Hollywood Undercover
She jumped to her feet, crossing the room to fling the dooropen.
“Thanks!” she said to him, pulling the box from hishands.
“You don’t have to stay cooped up in here, youknow?”
“Yes, I know that,” she said with a curt tone. “I’m just organizing a fewthings.”
“Got it.” Bash took a step back. “Did I do something to tick you off,bro?”
Before she could answer, her phone buzzed. Both of their gazes darted back to her smartphone on the edge of the bed. She grimaced, hoping Bash couldn’t see Eva’s face and phone number light up the screen. She rushed over to the phone and flipped the screenoff.
“Oh, is it your harassing ex who’s killing your mood?” Bash asked, still gesturing to thephone.
“Sure,” she answered. Wilkes came to mind at first, and then the unforgettable image of Aileen plastered all over Bash snuck backin.
“Well, none of us can change the past,” he said. “The upside is, you can choose who you keep in your life and who you letgo.”
What if I don’t want to let yougo?
Bash shut the guestroom door behind him, and Alexandra grabbed her phone to call back Eva before her chaotic shooting schedule pulled her away again. She hit redial and pressed it to her ear, feelingregretful.
“What do you mean we’re not telling him,” Eva said as soon as she answered. “I’m alreadyin—”
“Thank goodness you called me back right away. I was worried I’d have to text it all out toyou.”
“Text what to me? Whathappened?”
“Ugh! Where do I start? Let’s just say I got solid evidence today that Bash is definitely not gay, and Lexxi Rock isn’t remotely his type. He likes his women blonde and buxom with largebreasts.”
Her best friend gave her a tawdry whistle. “Blonde with big boobs? Not a bad combination, but who cares what she looks like? They aren’t together, arethey?”
“No.”
“That’s what matters. Lexxi, darling, just start from the beginning and tell meeverything.”
Alexandra relayed the story of running into Aileen, and concluded with, “So, you don’t have to come out here anymore, Eva. I’ll be back in LA before you make the trip. Plus, there’s no point in telling him now. I’ll only look like an idiot, especially since he knows I thought he wasgay.”
“Wait, he knows you thought he was gay? Lexxi, do you get what thatmeans?”
“What?”
“Well on top of sounding utterly crazy, it means all this time, Sebastian has been trying to clue you in. He already knows you’re a woman!” she saidexcitedly.
Alexandra clutched the phone to her ear, trying to piece it together in her head, but not following at all. “Eva, what in the hell are you talking about? What does his knowing I thought he was gay have to do withthat?”
Eva let out a long breath. “Isn’t it obvious? You told me that since you’ve been back home, Bash has been extra-chummy, extra-touchy feely and extra-available,right?”
“Yes. Sowhat?”
“Well, what straight man would act that way with anotherguy?”
“Um.”
“No straight man would do that, Lex. A straight man would make a point of keeping another guy at arm’s length. He had to have known you’re femaleLex!”
Eva’s enthusiasm wasn’t rubbing off on Alexandra. She immediately tried to protest, but Eva’s reasoning madesense.
“Crap. Why wouldn’t he just say heknew?”
