Crystal

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Book: Crystal Read Online Free PDF
Author: Katie Price
Tags: Literary, Literature & Fiction, Contemporary, Contemporary Fiction
us?’
    Belle was just about to reply when the door swung open and Dallas strode in. ‘Sit down, girls, we need to talk. First of all, Crystal and Tahlia you need to know that there is nothing going on between me and Belle. She has a boyfriend, I have a girlfriend, and as far as I’m concerned she’s just another contestant; that’s it. I give you my word.’
    Crystal looked at him closely. Was he telling the truth? She didn’t know for sure, but she had a pretty good idea that Dallas would be perfectly capable of lying in the interests of self-preservation.
    ‘But I’m afraid it is going to be harder for you now to get through to the next stage.’
    ‘What!’ the girls exclaimed in unison.
    ‘You are going to have to give the performance of your lives on Friday – you’ve got to be better than the others by the widest of margins. It cannot look as though I am favouring you. I’ve got my reputation to think of. People can’t think I favour pretty girls.’
    ‘But you’ve just said there’s nothing going on!’ Crystal couldn’t stop herself from saying.
    ‘And that’s the truth,’ Dallas answered coldly. ‘I’m just giving you the facts; we’ve got to consider what people will think.’ With that he got up, and just as he was leaving the room he added, ‘You’ll also be doing a photo shoot tomorrow with Max and I want you all to stress how much Belle and he are in love. It will look good.’
    Crystal, Tahlia and Belle stared at each other as Dallas shut the door. Crystal felt too wound up to speak, afraid that if she opened her mouth she would lay into Belle and say something she might regret.
    ‘Okay, Crystal, can you get in closer to Max, and Max put your arm round her,’ the tabloid photographer barked out instructions to Lost Angels and Max as they posed in Dallas’s beautiful walled rose garden. The whole experience was torture for Crystal. Max was his usual charming self, flirting with her and telling her how beautiful she looked, when he thought no one could hear, but the rest of the time he was all over Belle. They’d had to do group photos and then she and Tahlia had to watch while Max and Belle posed together for the photographs that were supposed to tell the world how much they were in love. So there were shots of the couple kissing, of them in each other’s arms, of Belle sitting on Max’s knee.
    ‘Are you sure this isn’t going to backfire?’ Crystal asked Dallas who had come along to watch. ‘I mean, isn’t it all this lovey-dovey stuff a bit sickly?’
    Dallas laughed. ‘Crystal, I had no idea you were such a cynic. Trust me, it won’t. People will just see a couple who are in love; they’ll think it’s romantic.’
    Crystal wasn’t so sure and she couldn’t help wondering why Max was so keen to play the role of the loving boyfriend. Didn’t he suspect Belle at all? Wasn’t
he
worried about the story? She made an excuse that she needed a drink and headed back to the mansion. Soon the journalist would beinterviewing them, and she and Tahlia were supposed to enthuse about how much Belle and Max were in love. It wasn’t something she was looking forward to. She’d almost reached the house when Max called out to her as he strode after her through the grounds, ‘Hey, are you okay? You’ve hardly said a word.’
    She turned and Max was so close to her that their bodies were almost touching.
God he was so fucking sexy.
She longed to get closer still, to slide her hands under his shirt, touch his golden-brown skin, kiss those lips . . . She shook her head, trying to get a grip. ‘I don’t know, this whole thing just seems so corny to me.’
    ‘So, you don’t buy into the whole fairy-tale romance between me and Belle?’ He asked mockingly.
    ‘I don’t know,’ she replied, staring back at him. ‘Should I?’
    ‘For practical reasons, yes, you should.’ He paused and reached out to brush back a lock of hair that had fallen on to her face, and Crystal felt a spark
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