The knock on the door was loud, and Rex popped his head in. “We’re waiting on you.”
“Yeah, I’m on my way.” Angelica nodded at Logan. “Filming.”
“Yeah. We’ll talk more later.”
Great, that was exactly what she’d wanted to hear.
“And if I see your iPad, I’ll bring it to you.”
“Thank you.” Angelica nodded at him and stood up from the chair to get to work.
When she reached the front desk, Angelica stopped abruptly. Rex stared at her oddly, but Angelica was frozen. Her fucking iPad had everything on it, and she needed the information in order to do this. Well, she could do it without, but she really would prefer to have her notes. Sighing, she stalked forward and touched Rex’s arm lightly.
“Have you seen my iPad?”
“Nope,” he answered with a shake of his head. “You okay? You look like you’ve seen a ghost.”
Angelica held her breath and then shook her head. “My iPad issue is throwing me off my game.”
“Issue?”
“It’s gone. I can’t find it, and you know me, Rex, I don’t just misplace items.”
“No, you’re anal about everything,” he mumbled.
Angelica chose not to take that as a dig but more as a statement of fact about her. “It has my notes for this scene on it.”
“Ah.” Now he seemed to understand.
“Lyric’s looking for it. Eva too, actually.”
“Eva?” His ears perked up at that one.
Angelica cringed. She was supposed to be better than this. She should have held that information back, because he would be the first person to figure out that she and Hope were back ina relationship. “I saw her this morning when I was in with Ansel. She wanted to tell Hope good morning.”
Rex pressed his lips together hard before sighing. “She does have a certain affinity for you.”
“She’s a smart kid, and I appreciate that.” Angelica looked around the room again. “Where are Wylde and Maggie and Kaidee?”
Rex shrugged. “Rounding people up for this shoot has been difficult. You and Hope vanished yesterday when Cadence was trying to find you?—”
The hair on the back of Angelica’s neck stood up and her stomach plummeted.
“—these owners are damn near impossible to find when I need them. And when I don’t need them, they’re always hanging around,” Rex finished.
Angelica spun back into the conversation. “Like they don’t really want us here?”
“I think they want us here.” Rex lowered his voice and dipped his chin to look at her squarely. “I’m just not sure they want us to be up in their business.”
“That’s every hotel.” Angelica clenched her jaw and put her hands on her hips. “No one likes to have their vulnerabilities and failures on full display for the world to judge.”
“True, but this is more than that.” Rex stepped even closer. “They don’t even seem interested in what we’re doing.”
Huh. Angelica filed that piece of information away. She’d gotten the same sense, but she’d thought it was just her. Maybe she should have brought it up with Hope to see what she thought about it, but she hadn’t had the energy the night before to do that.
“Hey, so what’s the holdup?” Hope skidded into view.
Angelica instantly tensed. Hiding this was going to be more difficult than she’d anticipated.
