“I wasn’t aware I was going at all.”
“I pulled a few strings and managed to procure an extra ticket. It’s yours, assuming you want it.”
They were the WMAs.Of course Poppy wanted it.
Rosaline skirted the coffee table, making her way over to the door. “We’ll talk. Come on, Lyric.”
Lyric stretched up onto her tiptoes and gave Cash a lingering, closemouthed kiss. “I’ll text you in the morning?”
“’night, baby.” Cash brushed his lips against Lyric’s forehead and opened the front door. “Good night, Rosaline.”
Rosaline gave him a curt nod. “Good night, Curran.” She paused in the doorway and tossed a butter-wouldn’t-melt smile over her shoulder. The place she’d sunk her teeth into Poppy’s neck throbbed in time with her heartbeat. “Have a good night, Poppy.”
“You too,” she said, doing a superb job of keeping her voice even if she did say so herself.
Cash locked the door and leaned his shoulder against it, smirking. “You want to tell me what Rosaline Sinclair was doing here after midnight?”
“Doyouwant to wipe that shit-eating grin off your face, or should I do it for you?” Poppy sniffed and crossed her arms. “We had things to discuss.” She nodded at the coffee table to where the half-eaten pizza lay. “She brought pizza.”
“Things to discuss,huh?”He kicked off the door and joined Poppy on the couch, taking a seat on the cushion Rosaline had vacated. The leather was probably still warm and something about that made her shiver. “Funny how the WMAs just never came up.”
Poppy froze. “Oh. Um.”
“That’s what I thought.” Cash’s smile broadened. “Now, why don’t you tell me about that massive hickey, hm?”
Chapter Nine
Lyric Adair spotted in Cash Curran’s VIP suite at Portland Pathfinders’ game amid dating rumors
by Jaimie Xin
published on October 8
It looks like Cash Curran’s so-called Hail Mary of a play paid off!
Amid red-hot dating rumors linking the pop superstar, 24, and the Portland Pathfinders quarterback, 28, Adair was spotted cheering for the Pathfinders from inside Curran’s VIP suite at Sunday’s game against the Atlanta Falcons (26–7). The “Facsimile” singer made quite the bold statement by wearing a Pathfinders’ jersey, and not just any old one. The jersey Adair wore was none other than one of Curran’s own. Adair was photographed cheering on her rumored beau alongside his parents, Eileen and Jeb Curran. An insider close to Adair confirmed toPeoplethat this was not the first time the pop star met Curran’s parents, suggesting that the relationship might be more than a casual fling.
Following the game, locals spotted the couple at a postgame victory party at xport lounge along with several other Pathfinders players, family, and friends.
A source toldPeoplethat Adair and Curran were extremely affectionate all night.
“I don’t think I ever saw them not touching,” the source said. “He’d have his arm around her, or she’d have her head on his shoulder. Occasionally, they kissed, but they weren’t, like, excessive with the PDA. They just seemed really comfortable with each other.”
Adair and Curran were seen leaving xport together shortly after midnight.
This most recent sighting comes two short weeks after Curran was spotted leaving the Hollywood Hills home of Rosaline Sinclair, Adair’s publicist. He was photographed leaving with an unknown woman who has now been identified as Penelope Peterson, his publicist and close family friend.
Adair is rumored to be hitting the stage at the World Music Awards for the first time in four years. The show will broadcast live from the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles on Sunday, October 21 at 8 p.m. ET on CBS and Paramount+. Whether or not Curran will make an appearance has not been confirmed, though the next Pathfinders’ game is on Monday night, making his attendance possible.
Representatives for the eleven-time Grammy winner and Super Bowl champion have yet to respond to requests for comment fromPeople.
Poppy would admit she was... moderately freaking out.
From what she’d gleaned through the grapevine and copious amounts of research, the work that would go into preparing for an award show would normally follow a certain script.
If a client was an A-lister, or highly sought out, say if they’d recently been in a major box office film or just won a gold medal at the Olympics, their publicist would reach out to preferred major media outlets weeks if not months in advance of the show to prearrange interviews. The publicist would request questions in advance and vet those questions with the knowledge that award shows were, by nature, unpredictable, and reporters could go off script.
If a clientwasn’tan A-lister, if they weren’t nominated for an award, or if they were nominated in one of those unfortunate non-televised categories, their dutiful publicist would put together a résumé of sorts, a single sheet with an easily digestible list of their client’s accomplishments and accolades. These celebrities would usually show up early to the red carpet. Their publicists would approach reporters and hand over their list of accomplishments and ask if the reporters were interested in interviewing their client.
