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just—”
    “You just what?”
    “I wanted to make the jerk jealous. I wanted him to see that I could party too.”
    “Which means you still care about him,” Knox states.
    “No, I just . . .” Jennifer stutters. Then she lays her head on the desk dramatically and whispers, “I sent him all the photos.”
    “Well, that solves the mystery of how the press got them,” Knox says, fuming. “Why in the hell would you send photos like that to Parker Hudson after the way he treated you in the press?”  
    “I don’t know. I was drunk, maybe?!” she says. “Jeez, can this day get any worse?”  

    And it does get worse when Dallas enters the room with a sheet of paper and starts reading from it.  
    “I just received the list of charges from the Vegas PD. Let’s see, we have a plethora to choose from. Public intoxication. Public lewdness. Indecent exposure.”
    “We were having a naked parade,” Jennifer admits. “It seemed like a fun idea at the time.”
    “It looked fun,” Dallas says, “based on the photos. And we have destruction of hotel property. Disorderly conduct. And my favorite, impersonating a police officer.”
    “My bad,” Knox says.
    “How did you manage to do that naked?” Dallas asks him.
    “Based on the photos, I was simply pantless. And I may have told them I was undercover and if they didn’t leave they would blow my cover.”  
    “That didn’t go over so well, I’m assuming?”
    “No. Then I tried to tell them that I meant I played one on TV.”
    “Have you ever been on TV?” Dallas asks.
    “Seriously? You don’t remember the cameo I did? Everyone says I fucking stole the show. How can you not remember that?”
    “I wasn’t drunk enough to participate in the naked parade,” Dawson says, trying to suck up.
    “But, you were apparently drunk enough to bribe an officer— let’s see—to make it go away ,” Dallas states.
    “I just meant we could pay extra to the hotel. He took it the wrong way.”
    Dallas shakes his head. “I’ll deal with the legal aspects of the charges. What’s more important is how we deal with the press. I’m pretty sure the whole world has seen the photos.”
    “But I think we’ve all been at this long enough to know one thing,” Keatyn says.
    “That no publicity is bad publicity,” Vanessa finishes.  
    “What do you mean? There’s no way this can be turned around,” Jennifer says, facing the laptop toward everyone and allowing them to see the video of her twirling, mostly naked, around the stripper pole, only to fall flat on her face.
    “It can be if we act fast,” Vanessa disagrees, holding the mock-up of a Daddy’s Angel ad. “And this is how we’re going to do it.”
    “I don’t get it,” Jennifer says, echoing my own thoughts.
    “You don’t really have to get it,” Dallas states. “You just have to do exactly what we say. And, if you don’t, you and Knox will both be out of a contract.”
    Knox, who is shoving food in his mouth, doesn’t seem all that fazed by this. But he and Keatyn are used to being in the tabloids.
    I’m not.
    “Jennifer,” Keatyn says. “Hair and makeup are on their way. We’re going to shoot this ad today, with you in it. I’m sure you don’t feel great, but you’re gonna have to suck it up. Tomorrow, we’re going to leak a couple of those photos to the press, with the rumor of an announcement to come.”
    “What announcement?” Jennifer asks.
    “We’re throwing a party this weekend,” Vanessa replies. “And your attendance is mandatory.”  
    “Um, not this weekend,” Keatyn says. “Tomorrow night. Riley will be busy this weekend.”
    The way Keatyn says it, makes me cringe. What is she going to make me do this weekend? Is she firing me? Will I be packing up my office this weekend?
    What would I do without this place?  
    It’s my life. My love. My dream.  
    Hard to believe one stupid night in Vegas could ruin everything.  
    Vegas needs to change their slogan, because what