“They love you,” her assistant, a harried young man named Ollie, said, handing her a bottle of alkaline water.
“Good. Then stop hiding. Come in here.”
“Then let’s make a documentary,” he said. -GirlsDoPorn- 18 Years Old - E320 -27.06.15-
“Leo. Are you getting this?”
He raised his own phone, the one with the audio file, and held it up to the camera’s microphone. “They love you,” her assistant, a harried young
Kira stared at it for a long, terrible second. Then she did something Leo didn’t expect. She didn’t scream. She didn’t cry. She laughed. It was a short, hollow sound, like a stone hitting the bottom of a dry well.
He watched on Screen 2 as Kira reached her dressing room. The door slammed. She leaned against it, her chest heaving. The roar of the crowd was a distant memory here, replaced by the hum of the air conditioning and the rattle of her spangled bracelets. Come in here
Leo looked from the phone to her face. He saw the girl from the small town, the one the industry had chewed up and was now trying to spit out. He saw the diamond, under pressure.