hero he was. Skye sat in the silence for she didn’t know how long until a scream jolted her from her mind.
“Dammit!” Rebecca yelled, drawing a momentary silence before her team rushed to finish up their calls.
“What is it?” Skye asked as Karri perched herself on the couch above her and placed her hand on her shoulder to calm her.
“There’ve been more leaked photos and this time they’re really of you. They’re not fakes,” Rebecca told her.
“Where are they?” Bernie asked as all their phones pinged.
“I sent them to you.”
Skye clicked the gossip site link and felt exposed. It was her. She knew because the birthmark on her ass was on full display.
“Is this all of them?” Jim asked.
Rebecca shook her head. “The site says they have full frontal but they wanted to make sure it was really her before they ran with them.”
“I’m on it,” Bernie said as he yelled at his secretary through the phone to patch him through to the owner of the gossip site.
Jim looked to Rebecca for guidance but then his phone rang. “It’s Tony Ketron.”
Rebecca took a deep breath. “Okay, we can spin this. We can tell the public they’re test shots for Tony’s new film and Skye’s not some drug-induced, out-of-control actress like the press is reporting.”
“No!” Skye almost threw her tea at Rebecca. “Don’t you dare! I will not take that part. Is no one concerned that someone doctored photos of me and then someone obviously had a view into my bedroom to take these photos?”
“It doesn’t matter what actually happened,” Rebecca said gently. “The narrative is already out there. Now we just have to make it work for us.”
“No. I refuse to allow you to attach my name to Tony’s for any reason. These meetings are over. Everyone out!”
Skye leaned over to Karri and whispered her instructions. “Okay, ladies and gentlemen. Right this way,” Karri said as she picked up all her personal items. “Skye needs some time to think. Let’s give it to her.”
“You’re leaving too?” Jim asked Karri with surprise.
Karri nodded. “She said she needed space. So, we’ll give it to her. Let’s move everything to text, okay?”
Skye watched as Karri ushered everyone out the front door and waited. Ten minutes later, Karri was knocking on the back patio door. “What’s your plan?” Karri asked, plopping back down on the couch.
“I want to contact the FBI. This has to be illegal,” Skye told her. She wasn’t going to take this sitting down. She was going to fight it.
“Let’s do it.”
Skye Jessamine drew a deep breath and took the first step toward taking control of her life.
4
Skye kept it together as she gave her testimony. The FBI agent nodded as he took notes, all the while his phone recorded the entire conversation.
“Could your phone have been hacked?”
“Agent Shaw, I know you’re the head of the L.A. office and have dealt with people much more famous than me, but I’m not your typical gossip rag celebrity. There are no hidden sex tapes, there are no indecent texts, and no nude photos on my phone or anyone else’s.”
“Tell him about the film role,” Karri hedged and Skye launched into the fight she had with her team regarding Tony’s upcoming movie.
Agent Shaw had been appointed to clean up the L.A. office after he helped bust a major case some years ago when some agents had been killed or hurt. That’s what he’d told her when he said he was really a guy from a small town in Idaho who could understand her mindset as a small town woman. Skye had liked him and trusted him when he told her he’d be the only one looking into this to avoid any leaks. If he needed help, he’d ask her first. Skye appreciated feeling as if she had some control over her life once again.
“Do you think they’re connected?”
“I don’t know, but that’s how my people want to spin it. But then there’s these letters I’ve been getting. The last one was put on my gate.”
“Can I see them?” Agent Shaw asked.
Skye sighed, “Lenny has them. I’m sure Jim has some copies too.”
“I’m going to have to talk to them if you want me to fully investigate this.”
Skye looked to Karri who nodded. “Okay, but only talk to them. I don’t want to tip anyone off that I’m looking into this. They’re going to be mad. They wanted to handle this internally.”
Shaw stopped the recorder and put his notes away. “Miss Jessamine, with all due