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    “No hot tubs. Scarlet and I need to get to work. Just tell us where we’re staying.”
    Scarlet gave her a look and Krista mouthed, later, and they followed Adam, Dave and Trina up to the third floor. The elevator opened with a special key into a large foyer. Straight ahead double doors opened into a spacious living room. Suite B. A door to the left was marked Suite A and the door to the right was marked Suite C.
    “Do you have this entire floor?” Krista said, peering through the open doors. Three of Krista’s houses could fit inside this place.
    “Just A and B,” Adam said. “I wanted C so I could bring up some of my buds from the film, but the bride and groom have it for their wedding night, so they wouldn’t rent it out.”
    A woman in a bikini was sitting on the couch eating ice cream and watching soap operas on a large-screen television. “Adam!” she squealed and jumped up. She paused the television. She had the biggest boobs Krista had seen outside of a porn movie. “You’re just in time to watch my scene.”
    Adam rushed over and said, “Great!”
    Jumping up and down, the girl pressed play. Krista edged over to see what the excitement was about. A few seconds later Ms. Boobs came onto the screen in a tight shirt and miniskirt, carrying a tray. “Can I get you anything else, Mr. Carter?” she said.
    Mr. Carter looked her up and down and smiled. “Not right now, Cindy.” Then his wife or girlfriend hit him in the arm and said, “That’s why I don’t trust you!”
    Boobs squealed and hugged Adam while she jumped again. “I finally got a line! You know what this means?”
    Scarlet muttered, “I need a beer. No, a shot of tequila. Two shots of tequila and a beer chaser.”
    Krista could use a shot of tequila right now. “Adam,” she said in her firmest voice.
    He turned to her. “Oh, Krista, hey, this is Tammy.”
    “Tiffany,” the blonde said.
    “Tiffany. She’s one of the bridesmaids in the wedding and we ran into each other last night of all things! We had a scene together last year in that crime show you used to like.”
    Tiffany Boobs beamed. “Adam recognized me right off . And I didn’t even have a line! I was Jane Doe Number One, a corpse! They said I took direction very well.”
    “Oh my God, where’s my gun,” Scarlet muttered. “I need it. Now, Krista.”
    “Adam, room,” Krista ordered.
    He tilted his head at her. “You need to see my room?”
    “ Mine . My room. Scarlet’s room.”
    “Right through there,” he said. “I told you this place was big. You have to share a bathroom—is that okay? You guys have Suite A. So you have a private entrance and all—so, it’s like better than a regular room, right?”
    Krista would share a bed with Scarlet if that meant she could get away from her ex for five minutes.
    But Adam looked very concerned that she’d be unhappy with the room. He wanted to impress her. Why?
    “I gotta go,” Tiffany said and kissed Adam with a loud smack.
    She waved her fingers at Dave and Trina and walked out. In a bikini. In the middle of December when it was forty-five degrees outside and would hit twenty-five as soon as the sun went down.
    Krista grabbed Scarlet’s hand and pulled her in the direction Adam pointed. She yanked Scarlet through the door at the end of the hallway into a bedroom and shut the door behind them.
    “I will never tease you about Adam again,” Scarlet said. She shrugged off her backpack and dropped it on the bed. “You were not lying. In fact, understatement of the decade.”
    “I was twenty-one. It was Spring Break. I was an idiot.”
    “He’s cute. In a Golden Retriever kind of way. But I think Golden Retrievers are smarter.”
    “There were some benefits ..., but I was blinded by lust.”
    “Is there a case or not?”
    “I honestly don’t know. Maybe? He thought he was being followed then a bottle of champagne showed up in his kitchen. His girlfriend for the night made mimosas in the morning and