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ASHTON
I nearly choke on my sports drink. "What?" I hastily wipe my mouth with the back of my arm. "You're kidding, right?"
"I wish I was," he replies. "We were working an event together a couple of years ago in New York—"
"What event?" I interrupt, suspecting it had something to do with my family.
"You weren't there," he clarifies. "It was a cover photo shoot for Forbes magazine, and the paparazzi leaked our location."
I recall that my parents, Aunt Serena and Uncle Grant, and Aunt Natalia and Uncle Colton were all on that cover together. "Why was Kaleb there if he was assigned to Blake?"
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