To Hate Adam Connor

“You suck, Lucy. I have no idea what the hell any of this means. He kissed you and his sister, and you slapped him?”

I nodded, feeling proud of myself. “Well, close enough. He kissed me after I told him about Catherine and my curse.”

She moved closer, pressing her forehead against the glass, shock all over her face. “You told him about the curse?”

Another quick nod. “After the slap, he kissed me again, and, meh…” I paused for a beat and then shrugged. “It was better, I guess. At least he wasn’t gentle. The slap must’ve helped.”

“I hate you,” she said.

“And that’s exactly what I told him, too. He said he thinks he likes me, so I told him I hate him.”

A big smile stretched across Olive’s lips. “Adam Connor loooves you.”

I gave her a bored stare. “I didn’t say that, now, did I?”

“And you’re totally falling in love with him.”

I snickered and shook my head. “If you say so, crazy. Now open the door, I told you everything.”

She turned her back to me and leaned against the glass door, giving me a coy look over her shoulder. “I’m going to write a book about your love with Adam. It’s going to be epic.”

“I’m not falling in love with him, for God’s sake.”

“You will. And I’m gonna love every second of it.”

“I’m cursed, remember, Olive? Quit playing and open the door, it’s getting cold out here.”

“Please, we are in LA, it’s September, how cold could it get? And I’m sure Adam already warmed you up. Maybe I should text him. Where is your phone?”

“Olive! I swear to God…” I banged on the glass. “Open the damn door! You’re becoming a mini me, and I’m not liking it. There can only be one of us. You should be the calm, sensible one, not the one who leaves her friend out in the cold for coyotes to eat just so she can learn what’s going on! That’s what I’d do!”

“I learned from the best.”

I was stuck between feeling like a proud mama and an annoyed one.

Her eyes were sparkling with amusement. “I’m doing research for my next book. Since I’ll be writing about you, I better get into character.” Then her face sobered, and she sighed. “Why do you do this to yourself? Go have fun with him.” She tilted her head, gesturing to Adam’s house. “You’re not cursed, Lucy. If he kissed you, it means he is interested even after everything you did.

“Excuse me? Um, weren’t you with me on that wall that first day? If I’m a stalker, so are you.”

“I didn’t get caught, now, did I?”

“Nice. What a great excuse. Now, open the door.”

“Tell me why?”

“Why what?”

“Why won’t you go back there and give it a try. See where it goes.”

Since she wasn’t opening the damn doors, I turned my back to her and sat down in front of the door.

“Lucy?” she prompted.

I looked up at the sky. “Because if I fall in love with him I won’t survive that fall.”

Adeline Young Lost Her Son at the Airport

These exclusive photos of Aiden Connor (5) crying at the airport while surrounded by paparazzi went viral in no time. Adeline Young arrived at LAX around six PM and as soon as she got out of her car with her team, she rushed into the airport, as you can clearly see for yourselves in the pictures.

So far, this sounds like just another celebrity spotting, right? Wrong. Before we go on with the story, we want you to know that as a team we had a discussion about these photos, about whether or not we should share them with you, and in the end, even though we think they are heartbreaking, we thought since every other news outlet was running with the story and you’d be able to see it everywhere online, it wouldn’t change a thing if we just skipped posting them. So after that disclaimer, we should also tell you that we won’t keep these photos up for long because what you see in these photos is never okay. Shoving a gigantic camera in a kid’s face while you’re screaming to get his attention and scaring him to death is never okay. We don’t care whose kid he/she is.

All of that being said, are the paparazzi who took the photos the only party to blame here? That’s a big no.

When Adeline Young arrived at LAX so she could board her flight to New York, she had her publicist Neil Germont, the right hand to Michel Lewis, and two of her assistants with her. As the group rushed into the airport to catch their flight, you can see another assistant getting out of the car and rushing behind them. That’s where things go wrong. The next shot is of Aiden Connor climbing out of the SUV on his own, clearly searching for his mother. The panic on his face speaks volumes, if you ask us.

You would think someone would come out and get him, right? That’s what we were expecting, because how is it possible to forget a kid in the car with so many assistants around?

The next snap of Aiden is the one that went viral last night. You can see him crying as the paparazzi surround him, and we’re not talking about two or three people taking pictures of you from afar here. If you look at the background of the photo, you can get an idea of the number of people surrounding him and pushing their big cameras in his face. Now if it were any of us in the same situation, even we would start panicking, but for a five-year-old, we can’t even imagine what a scary experience that must’ve been—having a large group of people you’ve never seen in your life yelling your name right in your face while you’re searching for your mother.

We’re even more sad to say that none of the photographers helped Aiden get to his mom. According to our source, Adeline’s assistant came back to get him when they realized he was not with them, and the whole ordeal only lasted for about a minute or two, but for a kid that age, it must have felt like an eternity. What rubs us—and many others—the wrong way is that it wasn’t even his mother, Adeline, who came to little Aiden’s rescue. It was an assistant.

We all know that ever since her divorce, Adeline Young has been a very busy woman as she is trying her best to get back in the game and score a movie deal while all eyes are on her, but busy or not, we are certain she will receive a fair amount of backlash for this incident.

We are still trying to reach Adam Connor’s new PR team for a comment. It’s not likely we’ll get any comment at this point, but we can’t wait to see what his next move will be.

Chapter Twelve

Adam

“File it today. I don’t care what you have to do, I want you to get it done by the end of the day.”

On the other end of the line was my lawyer, Laura Corey. “Give me a second, Adam.”

I closed my eyes and waited.

“Okay. We’re filing for sole custody of Aiden, then. It’s not gonna be an easy process. Are you ready for it?”

“I want my son, Laura.” There was no question about it anymore; no reason to give Adeline time to come to her senses.

“Okay, Adam. Okay. We’ll start the process today. Do you want me to get in touch with your new PR team and discuss how we are going to move forward with this new development? I have to be honest with you, I’d recommend you to talk to a news outlet you trust or at least release a press statement. It’s better if you get ahead of everything and give a short explanation instead of letting them run wild with it.”