42. Living in a Dream

An hour later, we are in the plane, taking off. It’s a forty five minute flight to the coast, then we’ll take a boat to the island where they are filming.

Fortunately, it’s such a small island that it only has three hotels. The second hotel that I called asking to leave a message turned out to be the one he’s staying at. I’ll figure out how to get to him when we get there.

“So, he told you about Claire?” Cole asks me after takeoff.

“Not much,” I say. “We ran into her at a hotel at the coast three months ago. He told me they have history.”

“I can’t believe he has been working with her all this time,” Cole says.

“What happened back then?” I ask him. The fact that Cole agreed with the necessity of this impromptu trip means he agrees with me that an inebriated Jude cannot be left alone with Claire.

Jude insisted that Claire did not take advantage of him, but if Cole’s reaction is anything to go by, I must have been right.

“I don’t think it’s my story to tell,” he says.

“Did he swear y