My Rockstar's Heartstrings: Three Years of Loving You From Afar novel Chapter 11

Kaylee's POV

Jax had left.

By the time I got the message and rushed to Selena's dressing room, he was already in the middle of a heated discussion with her.

As I slipped in, Selena clocked me with a raised eyebrow but kept her focus on Jax.

"The showmance was a mutual agreement between our teams," she said matter-of-factly. "I needed buzz for my upcoming film, and your people thought it would hype your album release.

"They ran it by you. You literally said yes to the whole thing."

"Only because you said it would make Kaylee jealous! You were like, 'if she gets jealous, you've got a shot at winning her back'..." Jax was getting frustrated.

With his back to the door, he hadn't noticed me enter. When Selena suddenly went quiet, he finally turned around.

The moment he saw me, he froze mid-sentence.

"Look, I'm just setting the record straight that based on what we agreed to, this arrangement was mutually beneficial," Selena continued smoothly. "Don't paint me as the villain who manipulated you.

"The strategy was to milk the publicity for a few weeks, then let it fizzle out naturally so people would either figure it was fake or assume we'd broken up. It wouldn't have affected my next project or your... personal situation.

"Everything went sideways because you couldn't keep it together and started making rash decisions that confused the narrative."

Selena maintained her cool: "That's what happened, right, Jax?"

Jax slumped his shoulders, looking like he'd been caught stealing cookies.