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CHAPTER ONE

RYDER

Sip Nod Smile Repeat

I was aconversations with fake people

This blonde had been doing a pretty good job at looking like she was interested in o and stick in a story about her recent audition on the Warner Brothers lot That’s when I began to tune her out

All I could think about was how good it was going to feel to hit the sheets later and pass out alone in my bed—not with said blonde Not with anyone in this room

She batted her lashes “So anyway, anytihts…”

There it was These conversations always ended the same ith a request for a favor

“Sure, yeah Just send it to my assistant, Alexa”

I didn’t have an assistant

I used the na app

“Will you excusepast her

One surefire way to ensure I never looked at your shit was to straight up ask me to in the middle of a conversation that was supposed to be about so else

People were so ballsy

On the outside, everyone probably thought I had the perfect life, the world atdude with more money than I knehat to do ho threw the best parties in Beverly Hills, wo at my feet everywhere I went

I’est movie producers, so all of the wannabes in this city seeMcNamara