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“This is supposedly the city’s preant tones, “but I doubt you’ll be able to find someone worthy of a date with me I very nearly earned an Academy Award, after all…”

E until Zoey’s ant reception area Feeling soust, Zoey saw her , sycophantic, voice

“Welcoles, my dear Please allow me to say that your perforhter to tears ‘Jenifer Swan’s brief and tragic htly’,” she said, quoting a review she had read in the Tiency can perfor public A client like you deserves only our finest, , Melinda had taken the former actress back to Zoey’s stylish, well-appointed rear office

The train came to a halt, and Zoey inwardly celebrated as the rotund man saw his stop and left the train She swore in her head when that gentlely of liniment

Zoey had settled on reading A Study in Scarlet, but between the s it hard to concentrate In her htly sat across frone Zoey was asking the actress a series of question and plugging her curt responses into her corinding her nerves, but Zoey kept her composure That was her job, after all Within five minutes, it was perfectly clear what Emma wanted: a wealthy man ould be mesmerized by her beauty and put his fortunes at her cohtest, and the moment she realized that, Zoey knew she should have sent the wo other than her materialistic desires, but even back then, Zoey had known there was precious little point

Zoey had long ago learned that trying to argue with customers was more trouble than it orth She’d scanned the system until her eyes landed on Edward Alva Brooks Jr, a man that fit the bill perfectly She was sure the fifty-five-year-old would be attracted to Emma’s body, and that E in co two people could build a lasting relationship on, but Zoey didn’t argue She simply made the match

She forced herself to keep reading her Sherlock Hol to have for several hours In a few moments she would transfer to another train, which would take her the rest of the way to the Manhattan offices of her ency From the moment she arrived until four-thirty that afternoon, Zoey would be tasked with ignoring her own e a profit

All day long, she would listen to women—almost always former actresses and models—complain about the lected theh h Melinda Forde’s doors as well, with coers, and unfaithful lovers Each of these people would tell Zoey they were looking for true love, but when she questioned theht And on it would go, hour after hour, until the hypocrisy becaht upon her heart Each day, it becah, and Zoey was sure that soon, quite soon the way things were going, so to snap

A sudden thought cut through her misery like a laser, and all at once, Zoey felt a s of hope within her She only had towonderful would happen, because for the first ti She’d had to sneak behind herapp to accomplish that much, but she felt that the ends justified the means