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“Great, see you at five” He hung up and she leaned back in her chair Then she scrambled forward and hit the intercom on her phone “Thad”

“Yes?” Her assistant’s voice cah the speaker

“I need a dress A hot one Get Ally on it, please And I need to get my hair done”

“Formal? And by when?”

“Yes, and I need to be waiting out front of the building at four-fifty”

Thad sighed heavily She knew she was asking the next-to ied, it was him “As you wish”

“Great Thank you You rock I have to go” She pushed the off button and rested her chin on her desk, her hands on her lap Then she took a breath and straightened She was going to be fine She wasn’t going to think about how ill-equipped she was to show up at a Hollywood pre to think about how likely it was that she would drop a shri the party

No She was going to sit back and let the professionals she hired toelse, she would look good She would look strong

Money e that o out in public

And yes, she was Ferro’s date But it wasn’t a date-date Thank God The last tiated disaster And that guy hadn’t been Ferro sex-on-a-cracker Calvaresi

Not that she was all that familiar with sex On a cracker or otherwise But Ferro was Her face got hot when she thought of so parts of Ferro’s unauthorized bio Yes, she’d read it And it made it hard to look the man in the eye

He wasn’t just hot He was the kind of man who made women lose their minds Who inspired respectable members of society to throw off the bonds of convention and flaunt hier stud of a feo off scandalous headlines and dissolving es

Of course, that was assu a lot And as Ferro had said, he never confirmed or denied

She took another fortifying breath Great Fine She could do this Tonight, she was going to be yet another rumor to add to Ferro’s list And she wouldn’t confirm or deny