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“I want to thank you for giving me the chance to play Vole I realize you could call in another name actor to fill the part”

“No qualht, he didn’t see qual what happened to Draco, I wondered if youinto the role”

“No, I’race to flush “It’s terrible what happened to Richard Just terrible But—”

“The show lanced over “Ah, Eliza, and Areena Ladies, thank you for co”

“Your call saved ” Eliza stepped up, brushed her cheek to Roarke’s “The boredo over Kenneth I still can’t believe what I’ on the news”

“Don’t,” Areena said “There’s a mistake There must be” She rubbed her chilly arain I haven’t been back since…since opening night”

“Will you be all right with this?” Roarke took her hand, warmed it in his own

“Yes Yes, I o on”

“Why shouldn’t we?” Carly made an entrance A deliberate one She’d applied drao with an electric blue dress that scooped low at the breasts, stopped short at the thighs

For power, she’d told herself She was da to be powerful

“None of us gave a damn about the late, unlamented Richard Draco”

“Carly,” Areena murmured it, a quiet censure

“Oh, save the fragile sensibilities for the audience He fucked us all over at one tiht, fierce smile “We’re not here to dedicate our next perforet back to work”

“He may have been a bastard, dear,” Eliza said mildly, “but dead is dead And now Kenneth’s in the hospital, and under guard”

“Kenneth ought to be given athe world of Richard Draco”