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CHAPTER ONE

‘YOU can keep your job!’ Green eyes blazed at thebehind the desk ‘I don’t sell myself for any price’

‘Miss Adams, if you will just calm doill—’

‘You won’t do anything,’ Stacy interrupted angrily ‘You’re just as weak as the rest of them Whatever Paul Forbes decides he wants he has to have, and woe betide the poor girl if she isn’t interested Keep the star of your filirl who isn’t going to keep him happy I loathe the man!’

‘Miss Ada i to say Mr Forbes merely expressed a wish—’

‘I’ it fro the director of this film you should have better control over your actors!’

‘Now you’ve gone too far!’ The little nantly to his feet ‘You have a part that lasts about fifteen ives you the experience to tellactors for thirty years and I—’

‘Then perhaps it’s tireen eyes flashing, her long red tresses like fire down her back, softly waving down to her slender waist She was still wearing the costuhteenth-century peasant girl in rugged Cornwall ‘Things have changed since you started out,’ she continued angrily ‘The casting is no longer carried out on the studio couch’

‘Miss Ada point

‘Don’t worry, I’ to sleep with Paul Forbes to keep it’

‘I asked you to go to a party with hihed ‘I don’t knohy you have to read so much into a simple invitation—’

‘If it’s so sied

‘I understand that he did—and you turned him down’

‘Because I don’t like him!’ Stacy said fiercely ‘I’ve seen hi but an egotistical, po—’

‘That’s quite enough, Miss Adas concerning Mr Forbes very clear And I think I’ve s about your future employment here equally clear’

‘Oh, you have Don’t worry, I’ll leave I think the rape scene I have to go through with him could turn out to be too realistic’

Martin Payne shifted some papers about on his desk ‘Your cards and ’

‘No earlier?’ she sneered ‘I would have thought you would have wanted me away from here as soon as possible’

‘That isn’t possible, I’re office staff we have down here will have returned to their hotel for the night’

‘To get ready for the party this evening’

He nodded ‘Exactly The party you’ve refused to attend’

If the poor ht he had another think co—and with a partner of her own choosing But she wasn’t going to tell hiht try to prevent her After all, it would be a slap in the face for Paul Forbes when she turned up with someone else But it was a slap in the face she knew she would never physically be allowed to administer