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be to leave you here? Hold on. Let me grab my car.”
    For some reason, Max had actually been grateful for the delay. He wanted to spend more time with her. He jogged over to the valet to have his car retrieved, then slid into his Porsche and rounded his way back to Felicity. Even though Max frequently had his driver Floyd take him about, he never gave up his independence and had been grateful for being alone that evening. And any man would be a fool not to have jumper cables in his trunk.
    He set everything up and had Felicity re-start her car, but nothing happened. Her engine was dead. Now what?
    “I guess we’ll have to call roadside assistance,” Max said.
    Felicity got her cell phone out and made the call. “They’ll be at least forty-five minutes. You go ahead home. I’ll be fine.”
    “Not a chance. What if they can’t get the car to start?”
    While waiting for AAA, Max took the opportunity to learn more about Felicity. He couldn’t help himself. She intrigued him. “I guess Jenny won’t be able to drive for a while, huh?”
    “I’m not sure I would want her to. First, the injury is on her right side.” Felicity’s eyes glazed over. “Besides, I don’t know what I’d do if I lost her. The way the people drive around here . . .” Felicity shifted her weight against his Porsche. “I couldn’t think of losing the only family I have left.”
    “The night of your parent’s accident must have been horrible for you.”
    Max regretted bringing it up, but Felicity didn’t seem to mind. In fact, she opened up like a morning flower. “I was seventeen. It was a head-on collision on the Pacific Coast Highway. The other driver fell asleep at the wheel and survived the accident with minor injuries. Since I was close to eighteen-years-old, I was able to obtain custody of my sister and dropped out of high school. We got a nice apartment in a complex where the residents became an extended family. Sort of like Melrose Place. I got the job at Applaud!, functioned as a gofer but eventually proved myself and, well, you know the rest. Now it’s your turn. What about you?”
    “Your background is much more interesting. So Jenny was how old then?”
    “Only eight-years-old. And until recently when our apartment complex got taken over by new management, it seemed we’d found our replacement family.”
    “What happened?”
    “New ownership from I don’t know where rolled in and doubled the rents. Well beyond what we could afford. But we don’t have to continue talking about boring ol’ me. I’d like to know about you. How did you get your start in the film industry?”
    Max had managed to keep the subject off him, so far. But, he had a feeling Felicity wouldn’t let him get away that easy.
    Max surprised himself when he spoke. “I’d started my career in acting at a local playhouse in Outer Banks. I then had an opportunity, after high school . . .” He fibbed a little but she didn’t need to know why he left his single mother and siblings behind. “. . . and moved to New York, attended NYU on student loans and bartending tips, and aimed for Broadway. Success came easy only because while I failed miserably with history and math. I came alive on the stage. I loved the craft and crawling into a character’s skin. Then I’d starred in the Tony award-winning production of Treacherous . That attracted the attention of Saul Griffin who caught me outside curtain call and hasn’t let go since.”
    “Oh, right, Saul Griffin, one of the most sought-after Hollywood booking agents.”
    “And sometimes a royal pain in the butt.”
    The AAA tow truck arrived. The guy tried to jump-start the car again without success. Max took Felicity in his car, and they followed the flat bed to a local mechanic.
    “Bad time for the car to crap out on me,” Felicity said, seeming dejected.
    He bet she couldn’t afford a new car.
    “No worries. I’ll drive you home and we’ll take it from there.”
    Felicity’s apartment was