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Give me option two.”
    Renna pursed her lips together. “Get a family. Find an attractive, normal American woman who is over thirty and has great teeth. A woman that women like and men want. Someone in marketing, sales, or publicity would be perfect. But somebody smart. Marry her. Actors, musicians, athletes? It doesn’t matter what type of celebrity you are. Bottom line? If you want the best press, the best gigs, the best endorsements, you’d better get your act together and family up. Pronto.”
    Mark rolled his head in circles, cracking his neck. “What’s option three?”
    “There is no option three.”
    “Renna, this is ridiculous. What about George Clooney? He’s a perennial bachelor , and everyone loves him.”
    “You’re no George Clooney, my dear.”
    “Still, there’s got to be another—”
    “You want proof? Here you go.” Renna crossed the room, removed a stack of magazines from a floating shelf, and dropped the pile in Mark’s lap. “Look at the covers. Go ahead, pick any one of those. People , US , Entertainment Weekly . See who they fawn over? David Beckham, Will Smith, Tobey Maguire, Johnny Depp, and that mouth-watering Brad Pitt with his four hundred children.”
    Mark thumbed through the magazines. Renna was right. Married men, or at least those in serious relationships, graced the covers.
    “Here’s the cold truth, Mark. Nice guys with attractive wives and darling children get the covers and get the big, diverse roles that you want. Frankly, the ones I think you deserve. You’re a better actor than most people realize.” Renna thumped the glass table. “Become one of the nice guys.”
    Mark rubbed his five-o’clock shadow and thought for a moment. Renna was right; it was time for a major change. And so, Mark Ocean made a monumental decision. He beamed at his agent. “What if I told you I’m halfway there?”
    “What? You have a wife I don’t know about?” Renna looked doubtfully at Mark.
    “Nope,” Mark practically giggled. “Not a wife.”
    Renna’s jaw dropped and then her mouth formed a sly smile. “You have a kid?”
    He crossed his legs and folded his hands. “So I’m told”
    “Tell me everything,” the eager agent said.
    As Mark Ocean detailed the little he knew about his mystery fifteen-year-old daughter, Renna Martin could barely contain her glee. She wasn’t overjoyed to hear that he had spent the past few weeks denying any relationship to his daughter, but that could be fixed. If they played their cards right, she told him, Mark Ocean’s movie career was about to take a turn in the right direction.
     
     
     
     
     
    Chapter 10
     
    “We made it!” Sam chirped happily into the phone. “We survived our first year of high school relatively unscathed. Next year we won’t be the newbies anymore , and we’ll finally be the popular socialites we’ve always strived to be. Of course, it would have helped if Mark Ocean had claimed you as his daughter,” Sam teased.
    Dani shrugged. “Based on his recent movies, I don’t know whether that would have helped or not. It’s been bad enough around here with paparazzi following me. Mom told me not to talk to them, but I can’t help it. Did you see that hideous picture of me online? I was in the middle of telling one of them to suck it when someone took the picture. I look totally deranged.”
    “Maybe it’s helped that Mark’s lawyers have done all the talking. Nobody cares about putting them on television.”
    Dani sat on her bedroom floor, rooting through school folders and tossing nearly everything into the trash. She was keeping a few things, but nothing school related. Notes that Sam had passed to her in class with up-to-the-minute gossip, photos from her locker, and, of course, her yearbook would all be saved . She definitely wasn’t go i ng to save any of the scandalous articles or tabloid photos.
    It had been more than two weeks since the paparazzi nightmare and subsequent phone call from Mark’s