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assistant.”
    Charlie didn’t dare laugh.“Sorry,” he muttered.
    “Get yourself straight, Charlie, or you’re out.I don’t represent losers.”
    “I’m not a loser.” He figured this wasn’t the time to tell Ethan about India.
    Ethan sat down again, moderating his voice.“Look, Charlie.I don’t want to lose you as a client.I knew you were a gold mine the first time I met you, but the gold is sinking deeper and deeper and pretty soon it’s going to be inaccessible.”
    Charlie nodded, trying to look contrite.
    “I want you back on the right track, Charlie.And if I can’t do it with the promise of the role of a lifetime, how the fuck can I do it?”
     
    Charlie drove away in a temper.Ethan was furious with him and Charlie was furious with himself.It wasn’t as if he wanted to wreck his life.After giving up a very successful career as a singer/songwriter, Charlie had landed several bit parts in films that barely made it to general release, until he got his break.He’d just completed his first major role in a Steven Spielberg production and he’d been good.Steven had said so.The film was due out in a few months, but word was already circulating that it could win Oscars.Probably not for Charlie, but association with an award-winning film would boost his career.
    On the back of Charlie’s work for Spielberg, Ethan arranged an audition for a film where he’d be the lead.It was a project of one of the big American studios and Charlie hadn’t quite been able to believe it.Provisionally entitled The Green , it was about a guy whose wife had been whisked off into a parallel world.Once Charlie read the script he’d wanted it, thought it was his and he’d fucked it up.No surprise there.
    Charlie decided he needed cheering up, something to take his mind off his problems.Jen’s mobile was switched off so he rang her house, hoping he didn’t get her mother.
    Arabella, Jen’s sister, answered.“Jen’s out shopping.She won’t be long.Want to come over and wait?”
    “Yeah, all right,” came out of his mouth, when he should have said no.The story of his life.
     
    Charlie looked at the woman lying naked next to him on the bed.Arabella had a self-satisfied smirk on her face.Then he looked at the two women standing in the doorway.One was Arabella’s mother, Veronica and the other was Arabella’s sister, Jennifer.Now he’d slept with all three.
    “I think it’s time for me to leave.” Charlie stood up, not caring that he was naked and had the remains of a hard-on.He grabbed his boxers.
    Veronica glared at him and Jen cried without making a sound, fat tears rolling down her cheeks.
    “Sorry, Jen,” he muttered, dressing as quickly as he could.
    “You will be, you little shit,” Veronica hissed.“My husband will make sure you never—”
    “Work in this town again?” Charlie couldn’t help grinning.He strode over and put his face close to hers.“Maybe he’d reconsider, if I offer to tell the Sunday papers about the kinky sex his wife enjoys and how thirty minutes ago, his youngest daughter stuck her hand in my pants while I stood at the front door.Probably captured on your CCTV camera.If you get it on The UK’s Funniest Videos , use my share to buy yourself some wrinkle cream.”
    He smiled his apology to Jen, but her mouth dropped open and she fled.
    “Get out,” Veronica gasped.
    Charlie escaped while he still could.
    He’d been stupid again.He liked Jen.Well, he half had, until she got clingy, but her father was not someone he needed to piss off.Malcolm Ward headed the music company Charlie used to be signed to.He wasn’t going to be very happy if he got wind of how well Charlie knew all the women in his household.And if Ethan found out, he’d kill him. When he found out, Charlie corrected.So he was as good as dead. Shit.
    Charlie hadn’t even reached his apartment before Ethan was on the phone.
    “Are you incapable of keeping your dick in your pants?You’ve just finished a movie that’s