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the significance of the location at the time.
    Maybe that was what was really wrong. Her problem wasn’t an obsession with some guy she’d only seen once. That was just a symbol of something else. She was trying to avoid decisions by getting all wound up in something irrelevant. Her real problem was that her life was in limbo right now until she could decide between two very different paths.
    She leaned against the huge white cylinder mounted on a tripod. Who needed a pet? The telescope was almost like having another person living in the house, one who had a different perspective on things, clearer, more nuanced. In some ways, the Sky Rover was almost as good a friend as Jax. Which wasn’t saying much. Greta was acutely aware that Jax valued Greta only for the good she might do for Jax’s career.
    Greta’s phone rang. She scooped it up from the side table by the door. Uh, oh. No use not answering it. He’d just keep trying, like he had been for three days.
    “Hi, Bernie.”
    “Where have you been? I’ve made every excuse in the book. Don’t tell me you’re not avoiding me. You’re usually so responsible it hurts.”
    “Gee, thanks.” Greta flopped on the couch in resignation. She couldn’t be mad at Bernie. He had what he thought were her best interests at heart. She really was lucky to have such a high-powered agent.
    “Gretchen, they want you.”
    “I’m not reading for a girlfriend part. Well, not that girlfriend part. I don’t want to spend half my screen time shrieking in fear while I wait for the guy with the muscles to save me.”
    “You don’t have to read. They want you with no reading. Just come in and meet Anderson. He’s not doing the usual superhero movie. Let him tell you what he has in mind for the character at least. Talk to Jerry Gold. He wouldn’t produce just another superhero movie, right? And I can tell you, Jimmy DeBrett is a dream to work with.”
    “Bernie, I don’t want to get tied down in a franchise again. I don’t know why they want me anyway. All I did for ten years was a series of kid’s movies about a society of mind readers. In the last two years I haven’t done anything but little Sundance films hardly anybody saw.”
    “Listen, Gretchen. You were the best thing about a series that made billions, with a capital B, of dollars worldwide. You’ve shown in those little Sundance darlings you can really act. With a capital A. The world is your oyster. You do this, you’re set for life.”
    Greta sighed. “I’m set for life anyway. I don’t need money, Bernie.”
    She could hear him back-tracking before he even spoke. “I know, I know. It isn’t about money with you. But Gretchen, honey, you do this franchise and you can get projects you care about green-lighted just on your name. Do them between the series films. You know it takes them a year just to complete the special effects. Plenty of time for other projects. You’ll be able to make the movies you care about. Someday, if I know you, you’ll be a director too, or a producer. This can change your life.”
    Did she want that path?
    “Look, just come down and talk to Anderson. Meet Jimmy. Then decide. Do it for me. My reputation is on the line here.”
    “It is not. You’re practically synonymous with CAC, and it’s the most powerful agency in town.”
    “Not if I can’t get my own clients to agree to a meeting with an auteur of the stature of Kevin Anderson so she can star with Jimmy DeBrett in the next blockbuster of the decade.”
    He wasn’t a master negotiator for nothing. She sighed. “Okay. I’ll meet him. But I am not letting you bully me into this, Bernie. I swear.”
    “Of course not.”
    She could practically see his self-satisfied smile. “I hate myself already for doing this.”
    “By the time you’re done in this town, Greta, you’ll have way worse things to hate yourself for doing.” Did he think that was reassuring? An image of her mother and that horrible director she’d had when