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allowing me to see some filming. It was very interesting… and very hot. I have to agree with your director, you were very convincing. Did you really come?”
    She sat back down. “Women don’t do it for me… But, uh, whenever I was looking at you, I pictured you going down on me.” She winked. “So yeah, I came.”
    He sucked in a breath. “Oooohh.” He waggled his eyes as he chuckled. “You gotta love your job, huh?” he asked as he put a filet mignon on her plate next to her salad.
    She laughed. “It’s a job. Thank you.”
    He took the other steak and put it in his plate, then picked up his drink. “Bon Appetite.”
    They clinked glasses and sipped. Wiping his mouth with his napkin, after setting his drink down, he picked up his knife and fork. “So tell me how you got into the business.”
    Simone had just placed a piece of steak in her mouth. When she finished chewing and wiped her mouth she let out a short snort. “It wasn’t like I aspired to be a porn star.”
    He looked from his plate to her and offered a most charming smile.
    “But, yes, I admit I was at my most vulnerable at the time. My father wouldn’t help me, and I don’t blame him. It was my problem not his.” She picked up her glass which was half filled and downed it.
    Richie rose up. “Let me get you another—”
    “No, I’m good.” She cut him off. “I’d rather have water.”
    Before Richie sat, he reached for the bottle of sparkling water that had been on the table and poured it into the water glass sitting next to her lowball glass.
    She looked from him to her glass than back to him again as he sat back down. “Thank you…After I graduated high school, I moved out here to live with my father, but he had just remarried and I felt like I was in the way, so I moved in with Tanya, a girl I worked with at the part-time job I got when I first arrived. Her roommate had moved out.”
    “Where’d you work?”
    “A local coffee shop.”
    He didn’t move, just kept staring at her.
    “Anyway, at that time she transitioned from the coffee shop to making porn movies. I didn’t know at first, but it didn’t bother me so much and I even started hanging out with her friends and co-workers and began dating an older friend of hers.”
    “How old?”
    “Nineteen years older than me.”
    “Whoa. What are you twenty-two, right?”
    “Yes.”
    “Was he a porn star?”
    “No. He worked as a bouncer at Bar One.”
    Richie nodded, he knew the trendy nightclub on the boulevard.
    “Well, Tanya moved out to live with her boyfriend and Matt moved in with me. He lost his job and things were getting tight so he asked if I could open up a credit card in my name. He said he couldn’t get credit while unemployed. After a few months he asked again, even though I asked him to slow down with the spending. I needed money for my second year of college and I had already taken out a loan for my first year. Unknown to me a few months later he used my information and opened up yet another credit card. I didn’t know about it, I’d never seen the bill.” She paused. “Long story short, I couldn’t get any more loans for school so I had to drop out after only one year. I got a job as a secretary but it didn’t pay enough. We always seemed to be strug— no, correct that, I always seemed to struggle with the bills. He was always sharply dressed and seemed to never have a care in the world.”
    “Drink?” Richie picked up his glass as he rose up.
    “Yes, I’d like that drink now, thanks.”
    “Go on,” he said from the outdoor kitchen, underneath a permanent structured roof with the same tiles as the roof of the house.
    “Tanya introduced me to Poppy Tate and his wife, and they told me I could make a lot of money doing some film work. I said no at first, but when my boyfriend left me for, get this, a porn star, I called Poppy.” She shrugged as she mindlessly moved her food around on her plate with her fork. “I was broke, and had not made