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bit too proper for that.”
    Sean’s crystal blue eyes glared at Sorcha. “It might but she said she understood…”
    “Perhaps she said that because she was willing to do what ever it took to get you. It’s something you really need to think about. Didn’t you say her parents’ were swingers too? It might have seemed like something she could handle but at the end of the day, she might just be a one-man kind of woman, Sean.”
    They were quiet for several stolen moments before he finished his lager. “Well, I suppose I have a lot to think about while she’s gone. I like the lifestyle but not enough to lose my wife behind it.”
    “Well, don’t spend too much time thinking…I get a lot of the news about One Last Bite as Tim is one of the main writers and did you know they were planning on hooking up her character and the one played by Kristian Stenfeldt?”
    “Wait a minute…was it you who told her about that role and how they were looking for another actress?”
    Sorcha rolled her sky blue eyes. “Well, duh—I thought you would have put two and two together. How else would she have known what is going on had I not told her? You’re a movie star, not a television star.”
    “Did you do this on purpose?”
    “What are you talking about? Do what on purpose? I told her about the role and she auditioned like anyone else would have had to. It just so happened she was chosen but I don’t have that kind of influence over Tim and he has nothing to do with casting.”
    Sean stood and realized the Carlsberg had gone straight to his head but not enough he couldn’t drive. “Listen, I need to be on my own for a few hours. I’ll be back a little later.”
    “Drive carefully,” Sorcha responded before she watched him leave.

Chapter Seven
     

     

     
    L ara hated to admit she hadn’t had this much fun in her adult life since before she married Sean.
    The past few days she’d spent in Louisiana were a revelation and she loved being there with its gothic splendor. The core cast of One Last Bite was very close-knit and it was a great situation. Kristian quickly became a close friend as they found out they had much in common, including international backgrounds and living experiences.
    They sat next to one another at a café. It was a mid-day lunch break while they shot the shit. Each had evening shooting to complete so their quick lunch had turned from a couple hours to them spending most of the day together. They sipped on cups of French roast coffee as he quickly filled Lara in on who was dating who.
    “The lead actress who plays Charity, Karin Wainwright, is engaged to Philippe Cardet. He likes to overly emphasize his Frenchness but don’t let him get away with it. Yes, his family is originally from Nice but he grew up in a Montreal suburb in Canada. I know more about France than he does.”
    “Ouch,” Lara responded. “Well, that kind of shit wouldn’t work on me anyway as my mother is French.”
    “Seriously, I would have never known that with you being a MacIntyre and all,” Kristian replied in a tone loaded with snark.
    “Yep. My grandfather is Alsatian and my grandmother is the product of a father from Lorraine and a mother from Guadeloupe. Suffice to say, all the areas mentioned are part of France proper so I consider myself half-French and half-Scottish.”
    “Well, you know all about my father being first cousins to Igor so obviously that side of my family is Swedish but my mother is from a well to do suburb outside of Copenhagen. When my parents divorced, my dad moved here to the States and quickly acquired a pneumatic trophy wife who makes him look ridiculous. He believes the fact she’s Brazilian makes him a little less desperate since she’s exotic and not a blonde with fake boobs but believe me, to see a sixty year old man married to a woman young enough to be my little sister doesn’t make the situation any better.
    “I spent time between L.A. and Denmark where I attended school. As