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Jae nodded, started writing something down. “Turd’s gonna turd.”

Chelsea smiled. “And I scootered with trying to sell our script. We wrote it forus.Not for someone else. What if someone hired Jasper to direct it? I would rage.”

Jae kept nodding and writing. “Same.”

Chelsea was on a roll now. All the light bulbs were going off in her head. “We’re better off making it cheap, but ours, than selling it to someone else who will put millions into it and screw it all up.”

“Exactly!” Jae shouted, hitting the pen off the table. “Our cheap crap wouldstillbe better than anyone else’s big budget.”

Chelsea laughed at Jae’s outrageous ego. But she had a point. They’d poured their heart and soul into that script, and a lot of the magic of it would be lost if someone else put their spin on it.

And being Jasper’s second assistant was demoralizing. If she’d had no history with him and wanted to be a studio director, it would make sense to take that job and sacrifice a little now to get what she wanted later.

But there was nothing she wanted that being Jasper’s second AD would get her. It was just taking her off the path she alwaysknewshe wanted to be on.

“I need to quit that job,” she said.

Jae smiled, kept writing.

“Maybe I can still keep in touch with Vincent. I literally love that man.”

Jae nodded.

Which reminded her of another man she loved. Adam. What a disaster that turned out to be.

She paced the floor, her mind turning a mile a minute. She’d scootered with him right from the get-go. She’d accepted a situation when she wanted a relationship. She’d accepted bits of his time when Ben wasn’t around because he wasn’t comfortable dating a mom.

She didn’t want that at all.

She wanted someone who would blend into her life. Someone who wanted a family.

“I want to get married,” she said.

Jae stopped writing, her pen hovering above the paper. Her face was soft, full of pity. “I know, babe.”

“I don’t want to split up my life into time spent with Ben and time spent with a guy. I want a family. And I want to go on a date.”

Jae smiled, snapped her fingers, and pointed. “What about that hot dad at Ben’s school?”

Chelsea brought up the image of the guy patting his daughter’s head and telling her he loved her, and she smiled. “Maybe I should ask him out.”

“You’re definitely asking him out,” Jae said, pulling the paper she’d been writing from the pad and passing it to Chelsea. “It’s already on the list.”

Chelsea took the paper, flipped it over, and found a bullet point list.

Chelsea Gets Back on Her Bike

1. Tell Jasper he’s a stinky turd

2. Quit demoralizing job

3. Tell the agent the script isn’t for sale

4. Get some committed dad dick

5. Avoid future scooters

Chelsea read through the list, smiling and nodding, tears pricking at the backs of her eyeballs. She closed the distance between her and Jae, pulled her into a hug.

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