“I’m not producing garbage anymore. And neither are you.” Sofia slid a thin binder across the table. “This is The Slow Burn . It’s about three women in their late fifties. A chef reopening her restaurant after a scandal. A retired detective solving a cold case from her bedroom. And a former actress—”

Lena exhaled. “Thank god.”

She laughed, a dry, rattling sound. “I played the love interest opposite his father twenty years ago, Marcus. Now I’m supposed to bake the cake and cry in the corner?”

“It’s work, Lena.”

“You, me, and a financier who is a seventy-year-old woman named Pearl. She’s done with rom-coms about twentysomethings tripping into love. She wants teeth.”

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