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awesome,” she said with a grin. “Maybe now I won’t have to pound the pavement,” she said with an air of relief.
    Sage squeezed his eyebrows together in confusion. “What do you mean by that?”
    â€œWhat I mean is…now that you’re a big-time movie mogul I don’t have to go on those stupid cattle calls. You can just cast me in your films,” she said naïvely, solving her own career dilemma.
    Sage didn’t know what to say. There was no way he was going to mix business with his personal life. That was the first rule his father taught him; he’d said that was the fastest way to lose a friend—business and friendship didn’t mix. And the last thing Sage wanted was to lose Terra’s friendship. But watching her sitting there looking excited and doe-eyed, he couldn’t tell her flat out no, so he just said, “We’ll see.”
    Suddenly Sage began to look better in her eyes. If she had to cuddle up with him to become a star in his films, then she would. Terra knew that he wanted her in the worst way, and all it would take would be for her to show him a few skills that she learned in college. Except the skills she had in mind didn’t come from any class, but she had to play her cards just right. Sage was savvy and wouldn’t take kindly to being used, so from this moment on, Terra would begin the process of converting their relationship from friends into lovers.

4
    LEXINGTON SAMUELS, by all accounts, was the ultimate party girl. She came from family money, so she didn’t have to log in eight hours a day at some boring J.O.B., like the mass majority, which gave her plenty of time to paint the town in varying shades of red. The family made their fortune when her mother took an old family recipe and began making maple syrup from her kitchen. After years of dedication and perfecting the technique, a major food corporation bought the recipe and licensed the name “Samuels Homemade Syrup,” making Lexington and her parents millionaires. And to ensure that the money would last several generations, her father invested in dotcom stocks before the technology market went belly up. He made gobs of money from his investments, then flipped the profits and invested in real estate. He bought dilapidated buildings in Harlem and Brooklyn, waited for the neighborhoods to turn around, and then gut-renovated the properties and sold most of them for four times what he’d paid. He kept a few buildings as rental properties.
    At her parents’ insistence, Lexington went to NYU and majored in journalism, but she had no intention of becoming a journalist or working for a living for that matter. The only reason she had agreed to go to college was the location of the campus. New York University was in Greenwich Village, one of the city’s most popular areas filled with cool clubs, college bars, and cute cafés. Lexington wasted no time getting acquainted with all that the Village had to offer. She spent more time hanging out than she did in class, and during her freshman year she nearly flunked out. Her parents threatened to pull her out of NYU and enroll her in an all girls college upstate if she didn’t get her act together. With the fear of being banished to the country and surrounded by nothing but women and woods, Lexington reprioritized and began attending class regularly. To her parents’ delight, she graduated in the top ten percent of her class, but their joy was short-lived when she turned down an offer to work as a staff writer for The Post . Lexington read “Page Six” of The Post on a daily basis, but she was more interested in being written about in the gossip pages than writing the pages herself. Unlike her best friend, Terra, who shied away from the flash of the paparazzi, Lexington lived for press coverage. It made her feel like a celebrity. The only problem was that she wasn’t famous or rich enough to garner