The meeting was set for 10 a.m. at the Chateau Marmont. Celeste arrived early, wearing a charcoal silk pantsuit and her real diamonds—the small ones, not the paste she wore to red carpets. She looked like a queen in exile.
Mateo was late. He burst in with a cloud of cologne and youth, a tablet in one hand, a kale smoothie in the other. “Celeste! Legend! Let’s get right to it. Love the premise. Love it. But here’s the note.” He didn’t sit. “The lead is fifty-eight. What if we make her forty-two? Still ‘mature’ but, you know… fuckable. And the abortion stuff? Too heavy. What if instead, she’s fighting to save a community theatre?” milfnut.com'
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