Ashe closed his eyes as the elevator made its way up. He wondered if Collette had known this was going to happen. Had it all been her idea, too? Collette was the woman who’d helped him gain fame in Hollywood. She had guided him through the parties and dinners, arranged for him to be seen and noticed by the powerful men and women behind the production companies and studios. She was a powerful manager with three other stars under her wing, even after he and Gareth had left her upon learning that she'd been involved in kicking Riley out of the apartment she’d shared with Gareth three years earlier, bilking Clint out of eighty thousand dollars in the process.
