Let Me Be the One (The Sullivans #6)(78)

More cheers rang out as they popped open the corks. Once every glass was filled high enough for bubbles to skid across Smith’s kitchen counter and everyone had a glass, Lori said, “To Ryan for winning the World Series!”

“And for winning Vicki’s heart, too,” Sophie pointedly added.

Everyone clinked to that, then relaxed back into their seats.

“So,” Chase asked as he put down his glass and bounced his adorable little girl on his knee, “how’s casting going?”

“Good,” Smith said. “We’ve just signed Tatiana Landon.”

“She was amazing in Midnight Lake,” Chloe said.

“And she seems so sweet in her interviews,” Heather added.

“I think she’s pretty,” Summer said. “Can I meet her?”

He ruffled her hair. “Of course you can.”

His family was right. Tatiana was a talented, sweet, and beautiful twenty-one-year-old actress. Funny, then, that he hadn’t given her a second thought since they’d signed the contracts.

No, it was Tatiana’s older sister he couldn’t stop thinking about.

Valentina Landon was a watchdog for her younger sister...and she clearly didn’t trust him—or like him—one bit.

Smith had never let a woman distract him from his work. And given the fact that he was finally directing, producing, and starring in a movie in his home town, his focus was tighter than ever.

Still, none of that stopped him from wondering about what lay beneath Valentina Landon's armor as he grabbed a roll of paper towels from the kitchen then got down on his knees beside Summer to help her clean up the mess the poodle puppy had made of his rug.

~ THE END ~