The Actor's Contract
Not exactly … but we nod quietly, like kids listening to a bedtime story we know will end badly.
“I thought I was the luckiest man alive,” he says, voice softening for a moment. “Dream job. The best wife a guy could ask for. Prettiest little baby girl you’ve ever seen.” His eyes glaze over, staring into the dark bottom of his glass like it’s a window into the past. Then his jaw hardens. “But seems luck comes with a price.”
Doesn’t it always?
“Turned out,” he continues, voice lowering as if afraid the walls might rat him out, “I unknowingly sold my soul to a bunch of devils. Instead of being an attorney for a big company, I’m now everybody’s private little cleanup boy.”
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