She loved this theatre group, she loved her part, and she loved the director, from a professional point of view, of course. How different he was from Orlando’s flash, dash and hot-fired spark. She took great pains to behave herself because he was a good friend of Orlando’s, and her lover had let her know that he would be checking up on her.
“If I discover that you’re pulling the same shenanigans with Victor, that you did with me,” he started in on her just days into the first rehearsals, “I’ll be at Victor’s stage door, and paddling your behind before you know what’s happening. And I won’t care who’s looking on.”
Tempest believed him. If there was one thing she’d learned on their tour together, Orlando would live up to his threats when it came to her professional deportment and her botto
