Changing the Script by Lee Winter

Author:Lee Winter
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Ylva-Publishing
Published: 2019-10-21T13:58:44+00:00

CHAPTER 15

Viral Sensation

Alex’s head was thumping listening to so many excited, enthusiastic Te Wharariki Hotel patrons buying each other drinks and recounting tales of bravery that rivaled Beowulf. The two dozen bikers were now numbering forty. It’d probably be a hundred by evening’s end.

However, the woman whose name was on everyone’s lips was missing. Sam was resting at home, according to Sid. He’d also said that Sam had learned the Wild Boars were not behind the sabotage.

That seemed like the sort of important piece of information a police officer might have wanted to discuss with Shezan’s director. Unfortunately, Sam hadn’t responded to Alex’s text or call. Maybe she was asleep? Or still angry?

So, Alex sat in the boisterous pub, staring into her beer, analyzing just how pissed off Sam was.

Skye’s was the only other somber face in here tonight. Any attempts to talk to the costume designer had been foiled by another cheerful local buying Alex a drink. Turned out the Matamata road crew appreciated her for making them social media legends.

Not the point, she’d tried to explain. They didn’t care.

On the largest New Zealand news site, “Locals wade into brawl to save their cop from rampaging bikies!” had been trending worldwide for hours.

The national media had descended on the pub, much to Gina’s delight, and she’d managed to squeeze into every interview that she’d be relaunching Te Wharariki as a gastro pub soon. Media were interviewing the locals, working their way through them as adeptly as vultures on a carcass. Alex had become an expert at ducking out of sight to avoid telling them to sod off.

In the space of three hours, Sid had become a media darling. His beaming face was all over the news talking about how “smacking a few bikie heads in to save my sis” was not something he’d thought about, and he’d “just acted on instinct, hey.” He’d thanked his road-crew mates and also paid tribute to Sam for saving her own ass by befriending the dogs.

Alex watched the interview on a TV above the bar—the sixth time she’d seen it so far—and marveled at what a natural he was. Sound-bite perfection. Photogenic, too, with those flashing white teeth and warm eyes. No wonder Chloe had been flinging herself at him in her own laid-back, “sooo, buy you another garlic bread, Sid?” way. Not that he’d noticed. Still.

“That’s Sam. Always doing the smart thing,” Sid concluded in his interview, and for a moment his expression faltered.

Alex interpreted that as: “Except for today—I have no idea why she was even there.”

Neither did Alex. It was insanity. What had possessed her?

The guilt crept back, knowing exactly what had possessed her. Sam had put herself on the line for her, to find the saboteur. A saboteur who was still a mystery—so all of this had been for nothing.

A new beer appeared on the bar next to her elbow and she sighed. “I don’t think I can.”

“It’s not for you. It’s mine. God knows I earned it today.” Quincy eyed her.

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