Cowboy For Hire by Duncan Alice

Author:Duncan, Alice
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: pasadena, humorous romance, romance fiction, romance humor
Publisher: Alice Duncan

Eleven

The rain continued all night and into the following morning, making the atmosphere outdoors cool and muggy and indoors steamy. For the first time in her life, Amy smelled the aroma of many bodies huddled together. She didn’t like it. Charlie’s wide-open spaces began to sound more appealing as the rain continued.

The desert was covered in water, reminding Amy of a weird, flat ocean with prickly plant tops sticking out of it. Rain splashed in sheets and then in sprinkles and then in sheets again. The thunder subsided during the day, but the sky was as gray as her aunt Julia’s hair. There wasn’t a jot of blue or a flash of sunlight anywhere. When she let her imagination motor ahead on its own, it seemed to Amy as if the whole world had turned sullen and dangerous.

She didn’t get her letter to Vernon written the night of the flood. Nor did she have a chance to write it the following day, most of which was spent by the cast and crew of One and Only in digging trenches around the chow tent and trying to repair leaks. The chow tent eventually ended up the only domicile in the temporary Peerless lot that remained relatively undamaged and free from water.

“Heave!” Charlie yelled at Martin and Horace Huxtable, who were struggling with a flat board that looked like a door to Amy, although she wouldn’t have sworn to it.

The two men heaved, Huxtable without even whining or complaining about having to do some real work for once in his life. He was apparently as worried about the picture lot and the completion of One and Only as anyone else on the set. The reason they were heaving unattached doors was to create a bridge across the trench, and thereby connect the chow tent to the rest of the world. At present, the chow tent bore a slight resemblance to a very small, very unstable medieval castle with a moat around it.

The wooden door—or whatever it was—was slapped into place, sending up a spray of mud that coated Huxtable and Martin. Martin leaped back and laughed. Huxtable leaped back and swore.

Amy shook her head, thinking the two reactions could have been predicted by anyone with an ounce of understanding in his soul. If she were writing a script of this episode, she’d write it just this way, with Charlie leading the pack. The dialogue would have to be cleaned up a little, since Huxtable’s penchant for cursing was both shocking and revolting. Amy was certain the picture-watching public would never countenance such vile language.

She sighed as she stirred the soup. She volunteered to work in the kitchen since the kitchen crew had been unable, presumably, to traverse the flooded roads from El Monte after they’d gone home the night before. Whatever their reasons, they hadn’t appeared this morning. Most of the resident male crew members had been recruited to work in pursuits more muscular than cooking. Therefore, Amy and Karen were pulling

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