Demon Rumm by Sandra Brown

Author:Sandra Brown
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Fiction, Man-Woman Relationships, Contemporary, Entertainment & Performing Arts, General, Romance, Daredevils, Motion Picture Actors and Actresses, Biography & Autobiography, Widows, Love Stories
ISBN: 9780553386844
Publisher: Bantam
Published: 1987-01-02T00:00:00+00:00

Six

Someone had done some housekeeping in his trailer. To that unknown being he was grateful. He'd left it looking like storm damage, but during his absence clothes had been picked up and laundered, the dishes in the tiny sink had been washed and put away, the waste-baskets had been emptied. All in all it was a cool, comparably quiet place to seek respite from the confusion and noise that constituted the location movie set.

The location wasn't too far from the Rumm house, actually. He 'd driven it in an hour on his motorcycle. But it could have been on the other side of the world for all its desert remoteness. The landscape, which was supposed to be Abilene, Texas, was barren. Not a single tree provided shade from the glaring sun.

Rylan's trailer, parked on the perimeter of the set, was dim. The air conditioner hummed like a religious meditator. He had sought out the serene solitude while the director and technicians were setting up the scheduled scene.

"Come in," he called when someone knocked.

The director's assistant, a heavyset young woman named Pat, who figuratively, if not literally, took everyone on the crew to her large breasts and mothered them, came in.

"Are they ready for me?" he asked.

"Are you kidding?" Pat chortled. "It'll be a while yet. Need anything? Beer? Food? A girl?"

Such procurements had been handled discreetly before. Everyone in the business, including himself, took them in stride. Since when had the nonchalant system come to sound so shabby? Since Kirsten.

"No thanks."

"He," she said, referring to the director, "sent me in to ask you one more time to let your double do this scene. He's costumed and standing by, waiting for you to come to your senses."

"The script calls for close-ups. I need to do it."

"It's going to be tricky, Rylan."

"That's what they're paying me for."

Sighing in resignation, she asked, "Does this shirt need washing?"

"Please," he replied automatically.

Pat draped it over her shoulder. "How's everything going over at the Rumm residence?"

"Okay."

She frowned at him. "No elaboration?"

"No elaboration."

"The widow has been conspicuous by her absence," she remarked as she piled several of his garments in front of the door so she wouldn't forget them when she left. "Can I have a doughnut?" She took one from the open box without waiting for his permission and plopped down on the built-in sofa that faced the one he was lounging on.

"She says the book and movie are about Demon Rumm, not her," Rylan said. He would have been surprised to know that he was frowning. The inverted v-shaped brows were pulled close together. "She wants as little to do with us as possible."

"Hmm."

He slid a knowing glance toward the director's assistant. "That's the most loaded 'hmm' I've ever heard. But if you think I'm going to appease your curiosity and discuss Mrs. Rumm with you, you're wrong."

Pat heaved herself to her feet, licking doughnut glaze off her fingers. "Unfortunately I know that. You never kiss and tell."

"Who says I've been kissing?"

It was her turn to give him a knowing look.

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