Fearless in High Heels by Gemma Halliday

Author:Gemma Halliday [Halliday, Gemma]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Gemma Halliday
Published: 2011-11-21T06:00:00+00:00

The sound of the William Tell Overture screamed from my nightstand, jerking me awake. I took three deep breaths, pulling myself out of my dream and back into reality as I glared at the alarm clock numbers glowing red next to me. 7:30 AM. Reluctantly I fumbled in my sleep-haze until my fingers connected with my cell, and I managed to stab the on button.

“Hello?” I croaked out.

“He didn’t come home last night,” Dana whimpered on the other end.

“Who?”

“Ricky! Maddie, he didn’t come home last night. He’s out with Ava. That’s it, I’ve lost him to a Playboy vamp-bunny!”

I blinked, rubbing sleep from my eyes. “You’re sure he’s out with Ava?”

“Where else could he be?”

“Maybe he was shooting last night?”

I heard Dana nodding on the other end. “Uh huh. He was. But the shoot was over at six, and it’s now seven-thirty, and he isn’t home.”

I did a mental eye roll. “An hour and a half? Honey that’s not a ‘he didn’t come home last night,’ that’s a ‘he’s stuck in traffic on the 101.’”

“This is what she’s doing to me,” Dana said, her voice rising into the hysterics zone. “Thanks to that full frontal twit I can’t eat, I can’t sleep, all I think about is Ricky signing another contract to let her sink her fangs into my boyfriend’s neck.”

“I’m sure Ricky’s on his way. Did you try calling him?”

“His cell is off.” Dana paused. “Oh God. His cell is off. That’s a bad sign, isn’t it? That’s a sign he doesn’t want me to know where he is. He’s sleeping with her, isn’t he? He’s sleeping with her right now with his phone off!”

“Deep breaths. In, out,” I instructed.

I heard her comply on the other end, sucking in a gulp of air. “Maddie, you have to come down to the set with me and find him.”

“Now?” I asked, glancing at my alarm clock again. 7:32. Still way too early for human contact.

“Please, Maddie. I’m going insane here. I need moral support. I need backup. If I find him naked in her trailer, there’s no telling what I might do.”

She had a good point. “Give me twenty minutes.”

“I love you. I’ll be there in ten,” Dana promised, then hung up.

I resisted the urge to fall back into my pillows again, instead dragging my tired self into the shower and through the rituals of hair, make-up, tooth brushing. I then crammed myself into a pair of yoga pants (that were only a little tight in the butt), a forgivingly empire waisted baby-doll sundress (that was long enough to cover said butt), and a pair of woven wedges. I was just shoving Baby-So-Lifelike into my bag (this time wrapped in a plastic diaper from one of the many boxes stored in our spare room) when Dana showed up, grabbed me by the arm, and dragged me out to her car.

To say the ride to Sunset Studios was tense was a gross understatement. Dana treated yellow lights like challenges, stop signs like

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