July Skies (A Year in Paradise Book 7) by Billings Hildred

Author:Billings, Hildred [Billings, Hildred]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Tags: Lesbian Romance
Publisher: Barachou Press
Published: 2019-07-08T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 10

DAHLIA

Two weeks into filming, conducting research, and soliciting interviews all over town, Aaron came down with the set-plague.

That’s what they called it when a member of the crew inevitably became too sick to continue. Sometimes, that person was Dahlia, who powered through whatever ailed her to finish the film, even if it meant carrying an extra jacket or puke bucket with her. She wasn’t ashamed to pop into the local hospital wherever they went. Nor was she afraid of a few medical charges, if it meant finishing on time. When it came to her crew, however, she was more forgiving. Especially in a town where the only doctor was currently off on her honeymoon.

Aaron spent a solid twenty-four hours puking into one of Waterlily House’s five toilets. When he wasn’t piled beneath a ton of blankets and swearing he saw his dead grandmother at his bedside, he was stumbling around, attempting to get work done before the Ice Queen sacrificed him to the filmmaking gods. There’s a Behind-the-Scenes shot. No, Dahlia wouldn’t fire a crewmember for coming down with a twenty-four-hour stomach bug. Except poor Aaron was still stick two days later. Without him to help on most of the sets, it took the rest of the crew three times as long to get anything done.

It also did not help that everyone was a tad concerned about him.

“He’s gotta go to the hospital,” Wayne said over dinner Wednesday night. The sounds of Aaron throwing up again serenaded them as they ate clam chowder out of a can. “Without the doctor in town, it’s the only thing we can do. He ain’t getting better on his own.”

“Yes, and we can’t risk him infecting everyone.” Dahlia had her suspicions that Aaron wasn’t contagious. She knew a few things about his medical history, and the poor guy unfortunately had some latent conditions. “Who’s volunteering to drive him to the ER tonight?”

The honor went to Kurt, who itched the get the hell out of town for anything, even if it included driving twenty miles to the county hospital with a sicko in the passenger seat. It had to be done, though. Aaron agreed to it when he passed out on the couch and muttered something about his kidneys hurting. Yes, off to the ER with you. Dahlia was relieved she didn’t have to do it. There was too much work to do at Waterlily House. Better if Wayne could hang back and help her. The man had the most experience on her crew, after all.

After they saw Aaron and Kurt off down the driveway, Dahlia returned with Wayne to discuss what to do in case one of their crew had to bow out of the production.

“I’ll have to bring in someone else, of course.” Dahlia chewed on the end of her pencil, the one writing down a lengthy list of names to contact for more interviews. They had spent that afternoon at Anem Singer’s house, where her parents made them afternoon tea and said nothing but praises about Paradise Valley.

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