The DIY Groom by Lori Wilde & Pam Andrews Hanson

Author:Lori Wilde & Pam Andrews Hanson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: L&P

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Megan was awake at five o’clock worrying about the show, so she went to the studio early. It was Home Stop day, and she couldn’t be more depressed if they were shooting at a mortuary.

The cutesy shopping tour had absolutely nothing to do with her concept for the show, and it irked her that Ed had been right about the powers that be loving the idea.

They were so enthusiastic; the Bulgarian chef was in a snit, and the dog man’s nose was out of joint.

The only one as glum as Megan was Julie, but the intern was suffering from the throes of unrequited love over a guy in her apartment building.

She walked around in a haze of misery. Even when she was mildly cheerful, she dressed like the mother of all vampires. Lately she’d been downright scary.

Megan was checking a couple of things in her dressing room—where the higher-ups had not bothered to install a phone line—when Julie brought bad news.

“Zack can’t do the show today,” she said in what was becoming a habitually tragic tone. “He’s sick.”

“He isn’t coming?”

“That’s what someone named Gus said. I told him to hold until I found you.”

Megan sprinted toward the phone in her office.

“This is Megan Danbury. Who is this, please?”

“Gus Graham, ma’am. Zack said to—”

“Let me talk to him.”

“Uh, he’s at home sick. Can’t do your TV show today.”

“He can’t not do it.” Like it would do any good to rant and rave at one of his employees. “Never mind, I’m going to his house to see for myself.”

“Nothing to see,” the man quickly said. “He’s just under the weather.”

“Thanks for calling.”

She hung up and checked her watch. Plenty of time to get to Livonia and convince Zack he wasn’t too sick to honor his contract.

She found Brad, the less-than-efficient but more loquacious intern, and dispatched him to Ed. She didn’t have time to take any flak from her producer.

“Tell him I’ll meet him at Home Stop. Bailey is trying to bail on us, but unless he has the bubonic plague, we’ll both meet Ed and the crew at the store for the taping.”

“Bailey has the bubonic plague,” Brad said with his mouth full of jelly doughnut, “and you’ll meet him at the show.”

She gave it to him once more, and the message seemed to penetrate. Better to risk a garbled message than try to explain to Ed in person. He was going to blow a gasket if the show was sabotaged by the golden boy’s defection.

By the time she got to Livonia, her heart was pounding almost as loudly as her fists on the door of Zack’s duplex. She was going to see for herself just how sick he was, then kill him.

He had to be home; a company truck was in the driveway. She rang the bell and pounded on the door. Maybe he was unconscious, in a coma, too sick to come to the door.

She tried the knob and was surprised when the door opened inward.

“Zack, where are you?”

“In here.

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