Clause & Effect (Deadly Edits Book 2) by Kaitlyn Dunnett

Clause & Effect (Deadly Edits Book 2) by Kaitlyn Dunnett

Author:Kaitlyn Dunnett [Dunnett, Kaitlyn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kensington Books
Published: 2019-06-24T22:00:00+00:00


Chapter 21

I sent the script to Diego as an email attachment as soon as I’d incorporated the final tweaks made at Wednesday evening’s meeting. He emailed back to acknowledge its receipt and invite me to meet him at Harriet’s the next day for lunch. I accepted, but not without some misgivings. Directors have been known to ask for changes.

The place was busy when I arrived. It isn’t all that big and almost every table was occupied. I gave myself points for recognizing all but one of Ada’s customers. The exception was a young man sitting alone at a table in the center of the restaurant. He looked to be somewhere in his late twenties and was casually dressed in jeans and a Red Sox T-shirt. I approved of the latter. How could I not when I’d spent some fifty years living in New England?

Diego was waiting for me at a table for two and had chosen the chair with a view of the door so he could keep an eye out for me. “Over here, Ms. Lincoln.”

“Call me Mikki.”

I sat down across from him, my back to the rest of the patrons. I was just as well pleased to be spared distractions. I tend to be a people watcher. I could still hear bits and pieces of the conversations going on around us, but I was able to ignore them and focus on what Diego thought of the pageant script.

“I think it’s great,” he said. “Lively. Lots of interesting characters. Given how little information you had to go on about the early settlers, you did a remarkable job of fleshing them out.”

“It helped that one of them was an ancestor of mine,” I confided. “I just thought about my grandfather when I was writing dialogue for John Greenleigh.”

He chuckled. “I imagine Ms. Feldman drew on memories of her relatives as well. Of course, she actually knew the characters she was writing about.”

We chatted in this vein for a quarter of an hour. Or, to be honest, I babbled on about stories we’d uncovered in our research while he polished off his soup and sandwich. I’d barely touched my BLT when Diego announced he had to leave.

“I need to get the scripts printed for the casting call tomorrow and handle a few other details. You should come to tryouts.”

“To try out? I don’t think so.”

“To advise. Who knows better than you do what to look for in our aspiring actors?”

He signaled Ada for the check and refused to let me pay for my own food. I didn’t argue. Neither did I commit myself to anything. Although I admired his enthusiasm, I didn’t believe for one minute that Diego was going to coax Oscar-worthy performances out of our local talent. I’d be happy if he ended up with warm bodies who could get their lines out without mumbling.

Once he left, I concentrated on finishing my sandwich. I had a full afternoon ahead of me. I hadn’t precisely neglected my clients while working



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