Rain Shadow by L.A. Witt

Author:L.A. Witt [Witt, L.A.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Riptide Publishing
Published: 2015-10-07T04:00:00+00:00

With Anna actively working on an episode, her hours were longer. So, of course, mine were too. Some nights, we didn’t get back to her place until the sun was almost coming up. And that was before they started shooting at night, which put us all on a vampire schedule for a while.

Of course, that meant I didn’t get to see much of Scott, and it didn’t help when Anna had to scale back her appointments with Leigh and Dr. Vincent. After three solid weeks, Leigh was coming unglued, Anna was losing her mind, and I was going to join them if I didn’t spend some time with Scott. That was to say nothing of the relentless guilt from having to miss Skype sessions with my kids.

Such was life in this business, though. I Skyped with my family—my ex-wife and son, anyway—as often as I could, even if it meant pinging them while they were eating breakfast and I was heading to bed. When my schedule allowed and my body wasn’t collapsing from exhaustion, I met up with Scott. Sometimes that meant a few hours in the evening. Sometimes it meant a quickie in his office between his appointments and before I scrambled over to Anna’s or went home to collapse in bed. More than once, I went to his place, we skipped the sex, didn’t pass Go, and went straight to the collapsing into bed part. Then a few hours later, I’d pry myself away from him—careful not to wake him up—and reluctantly leave his bed so I could go to work.

Finally, though, the schedule relaxed a little. The days were still long, but we were regularly leaving the set by eleven or twelve at night.

One night, as things were winding down at the unspeakably early hour of nine thirty, I texted Scott.

We’re wrapping up. Free tonight?

Almost immediately, he replied: Absolutely.

I couldn’t help grinning. It had been a few days.

Not that I would have been much use to him over those few days even if I’d had time to see him. Like everyone here, I was running on less sleep than the human body required. And while assholes like Carter and Ginsberg just needed an extra cup of coffee and the odd catnap, the rest of us weren’t as young as we used to be. Judging by how much Levi was dragging lately, I suspected Carter had a lot more energy than Levi these days.

The price of dating a younger guy, I guess.

I chuckled, but as I gazed at my text conversation with Scott, I sobered a little, and couldn’t help but feel a pang of dread. Scott wasn’t twenty-five anymore either, but he also hadn’t been working hundred-plus hour weeks.

Fair warning, I texted back, I’m exhausted. Can’t promise much tonight.

I fully expected him to bail and tell me we’d meet after I’d caught up on some sleep, but instead, he wrote back: Why don’t we grab something to eat? Can play the rest by ear.

I could live with that.

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