River Road by Joann Ross

Author:Joann Ross [Ross, JoAnn]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Fiction, Romance, Contemporary, General
ISBN: 9780743443760
Google: lf4V86iZ2I8C
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2002-08-31T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 19

Several of the cast and crew were still in the bar and called out to Julia to join them when they returned to the inn, but she begged off, claiming she still had lines to memorize before morning.

Warren was sitting at a table in the far corner, deeply engrossed in conversation.

"Well, they certainly seem to be getting along well," Julia murmured in the elevator, more to herself than to Finn. She liked Warren a great deal and worried about his being hurt by someone who might only view him as her ticket out of the bayou.

"Who?"

"Warren and that local blond cheerleader-type belle he's been spending his evenings with. The one with the mother who wears that horrid hat that looks as if a bird died on it."

"The belle is Lorelei. Her mama with the hat is Miss Melanie."

"You're kidding."

"Nope. And not only that, Miss Melanie's sister is Miss Scarlett."

"Well, fiddle-dee-dee. And I thought folks on the commune saddled their kids with tough names."

"Lorelei and Miss Melanie are loyal fans."

"So they tell me. Mercy, I didn't think I was going to be able to get a word in edgewise between the two of them." She nailed Lorelei's breathless accent as she fanned herself with her hand. "Lorelei's certainly doing all right for herself. After Warren was so obviously smitten with her the night of the welcome party, he started writing her lines, which just goes to show that the casting couch hasn't entirely been tossed out with the old studio system. Though in this case, I suspect it's the actress who's manipulating things."

"Lorelei isn't like that. She may play the belle, but that's because she actually is one. What you see is pretty much what you get, and if she sleeps with a guy it's because she likes him."

"She seems to like you well enough."

"We go back to high school. She knows Nate better."

"So I gathered. If the hat lady can be believed, their wedding's in the planning stages,"

He laughed at that idea. "Miss Melanie's been writing out the guest list and choosing the songs and flowers since Lorelei was five and Nate was six. For a lady with a cotton candy exterior, she's your quintessential steel magnolia. I can't see her giving up until her daughter's safely married off."

"Safely. What an odd way to put it."

"You weren't around when Lorelei got herself engaged to some Baton Rouge banker with a gambling problem, who got himself in debt to the mob. Her Shih Tzu got kidnapped. The thugs left a letter in his little wicker bed suggesting she was next if her rat of a fiance didn't cough up the bucks."

"What happened?"

"Nate calmed her down, found where they were keeping the dog, and brought him back home."

"What happened to the fiance?"

"That's not so clear. Some folks say he's in the Witness Protection program, working as a caddy at a country club in Tucson. Others say he ran off with one of the mobster's daughters and is hiding out in Little Rock working as a hospital orderly.

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