Chapter Ten
Finally Lennie said the magic words. "Cut. Print. That's a wrap everyone.
"Thank goodness," Mary Lou said, rushing to her trailer, unbuttoning the suit
she'd worn in the scene on her way.
Terri, one of the wardrobe assistants, ran behind her. "Can I help?" Terri
asked. She was black, overweight, and out of breath, but full of enthusiasm.
Like everyone else on the set, she adored Mary Lou and would do anything for
her.
"Yes!" Mary Lou said. "I need to be ready like an hour ago!"
"You got it," Terri said. "I'm here to assist."
"How's that little brother of yours?" Mary Lou asked as they reached her
trailer.
"Doin' okay, thanks," Terri answered, marveling that Mary Lou even remembered
her confiding about her sixteen-year-old brother, who'd recently gotten arrested
for vandalism. "They gave him three months' probation."
"That should teach him a lesson."
"My mama taught him a lesson," Terr ... read full excerpt from Dangerous Kiss: A Novel ebook