Hook, Line, and Sinker by Tessa Bailey EPUB & PDF – eBook Details
- Author: Tessa Bailey
- Genre: Women’s Friendship Fiction, Romantic Comedy, Contemporary Women Fiction
- Publish Date: 1 March 2022
- Size: 2.3 MB
- Format: PDF / EPUB
- Status: Avail for Download
- Price: Free
Hannah Bellinger had always been more of a supporting actress than a
leading lady. The hype girl. If she’d lived in Regency England, she would be
the second at every duel, but never wield the pistol. That distinction was
never more obvious than now, as she sat in the dark audition room watching a
girl with pure leading-lady material emote like her life depended on it.
Hannah’s hands disappeared into the sleeves of her sweatshirt like twin
turtles ducking into their shells, her hidden fingers curling around the
clipboard in her lap. Here it came. The big finale. Across the Storm Born
production studio, their lead actor ran through a scene with their final actress
hopeful of the day. Since eight A.M., the studio had been a revolving door of
wide-eyed ingénues, and didn’t it figure that not a single one of them would
click with Christian until Hannah was past the point of starving, her mouth
tasting like stale coffee?
Such was the life of a production assistant.
“You forgot to trust me,” the redhead whispered brokenly, tears creating
trails of mascara down her cheeks. Dang, this girl was fire. Even Sergei, the
writer and director of the project, was held in a rare thrall, the tip of his
glasses inserted between his full, dreamy lips, that ankle crossed over the
opposite knee, jiggling, jiggling. That was his I’m impressed posture. After
two years of working as his production assistant—and nursing a longunrequited crush on the man—Hannah knew all his tells. And this redhead
could bet the rent on getting cast in Glory Daze.
Sergei turned to Hannah where she huddled in the corner of the freezing
conference room and raised an excited black eyebrow. The shared moment of
triumph was so unexpected, the clipboard slid off her lap and clattered to the
ground. Flustered, she reached for it but didn’t want to lose the moment with
the director, so she jackknifed and gave Sergei a thumbs-up. Only to
remember her thumb was trapped inside the sleeve of her sweatshirt, creating
a weird, starfish-looking gesture that he missed, anyway, because he’d turned
back around.
You absolute turnip, you.
Hannah replaced the clipboard in her lap and pretended to write Very
Serious notes. Thank God it was dark in the rear of the studio. No one could
see the tomato-colored tidal wave surging up her neck.
“End scene!” Sergei crowed, standing up from the table of producers that
faced the audition area to deliver a slow clap. “Extraordinary. Simply
extraordinary.”
The redhead, Maxine, beamed while simultaneously trying to wipe away
her dripping mascara with the hem of her black T-shirt. “Oh wow. Thank
you.”
“That felt fine.” Christian sighed, signaling Hannah for his cold brew.
I have been summoned.
She rose from her chair and set the clipboard down, retrieving the actor’s
beverage from inside the mini-fridge along the wall and bringing it to him.
When she held out the metal travel tumbler and he made no move to take it,
she gritted her teeth and held the straw to his lips. When he had the nerve to
look her in the eye while sucking noisily, she stared back stone-faced.
This is what you wanted.
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