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So, I turned and walked away.
Chapter 11
JAKE
“Jake!Olivia!Bothofyou, come with me, please.”
Olivia and I hadn’t spoken all day. I think she would have walked away from me if I’d let her, but I’d been pretty persistent in following her around, so she wouldn’t have been able to escape without causing a scene about it, and she wasn’t willing to go quite that far in front of Michael.
At his summons, though, we glanced at one another and then stepped together toward him.
He was standing by one of the cameras and flipping through some papers on a clipboard, and he didn’t look up when we approached. “We’re going to be shooting on location starting next week,” he said.
“Okay,” I said, unsure where he was going with that.
“I’ll need both of you to be on site.”
“Where?” Olivia asked him.
“Maui.”
“Maui like Hawaii?” I asked.
Olivia glanced at me irritably. “How many Maui do you know about?”
“You two still fighting?” Michael asked. “Maybe a tropical getaway will help you put that to bed. You’re definitely not the first husband and wife to lose your tempers with each other during a shoot, but I need you focused.”
I wasn’t so sure a tropical getaway was going to do anything for my ability to get along with Olivia, but itwouldbe a good time, so I wasn’t about to complain. “When do we leave?” I asked.
“Most of the cast and crew leaves tonight. I’m going with them. But I didn’t want to ask you to fly out the same day I told you about the trip—figured you could use a day to prepare—so I’ve chartered a small plane to take you out tomorrow. Does that work for the two of you?”
Olivia nodded. “We’ll be there,” she said firmly.
I wondered if she would put up an argument or refuse to go. I was sure she didn’t want anything to do with traveling with me. But maybe she had accepted the fact that we needed to tolerate each other’s presence if we were going to get through this and that there was no point in arguing about things that couldn’t be helped.
Maybe she was even ready to accept that this arrangement didn’t need to bejustabout getting her what she wanted—we could make the movie and promote Branches at the same time.
“All right,” Michael said. “I’m going to email you a list of what you need to pack for the trip, Jake.”
“Sounds good.”
“Do I need to pack anything special?” Olivia asked.
“Oh, I meant I’d be emailing the list for the both of you to Jake,” Michael said. “He can share it with you, right?”
That pissed her off, I could tell. But what was she supposed to say? She could hardly tell Michael that she needed her own copy of his list because the two of us didn’t live together, and she wouldn’t be packing in the same room as me. “That’s fine,” she agreed. “You’re right, of course.”
“Great. And I’ll have a car come by your place to take you to the airstrip.”
Olivia gave a grim little smile at that, and I knew why. Michael had her address on file, not mine. The car would be coming to her house.
But it didn’t bother me the way it apparently did excite her. So I’d have to drive over to her place first thing tomorrow morning so the car could pick us both up there. That was no issue. I was still getting a free trip to Hawaii out of all this. In fact, it would have done her good to try to see things my way.
She always let herself get so worked up when there was nothing to be upset about. She was going to get the career exposure she wanted, and she was also getting a trip to Hawaii. What was there to complain about? Nothing, as far as I could see.
“We’ll get ready to go,” she said.
“The car will pick you up at seven a.m. tomorrow,” he said. “Make sure you’re ready. I don’t want the flight to be delayed.”
