Get a Grip (Hollywood Nights) by Cara North Read Free Book Online

about?”
                  He lifted his shoulder in a half shrug and said, “I own Blissful Sound.”
                  “The recording studio? I thought you were just a grip!” She folded her arms and frowned at him.
                  “Well.” He didn’t like her attitude. “I’m not just a grip. I do grip work because I started as a grip. I enjoy working. I miss the time on set. The studio doesn’t really need me anymore. I get bored.”
                  “That’s why they knew who you were. Jed knew you. Dahlia…ugh!” She practically shook with anger.
                  “Why are you so pissed?”
                  “I thought you were…”
                  “Ah,” he nodded. “You thought you were going to have all the cards in this deck. You thought that if I was just a poor little grip I would be grateful for whatever scraps you through my way. Well, well. It is nice to meet you. I had no idea.”
                  Now he was pissed. Her eyes rounded in surprise. He was right. He was disappointed, but he was right. Maybe she wasn’t the sweet and innocent woman he admired after all. She sat back against the seat and pouted. He wasn’t about to coddle her, not after that revelation. She wanted to be treated like an adult; well, here was her first wake-up call. He might adore her on most days, but he would not be treated like a doormat. He did that once in a relationship and would never walk that path again.
                  The flight was the longest hour of his life. She simmered in her own thoughts and he began creating a plan that included a particularly vicious lawyer he happened to be related to in the event that this marriage cost him a fortune to dissolve should it come to that. Asking Alex for help would be more painful than he cared to consider. The sad part was he didn’t want it to come to that. He was struggling to put the Ivy he thought he knew and the one beside him together. One of them he wanted desperately, and the other he wanted to spank for being such a heartless brat. He really hated that she looked so adorable in that dress. He really did not want to be attracted to her right now, but he was.
     
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    Ivy was stunned. She was angry that he didn’t tell her…what? That he made just as much if not more money than her. She was mad at herself for being such a bitch about it. Really, she hadn’t asked him if that was his only job. She assumed he was just a grip and that he put all of his earnings into that car to impress women. Her older sister, Maybelline had really messed up her mind.
    May had convinced their parents when she entered middle grades to let her attended public school. When May got into high school she convinced Ivy it would be fun for them to go to school together. Their parents moved and they entered into the same school for the first time. People confused them all the time because when it came to features, they were practically twins. The only noticeable difference was the nose.
    May was a bit of a diva that year. She had come into her own in the thespian driven, high profile school. It was a ridiculous place. Ivy was invisible because she was so shy and quiet . She always waved when people said hello, even when they called her May. After all, she didn’t want people thinking her sister was rude. When May got pregnant and their parents pulled her out, Ivy received the brunt of the decisions her sister had made. Her father made her promise to remain a virgin. He became so strict she had no life much less a boyfriend.
    The theatre teacher thought she was May, so Ivy switched classes so she would be allowed stay in public school. It was the only chance she had. Even if it meant pretending to be her sister and outgoing for that one class, she took it. Eventually, May faded into the backdrop and finished high school the home school way, and Ivy stepped into the