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| Soap Sins Monday, January 16, 2012 CHAPTER 18 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. LINK ONLY! A RETURN! - Dakota stared at Madame Etelka in disbelief. - The Hollywood psychic repeated herself. "I cannot read your palm. Nothing is at it seems. You must leave at once!" She then stood up and started walking toward another room, which was closed off by a colorful beaded curtain. - Dakota stood up too. "I don't understand. Please, if you could just tell me what you mean. Am I in danger?" - Madame Etelka stopped and turned around to face her, her eyes wide in the semi-darkness. "You will have contact that is connected to the other side. That is what I see." Then she walked into the other room and was gone. - Dakota made for the Polo Lounge, and was sitting at a table alone outside, waiting for the scotch on the rocks she'd ordered when her youthful looking plastic surgeon entered, his latest wife on his arm. He stopped at her table and said hello. They called Dr. Dick the botox king. - She forced a smile and was relieved when the waiter showed up with her drink. Dr. Dick, assuming she was still stressed over losing her super rich latest husband, offered her a free botox session the next time she was in the vicinity of his office. Then he went to his own table, which, thankfully, was a booth around the corner, in the shade of some trees. - Dakota was just finishing her scotch when her phone rang. "Hello?" No one answered. It made her skin crawl. - The phone rang again. - "It's Chip." - "Did you call before?" - "No. Listen, we just received word that another network has decided to cancel all of their soap operas. All of them." - Dakota gasped. "That means ..." - "Bad news for them, good news for us!" Chip the producer said gleefully. "Millions of soap fans are gonna need another soap to watch and we're still around. That could mean big numbers in the ratings. But we've gotta act fast." - Dakota shook her head. She felt terribly for all the cast and crew who would be losing jobs. Trust Chip to make it all about him! Then again, he did make a valid point. A network exec had once said that at the end of the soap blood baths, only the strong would survive. And Dakota Diamonelle was nothing if not a survivor. "What do you want me to do?" - "We're going to do a publicity blitz. Be in my office for the meeting tomorrow an hour before call time." - Dakota agreed. After paying her bill, she walked out of the Polo Lounge in a hurry, exiting through the lobby of the Beverly Hills Hotel. She passed by a famous British soccer player and his family and smiled at the employee who opened the door for her and told her to have a wonderful day. Right in front of the door, however, she found herself face to face with Nick, her deceased husband. They were about a foot apart. He reached forward to take her hand. And then everything went black ...! |
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