The Reed Security Relationship Manual: A Reed Security Romance - Giulia Lagomarsino (best book club books of all time TXT) 📗

We’re gonna do the whole girl-talk thing? Because I gotta say, I really don’t do girl-talk.

Giulia: Think of me as the person that is guiding how your relationship with Ryan turns out in the series your kids will appear in.

Lola: Who says I want my kids appearing in any of your series? Look at what you put me through.

Giulia: But you ended up with Ryan.

Lola: Yeah, only because you screwed him over too. And James! Why would you do that to a kid?

Giulia: Well, it happens in real life.

Lola: So that makes it okay? Face it, you cruelly tore a mother and wife away from her family.

Giulia: Would you like me to bring her back from the dead? I’ve had readers ask for that. Ooh, I could have it that someone gave her the same thing that the doctors gave Ice, Hunter, and Gabe to make them appear dead. She never really died, and she was really taken to a hospital where experiments were performed on her. Then she escaped and came running back to find the love of her life, Ryan. Except he’s with you now. And when she shows up out of nowhere, he doesn’t know what to think. He doesn’t run and hug her because he’s with you, but he’s torn. She was the love of his life—

Lola: I’m the love of his life.

Giulia: Yeah, yeah, but she was his first love. He was devastated and couldn’t function without her.

Lola: And then I came and healed him.

Giulia: You healed each other. But imagine the twist if I brought Cassie back. Man, that would rock everyone’s world.

Lola: Are you trying to make sure I shoot you?

Giulia: Hey, I control your future.

Lola pulls a gun and points it at my head.

Lola: And I control yours. If you fuck with me on this, I’ll make sure that you never write another book again.

Giulia: Alright, you know it’s getting a little weird when imaginary characters start threatening you.

Lola: Who says I’m in your imagination? Don’t fuck this up for me, or I’ll be back to finish you off.

She walks away, still pointing her gun at me.

Giulia: Well, that was different.

Ice

Ice: Giulia.

Giulia: Iceman.

Ice: So, what’s this whole interview about? Are you thinking of using me in another series?

Giulia: No. I just wanted to get your reactions about the series. What your likes and dislikes were.

Ice: Well, I could have done without Plaid Man.

Giulia: Jake? He was awesome.

Ice: He was competition.

Giulia: Were you worried?

Ice: Of course not. I mean, you had me worried when I couldn’t win Lindsey back. Frankly, she was overreacting. Don’t tell her this, but it was totally irrational that she flipped out over that kiss.

Giulia: You think so?

Ice: Of course. It wasn’t like it meant anything. I mean, I begged to keep her. Now, how many men would beg for a woman?

Giulia: I guess not many. But it was more that you broke her trust.

Ice: But our chemistry was undeniable. I mean, let’s face it. Nobody accidentally fucks someone else.

Giulia: That’s true.

Ice: But it made for a great storyline. I gotta say, I liked being the only guy that could say he accidentally fucked someone.

Giulia: Or, you could say that you didn’t want to admit that you slept with her.

Ice: Well, you could say that, but accidental fucking is so much sexier.

Giulia: Okay, so what else?

Ice: Well, I didn’t really like getting shot in the chest. The recovery time was a bitch.

Giulia: But you’re an imaginary character. It’s not like you actually felt the bullet.

Ice: But the readers did. I can guarantee there were a few pretty ladies out there shedding tears over my death.

Giulia: If it makes you feel any better, I cried when you died.

Ice: Good to know you would miss me.

Giulia: Well, I’ll let you in on a little secret. I find it easier to kill off women than men.

Ice: Why’s that?

Giulia: Well, because it’s easier to build men up to be heroes in my head. Women…they’re not as important to me as the male character. I find it hard to write women.

Ice: Well, you sure wrote Lindsey well. She bitches at me all the time. I’m pretty sure that’s all that’s required to write a woman well.

I cringe as I see Lindsey appear right behind him, tapping her foot on the floor.

Ice: Let’s face it, the only way to shut up a woman is to shove your cock in her mouth. Am I right?

Lindsey: You are in so much trouble.

Ice spins around and then looks at me accusingly.

Ice: You did that on purpose.

Giulia: Hey, you’re the one that told me that you understood hating someone so much, but wanting to fuck them at the same time. You’re welcome.

Burg

Burg: Just so you know, if you say one word about the tranny during this interview, I’m walking.

Giulia: I wasn’t planning on talking about it at all.

Burg: Good. A man can’t be known for the only stupid mistake he’s ever made.

Giulia: I don’t know that it was your only mistake.

Burg: Really? Name one other mistake. Just one. You can’t, because I’m the man that went through cancer with his woman. I had to watch her almost die, and I even cried in the book for you.

Giulia: Several of the men have cried in their books.

Burg: Maybe, but it was nothing like you put me through. You know, that storyline killed me.

Giulia: In what way?

Burg: My character was only known for the cancer storyline. It was like you took all the fun out of us.

Giulia: Well, it was kinda hard to write about you and Emma after that.

Burg: See, and I don’t understand why. I mean, we had all that fun with the sheep-fucker comment and at the end when I burst in on her in her cancer meeting. I mean, you could have taken that so much farther.

Giulia: Well, I was on a writing deadline.

Burg: Sure, so my storyline suffers.

Giulia: I don’t see it that way.

Burg: Still, you could have used me later in the series.