by Scott, D. D.
“All work and no playing around isn’t healthy, my friend. After you’ve given away all of your money, what then? If you keep this up you might end up penniless and lonely.”
“Here we go again,” Ross said. “Every year it’s the same thing.”
Grayson had read too many stories of goodwill where the money went straight into the pockets of those claiming to help others. He, like his friend, was bombarded with requests for money every single day. Sure, maybe a few dollars trickled down to somebody in need, but who really knew how much of the check did any good?
“My uncle Frank is proof that you need to be careful who you give your money to. After surviving prostate cancer, Frank started a Walk for Life program, only to discover that the largest portion of his donation was going to the hefty salaries given to top executives of the organization.”
Roswell gave him one of his I’ve-heard-it-all before looks.
“We need to be careful, Roswell, that’s all I’m saying.”
“I’ll tell you what, Grayson. Since you’re so fond of talking about fraudulent charities, I think you should put your money where your mouth is and straighten this out once and for all.”
Ross ignored his friend’s scowl and added, “Pick a charity tonight, but not just any charity. Whichever one you choose is the one that will get one hundred percent of your Christmas Club Account—”
“I don’t—”
“Hear me out first,” Ross said. “Tonight I want you to choose one charity to give your money to.”
“It would take me all night to choose one,” Grayson said. “You pick.”
Ross looked over the brochure and stabbed his finger halfway down the middle of the second page. “There. The Next Step. It sounds perfect. The organization helps the homeless get back on their feet so that they can interview and apply for jobs. By Monday you’ll be a recipient of those very funds.”
Grayson laughed. “To be a recipient would mean that I would have to be homeless.”
“Exactly.”
“Okay,” Grayson said, not taking any of this too seriously, “then you’ll do the same for this organization.”
He closed his eyes and pointed. “From Dreams to Reality, an organization to help women realize their dreams.”
Roswell’s face turned a light shade of mustard yellow. “What does that even mean?”
“I guess you’ll find out, won’t you?”
Ross quickly realized he had nothing to worry about. The chance of his good friend going through with this lunatic idea was two billion to one.
“Care to double our bet?” Ross asked, enjoying watching his friend squirm in his seat.
“What do you mean?” Grayson asked, fixing his bow tie, which didn’t need fixing at all.
“I mean...starting Monday, you’re homeless and I’m helping women realize their dreams. Whoever makes the greatest impact by New Year’s Day, the other one doubles the money the winner donated to the cause.”
“Interesting. I like it. Yes. I like my odds very much. You’ve been out of the female world for so long, you’re gonna be in some kind of waaay over your head,” Grayson said, winking at one of the women who more than likely wanted nothing more from him than a shot at being one of next season’s Real Housewives of New York.
“That may be true. But imagining you, my friend, not only without your butler, but without your mansion too? Well...that reminds me of a very Dan Aykroyd Trading Places kind of moment.”
“I haven’t had time to watch that movie in years,” Grayson said, picking up his topped off champagne flute.
“Well, no matter, since we’re going to be living it. On our own terms, of course,” Ross added, clinking his glass to his friend’s. “Cheers. And may the best man win.”
“Cheers indeed. Now this is what I call celebrating the season of giving,” Grayson said, hoping like hell he’d have the same kind of hot-mess help that Aykroyd had found in Jamie Lee Curtis.
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ABOUT D. D. SCOTT
D. D. Scott is an Amazon and Barnes & Noble Top 100 Bestselling Romantic Comedy and Humorous Mystery Author. She’s a Writer’s Go-To-Gal for Muse Therapy, plus the #1 Amazon Bestselling Author of Muse Therapy: Unleashing Your Inner Sybil and the Co-Founder of WG2E – The Writer’s Guide to E-Publishing - your destination site for Everything E-Publishing, and Founder of RG2E – The Reader’s Guide to Epublishing – the destination site for all-things Ereading. You can get all the scoop on her, her books, her Muse Therapy Online Classes and Live Workshops, plus juicy tidbits too from her website D. D. Scott-ville.
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D. D. Scott’s bestselling romantic comedies are all about sexy, sassy, smart, career-driven women and the men who complete them. They’re a bit chick lit with a gone-country twist...and now a humorous mystery, comedic caper twist too. Her Bootscootin’ Books - think Sex and The City meets Urban Cowboy – debuted August 2010, on Amazon’s Kindle, Barnes & Noble’s Nook and at Smashwords, with BOOTSCOOTIN’ BLAHNIKS, followed by STOMPIN’ ON STETSONS and BUCKLES ME BABY. Now, The Bootscootin’ Characters are gettin’ “cozy”...as in Comedic Caper cozy, with the release of THUG GUARD, LIP GLOCK and CARATS & COCONUTS, Books One, Two and Three of her new, Cozy Cash Mysteries, featuring all of your fave Bootscootin’ characters plus tons of quirky new characters too.
She’s a two-time Amazon Movers & Shakers List Author (making it all the way to #2 on that prestigious list) and has been both a featured author and her books have been top picks – including one of the Top 10 Books for Mother’s Day 2011 - for such superfab Ereader-centric Blogs as Ereader News Today (ENT), Kindle Nation Daily, Cheap e-Reads, Pixel of Ink, The Frugal eReader, Indie Books List, Only Romance, and Bargain eBooks. Her blog posts on the Indie Epub World have been picked-up by fantabulous blogs like Bufo Calvin’s I Love My Kindle. She can be spotted all-week long on her one-million-hits-per-month grog The WG2E, a writer’s destination site for all-things-Epublishing. She often can also be found hangin’ on both the Kindle and Nook Boards, her new site The RG2E, a reader’s destination site for all-things Ereading, and has an active blog of her own on her website.
Also a Writer’s Go-to-Gal for Muse Therapy and now the Amazon #1 Bestselling Author of MUSE THERAPY: UNLEASHING YOUR INNER SYBIL, D. D. debuted her Muse Therapy Online Classes in 2009 and her Live Workshops in 2010. Thanks to the fabulous endorsement of Stephen Windwalker’s Kindle Nation Daily, there’s a ton more fun and fascinating MUSE THERAPY adventures in development.
D. D.’s first two short stories - The Mom Squad Mini-Mayhem Mysteries – FLUID FULFILLMENT and LICENSED FOR LOVE – released in October 2011, and a D. D. Scott Special Edition Ebook Boxed Set followed in December 2011, which included all three Bootscootin’ Books plus the first two Cozy Cash Mysteries. Her brand new Serial Novels THE STUCK WITH A SERIES released in March 2012, with STUCK WITH A SCHMUCK and STUCK WITH A STIFF, along with a total of 14 additional releases throughout 2012 and many more to come in 2013.
Declaring 2011 to be “The Year of the E-Book & Cross-Pollination”, D. D. co-founded and launched The Writer’s Guide to E-Publishing, your destination site for Everything E-Publishing. Whatever you want to know and/or cuss and discuss about E-publishing, it’s right there at The WG2E waiting for you as well as in her latest bestselling non-fiction book 10 YEARS AND 24 HOURS TO INDIE EPUBLISHING SUCCESS.
Declaring 2012 “The Year of the Reader”, she founded The RG2E – The Reader’s Guide to Epublishing – a sister site to The WG2E, which launched February 1, 2012 and is “the” new destination site for the Best in Ereading, Ebook Gifting and Ereader Giveaways too.
When she’s not writing, she’s busy luuuvin’ on her real-life hero “Sweet Man” and their beloved shelter-rescued dog Buckley and his new playmate Siggy the Affenpinscher.
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