Deleting two spreads without messing up the layouts after them

I'm laying out a book. the author just removed a chapter= two spreads in the middle of the book. No problem, I just drag the spreads to the trash right? But then all the other layouts that come after the deleted spreads are messed up, i.e. the images I placed are all out of position! I hope this makes sense. Basically I just want to nuke two spreads and make it like they never existed... including the flow of the copy. What do I do?

This is the sort of thing that would drive me absolutley crazy in a document. Personally, I would break the text into individual stories for each chapter so that editing a chapter only affect the pages in that chapter. Deleting text should leave a hole at the end of cahpter, not move the next one forward by a page, and adding text should force an overset at the end of a chapter rather than push the following text past where it belongs.
To do that, work from back to front. Find the last frame of the second-to last chapter and click on the outport, then click inside the frame, suing the selection tool. The last chapter will "disappear" and you should see the red plus sign indicating the overset. You have broken the thread at that point, but the frames on either side of the break will remain threaded.
Put the text cursor after the last character that belongs in the story, then press Cmd (mac) or Ctrl (Windows) + Shift + End to select the text from that point to the end of the story (You can also work in Story Editor where you can see what you are doing). Cut the selected text, put your cursor in the first empty frame, and paste. The last chapter is now an independent story.
Repeat as required.

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