Total pages in book: 155
Estimated words: 145634 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 728(@200wpm)___ 583(@250wpm)___ 485(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 145634 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 728(@200wpm)___ 583(@250wpm)___ 485(@300wpm)
“Mark’s idea, not mine. I’ll be taking Hally and hiding away with her every chance I get.” Nancy nods, resigned to the fact that neither of us really want to be in the spotlight more than we have to. My hand slips into Nathan’s at the thought of doing this once a year or more. It’s hectic, but I love the hustle of it. I would never have thought my life would turn into this.
“I’m kind of going to miss it in here,” I say aloud, although it really wasn’t for either of them.
Nathan opens his mouth to say something, but at the same time our car pulls up to the curb and he reaches down to grab the bags. “We’ll be back,” he tells me and then starts to load up the car.
It makes my heart swell to know that I’ll be leaving with him.
It doesn’t matter what happened before. The sadness and pain will always be there. But if I can look at him and only see a man who loves me and who I love back, then we can survive it.
Even if it shattered us and the pieces will never be the same.
They can fit together and make something beautiful. Something it was meant to be from the very start.
“Well, I’m off,” Nancy says and gives me a small hug. She holds me at arm’s length as she adds, “You know my number if you need anything.”
I nod my head and reply, “Of course.”
She lets me go with an easy sigh. “Drive safely,” she says and I know she’s ready to leave until she has to check on me again.
“Thank you for everything,” I tell her before she can turn away from me. “I really mean it,” I say and try to put every ounce of conviction I have for her in those words.
She gives me a small smile as Nathan calls out, “We’re ready to go.”
“It was my pleasure,” Nancy says and then she’s off, fading into the crowds along the street. It’s funny how life sets you up with people who will change your fate forever. How easily they come, but how they’ll stay forever.
The driver opens my door as Nathan shuts his on the opposite side. It’s one step off the curb until I’m tucked away and ready to go back to our hometown.
“I love you, Hally,” Nathan tells me as I settle into the back of the car. The leather seats are cool and it makes me shiver.
“I love you, too.”
I eye Nathan, taking in his words, the same that he told me last night and this morning.
“Are you going to say it all the time now?” I ask him teasingly more than anything.
“Yes, every second I have the chance so you’ll never forget it.” I don’t know when he turned into this man, but I’m never letting him go.
EPILOGUE
Harlow
Page Six of the New York Post
A whirlwind romance on the set of Night Fire has lit more flames than anyone saw coming. The well-known bad boy, Nathan Hart, and the unknown darling, Harlow May, started a passionate affair that was more than obvious to director Blake Stevens. Capitalizing on the heat that sizzled between the two, the show itself was adapted to sneak in footage the famed director caught of the two while filming off set.
Reviewers and critics agree that the passion between the new couple is one for the big screen and can’t wait for the premiere this fall. Even former costar Julie Rays has stated publically that she couldn’t be happier for the duo and hopes to be at their wedding where she jokingly promised not to steal the show.
More scandalous than the affair on set is a picture captured of the pair on an island getaway in the south of France. Sporting a small baby bump and a ring on her finger, Miss Harlow May is sure to be Mrs. Hart before the year is up! Friends and family close to the couple swear the two are inseparable and couldn’t be happier for the reclusive twosome.
Although the couple usually has no comment for the press, Mr. Hart responded to our request with a single line: “I lost her once, I won’t lose her again.”
“We’re still making headlines,” I tell Nathan from across the hotel suite’s kitchen as my hand slips to my belly. “And apparently, I’m pregnant.” The small smile that had graced my lips falls and I peer down below my bikini top. They can go get fucked, there’s no way I actually look pregnant. We’ve been vacationing for almost a month now and it's time to get back to real life and everything that lies ahead for us, but I didn’t relax that much. I may have gained five pounds, maximum. I half wonder if Nancy told them I was pregnant. She has a bet going with Mark, I know she does. The papers are calling them the matchmakers and soon-to-be godparents.