Total pages in book: 84
Estimated words: 82271 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 411(@200wpm)___ 329(@250wpm)___ 274(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 82271 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 411(@200wpm)___ 329(@250wpm)___ 274(@300wpm)
This isn’t what I meant.
His lips press a small kiss to her forehead.
Oh this is bad.
This is really bad.
We aren’t live, so we can edit it out at least, but she’s going to talk, and if people leak this. I mean he’s touching her.
I’m ready to run into the scene when she stares up at him. “I don’t think you were supposed to do that.”
He winks. “But does it feel better?”
Oh for the love of God.
She nods.
“Then who cares? I want to take care of my fans the way they take care of me.”
Someone makes a noise, I look behind me, oh give me a break, is someone on set crying?
This would be the time the jealous girlfriend runs out and screams that they have a sex tape, okay maybe not really, that’s too far, way too far, what am I thinking?
“So,” She’s quite honestly handling his gorgeousness like a champ, most girls would be comatose by now. “What do these tattoos mean?”
Oh no.
They’re the ones I’ve helped him with. Her fingers trace a few of them, of the ones I was there watching get inked on his precious skin.
“Nothing.” His jaw flexes as he looks over his shoulder, glancing at me before saying again. “They mean absolutely nothing.”
My heart drops to my stomach, then my feet, and then all I have is emptiness and pure rage.
He knows my reasons! He knows why I pushed him away. I was protecting him! I am protecting him! His image is what matters, haven’t I proven that? And then he does this?
I sway on my feet a bit, then I’m the one leaning against the tree, as if I’ve stood for hours.
“I like them.” She rubs her thumb over his wrist one more time.
He stands to his full height and holds out his hand. “Good, think we can make it to the top of the trail now?”
She grabs his hand. “Well my idol gave me energy I didn’t know I needed.”
“Ah, the power of a break?”
“The power of an innocent kiss.”
He interlaces his hand with hers. “Don’t believe everything you see.”
She stumbles again and off they go, up the trail.
The camera’s follow them while they overlook the hill and drink wine, he pours her a glass and clinks it with hers. “To a new friendship.”
“Sookie, I don’t think you’re capable of having friends that are girls.” She laughs.
The crew laughs behind me.
It wasn’t cute, what she said.
She’s not cute.
She just wants in his pants.
She couldn’t handle him.
I can’t handle him.
I’m a jealous witch and I hate myself, but what I hate the most is how hurt I feel, and how I’d only have to look in the mirror to know all the reasons why I feel that way.
And the only person to blame would be staring with hollow eyes right back at me.
Chapter Sixteen
Sookie
I know she watched the entire thing, I could feel her anger, and I honestly thrived off of it—if that makes me sick, whatever… she said to participate, to get more ratings, to stick to my stupid contract.
I toss my sweatshirt onto the ground. The crew is wrapping up with Iseul down the mountain, she’s doing her confessional and I asked to stay back for a bit to take in the view. They said I had fifteen minutes since it’s already dark but I’m not worried.
“Head back in a few,” One of the PA’s calls back at me. I don’t know which one it is since I can’t really see that well, but I’m assuming it’s Ro, what I call him for short.
“Yup.” I clench my fists and stare up at the stars and take a second before I start to follow him down the trail when a hand reaches out and grabs my arm jerking me into the tree line.
“What the hell do you think you were doing?” Ari’s in my face, with my back against the tree.
Nope.
I flip her around and slam her against the bark. “My job—isn’t that what you wanted me to do?”
“By flirting with her and forcing us to edit all the shit out so you don’t get canceled with your fans! You know you can’t just touch and do what you did, you kissed her forehead!”
I smirk. “It’s great TV.”
She smacks me on the arm. “And you’re a pain in my ass!”
I lean forward nearly touching her mouth. “Are we done here?”
“No!” Ari’s nostrils flare. “We aren’t done! Some of the crew filmed what you did! It’s going to leak, and I have to be the one to gain control of the situation if this goes horribly wrong. You showed your tattoos. You’re not allowed to date. You touched her, you—“
“—jealous?” I snort out a laugh. “Wow, good thing I’ve never taken any of those roles for dramas, you’d probably run me over with your car.”