I glance at our reflection, at the way we fit together in the frame. It’s so incredibly intimate. We look like we belong together.
“We look like the Beckhams,” I say, trying to diffuse the intensity.
He kisses my cheek, his hands brushing loose strands off my shoulders. His touch seeps through my thin T-shirt like sunlight through water.
“Better, because we’re Sinclair and Hastings.”
There’s something in the way he says our names—like they’re meant to be paired, like it’s inevitable—that makes my heart ache with a sweetness I can’t quite contain.
Sinclair and Hastings.
But I don’t want to only be our last names. Those names have so much power over us.
“I think I like just Reese and just Dante.”
I stand, and Dante’s gaze stays on me, full of that soft, tender look that leaves me feeling both seen and exposed. His eyes crinkle at the corners, a fondness so genuine it feels like something we’ve built together, intimate and earned.
“Why don’t I stay, make you some breakfast while you work on your script notes?”
“You sure?”
“Of course.”
Heat blooms in my chest, spreading outward like steeping tea. “Maybe after I’m done, you can give me my first training session now that you’re back, and afterward we can come back here and havedinner?”
One more rendezvous before we start filming tomorrow will be good. Help us both relax for the weeks to come.
His eyebrows lift. “Yeah?”
I gather my courage, letting playfulness mask the vulnerability. “I remember something about you being at my beck and call?”
“I aim to serve and please.”
“And maybe afterdinner…you could make me an actual dinner.” I widen my eyes dramatically, turning on my innocent doe-eyed act—though we both know there’s nothing innocent about the way my pulse races when he looks at me like that. “I can ask Ramsey to get us some groceries.”
“You realize that one of these days that look isn’t going to work on me.”
“Not today, though?”
He sighs, the sound caught somewhere between exasperation and adoration. “Not today.”
Chapter 34
Reese
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