“Oh shit.” Dante hurried forward, calling for Kate to come back so I could get a new one applied.
Sebastian leaned over, grabbing our robes and tossing me mine. Standing, I stared at him, stunned at what had just happened. I wanted to be furious, but...I wasn’t.I didn’t know how I felt. I’d never had public sex before, and I’d certainly never come while surrounded by strangers.
While we waited for Kate to return, Sebastian joked with Dante.
“I’m glad we caught it when we did,” he said, referring to the modesty patch. He glanced over at me and winked. “That could have been bad.”
Chapter 10
Evie
The Improvisor
“Ithink we’ve cast our Final Girl,” Dante told me over the phone that night.
“Really?” I could barely contain my squeal.
“Oh yeah. That last scene? It looked so real, we’d be stupid not to cast you two opposite each other. I just got back from my meeting with the producers. Some of them weren’t happy, but I told them our decision was made.”
“What’s next, then?”
“Well, we scheduled one more day for chemistry tests, but we don’t need them anymore. Take the day off, come back, and then we can discuss the final script for you and Sebastian. I’m going to sit down with the writers and confirm everything.” He went on about the schedule, but I found my mind wandering, disappearing elsewhere.
Returning to that set from this afternoon.
We had two more weeks of preparing before filming. We’d be doing more stunt training, intimacy training, script runs, rehearsals, more hair, makeup, and wardrobe days, along with whatever marketing they came up with.
After I hung up, I found a text from Glenn asking about my day. I told him I got the lead and noticed he didn’t admit to being the one who was pushing for me not to. He didn’t like Sebastian—which was fair. Sebastian didn’t like him either.
Especially after today, but I wasn’t going to be telling anyone about that. After we’d cut for the day, I’d showered and reflected on what had happened. Something about it was exhilarating, yet…coming down, post orgasm, I knew that I shouldn’t have done that with him.
He was distracting me.
Eventually, I told Glenn that I’d be spending my day off moving back into my mom’s house. I’d gotten word that it was finally ready. He invited himself to help, and in turn, I agreed to order dinner for us. He made a casual remark about being more man than any actor could be, but I ignored the dig at Sebastian. I decided I’d pick a side after the heavy boxes were brought in.
I still had reservations about Glenn. He was the son of one of my enemies, but that particular one had just died. Heart attack in his hotel room, Glenn had said. Could I get publicly involved with someone so close to the people I planned on making suffer? I kept waffling between it being a stellar alibi and it being the thing that gets me caught.
As I lay in bed that night, I stared at the ceiling, trying to decide how I felt about being with Glenn. He was nice, handsome, and charming. But he wasn’t...Sebastian.
Not that any of it mattered in the end. Being with either of them long term meant either giving up my quest for revenge or having finished off the six men on my list and survived. Both scenarios seemed unlikely.
But it was nice to pretend…
I clenched my thighs together, thinking about this afternoon. It was the hottest thing I’d ever experienced—people in the room, them not knowing it was real...
I should have stopped him, and I think if it had been anyone else, I would have. I fell asleep with the question still on my mind. Who was I leading on—Glenn or Sebastian?
Myself.
SKYE CAUGHT MEthe next morning leaning against the moving van in the studio lot.
“Hey! Isn’t today moving day? Why are you here?” She gave me a half-smile, half-pout. We’d grown close after she admitted to wanting the lead so badly that she ignored the signs that those flowers and the date she went on with Sebastian had been meant for me.
“Society wants to pit women against women, and I started to fall for the trap. I’m sorry.”
Her apology had made me see her in a different light, and I’d started to find her quite fun to be around.
“Yeah, Glenn is on his way. He’s gonna help. We’re just meeting here.”
