“Uh huh,” Lee laughs. “Sure.”
Jett comes back with a protein smoothie, places the strawinmy mouth, and doesn’t take his eyes off me until the glass is empty.Seriously.Someone comes to powder our shiny areas, and a few other people follow into the room while nerves tingle up my spine. Jay insists his assistant pull up every bit of info she can find on Jett, and I’m sure that means raunchy tweets about him, too.
They film me answering fun questions and Iplay a game of ‘Kiss, Marry, Kill’ with all the characters on my show, while teasing little hints about season two which comes out next month. The ones HBO approved, nothing too juicy.
“Ready to read each other’s thirst tweets?” Lee rubs his hands together and does a silly eyebrow wiggle.
“Fuck yeah!” Jett jumps in front of the camera like he was made for it, because heis.They prep us briefly, and here we go.
“Hi! I’m Maddy Morningstar!”
“And I’m Jett Raven, and I’m tagging along to read Maddy’s thirst tweets!”
“And I’ll be reading Jett’s!”
“If she can handle reading them without getting jealous, I’m taking her out tonight.” He smiles a mile wide and holds up fingers crossed.
“Well then, I’m starting now.” Iwink at him and swear he blushes. It’s the perfect time to read the first one. “Whoa, Jett went from Babygirl to baby DADDY!”
He shakes his head, “Have Ientered my Daddy Era, Mads?”
“Daddy adjacent, maybe? Idunno, ask me tomorrow morning.”
Jett pretends to start panting and fans himself with the tweet cards, and Ilegit giggle before reading the next one, “Jett can put that massive cow tongue of his in any hole in my body.” Isnort.
He deadpans at the camera. “I’m not putting it in your nostril, if that’s what you mean.”
I put my hand over my face and try so hard not to laugh. “If Isee one more pic of Jett Raven’s new abs, hipbones, and tattoos, I’m gonna squirt.”
“Mads! You sure you didn’t post that one?”
I smack him with the card, “I don’t even have X!”
After a couple more, it’s time for him to read mine, and I’m already turning pink when he peeks down at the card, then back at me, looking cheeky and sexy as hell.
“When Iread that Maddy Morningstar was single again, Icame.Yeah,join the club, man!”
My face is crimson now, and Ihide it with my hands and make an embarrassed squeak.
“I’d eat Maddy Morningstar out for hours and then run off to change my name in case her dad tries to kill me.” Jett chuckles. “Fair, fair. Good thing he’s my mentor and best mate, he might just let me live.”
“Oh my God!” Igroan. Ican’t handle any of these and they just keep coming!
“I was watching Maddy Morningstar play that evil bitch princess on my flight, and my nipples got hard. The flight attendant noticed.” Jett opens his leather jacket and looks down comically, “Oh, wow, mine are hard right now, too. See the effect you have on us, Mads?”
After that Ijust about black out until the tweets are exhausted and so am I. Everyone in the room claps when we’re done and Ican’t feel anything but relief that Iget to spend the rest of the dayand nightalone with Jett.
Chapter 19
Maddy
I collapse into the car, and I’m in a daze. Jett whispers something to Bryson, and then the privacy window goes up. His hands, covered with silver skull rings with diamond eyes, grip my hips like he’s got proof of ownership overmein the glove box.
“Why was that so much fun, reading all the filthy things people are thinking about you, Baby?”
“Because all those raunchy comments don’t mean anything whenyou’rethe one who gets to have me. Reading the tweets about you was like picking my own brain. Do you know how many people would kill to be on a date with you right now?”
“I don’t want them, Iwant you. And Idon’t even know how many people would fight me for a chance to be with you, Mads. Watching you light up talking about your show, the camera absolutely eating you up, you’re a fucking star, you know that?”
