Page 43 of Forever my Love

He nodded. “For sure.”

Suddenly, someone squealed behind them and a group of women rushed towards Reece.

“You’re him,” they said, stumbling on their stilettos while their tight skirts rode up high on their thighs. The way the women pawed at Reece while they asked for pictures with him in front of the banner had a wave of jealousy washing over her.

Hailey had never been jealous before and didn’t quite know what to do about it.

For the next few minutes, Hailey stood back while the group took many photos and one woman even live streamed for a while and did a little interview with Reece. Afterwards, she kissed Reece on the lips “for luck.”

Reece jerked back slightly when the woman stopped kissing him and looked over towards Hailey as the women walked away.

“I’m sorry,” he said, taking her hand. “I had no clue she was going to kiss me.”

She shrugged. “I know. I could tell. You looked very uncomfortable.”

“She tasted like vodka,” he admitted, then made a show of wiping his lips clean. He surprised her by leaning her over backwards and kissing her until she forgot all about the group of women that had practically pawed him moments earlier.

“Let’s head upstairs and get ready for our date,” he said when he stood her upright again. Taking her hand in his, she strolled back towards the elevators, passing three other banners with his image on them as they went.

“They must have just put them up,” he said when the doors shut. “I don’t remember seeing them on the way to the shops.”

“We took the other hallway,” she pointed out.

“Right. It’s sort of embarrassing. Seeing yourself that big.”

She chuckled. “And half naked. That part I didn’t mind. Do you think they’ll let you keep one? I took a photo, before your groupies arrived.” She glanced down at her phone. She’d also gotten a few shots of him posing with the women, just to show Harper when they got home.

When they got to the room, they were surprised to see a man standing outside their door, looking down at his phone.

“That’s Aaron Hunt. My agent,” Reece said before the man turned towards them.

“There you are,” the man in the expensive-looking suit said as he rushed to shake Reece’s hand. She noticed the man quickly assess her and dismiss her. “Tell me you packed a suit?” Aaron said quickly.

“I did.” Reece nodded. “We were just about to get ready for dinner.”

“Nope. Sorry, dear.” He waved his hand towards her. “I need to steal my star for a few hours. We have cocktails with investors in half an hour, followed by more cocktails with event bigwigs, followed by dinner⁠—”

“Sorry, can’t,” Reece interrupted the man. “I’m taking Hailey out. We have reservations.” He unlocked the door and motioned for Hailey to step inside.

Aaron followed them in and didn’t even glance around the room. Instead, the man turned on Reece.

“Reece, baby, if you want to make it in this world, you have to wine and dine as well as jab and knock out.” Aaron slapped Reece on the shoulder.

“I’m having dinner with Hailey,” Reece asserted.

“Bring her with.” Aaron waved his hand as his phone rang. The man answered the call and walked away, then threw over his shoulder, “We leave in half an hour.”

Reece turned to her. “We don’t have to⁠—”

“It’s okay.” She wrapped her arms around him. “We’ll go. You have to do what you have to do.” She leaned up on her toes and kissed him. “Which means we had better get ready quickly.” She released him and headed up the stairs.

Half an hour later, they walked down the stairs, her in her new gold dress and Reece in a black suit. He looked sexy as hell.

She wished they had time to admire one another, but Aaron was waiting.

“Good,” the man said when he spotted them. This time, the guy’s eyes ran over her as if he was seeing her for the first time. “Good,” he said again with a nod. “This will do nicely.” He tapped a few things on his phone. “Your name?” he asked her.

“Hailey,” she answered as Reece wrapped an arm around her.

“Hailey what?” Aaron asked without looking up from his phone.

“Davis,” Reece answered for her. “Aren’t we going to be late?”

Aaron continued to type on his phone and when he was done, he smiled up at him. “It appears the two of you are already making waves.” He turned his phone around and showed them an image of them kissing in front of the banner downstairs less than an hour before.

One of the women that had taken pictures with Reece had obviously snapped the photo when he had kissed her.

Hailey was bent backwards, her arms wrapped around Reece’s shoulders as they were locked in the kiss. They had both been so lost in the kiss they didn’t realize someone was taking the picture. The poster of the fight was perfectly framed behind them, as if they had posed between the two fighters on purpose.

She instantly wanted a copy of the image for herself.