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She’s talking like I’m going to give her a break in Hollywood. I take out one grand from my wallet and hand out the rolled up bills to her after counting them. “Here you go,” I say. “As promised.”
“Thank you,” she says. “And let me know if you ever need anything else, Mr. Delaney.”
“We will, Deb. Now go on. I don’t want anyone seeing us.”
“Okay, yes.” She finally leaves the side of the limo and I roll the windows back up. Ashley grins at me. “You’re awesome, Liam.”
“I know.”
“There’s no way Mia is forgiving him this time around.”
“Yeah.”
“He’s going to be mine. Didn’t I tell you he was going to be mine?”
“Yes, you did.”
I have to smile.
Despite her faults, I can relate to her obsession with this one guy. It’s a whole lot like my obsession. That’s probably one of the reasons I always want to help her.
Well, that and the fact that helping her, eventually means, helping me.
“Can we go home now, Ashley?”
She
smiles contentedly and I’m sure a lot of it is the drugs. “Yes.”
But still her contentment is contagious.
Point and Shoot
LIAM
He looks like an angel wrapped in a halo.
The white ensemble that the designer picked out makes him look even more innocent. Every shot that the photographer takes is perfect, and sure the photographer is genius but beauty like this isn’t something that you encounter every day. I don’t care about the fucking contract, I don’t care that we’re making money off him. I couldn’t care less if he quit now and stayed home with me all day, all week, all damn year, I know I’d still not get enough of him. But I have to make it look like the contract is a big deal, because that’s the one thing binding him to me. If I show any weakness now, he will think he can do this his way. And I’m not going to let that happen. He doesn’t even know what he’s doing. He’s a kid, just now finding out the truth about what happens after college ends and I know I’m not making it any easier on him but at least I care about him. With the stuff that he keeps bottled up inside, he’s going to find someone who will use him for their purposes and never give a shit again.
I might be treating him awfully right now, but I know I can never truly hurt him.
I will always protect him, no matter what.
But he doesn’t understand all that yet.
The shoot ends and the makeup artist comes over to remove the makeup off Sebastian’s face and I know he’s trying to purposefully ignore me because I can feel his tenseness making the whole atmosphere strained. But I’m not worried. Even his coldness is attractive to me.
I leave the shoot while he’s still being primped and leave a message with the assistant to ask Sebastian to come to my office when he’s done.
I have to wait a whole hour before there’s finally a knock on my door.
“Come in,” I say, as though I haven’t been waiting for every single moment of the sixty minutes that it took for him to come to me.
He walks in, comes towards the desk and looks at me but doesn’t even sit. “You called?”
I drop my pen and the documents I was pretending to look at and get up. I take off my suit and place it on the chair’s back, walk up to the door and lock it. I can feel him tensing up even more so I go towards him and start massaging his shoulders under the shirt. “You need to relax,” I say. “I’m not going to eat you up.”
He says nothing.
