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“If you go into your room, I will go full Camilla on you. And not in the way I did an hour ago.”
I press my lips together not to smile. “Still playing assassin, huh?”
Her expression turns contemplative as she steps closer, her face tips up to mine.
“With you, I’ve never truly played. Jackson, I’ve been role-playing for years, and I don’t want to do it anymore. I want to be real. With you. Only you.”
Her words steal the breath from my lungs. I hate that she’s spent so many years not feeling like she could be herself. And that she trusts me enough to take that step with me, it fucking slays me. Makes me feel like the luckiest guy in the world.
“And honestly, Jackson, you’re shit at role-playing. If you were serious about this, then you wouldn’t call me wildcat. You wouldn’t have said my name. So, how about we forget all these excuses and games and just be together?”
“Okay.”
She blinks at me. “Okay? Just like that?”
I pull her into me and press my forehead to hers. My heart is beating so hard, I’m surprised she can’t hear it.
“Just like that. Autumn, I don’t want to fight this anymore. I’ve wanted you from the moment I saw you on that escalator in the airport. It scared me how quickly and intensely you got under my skin. It still does if I’m being honest. But tonight…it was beyond words. Not just the sex, but with how right it felt. There’s no one else I would have trusted to experience that with. With you…it was perfect.”
I brush my lips against hers.
“I don’t know much about being a boyfriend. But I know I’ve never felt this way about anyone else. I want you. I want to be with you. I’m all in.”
Her eyes turn glossy. “Really?”
“Really.”
“So, we’re taking the fake off the boyfriend label?”
I give her a half smile. “Consider it gone.”
She takes my face in her hands. “Good. Now I’d like to take a shower with my boyfriend. And maybe let him get me a little dirty first.”
I didn’t think I could get anymore turned on after the night we shared, but Autumn just proved that when it comes to her, I’ll always want more.
“Is that possible? Our night’s been pretty dirty already.”
She gives me a cheeky smile and takes me by the hand leading me to her bedroom. “A little more filth won’t hurt.”
* * *
We pull up to the videographer’s studio and I glance at Autumn. She’s wringing her hands together as her leg bounces. I reach over and weave my fingers through hers, giving her hand a squeeze.
“You’ve got this.”
She nods, but I know my words went in one ear and out the other.
“Hey, look at me.”
She does then and I can see the panic in her eyes. “Is this your normal pre-audition worries or is this more?”
She sighs. “More. I feel like I could throw up. I don’t even think I was this nervous when I got called back for Sunset Beach. What if…what if I can’t pull it off? What if they can’t see past the Christmas movies and the wholesome girl thing? Or the scandal?”
“Okay…what if? If all your fears come true, what then?”
She opens her mouth then closes it. “I don’t know. I guess my career is over.”
“That’s it? You won’t audition again? You’ll just hang up your acting hat?”
