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Even now, as I glanced at our two women, JJ was posing for the cameras and talking back to the press while Eve attempted to stay in the background, biting her lip to keep quiet.
“Let’s get to the TV interviews.” I gave Ransom a nudge, and we both headed back for our ladies before taking them by the hands and leading them farther down the carpet, where TV cameras waited.
Ransom was playing the lead character in the movie we were here to premiere. But it was my directorial and writing debut. That screenplay that I’d been working on… the one I wouldn’t let Eve read until it was finished… well, it was about us.
Our love story, starting when we had met in college through now. Of course, I had thrown some fictional drama in there to make it more interesting and marketable. Once I had finished writing it, I’d left it on Eve’s pillow for her to read. I had come home that evening to a crying fiancée, who told me it needed to be a movie and a book and that every female needed to read it.
“I know I’m partial because it’s our story, but it’s really raw and compelling.”
I remembered feeling so proud, but also scared to death because what if she was wrong? What if it sucked and wasn’t really good at all?
Eve had convinced me to send it to my theatrical agent right then and there so that I couldn’t change my mind or take it back. I had a response waiting for me the next morning, asking for a meeting that afternoon.
That meeting led to the screenplay being optioned, complete with a bidding war. It all happened quicker than I had anticipated with studio backing and funding falling into place without my having to put up any of my money to get it done. I’d assumed that I’d have to fund it myself if I wanted to see it on the big screen. I couldn’t have been more off base.
We even hired a writer to reverse engineer a book from the script. Since I had no idea how to write an actual novel, I left it to the experts, but still got a co-writing credit on the cover along with a percentage of the royalties and a seven-figure advance.
Love Trickedhad become aNew York Timesbestseller the second it was released. I always knew that I was popular with the public, but I guessed I never realized just how much until I wrote my and Eve’s love story. It seemed like everyone wanted to get inside my head and peek into my heart.
All I knew was that I was beyond grateful that she and I had gotten our happily ever after. I couldn’t imagine if Eve had blown me off after that Halloween party and never talked to me again. I guessed I would have written a very different screenplay if that had been the case. Hell, I probably wouldn’t have written one at all.
Looking at my pregnant wife now, I couldn’t stop staring.
She caught me and asked, “What are you looking at?”
“You.”
“Better not ever stop.”
“You know I won’t,” I said before kissing her mouth again, not caring who was watching or taking pictures or filming. I’d never been able to get over Eve, and I knew that I never would.
Some people spent a lifetime trying to find their soul mate in this world, and I had met mine when I was just a kid in college. Lucky for me, she had given me a second chance to get us right after I screwed up and did us all wrong. And now, I was going to be the best husband and dad on the planet.
Even I couldn’t have written us a better ending.
The End
