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I brush my lips over hers. “Good.”
Her eyebrows shoot up. “Good?”
“Good. Because I love you, too.”
Her smile overtakes her entire face, and she returns my kiss.
CHAPTER 24
Stella
Bennet is quieter than usual on the trip back from the Odyssey Center to the hotel, where we pack up our belongings to return to the cabin in Montana. But neither of us breathe a word of it as we drive, knowing that the cameras are going to pick up every word. It gets me wondering if we’ve been careful enough all along.
All of us gather in the private jet to catch the three-hour plane ride back to Great Falls and then the long drive up the mountains to Rosewater. It’s the dead of night by the time we arrive back at the cabin, all four of us yawning and exhausted.
We had played up our television romances for the camera, but once the camera crew members were secured back in their trailers, far away from the cabin, and done for the night, the “real” us came out, our blossoming, tentatively blooming family.
But what did that mean for everyone?
The Hummer stops just inside the gate, and I say goodnight to the cameramen. Bennet ignores them, making his way toward the cabin with the others, and I head in after them, glad to be back as usual, even though I really enjoyed our time in LA.
Gabe is already watching television in the living room when I enter, Forrest nowhere to be seen.
“How was the arty thing?” Gabe calls out to us as I head toward the fridge for a bottle of water.
“Good,” I reply, smiling at Bennet, who makes for the stairs. My grin melts away. “Where are you going?”
“To get changed,” he replies, taking the steps two at a time.
“Are you coming back down?”
He pauses halfway up and looks at me pensively. “Should I?”
I lean against the granite counter and nod. “I think we should have a group meeting tonight. See if you can’t find Forrest, too.”
He finishes climbing the steps as Gabe releases a low whistle. “Uh-oh. Sounds serious,” he jeers.
“It is,” I say, ambling around the counter to join him in the living room. “We have to talk about what’s going on here.”
Gabe digs the remote control out from between his legs, and I find my eyes trailing toward the bulge in his boxers.
Stay focused,I remind myself.There’s plenty of time for that later.
A door opens upstairs, and Forrest appears at the glass partition a second later, his dark blond mane slightly askew, as if he’s been sleeping.
“Did we wake you?” I ask in surprise. “We just got home.”
He shrugs and shakes his head, turning to head down the stairs. “Not exactly. I was listening to an audiobook.”
“Anything good?” I ask as he joins us in the living room, flopping behind me, his hands falling onto my shoulders to massage my stiff neck as if drawn to the tension there by nature. I fall into his strong massage, the stress of the day easing away under his touch.
“You look beautiful,” Forrest whispers in my ear, and Gabe bobs his head vigorously.
“You always do,” he agrees.
I chuckle shyly. “A good stylist can make anyone look amazing.”
“You’d look good in a paper bag,” Bennet counters, appearing in the hallway of the second floor, and his castmates both concede.
