RileyI'd been way too harsh in my response to him bringing me flowers. I was shaking as I slammed the door and locked it, my emotions all over the place."Chill out. Shit." I walked to the floor to ceiling windows at the far part of my hotel room and pulled the curtains over. Liam was below, standing near the water with two hot girls and laughing from what I could tell. "Must be nice. To be alive and free."My eyes moved down to see Ethan walk out of the hotel and toward his brother. Shit. Was he going to take one of the women for himself?The fact that I cared spoke volumes.He'd come to apologize, and I had shoved him away?"Why?" I whispered and sunk down on a chair next to the window, watching the scene below as horror raced through my chest. He was going to break my heart again, wasn't he?Deza's words from early that morning echoed through my head. Give him a chance. He's a good man. Love's never come easily to him. My pulse spiked as he neared Liam and turned, flipping his mi
RileyI smiled and sunk down next to him before kicking off my sandals. "The truth about what?""About how I felt about you, Riley." He licked at his fingers as mustard dripped between them. The sight of his tongue had my body aching for something more than I knew I'd let happen just yet. He wasn't a good lover. He was the best. Attentive, and the size of his cock was beyond anything I'd ever seen in my life. A simple thrust had my body shaking. Where it would take all sorts of stimulation with Jace, with Ethan, it took very little."Well, how about we start with a friendship? The white roses meant a lot to me. I was just hurt and angry. I overreacted.""No, you didn't." He glanced over at me and smiled. "Friendship works, but just know that I'll be trying for more. I'm in love with you. I hate that everything had to fall apart for me to figure it out."His words bore through me, lighting me up in a million different ways, but I had to be careful. He could destroy my heart with nothin
EthanI had to run the night before, or I wouldn't have been able to leave her be. She meant too much to me, and standing there under the moonlight with her hair down and eyes wide with innocence? Fuck me. It was too much."Hey, buddy." Seth patted me on the back as he walked up beside me. "You ready to start your day with a little bit of stretching?"I glanced down the hallway and smiled over at him. "You on the floor too?""Nope. I was waiting outside your door all night like a fucking fangirl." He batted his eyelashes at me. "I slept behind the fern."I rolled my eyes and stopped by Liam's room, knocking on the door. "Let me in.""Who's this?" Seth lifted an eyebrow and nodded toward the door."My playboy bunny of a brother is here. I promised him I'd come down if he came with me.""And he's going to want to take a Pilates class this morning?" Seth chuckled, knowing Liam would vomit over the thought of being so feminine."Nope. That's why I'm dragging his ass with us. We might as w
Ethan"Nope." I took Riley's hand and pulled her toward the hallway where Seth disappeared. "I don't think it's fair that you're able to hide things when you're turned on.""I'm not turned on." She glanced over at me, her cheeks a light pink, her breathing slightly off."Yeah, you are. You're thinking about my monster cock. Admit it."We stopped, and she turned to face me, her eyes moving down toward my stomach as she shook her head. "I'm not, and stop being so dirty." She glanced back up at me, the vein on the side of her neck beating wildly."No?" I reached out and brushed my fingers down her side. "I think someone is lying.""Hey. Where the fuck did you go?" Liam and his perfect timing."See you in exercise class." She turned and jogged down the hall, giving me a beautiful view of her ass, jiggling in her pants."Ugh. Fuck you, man. What the hell?" I reached out and pinched his nipple.He yelped and swatted me away. "What? You left me back there with that chick I almost plowed over
Riley"Great job today." Frank stood in front of all of us later that afternoon and smiled. "Thank you all for getting back to work. I think we'll be able to wrap up the rest of the film over the next few days for the parts that we're filming down here."I glanced over to my right to find Ethan watching me. He'd been doing it all day, and I would have been lying to myself if I didn't admit that I loved it. I'd worked hard the night before in the room to walk through everything we'd done and been through together.My conclusion was simple. We had some shit to work through, but all in all, if he were willing to come after me, then I was going to try hard to meet him in the middle."Riley. Come walk and talk." Frank motioned for me to join him."Sure." I glanced back at Ethan and waved, wanting him to know that I was thinking about him.He blew me a kiss, embarrassing me. Silly ass."That boy." Frank shook his head. "I swear. I've never seen him act this way around anyone for any length
RileyThe white dress I wore was almost see through, but it would be hard to make out anything in the darkness. I let my hair down and brushed it a few times before slipping into a pair of white G-string panties and leaving the bra out. My breasts were big, but not so big that I looked slutty.I turned around, looking in the mirror, and praying like hell that he would find me beautiful, that I would leave him breathless just like he left me."Please let this workout." I picked up a tube of pink lipstick and leaned in, brushing a little across my lips. "All I want is for someone to love me the way I know he can. Please let us be right for each other. Let it be tonight."I took a shallow breath before spraying on a little bit of perfume and grabbing my room key. I didn't need anything else, and hopefully, I wouldn't need that.The very thought of spending the night with him caused my body to ache in ways that no other man had caused. He was the one. I had no doubt, but this time it coul
Ethan"Be careful with me," she whispered roughly as I pulled her into my room and slammed the door behind her. I pressed her against it as my hands roamed over her perfect body."Like this?" I ground my cock against her stomach and leaned down to suck the soft skin of her neck into my mouth.She cried out and lifted her leg, hooking it over my hip.Never in a million years had I thought Frank's plan of romancing would work. Seems that I owed him a thank you. Or maybe Riley and I were primed to get back together no matter what. She needed to know that I loved her and always would.I'd tell her every fucking day if that's what it took."Make love to me," she said and gripped the back of my neck as she undulated her hips. "All night.""You don't have to ask me twice." I gripped just behind her knees and picked her up easily. Her lithe frame that of a dancer. A ballerina."I don't want to fight again. Don't let another misunderstanding come between us." She spoke her words in between kis
EthanThe moan that left her caused my heart to skip a beat. Heat flared in the center of my stomach as she closed her eyes and pressed back before lifting up and working herself on a couple of inches."That's it." I licked my lips and slipped my thumb into her mouth as I watched her work herself down my shaft, her body opening up a little more at a time. The sound of her panting mixed with long moans of pleasure was almost too much."I'm going to come," she mumbled around my thumb as her eyes opened wide. She pumped her hips, taking about a third of me into her body. I wanted to go all in, but I forced myself to think about her. Only her. My pleasure was lost in seeing her find hers. It would all come back around, and we had all fucking night. I planned on using it."So beautiful, Ri. Take a little more when you're ready, baby." I pulled my thumb from her mouth and reached down to cup her breast, flicking my thumb over her nipple as she continued to work me."I'm at my limit." She pr
Four Months LaterEthanNo matter how many times I went to the premier or opening night, I couldn't help but feel nervous. I was worried about my woman, but knowing her, she was handling it better than me. Deza had her in one of the dressing rooms at the large theater downtown where we did all of our opening nights."She needs to have some time to herself where you're not humping her damn leg like a Chihuahua in heat." Deza had been quite clear on why Riley wasn't coming with me to the premier."You want a turn?" I'd tried to hump her leg a few minutes earlier as she came in to check on me, but it hadn't gone over too well. Something about her big ugly boyfriend out front and him not liking me as it were.His loss. He's eating those words when the two of them finally retied the knot. It was me that got them back together, though neither one of them seemed to want to admit it.It was a thankless job."You know it's weird." Deza moved up in front of me and reached up, adjusting my tie.
RileyWe walked into the wedding dress shop, and everything became real. All of the struggle and strife we'd been through to reach this point.I turned as tears blurred my gaze and reached for Ethan."Baby, what's wrong?" He leaned down and pulled me against his chest as a salesman spoke up behind us."How can I help you, Mr. Lewis?""Nothing. I'm just overwhelmed. I'm sorry." I pressed my hands to my face and leaned against him.He brushed his hair down the back of my head. "My girl and I want to see some wedding gowns. The best that you have. And I'll put down a thousand dollars to have you leave us be back in the dressing room for about an hour once we have a few of your best.""Done, Sir. I'll gather them now."He kissed the top of my head. "We can come back, Ri. We don't have to do this now.""No. I want to." I forced myself to look up at him. "I just feel out of place.""But you fit in at the mall?" He chuckled, but the sound fell flat. He got it. I was out of place there, but a
Ethan"This is Ethan," I mumbled into the phone, trying to keep my voice down, though there was no way in hell anyone could hear me over the noise at the mall."Ethan Lewis?" A woman stopped in front of me.Fuck me. I pointed to the phone and shook my head no, pulling it away and mouthing that I was a look alike."Oh. Never mind." She gave me a snarl and walked on."Deza?" I put the phone back to my ear. "I'm in the mall. Come get me before these crazy bitches tear the flesh from my bones."Deza's laugh filled up my ear, accompanied by Frank’s. "We have you on speaker. What the fuck are you doing at the mall on a Saturday? And a public mall at that.""Riley forced me to." I pouted and watched for signs of my girl in the windows of the store she was shopping in. "She's still wearing rose-colored glasses about this shit.""I'm taking it she didn't see those horrible pictures the Daily Star posted about her being-" Deza started.Frank finished it. "Pregnant with Ethan's alien twins?"The
Two Months LaterEthan"Why did we decide to do this?" I narrowed my eyes and the pretty girl that sat across from me. The one that had my heart racing and body purring every time she walked into the room."Because." She lifted her eyebrow. I knew that look. "You said that we would get to where we could go out in public and do normal things for our age. We're in our early twenties. We're eating at the food court. Period.""At a public mall." I glanced around and realized every-fucking-body was staring and pointing. I groaned and turned back to her. "If it's not bad enough that every tabloid has taken pictures of you and swollen your stomach for you with photoshop. It makes you look like you're pregnant with my alien twins. What more do you want?"She laughed, and I forced myself to sit back and chill out. "Nothing, baby. I wanted noodles at the mall. I'm tired of being in the house or at private parties. I want to live where everyone else does. I want to shop at Old Navy!""They have
Riley"Bumpy?" The little boy's blue eyes sparkled as he wiped at Ethan's hands over his legs. "Bumpy?""Oh jeez. Thank you so much." The mother jogged up and scooped the little guy up in her arms. "I'm so sorry." She paused as her eyes went wide. "Oh my God. You're Ethan Lewis and Riley Phillips. I love your movies," she pointed over to me, "and you were beautiful in the Spring play at UCLA. You're in the next Eon movie together, right?""Yeah, we are." I smiled over at Ethan, but he was too busy watching the little boy. Did he want kids? We'd had a short conversation about it, but I couldn't remember his response. His own upbringing had been as bad as mine, if not worse.Poverty sucked. Not being loved was way worse."Baby." I tugged on his hand."Oh. Sorry. I got lost there in my head for a minute." He reached out and patted the little guy on the head. "Take care, hmm?""Thank you again." The woman turned as the little boy chirped the word, 'bumpy' a handful of times."You want bab
RileyButterflies danced in my stomach as we drove along the coast and finally pulled up to a white castle that overlooked the water. A maroon Lexus convertible sat in the driveway.I glanced down at my clothes and gave Ethan a look. "Really? Why didn't you tell me to dress up? Whose house is this?"He laughed and pulled behind another large moving truck. "Ours, baby.""What?" Shock raced through me as he got out of the van and left me sitting there. "Ours?"Did he buy a house on the beach? I'd just mentioned wanting one the day before. Late in the day on the day before.I got out and jogged to catch up to him as a bunch of guys I didn't know walked out of the house."Alright. Just bring everything in from the garage, and Riley will tell you where it's going." He reached back and took my hand, half-pulling me into the house. I'd never seen anything like it in my life. I was majestic. Huge. White."Ethan." I was breathless, and my heart hurt in my chest. "Did you buy this place yesterd
EthanI knocked on Charlotte and Riley's apartment door and moved back, the red flowers in my hands holding one white rose.Riley opened the door rubbing her eyes. "Baby? What are you doing? It's before ten."I handed her the flowers and pulled her into my arms, laying a few kisses on her lips and smiling down at her. "Get dressed. We got shit to do.""This early?" She blinked and looked around as if confused. I'd never seen anything more perfect in my whole life."Yeah." I moved away and pointed to the moving truck. "Our trucks waiting right there. Let's get your stuff and get moving. This day isn't going to wait much longer for us."Her eyes widened, and she turned her attention back to me. "Wait. I'm moving in today?""Yep." I walked past her and winked at Charlotte. "Jace coming to help?""Already here, man." He walked out from the kitchen and extended his hand to me. "I never thought I'd see the day where I'd help someone steal Riley from me, but I guess it's come, hm?"Charlotte
EthanRiley wasn't too thrilled when I took her back to her apartment after we got sloshed at the party, but I told her my stomach was upset and I would see her the next morning. Not a good thing to do with a possessive woman in love.I turned off my phone an hour after getting home and took a long shower as excitement bubbled up inside of me. I had big plans for the next day and had been texting on my phone all fucking night to get it all set up for her.She was going to be blown the fuck away. Just knowing that it would be my fault had me giddy as I rolled out of bed the next morning. It was still early, but I was good with it. I wanted everything to be perfect.I pulled out my phone and texted my brother, Deza and Riley’s best friend, Charlotte to make sure everyone knew where they needed to be and what part they were playing."And here you thought I was just sitting on my hands." I glanced down at my phone. The picture of us eating ice cream like two little kids always made me smi
RileyI laughed and got dressed quickly as excitement bubbled in my stomach. I'd never been to an end of production wrap up party. Obviously, because I'd never wrapped up a movie before. It sounded like fun, and if we were going to be drinking and dancing with all of our friends, how could it not?Darren is coming.Worry raced through the center of my chest as I thought through how that could be good or bad. It seemed that there were a lot more chances for things to get messed up than go well.I forced myself to stop thinking about all of it and went back to feeling grateful. Ethan and I were spending almost every night together at his place, and he was dropping hints all the time about us getting married or having kids, or at the very least, moving in together.It was going to happen soon. I could feel it in my bones.I checked my hair and lipstick one more time before walking out of my dressing room and taking the long way over to studio six. I passed by the practice rooms where Cla