Behind the Scenes
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Somehow, the fact that she hadn’t changed it made him feel good. True, she may have been too busy with everything else in her life, but that didn’t matter to him. That she’d kept that reminder of him around gave him hope.
He continued down the hall to her room as his heart began slamming into his chest again. Holding his breath, he knocked lightly on her door and listened for her to reply.
And then she did.
“Come in and I hope you were able to find that cherry soda at the store! I’m dying for a taste of home.”
Hunter slowly pushed the door open and saw her sitting on her bed with a script in her lap and a half dozen others spread out around her. She looked as beautiful as always. Her blond hair hung past her shoulders and framed her face perfectly. She wore a pair of jean shorts and a pink t-shirt, and her long, tanned legs were crossed in front of her as casually as usual.
This was the Alexis he fell in love with.
She looked up expecting Lauren, and for a moment, he didn’t know if he saw surprise or hurt on her face. She stared across the room at him, as if she didn’t believe her eyes, and then she tossed the script aside and jumped up off the bed to run to him.
“Oh, my God! It’s you! I didn’t think I’d ever get to see you again,” she said as she began to cry.
Pulling her to him, Hunter held her tightly. Nothing else in his life had felt as right as when he stood there holding her in his arms.
“I couldn’t keep going on just doing what I always did, so I left Project Artemis. I know I should have talked to you about it, but I guess I just let my heart do all the thinking for me.”
She stepped back from him and shook her head. With tears in her dark eyes, she said, “That’s crazy! Did you do that for me, Hunter?”
He nodded. “For us. I want us to be together. One of us had to give up our job, so I did it. I guess if you tell me you’re not that crazy about me anymore, I’m going to look pretty stupid right now. And if I have to go back to the estate, I’ll never hear the end of it from Gideon and Xavier either.”
Throwing her arms around his neck, she squeezed him to her. “Not crazy about you? I love you, Hunter. I just can’t believe you’d give up all that for me.”
“Of course I did.”
He leaned back and smiled. “I love you, Alexis. The last two weeks have been hell, and then last night, I just realized I didn’t want to keep living without you, so I did it. I quit and I drove directly here hoping you wanted me as much as I wanted you.”
Alexis cradled his face and smiled as tears rolled down her cheeks. “No man has ever cared as much about me as you do, Hunter. I’ve missed you so much. I can’t believe you gave up everything for me.”
“I would have died for you, so giving up my job isn’t anything compared to that.”
“So now you’re going to be thrust into the limelight since being with me means press and paparazzi all the time. Can you handle that?”
Hunter nodded, never more sure of an answer to a question in his life. “Yeah, I can handle it. Just promise me one thing?”
“Anything.”
Taking her hands in his, he brought them to his lips and kissed them. “Promise me every so often we can go to a cottage like the one on the estate and be alone away from the world and everyone in it.”
She didn’t answer him but ran over to the bed to get her phone. Holding it up in front of him to show him a picture of a house much like the cottage on the estate, she said, “I’m about two days ahead of you on that. I found this place that I love in this little town in Idaho, so I bought it. But one thing, Hunter. Now that the stalker thing is over, I don’t have to stay in New York anymore. I want to move back to LA. Are you okay with that?”
He’d lived there for more than half his life and had never planned on going back again. Then again, he hadn’t planned on falling in love with a movie star either.
Life was funny like that. Sometimes the place you started your journey was where you belonged all along.
He nodded and pulled her into his arms. Kissing her, he whispered against her lips, “When do we leave?”
Alexis ran her hand down the front of his shirt and smiled in that sexy way he loved. “We can leave whenever we want, but I think I’d like to do something else first. We need to make up for lost time.”
Closing the door behind him, he carried her to the bed to start their happily ever after. They could get back to real life and moving to LA later.
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K.M. Scott writes contemporary romance stories of sexy, intense, and unforgettable love. A New York Times and USA Today bestselling author, she’s been in love with romance since reading her first romance novel in junior high (she was a very curious girl!). Under her Gabrielle Bisset name, she write erotic paranormal and historical romance. She lives in Pennsylvania with a herd of animals and when she’s not writing can be found reading or feeding her TV addiction.
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Books by K.M. Scott:
In The Darkness (Project Artemis #1)
After The Storm (Project Artemis #2)
Behind The Scenes (Project Artemis #3)
If I Dream (Corrupted Love #1)
If You Fight (Corrupted Love #2)
If We Fall (Corrupted Love #3)
Crash Into Me (Heart of Stone #1)
Fall Into Me (Heart of Stone #2)
Give In To Me (Heart of Stone #3)
Heart of Stone Volume One Box Set
Ever After (Heart of Stone #4)
A Heart of Stone Christmas (Heart of Stone #5)
Return To Me (Heart of Stone #6)
Forever With Me (Heart of Stone #7)
Heart of Stone Volume Two Box Set
Temptation (Club X #1)
Surrender (Club X #2)
Possession (Club X #3)
Satisfaction (Club X #4)
Acceptance (Club X #5)
The Complete Club X Series Box Set
Crave (Addicted To You #1)
Adore (Addicted To You #2)
Shatter (Addicted To You #3)
Claim (Addicted To You #4)
The Addicted To You Box Set
Hard Work (Standalone)
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Books by K.M. Scott writing as Gabrielle Bisset:
Vampire Dreams Revamped (A Sons of Navarus Prequel)
Blood Avenged (Sons of Navarus #1)
Blood Betrayed (Sons of Navarus #2)
Longing (A Sons of Navarus Short Story)
Blood Spirit (Sons of Navarus #3)
The Deepest Cut (A Sons of Navarus Short Story)
Blood Prophecy (Sons of Navarus #4)
Blood Craving (Sons of Navarus #5)
Blood Eclipse (Sons of Navarus #6)
The Sons of Navarus Box Set #1
The S
ons of Navarus Box Set #2
Stolen Destiny (Destined Ones Duology #1)
Destiny Redeemed (Destined Ones Duology #2)
Love’s Master
Masquerade
The Victorian Erotic Romance Trilogy
Books by Anina Collins:
The Eleventh Hour (Poppy McGuire Mysteries #1)
After Hours (Poppy McGuire Mysteries #2)
Top of the Hour (Poppy McGuire Mysteries #3)
The Darkest Hour (Poppy McGuire Mysteries #4)
Happy Hour (Poppy McGuire Mysteries #5)
The Witching Hour (Poppy McGuire Mysteries #6)
The Finest Hour (Poppy McGuire Mysteries #7)