He's a Monster

Riley

"Hey. You okay?" Charlotte reached over and touched my arm. I hadn't realized that I was trembling until she said something.

"What? Yeah. I'm good." I forced a smile and turned the radio on as she dropped her hand from me.

"It's me, dude. No putting on that fake-ass mask and pretending. Are you overwhelmed because it was Ethan Lewis or is it something else? That was a smoking hot scene. Are you just turned on? Because I'm turned on."

I laughed at her. She was talking a million miles a minute, which was nothing new. She always did when she was nervous.

"I'm trying to process everything." I shrugged, forcing myself to calm down. "Ethan is insanely hot, but when I was up there on stage, I wasn't me, Char. I was Stacy Develin, the woman that was completely in love with the sorry bastard beneath me. I slipped into her skin. The passion and heat are all part of it. It had nothing to do with Ethan until he acted like a child about it."

"Was he upset about something he did or something