Rhonda POV Trevor’s deep voice seeps into the changing room and ignites the butterflies in my stomach. “Don’t worry. I’m coming.” I bite my lower lip. It is time. I’ll finally have him all to myself. Looking around the small room, I make sure everything is set. Wine. Check. Comfortable chairs. Check. My fun bag. Check. My body nearly vibrates with excitement. I quickly grab my purse and take out the last item. A little white pill. I drop it into the wineglass and stare at the stream of bubbles. Will one pill be enough? My smile fades, and I quickly put another pill in the glass. That should be enough. He won’t be able to last long after he drinks it. I need to have him drink it right away. Then I can sit back and wait until the drug kicks in. Nothing is going to stop me from having what is mine. Heavy footsteps outside draw near and get louder. I silently pray this will work, and I’ll get what I desperately want. The footsteps stop in front of the door
Trevor POVMy body trembles as I look back over my shoulder at the mall behind us. The van heads off down the road and back to the agency, but I don’t want to be around anyone associated with them right now. The agency’s driver is as close to the company as I want to be right now. My voice cracks as I softly ask, “Can we go somewhere else? I don’t want to go back to the agency.” In a whisper, I add, “I hate them right now.”Tiffany wraps her slender arm around me and gently pats my shoulder. “Okay. If you don’t want to go there, we won’t. Would you prefer to be dropped off at Dr. Heartland’s office, and then I can pick you up from there after I get the car?”I turn back towards her. Her caring eyes put my frayed nerves at ease while her familiar floral perfume swirls around me. The doctor’s office isn’t quite the place I want to go to, but I can’t think of anywhere else right now. His office will be safe, too. Reluctantly, I nod. “Okay. You will come for me right away?”
Tiffany POVMy heart races, and my hands tremble as I zoom through the city streets. Like a professional race car driver, I zigzag back and forth and speed around traffic as if my life depends on it. The only thing I can think of right now is getting back to our apartment and being with Trevor. I need him as much as he needs me. He is the only thing that will calm me down right now. I glance in the rearview mirror and make sure no one is following me. If I wasn’t panicking, I would enjoy acting like a spy trying to escape from the bad guy. But there isn’t currently anything to enjoy. Sweat builds up on my palms while I tighten my grip around the steering wheel. I take a deep breath and check all the mirrors again to verify no one is following me. Just to be on the safe side, I go the long way back to the apartment. I breathe a sigh of relief when the luxury apartment building comes into view. Before I turn into the gated parking area, I check one last time to make sure no
Tiffany POVStanding almost frozen in the middle of the waiting room at Dr. Heartland’s office, I slide my trembling hand into my pocket, but I don’t want to pull my phone out. What am I going to do if I don’t want this phone call? Can I unsee who it is once I look? A sense of dread washes over me.My heart hammers against my chest as my phone stops ringing for only a few seconds before it resumes. “Tiffany? Is something wrong? You look pale.”I look towards the door, which leads back to the session rooms. Trevor is standing there with a concerned look, but if I look closely, I can still spot a trace of his scared expression from earlier. I open my mouth and go to say something, but nothing comes out. Ring…ring…ring…I flinch a little and rub my finger along the side of my phone, still in my pocket.Trevor catapults forward and engulfs me in his arms. “What happened? You were just going to the agency to get our car and then come here. Did something happen along the way to
Trevor POVRing…ring…ring…Ugh. I should have turned my phone off, too. I glance over my shoulder at the annoying device on the nightstand, but my annoyance disappears when I spot Black Sheep flashing on the screen and realize I haven’t talked to my cousin or anyone except for Dr. Heartland since the mall event. Jane had sent a message last night saying my cousin had helped with the crazy stalker lady, but she didn’t provide any details. I don’t know if she thought we weren’t in the mood to hear it or we didn’t want to know. I didn’t push it, either. To be honest, I really don’t want to know, but I’m curious. And my curiosity wins.I roll across the bed to the nightstand and snatch my phone off it. “Hey, what’s up?” A hearty chuckle flows from the phone while I wipe the grogginess from my eyes. “You sound much better than I had expected. From what you and Tiffany had told me beforehand, I thought you would have sunken into yourself and wouldn’t have talked to me. Are you ge
TiffanyI stare down at my glass of water as numbers run through my mind. “Tiff, why are you so out of it?” Beth motions her chin towards me. “You have only ordered water, but I know you are hungry. You look like you are going to jump the waiters every time they walk by with food. What gives?”Cassandra nods. “Yeah. You have been out of it. Is something wrong?”I take a deep breath. Should I tell them? Beth whips her long blonde hair over her shoulder and taps the table in between us with her long manicured nail. “Talk. I’m not taking ‘I’m not hungry’, either. Spill it.” She narrows her piercing blue eyes at me, and I instantly know there is no getting out of this. I glance to the other side of the table at Cassandra, but she has the same look. My eyes drift back to the tasty glass of water while numbers run in my head again. I tap both sides of the glass with my fingers and softly mumble, “I don’t have any money.”Beth gasps, “What? I thought you were getting enough
TiffanyI stand outside the tall office building. The production company’s offices are here, and where the cast will have the first meeting to read through the script. My heart pounds against my chest, while my eyes scale the side of the building. Somewhere up there, I will read through the script with Trevor. Heat rushes across my cheeks. This is nothing more than a conversation with him. I’ve done that many times before. This is no different. Gulp. Why didn’t I ask more about the storyline and the script before I auditioned? Then I wouldn’t be so blindsided by this. Jane wouldn’t tell me either. No matter how many times I begged, she wouldn’t give me anything. I nibble on my lower lip and take a deep breath. I can do this. I must do this, or I’ll lose everything. Beth and Cassandra have both offered to let me stay with them, but I don’t want to. I have come to the city wanting to make it as an actor, and I’m not going to stop now. I’m too close to having what the c
Trevor POV My palms glisten as I stare at the script. My eyes slowly scan over each word, not believing what I’m reading. Could this really be happening? I know this is part of the drama. I have known it since we first started talking about it, but is it really happening? It doesn’t seem real. My mind goes back to the first time I met Tiffany at the auditions for our first drama together. Back then, she was so shy and such a prankster. One thing hasn’t changed through all the years. She is still just as beautiful as always. Her pale skin and dark eyes pull me to her while her smile lights up the room. “Trevor! Are you ready? The bed scene is next!” Gulp. The director’s words repeat in my mind and stop on ‘bed scene’. We have never gotten to do our famous sex scene in the first drama. We were replaced with other actors for season 2, and the new actors did it instead. My cock twitches as ‘sex scene’ repeats in my head again. A fire ignites deep inside of me as I