Love to Hate You by Jo Watson

Author:Jo Watson [WATSON, JO]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781472257772
Publisher: Headline Eternal
Published: 2018-02-18T05:00:00+00:00

36. A Silence Before The Storm . . .

I rushed over to one of the SUVs, climbed in and closed the door. I peered out the window and watched as a loud, lively debate looked like it had broken out. Everyone seemed to have an opinion, arms flapping, heads being held, fingers pointed and every now and again everyone would stop talking and look over at me in the car.

Then suddenly stillness and silence. A silence before the storm? The crowd dispersed slowly, and like Moses and the Red Sea, Ben strode out of the middle of it and started walking towards the car. My stomach plunged. I was getting a very bad feeling about this. Very.

“No! NO! No!” I mouthed through the window, locking the door as Ben got closer. I sat back in the chair and folded my arms defiantly.

“Sera.” Ben was trying to open the car door. “Please open the door.”

“No.” I turned to him, arms still folded tightly over my body. “You people are all mad. I told you I didn’t want to come on this shoot.”

“Please. Just open the door.” He pushed his face all the way up to the window and looked at me with a pair of sad eyes . . . God those eyes were dangerous. They caused sensible women to do very stupid things . . . like unlocking the car door. Ben pulled it open and climbed in. I shuffled away from him quickly.

“So it seems that Giovanni will not do the shoot unless you are his ‘stick,’” Ben gestured air commas.

“Mm-hmm,” I mumbled. “So?”

“And the thing is, that we have to do this shoot and we have to finish it now, we can’t come back and re-shoot it, we can’t get another model and we need to use Giovanni.”

I turned and looked at Ben. “So what are you saying? That you want me to be his fucking stick?”

“We need you to be his stick. Even the client agrees. And you looked so, so, incredibly beautiful in that shot he took. Everyone thinks so, not just me.”

My face flushed red and I touched my hot cheeks. “This has got to be some sort of joke.”

“No joke.” Ben reached out a hand and placed it on my knee, I flinched at his touch. “You know how you broke down the other night and I came out to help you?”

“Yes.” I didn’t like where this was going.

“You know how you promised you would come to my rescue when my car broke down?”

“Yes.” I really, really didn’t like where this was going!

“Well, my car just broke down. Big time. Its tyres are flat, there’s smoke pouring out of the engine, it’s about to fucking explode, and you are the only person in the world who can save me.”

I looked up at Ben. He looked desperate. There was no longer anything cool and calm about him. I hung my head and shook it.

“But I’m not a bloody model. I have no idea how to

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