Starving with the Stars by Janci Patterson

Author:Janci Patterson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Contemporary Romance
Publisher: Garden Ninja Books
Published: 2019-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

Eighteen

Alec

I give Jillian a while to cool down before I go after her, not because I don’t want to talk to her, but because I’m scared she won’t want to hear it. Jillian is smart enough to know that anything I say on camera is suspect, and if she thinks this is all some kind of performance for my former and future fans, she might not let me speak.

But there’s this ache in my chest that grows stronger and stronger with each passing minute. I take a walk down the beach in the opposite direction before going to find her, to give her time to be ready to hear what I need to say. I can’t believe that in less than a minute, Cece has ruined everything Jillian and I have built over the last nine days. I feel more deeply about her than I’ve ever felt about anyone.

And that’s why I’m going to need to tell her the whole truth, no matter what the consequences will be for my career.

The smarter thing would probably be to lie to her. I could tell her Cece was just blowing hot air and that I was stunned but none of it was true. I could swear up and down that I didn’t come here with any intention of finding a girl to be the new Jenna, and since I haven’t ever told anyone that was my intention, she’d never have to know. I’m pretty sure Bobbi would take that particular piece of career advice to her grave, if necessary.

But Jillian deserves better than that. I want to be with her, and if we’re together as long as I want to be, if I lie to her now I could be lying to her my whole life.

She deserves to hear the truth, from me. I would have told her about it anyway, once we were off camera, but I hadn’t thought there was going to be an immediate need.

Shit, what is that going to do for my career? If I admit I came here planning to tell the same lie, it’ll sound like I learned nothing from the debacle with AJ, like I was just looking to have another fake girlfriend to parade around as the pinnacle of true love. But it’s not like that, not really. I told Bobbi I would find someone it wasn’t hard to flirt with, someone I liked anyway. And who wouldn’t flirt a little extra with someone they liked, cozy up to them a little more, if it would turn their career around? People do shit like that all the time.

And I know from experience that convincing a pretty girl to forgive me for it doesn’t mean the public will follow suit.

But I also realize I don’t care. I’m going to tell Jillian the whole truth, because I need to, and if my career suffers for it, well.

It’s not like things could get much worse.

When I finally make my way up the beach toward Jillian, I find her sitting in the sand with Su-Lin.

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