The Eleventh Commandment by Lutishia Lovely

Author:Lutishia Lovely
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kensington Publishing Corp.
Published: 2013-01-28T16:00:00+00:00

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Back to Malibu

Several hundred miles from Phoenix, in the tony California beach community of Malibu, someone else was working on a relationship. When not on set, Paz normally paid little attention to his appearance. But he checked his image while passing his den’s mirror-covered wall, giving his hair a quick tousle on the way to the front door.

“Dee!” He stepped back so that Darius could enter the large foyer.

“Hey, man.” The men hugged. Darius looked around, nodding his approval. “This place is nice. I forgot how nice the drive is up from Los Angeles.”

“I know, right? It’s why we put up with all of the inconveniences: traffic, isolation, wildfires. For what’s out back.” Paz placed his hand on Darius’s shoulder, his turquoise blue eyes boring deeply into chocolate brown ones. “I’m really glad you came.” He placed a kiss on Darius’s cheek. A woodsy smell with a hint of citrus wafted from his body. His hand left Darius’s shoulder and traveled down his back, offering a casual tap on the R & B crooner’s taut rump before stepping away. “You look good.”

“Where is everybody?” Darius took in the man who was slightly taller than he, equally well built, his body being showed off to perfection covered in swim trunks alone. The smooth olive skin was even darker than when he’d last seen him weeks ago, during the Fourth of July concert in Central Park. The concert. A perfect image of Bo’s scowling face flashed across Darius’s mind. But it was quickly replaced by the image of the model-perfect man in front of him. Paz was good people, an A-list star, and someone who made Darius feel good. Not only that, but the chemistry was undeniable. Darius tried hard not to think of this right now. He was here to meet an award-winning producer about possibly scoring the movie in which Paz had already agreed to star. The world mainly knew Darius as a singer, but those close to him knew that he also loved composing music. Writing movie scores would be a wonderful next level for his career and with Quincy Jones being one of his idols, it would bring him one step closer to mirroring a career he admired from afar.

They walked through a large, open-concept space that was bright and airy. The view was stunning: a large deck framing an infinity pool with a stretch of private beach between it and the vast Pacific Ocean. A dozen or so people milled around the deck while two couples—the guys in swim trunks, the women in thong bikinis—played volleyball on the strip of beach below. Stepping out on the deck, Darius immediately recognized one of the guests as the man who’d costarred with Paz in his latest movie, a reality-TV star, and behind the grill, a face he recognized from Bo’s marathon watching of the Food Channel. Paz introduced him to a couple people on the way to the infinity pool, where a white-haired man lounged on a large tube.

“Gary, there’s someone I want you to meet.

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