The Villain Edit by Sarah Brenton

Author:Sarah Brenton [Sarah Brenton]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sarah Brenton
Published: 2024-01-07T00:00:00+00:00

We spend another day with Cora—who is satisfied we’ve worked things out—before we hit the road. I wish we could stay longer. I don’t see Cora as often as I want, but I have to be back in LA in a few days.

I’m not ready for this trip to be over. Not when Ash is right next to me. When I can touch her and taste her and fuck her anytime she wants me to. That’s going to be harder back home, impossible once my schedule picks up.

My hand is resting loosely on the stick shift, and Ashley’s hand slips over the top of mine. She smiles at me but turns back to the road like she wants to touch me without turning it into more.

I spread my fingers to capture hers. “Tell me something about you that would surprise me.”

Ash presses her lips together as she thinks. Then she smiles at me. “Wendy, from Love on the Line, is my friend.”

“No shit.” I can’t keep the surprise out of my voice. I’ve never watched the show, but David filled me in. Ashley’s fight with Wendy was one of the biggest blowouts of the season. According to him, it cemented her as the villain.

“She needed to leave—a personal reason I’m not telling you—but she couldn’t tell the producers or she wouldn’t have a shot at coming back in a later season. We planned the whole betrayal thing. Luca was easy to manipulate into sending her home.”

“So you became the villain of the season to give her an out?”

Ashley laughs and shakes her head. “No, they cast me as the villain when I walked in the door and told them I was there to win, whatever the cost. It just forced me to out myself sooner than I planned.”

“So you didn’t get the villain edit?”

She wrinkles her nose. “It wasn’t much of an edit.” She’s quiet for a moment, lost in her thoughts, her thumb sliding along the side of my hand, back and forth. “Honestly, I would have edited the show the same. The storyline was perfect—my rise, my fall. Poppy could have been the villain of the season, but it wouldn’t have been as exciting. She was impulsive and bombastic, rather than calculating. The only thing I’d have done differently, if it was my show, would be to make the villain relatable at the end. They didn’t even try.” She smiles at me, and it’s a rueful sort of smile. “Maybe it wasn’t possible to give the things I did on that show a sympathetic bent.”

I don’t want her to dwell on what she did for that show, however scripted or edited it was. Or wasn’t. “How did you and Wendy become friends?”

Ash smiles and this time it’s warm. “The first night at the meet and greet, I was sizing up the competition when she started talking to me. I thought either she’s foolish or way smarter than anyone is giving her credit for. And after that…I don’t know.

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