Adored by You: A Sweet, Celebrity, Military Romance (San Diego Marines Book 7) by Jess Mastorakos

Author:Jess Mastorakos [Mastorakos, Jess]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-11-24T18:30:00+00:00

12

Noah

Paige had been furious when she’d stalked out of Chase’s house and toward my bike. She’d wordlessly grabbed her helmet and shoved it on her head, so I followed suit, helping her get on the bike behind me. We left his house in such a hurry that I barely had time to register the shouts of the paparazzi as we sped through the gate.

We pulled up to a red light and came to a stop, and I angled my head back toward her. “You okay?”

“Yeah.”

Her tone suggested she didn’t want to talk about it, not that we had the best situation for a heart-to-heart while riding a motorcycle. But still. Maybe we could go sit down to eat, and I’d let her lead the conversation. If she wanted to tell me about her discussion with Chase, she would. And if she didn’t, that was fine, too.

“You hungry?” I asked.

She adjusted her grip around my middle and pressed her cheek into my back. “Yeah. Head to the Strip.”

“The strip?”

“Sunset Strip. Chateau Marmont. It’s the big castle, you can’t miss it.”

We took off toward the Strip with Paige giving me turn-by-turn directions as we went. I’d never been to LA before, so I took it in as we cruised through the city streets. The sky turned pink as the sun went down, not that you could see as much of it here as you could in Arizona.

It had been a long day of adventuring. We’d taken an early morning motorcycle ride, a hike, a helicopter ride back to LA, and then Paige had what was probably an emotionally exhausting conversation with her ex. Despite the long days I’d worked as a Marine and the eighteen-hour filming days she said she sometimes had, I was sure we were both at the end of our energy stores.

We pulled up to the Chateau Marmont and gave the bike to the valet. From there, we headed to the restaurant patio. As we meandered through the grounds of the historic hotel, I couldn’t help but notice that we made it to our table without a single photo being taken of us.

“What’s the deal with this place?” I asked as the server left us with our menus.

“What do you mean?”

“I mean, we went to a pretty fancy mall earlier so there weren’t as many people freaking out about you as usual, but this is like … next level. You’re almost a normal person here.”

She chuckled. “I am a normal person.”

“I mean, you’re not, though. But for some reason, here, you’re not attracting your usual attention. Well, from everyone else anyway. You still have my attention.”

She blushed and rolled her eyes, and I flashed my cheesiest grin. She could pretend she didn’t all she wanted, but I knew she loved my dumb pickup lines.

“You’re not allowed to gawk at celebrities at the Marmont,” she explained after a minute. “It’s why we’re here. This place has a scandalous history, but I love coming here because I feel so, well, like you said—normal.

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