The Actress Unscripted: A Fake Dating Showmance Romcom (Heather Bay Romance Book 5) by Amber Eve

Author:Amber Eve [Eve, Amber]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Saturday Lane
Published: 2024-01-26T00:00:00+00:00

Fifteen

“Lexie,” says Jett, as we leave the loch-side car park behind us and begin the drive towards home. “You know that was just a scene you saw me and Violet filming earlier; right?”

“I know,” I reply quietly, resenting the reminder of it. “I read the script with you, remember? I know what happens.”

And how often it happens. And who it happens with.

“Yeah. I just don’t want you to think—”

“That you and Violet are together? Why not? You are, aren’t you?”

I twist around in my seat so I can look him in the eye as I ask the question I’ve been wanting to ask ever since he arrived back in town.

“It’s … complicated,” Jett says, after what feels like an interminably long pause. He keeps his eyes fixed on the road, deliberately not looking at me.

“Right. Okay.”

So he’s not going to deny it, then. That tells me all I need to know.

The triumph I felt as we left Violet in the rear-view mirror — literally — vanishes, replaced by a cold, empty feeling of disgust for myself.

I’m not the winner here. I’m just a stupid girl pretending to be someone else.

And I’m not even very good at it, either.

“And you and McTavish?” Jett asks carefully. “That’s going well, is it?”

“Oh, yeah,” I answer quickly. “It’s going great. McTavish is really… tall.”

Tall? What the fuck did I say that for?

“Really?” says Jett, frowning. “I’d have said he was, what, 5’11”? 6 foot, maybe?”

Jett is 6’3”. And I suspect he’s trying to remind me of that.

“Um, most people seem tall when you’re my height,” I reply weakly, not wanting him to know that it was the only thing I could think of in the moment, ridiculous though it undoubtedly is. Because McTavish has been great, don’t get me wrong. It’s just that I can’t bring myself to see him as a potential love interest, is all. Not even a really tall one.

I stifle a laugh at the thought.

“Something funny?” asks Jett, glancing at me.

“I, er, was just thinking how funny you must have looked carrying me while dressed like that.” I nod in the direction of his sword, which is crammed up against the side of the car seat. “I thought it was supposed to be a modern version of Macbeth?” I go on, desperately trying to lead the subject away from me and McTavish. “So what’s with the costume?”

“Dream sequence,” says Jett, shrugging. “I think Duval saw the setting, with the ruined castle and all, and he got a bit carried away. The rest of it’ll be modern, though. I hope so, anyway; this thing’s a complete pain in the butt.”

I smile. We’re almost at my house already — perils of a small town — and I know I only have a few more minutes before he’s going to drop me off and drive away again. I feel like he’s always driving away from me now. And every single time I see him, I have this horrible feeling that it’s going to be the last time.

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