Total pages in book: 24
Estimated words: 23007 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 115(@200wpm)___ 92(@250wpm)___ 77(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 23007 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 115(@200wpm)___ 92(@250wpm)___ 77(@300wpm)
Excellent.
They want to know if you’ll work for scale. I said yes since you wanted it so bad. I started your application for the SAG. You’ll need to finish it. I’ll drop by your place Sunday to finish it up.
I give him Patience’s address and then look over at her. “What is working for scale?” I ask. She look up from her phone and the book she’s reading.
“It basically means you’ll work for the industry daily minimum wage. Why?” she asks, raising an eyebrow at me. It’s now or never. She’ll either love this or she’ll think I’m insane.
“I got a part in a movie.”
“Which movie?” she asks, but I know she knows.
“The Debauched Duchess.”
“As?”
“Your duke.”
“You’re crazy, you know that don’t you?”
“I do, but I couldn’t let anyone else work with you like that.”
“I love it. Think of the press,” she says rapidly texting someone.
“I can’t think of anything but,” I say, rolling my eyes. “Out of curiosity, what is the current scale?”
“Oh, about eleven hundred a day.”
“Damn, okay.”
“I haven’t worked for scale since I was a little girl.”
“Well, you’re an amazing actress. This my first role and I had to be sure I’d actually get it. I would have worked for free.” I really would have done anything to make sure no one else got that role.
“Oh, you can’t do that. They really hate that. Big no-no.” Her wide eyes and the way she’s shaking her head make me laugh.
“I love you, duchess.” She smiles at me and blows me a kiss from across the room.
“I love you too, duke.”
We go back to waiting for the doctor. Finally, he gives me the all clear to leave and I’m starving. Two hours later, I’m standing in the hottest shower I can stand, finally cleaning the blood and dirt off of my body. I feel hands come around my back and settle on to my chest. Her chest is pressed into my back, and she places open mouthed kisses on my skin.
“I’m glad you are okay,” she says. “And I can’t wait to make this movie with you.”
“Me either, but what I really can’t wait for you to be my wife,” I
“You know, you never did ask me properly,” she says, smiling at me.
“Didn’t really think that I needed to. You were mine from the moment I saw you. Getting married is just the next logical step.”
“You didn’t really need to, but a girl likes to be asked now and then.”
“Would that make you happy?” I ask, crowding her until her back is against the wall. She sucks in a breath as her skin hits the cool tile. “Do you want me to get down on one knee and beg you to be mine for all eternity?” I run my hand up the inside of her thigh. As I reach higher and higher, her breath hitches. “Is that it, duchess? Do you want me to beg? I can beg you without fucking words. You know that I can.” I finally reach her pussy and slide two fingers into her. She’s hot and wet. “Did you get turned on sucking my cock?” She nods. “Tell me.”
“I loved sucking your cock. It was so hard and heavy. It was powerful.”
“What was?” I am still pumping my fingers in and out her, but I add my thumb to rub her clit.
“Oh, God. The way that I felt when I was on my knees for you. I felt powerful. More powerful than I’ve ever felt before. I was the one doing that to you.”
“I see. Only you can make me hard like that, like this,” I tell her, using my free hand to guide one of hers to my cock. She grips me and strokes it.
“I love that. I know that in my bones, I’ll never love anybody else the way that I love you.”
“Neither will I. Marry me, duchess. Make me the happiest man in the world. Say you’ll be my wife.” I can feel her pussy clench around my fingers, and I know she’s about to come.
“Yes,” she says, moaning as she comes.
“Thank fuck,” I say. She’s still stroking me, so I come all over her stomach.
“Take me to bed,” she demands.
In bed, I slam into her over and over, thanking my lucky stars that she’s mine. I don’t know how I ever got so lucky, but I’ll do everything in power to keep her.
Marrying her is the just the beginning.
twelve
PATIENCE
ONE MONTH LATER
It’s taken all a whole month to plan the perfect wedding. The Pinnacle has been transformed into the perfect ceremony and reception area. Two hundred of our closest friends and family have gathered to celebrate us. The main room of the club looks like a flower garden exploded in here, in the best possible way.
The string quartet we hired has played very classically wedding music and I was expecting Here Comes The Bride as I walk down the aisle on the arms of both of my dads, but as soon as I look up and see Logan standing at the opposite end of the aisle, the opening strains of Taylor Swift’s Love Story start to play, and I immediately start to cry. It’s the song that was playing the first time we danced together. The only time we’ve actually danced together so far, but now we have the rest of our lives together. It’s only been a month and a week since we met, but I feel like I’ve known him forever.