Page 2 of Hollywood Fairytale

“I don’t worry about her too much. I know everything she says is a lie and that Luke’s telling me the truth. I don’t doubt him. If it was anyone else I would, but not him. That probably sounds stupid.”

“No,” she answered back with a sweet smile. “I don’t think it’s stupid. My advice is to talk to Luke.Always. Tell him how you’re feeling. Don’t let it come between you.”

“I know. I didn’t want to ruin our trip, but I’ll talk to him.”

“Good. Now about the house.”

Groaning, I ran my hands through the water. “Yeah, about the house.”

“What Colt said is true. Everyone who lives there paid a fraction of the cost of what their houses are worth.”

“It still doesn’t feel right, but I also know I’ll never get another offer like this. I’m going to talk to Luke about it.”

“You’re thinking like a couple and that’s always a good thing.”

“Yeah, that’s one thing I learned from Decker. It was always about him, and I don’t want to follow those same footsteps. I would’ve happily discussed matters with Decker if he’d been willing.”

“You won’t sweetie. There will be times when it’ll be hard, but you know what you need to do. Just talk to Luke like you want to now.”

Smiling sadly over at her, I spoke. “I’m glad you have such faith in me. Now let’s talk about something else.” I laughed and looked back out at the ocean.

Anna laughed her soft laugh and put her wet hand on my arm. “Maybe later. Right now, I think you should go talk to Luke. You’re both hurting and only you have the ability to stop it. Do what you need to do, and I’ll be here when it’s all over. Well, not right here because I’d be a shriveled up, pruny mess, but I’ll be around.”

Turning, I gave her a hug before I started to make my way back across the pool. “Thank you, Anna.” I called over my shoulder.

“Anytime and don’t hurry back.” She gave me her girl next door smile and winked at me ruining the innocence in her smile.

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Luke’s eyeslit up the moment I walked into our room. He sat up moving to the edge of the bed. “Are we okay?”

Tears burned my eyes as I made my way over to him and by the time I was standing in front of him, one lone tear was trekking down my cheek.

“Baby,” Luke choked out, wrapping his arms around me and laying his head against my chest.

“It’s okay,” I whispered into the top of his head. My fingers threaded through his hair while my other hand cupped the side of his neck. “We’re okay.”

Pulling his head away, he looked up at me devastated. “I’m sorry.”

“I’m sorry, too. I should’ve stayed and talked to you, but I was afraid of what would be said and my old behaviors from dealing with Decker would come out. I don’t want to fight with you, but I realized that we’re going to. We’re not going to agree on everything, but we need to talk through it and not let it get in the way ofus.”

“You came to that realization while you were at the beach?” he smirked at me.

“Kind of, Anna and I went to the pool and talked, but it was more like she was telling me what I already knew. I… I’ve always thought you’re perfect for me and in my head, I thought we wouldn’t fight. Now I know that even though you’re perfect for me, we’re going to fight if we’re together. Its life. I was scared that if we fought, we’d somehow turn into Decker and me.”

Pulling me closer, he shook his head. “No, baby. We’ll never be anything like you and Decker. I promise you.”

“I hope you’re right.” I laid my head on top of his. “I don’t want my baggage to ruin this.” I let out a deep breath that felt like I’d been holding it since we walked down to the beach. “We need to talk.”

“We are talking.” He shot back.

“I know.” I laughed out. “But I want to talk to you about Colton’s offer. About us.”

Tilting his head to the side, Luke had a look of confusion on his face. “What about us?”

“After shooting this season of Night Shadows, you’ll still have two more years left on your contract. They might even want you for more, you never know.”

Moving back further on the bed, he patted the space beside him. Crawling onto the bed, I looked over at him. “What does that have to do with us?”

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