Page 50 of Hollywood Fairytale

“Are you ready for tonight?”

Luke shrugged as he brought a shrimp to his mouth. “I could take it or leave it, but I’m happy to spend more time with my dad and brothers.”

Chewing on the inside of my cheek, I worried if Liam and Leo had planned to take Luke to a strip club. Surely they would try to keep it low-key, so the media wouldn’t find them. I wasn’t worried Luke would cheat or even touch a girl, but what a girl would try to do and might make up to make a little money. Since we’d been in Hawaii for a little over two months, it was known that Luke was shooting a movie and that Mason and I had joined him. Luckily for us there weren’t any paparazzi here, but there were still plenty of people that had taken pictures and posted them online.

“Do you know what the guys have planned?”

Turning to look at me with an assuring smile, he wrapped his hand around mine. “They wouldn’t tell me but promised not to get me in trouble. What about you? Do you know what Taylor and Anna planned?”

“Nope.” I gave Taylor the stink eye, but she was talking to my high school friend, Josh, so she didn’t see. “Only not to get me so drunk that I’d have a hangover tomorrow.”

He hummed to himself as he looked at the people at our table before turning back to me. “I think I have more to worry about than you do.”

“I don’t know how that’s possible. The men definitely outnumber the women and I know how much trouble Josh, Mark, Jason, and Jack can get into.”

“So, you do admit that you’re worried,” he stated with amusement.

“No. Well, yes, I’m worried, but not for the reasons you might think I am.”

“What reason is that?” he asked before shoving an entire shrimp in his mouth.

“I’m worried about someone trying to make it look as if something happened with all you guys out. Maybe some girl will think we broke up and will try something, and when you reject her she’ll be mad.” I shrugged. “It could happen.”

“Hey,” he murmured against my ear as he pulled me close. “I’m not trying to trivialize what you’re feeling, but I don’t think you have anything to worry about. It’s something I’m always conscious of,” he stopped and frowned. “Sadly, now you are too.”

“I don’t want ugly rumors right before we get married. I want it to be perfect.”

“I want it to be perfect too and it will be. No one’s going to find out until we release a statement, and by then we’ll be safely tucked away in Fairlane.”

“You don’t think people will speculate why Anna, Colton, and Jenner are all in the same place as we are with our friends and family? I’m surprised they aren’t already.”

“They can speculate all they want, and we knew it would happen if we invited everyone here. Now I want you to sit back, relax, and enjoy yourself.”

My lips met his in a brief kiss until Jason groaned about having to watch us. Still, I smiled as I rested my forehead to his. “Thank you for making me feel better.”

I watched as his eyes crinkled up as he smiled.

“That’s my job.”

I didn’t care that everyone was watching us. And that I’d only just met most of Luke’s family. This was the man that I loved and always would. I knew he’d never let me down.

“I love you so damn much,” I whispered and then kissed him with everything that I had to show him how much I loved him in that moment.

“Oh, come on! We know that you’re in love and all, but seriously dude, you’re making the rest of us look bad.” Jason groaned.

“Too bad,” I answered back before I threaded my fingers through Luke’s hair and pulled him into a kiss.

Hot, wet, and deep.

Everything faded away.

No friends or family.

Only me and Luke.

23

Luke strodeinto the bathroom as I was putting on my final swipe of blush. I’d gone all out with my makeup for the night. No one would tell me exactly what the plans were, and it was making me slightly nervous. Standing beside me I watched him put some gel in his hair that was getting a little longer and wanted to flop into his eyes. I loved it longer and wanted to run my fingers through it, but I knew our time was running short. Soon Taylor and Anna would be here for our night out.

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