Page 16 of Holding On to a Hero
Will grinned at me. “I experienced that for myself last week, remember?”
“Shit, yeah. Sorry about that. Again.”
He grinned. “It was actually kind of hot. In retrospect.” Did he just say Jason was hot? Hope filled my chest. Along with butterflies. Lots and lots of butterflies. “Go on with the story. How did you end up getting together?”
Well, shit. “I… Um.”
Jason looked gleeful. “Well, he didn’t want a bodyguard but the studio was paying for it while he was filmingFortunate Fellowsin the Middle East. He kept trying to give me the slip.”
“I just wanted to see some local sights, meet some real people. And you wouldn’t let me.”
“Because it was dangerous!” I swear, the man should just record himself. “The locals could have been terrorists!”
Will intervened. I wondered if he’d be open to taking on the role of mediator more frequently. “Okay, okay. So you weren’t getting along. Then what happened?”
Jason still had that stupid grin on his face. “Cole, I think this part is best told from your perspective.”
“You know, I really need to make up a romantic story about Jason saving my life and me giving him a kiss to thank him and then both of us being overcome by passion. But that’s not what happened. I mean, I assumed he was straight.”
“Well, I assumedyouwere straight. You werequotedatingunquoteCharla at the time. But do go on.” He batted his eyes at me. Asshole.
I looked up at the ceiling. “Um, I might have been jacking off in my room.”
“Which was attached to my room, mind you.”
I sighed. “And, um, I might have been picturing Jason while I was, er, in the final throes, so to speak.” I cleared my throat. I peeked at Will out of the corner of my eye. He had his hands over his mouth, but he was grinning.
“Yeah, you can see where this is going. I totally shouted Jason’s name when I came.”
“And I thought something was wrong so I ran into his room. With my gun out.”
“And there I was.”
“And there he was. Naked and covered in cum.”
“Oh, my God! What did yousay?”
I gave Will a rueful smile. “I was horrified. Not only had I outed myself, but I’d let the annoying straight guy know I thought he was hot enough to jack off to.”
Jason laughed. “Yeah, I was pretty startled, as you can imagine. I must have stared at Cole for a couple of minutes while I tried to wrap my brain around what was happening.”
“He stood there in the doorway staring at me, holding his gun. Trust me, if I hadn’t already just come, that would have done it for me. Anyway, finally I couldn’t take it anymore and I told him I was sorry I disturbed him and it wouldn’t happen again.”
“But he didn’t pull the sheet over himself or anything.” Jason winked at Will.
“Well, duh. I figured if Jason quit I’d need some future spank bank material. Might as well make it good! Butfinallyhe said something like,I thought you were straight!”
“And then Cole told me he wasn’t. And I told him I wasn’t. And then I asked him if he’d been thinking about me while he was jerking off, and he admitted it.”
“And then that asshole told me that nothing was going to happen between us while he worked for me, but if I was still interested after filming wrapped, he’d like to take me out on a date.”
“And Cole said yes but then for the rest of filming –weeks, mind you – he made my life miserable.”
“You deserved it!”
“Will,” Jason whined, “I was just trying to do my job, but he kept rubbing against me, or walking around naked, or undressing in front of me. It was torture!”
“But when weeventuallyhad our date, I made it worth his while!”
