He chuckles. “I was petrified of you at the start.”
“That explains a lot.”
“Yeah, but you’re a pussy cat now.”
“Oh,palease!” Lunar murmurs.
I glance at her, feeling the same way about the mutual exchange between Danger and Ria.
“Give me some time, and I’ll get onto the production company. See if we can shoot some more scenes to spice it up, and how long it will take to splice them in. Hopefully, we can push it through quickly. I’ll be right back,” Oliver says, rushing out of the room with his cell firmly placed against his ear.
“Great, now we’re gonna have to watchmorefilming of you two together?” Lunar questions, and Danger flinches.
“It’s just this one last time, babe. Then never again, I promise.”
She nods and, without saying another word, stands and walks out of the room.
I look to Ria as Danger follows Lunar.
Ria sighs. “Maybe we should leave the video as it is?”
“As much as I’m gonna hate it, we’ve spent far too much time promoting and put too much hype into this video for it to be substandard.”
“I agree, it should be perfect. But, Nate, that means Danger and I will probably be more…intimate.”
“Yeah, I get it. At least this time, I’ll be better prepared, right?”
“Exactly! You’ll know what to expect because I will prepare you, and I won’t let you go in blind, okay?”
“Yeah,” I reply, but it comes out in a murmur over my lips.
Oliver comes back into the room with Danger and Lunar in tow and claps his hands together. “Right, we start re-filming tomorrow morning. Hopefully, we can get the new takes done and dusted in a day and back into production tomorrow evening.”
“So you don’t think we’ll have to do a heap of retakes?” Danger asks.
“Not a lot, mainly just the bed at the hotel scenes. The band’s shots were awesome. The clip lacks chemistry, and we need to find that to make this successful.”
Swallowing hard, I grit my teeth. That was the worst part for me—Ria, topless and grinding on Danger. Having to watch that again, but with it evenmoreintense, will be like my own form of personal torture. I’m not sure I’ll be able to sit through it multiple times, but we’ll see.
I have to suck it up and support Ria.
I have to show her I can do this.
Hell, I need to prove it to myself.
“Okay, will the scripts be sent through tonight then?” Ria asks, and Oliver nods.
“Yes, we’ll go over the adjustments today and send them out to you asap to go over. We’ll see you all at the studio bright and early, first thing in the morning.”
I stand along with everyone else. “Right, well, our luggage should be off the bus by now. Guess we can all head home,” Tillie says.
Glancing over at Ria, she smiles, and I’m kind of unsure where to go from here.
“Wanna come back to mine?” she whispers.
“God, yes,” I reply, probably a little more enthusiastically than I should. She laughs, and we head out to grab our luggage. After saying our farewells to everyone, I put the luggage into my car, which is parked in my designated parking area, and we drive back to Ria’s Hollywood Hills mansion.
“I’m so glad to be home. Being on tour’s fun, but there’s nothing like being home,” she says, and I smile at her as we pull up to her guarded gates, and security lets us in.
