“Now it’s your turn to do something for me.”
Kyle grabs me and kisses me, his tongue going deeper and deeper.
“But you’re married,” I finally gasp when we come up for air.
“You’re the one who dumped me, remember?” Kyle whispers. “You used to want to conquer this world. What happened?”
“I got old.”
“No one ever gets old in Hollywood. They just get forgotten.” Kyle’s hands slide to my hips, and he keeps moving them lower. “Let me help them remember you again. Let me remember you again.”
“How would this work exactly?”
Kyle laughs softly. “Ah,” he says. “We always have to negotiate a contract in Hollywood, don’t we?”
He stares into my eyes.
“Let’s just say, I get what I want, and then you get what you want,” he whispers huskily. “WheneverI want.”
He kisses me again, slowly at first, and then harder. I stumble backward. The hedge catches me.
I kiss back. I lose myself in Kyle, who we were, what I could still become.
The power.
“Yeah,” he murmurs. “That’s the Barry I remember.”
Kyle is rubbing against me. His breath is hot. He smells like too much Tom Ford cologne.
Everything feels right.
And so wrong.
My body may be fully into this, but my head is not.
I may be a whore, but I have never beenthis.
I may break men’s hearts, but I don’t break up their marriages.
Fuuuuuuck! What has therapy done to me? And why do I hear Ron’s voice in my head saying a prayer for me?
But if I push Barry away, I lose a second chance at everything I ever wanted.
“Barry.”
A movie star whispers my name. I’ve dreamed of his voice saying my name again for so long. I press against him, panting.Control your own destiny, Barry. You will never get another shot. You’ll be signing headshots by men’s rooms and doing denture commercials for the rest of your life.
He starts to push me to my knees.
I’m not doing anything anybody else wouldn’t do right now...
“Kyle? Kyle, where are you, handsome?”
Ida Red stumbles out of Counter Reformation.
Kyle quickly pushes away from me.
“There you are,” she slurs. “Why are you hiding from me? And who’s this fine piece of man meat?”
