Page 86 of Guarding the Singer

She opened her eyes and met his gaze again in the mirror hung on the wall.

"I love you, too."

PART XII

William had refused to look at the clock or his watch all night long.

He didn't need anything or anyone to tell him that his life was about to change all over again.

"Do you know where you're heading next?"

He squeezed his eyes closed and then opened them to look into her eyes.

Selene was watching him carefully. Her eyes searching his.

Smiling at her, he leaned in and placed a kiss on her nose before sitting back on the couch. "I thought we weren't going to talk about this tonight."

He saw the way her whole face changed.

Her lips moved first, thinning into a pale line in the half light of the room. Her eyes were soft, butthey were also filled with worry. Since the night in the wardrobe truck, everything had changed.

The movie ran like clockwork.

There weren't any issues out of the ordinary. Sadie had zoomed into a few of their updates to give her own comments on normal movie happenings.

And Cooper? Cooper was relieved and had stepped away for a few days here and there to relax.

Now that the film had wrapped, Selene was headed to Nashville to work on her next album before she had to travel to Hollywood for the movie promotion.

Her life was about to get even more busy than it had been on the film.

And William?

He could see that she was still waiting for an answer.

He could also see that their earlier agreement not to talk about things like that had gone right out the window.

He reached out and touched the remote on the arm of the sofa, pausing the movie that they'd been pretending to watch.

Selene sat up and turned to face him, folding one leg up on the couch seat while her other foot was down on the floor.

He looked down at her toes and smiled, covering her foot with his hand.

"You want me to get you some socks."

She gave his arm a little push. "Are you trying to tell me that my feet are cold? Or are you trying to distract me?"

He shrugged, but didn't move his hand from her foot. "How about both?"

The look she gave him said she didn't enjoy his humor.

He didn't want to let her know that he was grasping at straws.

William turned, mirroring her a little and reached his hand out to tuck an errant strand of hair behind her ear.

"No news yet on where I'm going. Flash left yesterday to do an assignment in Chicago. Unless something comes up as an emergency, Badger is staying with me here for the next couple of days while we make sure to reset the house and its security systems."

"Thanks." She smiled at him. "I didn't want to lose my security deposit on the rental."

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