Page 66 of Salacious Star

"You're sure that our relationship isn't going to be a barrier at the studio?" I asked, needing to confirm. Because Tris, I'm serious. This job..."

"Don't you worry, baby," Tristan murmured, cutting me off. "You'll be getting fucked on camera by me for as long as you want to be."

He sealed his lips over mine with that, cutting off any more protests that I might have had, and I melted against him with a soft moan.

Admittedly...as irritated as I was that he had gone behind my back to talk to Cole without me, the fact that he had gone out of his way to make sure that the only person who was going to be touching me was him...

I warmed my heart and soothed me at the same time. Even if he had been a dickhead about it.

"Overbearing asshole," I mumbled, when the kiss finally broke and Tristan let me drag in a ragged breath.

"Mm." Tristan kissed me again, just a gentle peck this time. "Yeah. But I'm your overbearing asshole."

My heart fluttered, and I let out a half-hearted groan that I knew that Tristan would see right through. "Yes, yes, fine, then. You're forgiven. But run these things by me before you go and do things that affect both of us in the future, okay?"

He pulled away, and the look in his eyes as he nodded was surprisingly serious. "Of course, baby. I'm sorry, I should have talked to you first." His eyes gleamed. "But I'm not sorry that I have you all to myself. I will never be sorry about that."

I couldn't have stopped the wave of love and lust that hit me like a train in that moment if I had tried. "Yeah yeah, I love you too," I said breathlessly, laughing a little.

A brilliant smile split across Tristan's handsome face, and he leaned into press one more hard kiss to my lips. "Damn straight you do, baby boy."

Epilogue

Tristan

"Xan, I swear to God..."

My words cut off the next moment when Xander stumbled up the walkway, looking a little frazzled but a lot excited. His shirt was a little wrinkled at the hem where he kept tugging at it, and when he smiled up at me and slipped his hand into mine, every bit of mild annoyance that I'd been feeling faded away.

"Sorry," he said breathlessly. "Couldn't get Ethan off the phone. I'm here, I promise. Hi, Nadia. Nice to see you again."

Nadia, our real estate agent - a kind middle-aged woman with gray hairs streaked through at her temples, a pair of sharp black glasses on her nose - nodded and smiled at Xander indulgently, as if he were the most adorable thing on the face of the planet. Couldn't disagree with her there. "That's fine, Xander. Nothing happens without you, you know."

She winked, and Xander flushed a little, tangling our fingers together. "Awesome. Are we ready, Tris?"

He looked up at me with that warm spark in his eyes that never failed to turn my insides all gooey, and the last vestiges of irritation that I'd been feeling faded away.

"Yeah, baby, we're ready." I leaned down and pressed a sweet kiss to his lips, relishing the happy little hum that he gave me, and then we both turned back to Nadia. "Alright, let's do this."

I gave Nadia a roguish wink, making her roll her eyes, and she pulled out one of the chairs at the table she was standing nearby, gesturing for me and Xander to sit in the other two.

"Alright, we just need a few signatures from both of you..."

She offered both of us pens, and the signing went fast. A few signatures, a few initials, and then...

"Alright, I think that's everything that I need." She smiled at us as she shuffled through the paperwork one more time, glancing everything over before nodding sharply. She paperclipped the documents together and slid hem into a folder before standing up, and Xander and I followed, nerves and excitement suddenly fluttering inside of me like the worlds most obnoxious butterflies.

Nadia looked at the two of us for another moment before a smile spread across her face, and she reached into the pocket of her sharp pantsuit - too warm for the early summer weather, but that wasn't any of my business - and lifted a set of keys in front of us. "Congratulations, gentlemen. You just bought a house together."

Xander took the keys and grinned up at me, and I couldn't help the wry little laugh that escaped me as Xander practically bounced over to the front door and unlocked it. The door toourhouse. Together.

"Thank you, Nadia," I said, shaking her hand. "Truly, you've been wonderful."

And she had been. Nadia was a friend of Vincent's who he recommended when the gossip hounds at the studio learned that Xander and I were discussing buying a house together and moving in properly. Everyone had beenwaytoo excited about it, but their support of mine and Xander's relationship from the get-go made it easier to swallow their nosiness.

Nadia was amazing, professional and efficient despite the fact that my scattered boyfriend changed his mind about thekindof house that he wanted half a dozen times, and ten times beyond that that I just didn't inform her of.

Xander was adorable when he was flustered and only had half an idea of what he wanted, and I was more than happy to indulge him...up to a point.

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