Page 33 of Role Play
“Okay,” Ben said. “Let’s try itagain.”
Ash’s thigh muscles strained against my body. The pause was longer. The anticipation edged across my skin. When was it going to happen? When would his hand strike? When he finally brought his palm down, his hand connected to my flesh with acrack.
The studio went silent, except for myyelp.
The pain was sobering, and yet did nothing to alleviate my desire. Did nothing to calm down the pulsing heat between my legs or the aching tenderness of my nipples. All it did was make me crave his touch between my legs once more. I wanted to see. I wanted to watch as my skin turnedpink.
“What is going on in here?” A voice boomed. UncleRichard.
I scrambled to get off Ash’s lap, as questions danced in those blue eyes of his.Shame burned hot in my chest. I hadwantedthat pain—had practically begged for it—and even now, with my ass still stinging, I wanted more. A dark thought clouded my thoughts.Is this how it started with my mom? Did it start as bedroom games and escalate to life?My cheeks flushed and I couldn’t look Uncle Rich in theeyes.
Ben cleared his throat. “Okay… uh, I think we got it. Thank you to both ofyou.”
More silence as I dove for the robe hung beside the door, covering myself with it. Normally, I would just explain the situation to Uncle Richard, but in this environment? It couldn’t be me. For a costume design assistant to explain to the president of the studio what he was seeing? Red flags would be raised all over theplace.
“Can someone please tell me why my director is spanking the barely legal costume assistant on set this morning?” Uncle Richboomed.
I heard Ash hiss a curse as he stood and took a deep breath. His erection wasn’t wildly noticeable… but I could still feel the burning outline of where it had been against my body. Large.Thick.
Ben walked over to Rich first. “Our stand-ins were no shows. We had to find crew members of similar skin tones to get the lightingset.”
“And there was no one other than…” Uncle Richard paused, his gaze sweeping the studio, landing first on Ash, then on me. “No one other than the director of the film to do that?” It was obvious that he was more upset about the use ofme,not Ash. But there was no way he could say so without outing me as his niece. I breathed a relievedsigh.
Ben cleared his throat. “No one else looks as much like Jude as Ash does. I know, it’s notideal.”
“And this poor new member of our crew had to be half naked for you to dothis?”
Ash’s eyebrows furrowed together. “Yes,” he answered simply. “Rich, you’ve been in this business a while. You know as well as we do if it’s a nude scene, the lighting has to be set against fleshtones.”
“Is this the message we want to send our staff?” Uncle Richard ran his hand down his face. His lips drained of color as he pressed them into a tight line. Grunting, he said, “Thousands of out-of-work actors in this town and we can’t manage to find two fucking stand-ins?”
“We will have them tomorrow,” Ashsaid.
“You fucking better.” Uncle Richard spun, storming out and slammed the door behindhim.
