piece for herself.
Skye finished her last bite and looked at the pie. Would it really hurt to have another slice?
“Is that apple pie?”
Skye looked up as the back door opened. Trent and Ryker walked inside. She decided right then she wasn’t going to give up her second slice to Trent, no matter how much she was falling for him.
Skye placed a second slice on her plate and grinned up at the men after claiming her pie. “Miss Ruby and Miss Winnie dropped it off.”
Trent grabbed two more plates and cut slices for himself and Ryker. “What did you have to do for it?” Skye looked up as Trent sat next to her. “Unless you’re lucky, there’s usually something attached to it. They want to know your secrets? They want to be in your next movie? They want to know about our relationship?”
Tinsley’s head snapped up from where she was licking the plate. “Relationship? I’d like to know the answer to that.”
Skye turned to Trent and blinked innocently. “So would I.”
“I like you enough to share my apple pie with you.” Trent grinned and held out his fork with a big hunk of pie on it.
“Should we book the church?” Ryker asked so dryly that Skye couldn’t tell if he were joking or not. It was only Trent’s smirk at him that told her that Ryker had actually cracked a joke. “Want to give me your phone, purse, clothes, and shoes so I can get your GPS trackers on?”
Skye ran upstairs and grabbed her bag. When she came back downstairs, she found Ryker threading a needle. “Are you seriously going to sew these yourself, hotshot?”
Ryker just glanced up as he pulled the thread through the needle and held out his hand. Skye shrugged and handed over her bag. She was used to designers, stylists, and photographers handling not only her clothes, but also her body. Ryker pulling out her bra wasn’t embarrassing to her. Trent, on the other hand, looked as if he wanted to snatch the bra from his cousin’s hand.
Tinsley cleared her throat and then looked over to Skye. “How are you handling work while you’re here? Or do you just have downtime between films. I don’t know how that works.”
Karri groaned and pulled out her phone. “I guess I’d better check. I had rescheduled some meetings the other day. Then I’ve told others that Skye has laryngitis and needs to do all interviews via email. Usually she’s very busy with promotion, auditions, and meetings.”
Tinsley looked to her with sympathy. “Are you missing many auditions?”
“A few, but they weren’t for parts I wanted.” Skye didn’t feel guilty about it either. “My team wants me to be in every movie—even better if it’s a franchise. It doesn’t matter if I hate the role. I want to audition for your aunt’s movie. Gemma Davies’s newest book is being turned into a movie, but my team wants me in this Tony Ketron film instead. I’m going to reach out to the casting director and see if they’ll let me audition via video conference.”
Karri cursed and everyone at the table stopped what they were doing, even Ryker. No one said anything as Karri read an email on her phone. Skye’s heart felt as if it were in a vise being squeezed tighter and tighter the more Karri frowned.
“We have a problem,” Karri finally said, looking up at the table full of people.
11
Trent had lost all sense of time until Ryker had come to his barn. He’d spent half the night talking to Skye and the other half holding her in his arms. The emotions it triggered had him slipping from the bed early this morning and into his shop. One of his clients had wanted a romantic feel for their bedroom furniture. Trent woke up that morning knowing exactly what to make.
Then he’d had an enjoyable time eating pie for breakfast and laughing with Skye, Karri, and his family. However, those four little words, “we have a problem,” stopped all the happiness he was feeling. His hand went straight to Skye’s as they looked at Karri with dreaded anticipation.
She finally looked up from the phone. Her eyes that had always been a bright warm brown were now dark and cold. Anger radiated from every inch of her body. “It’s not just one thing. Every interview request has changed from talking about your career to talking about the nude leaks. Apparently, Bernie isn’t even trying to get them taken down now. He says it’s