proud to share this moment with my best friend and fiancée.” She was both. “She’s my everything. My partner in crime, my lover, the person I turn to for both business . . .” I barely kept myself from saying “pleasure” out loud—especially with her father looking at me from across the room. “I guess what I’m trying to say is: she’s my home, my family, my world, and I’m so happy that she said yes.”
People clapped, but I had eyes for her, only her.
Funny how we’d started out as enemies.
Turned into lovers.
Ended as best friends. And so much more.
“Thank you . . . and Ian?” I continued, “We did good, man. We did good.”
Ian and I shook hands while cameras went off, and I went in search of Gabi. When I couldn’t find her in the crowd I panicked, until something pinched my ass.
I turned and glared.
Gabi waved her fingers at me. “Ready to blow this party, Lex Luthor?”
“I’ll ready the escape vehicle.”
“Oooo . . .” She pulled me in for a kiss. “I love it when you’re bad.”
“I’m so bad I’ll let you eat Pirate’s Booty in bed.” She shivered. “While I watch.” My tongue caressed her outer ear as she burst out laughing.
“So, what’s Lex Luthor’s weakness? You never told me.”
“I think that would be obvious.” I shrugged, leading her out the door. “It’s sassy-mouthed short girls who wear ugly-as-hell Uggs and shout my name.”
“I shout your name a lot.”
“I know.”
“Lex! Do the dishes!” she yelled.
“Lex!” I joined in with my best falsetto. “Right, there! Oh, that feels so good, a little to the left.”
People glanced curiously in our direction.
Gabi smacked me in the stomach. “Does a whore ever change its spots?”
“Let’s hope not!” I picked her up, tossed her over my shoulder, and slapped her ass. “Let’s go, future Mrs. Luthor.”
“Hey!” she squealed. “Does that mean I get my own villain name?”
“We’ll talk about it.”
“Lex!”
“As in, oh look, I brought it to the table for discussion and the board voted no. Sorry, Sunshine.”
“Lex!”
“You can drive the sidecar. And fetch my laundry. And when I’m feeling really generous, I’ll let you touch my freeze gun.”
“Lex Luthor doesn’t have a freeze gun.”
I chuckled suggestively. “But he does have a gun. You’ve felt it.”
“You’re gross.”
“You love me!”
“I do.” She giggled. “Clearly I’ve been corrupted by the Dark Side.”
“It’s better over here. Trust me.”
“I do,” she whispered. “I do.”
Cast
Gabrielle “Gabi”
Francesca Sava
Devyn Adair
Lex “Luthor”
Michael Turner
Blake Olson
Lauren Alexander
Ian Hunter
Tanner Tinney
Mrs. Sava, Gabi’s mother
Meg McLynn
Crew
Director and Director of
Photography
Tristan Pope
Production Support
Run Studios
Acknowledgments
I’m so thankful to God for allowing me to follow my dreams every single day . . . All glory and thanks always goes to him first. With that being said, most of these books wouldn’t be possible without a huge team of people! Thank you so much to Katherine Tate, Liza Tice, Kristin Van Dyken, and Jill Sava for being a sounding board for much of this book. Melody, as always, you were such a joy to work with from start to finish, and you helped mold this product into something amazing! I love how you push me!
Erica, my agent, superwoman, thank you for believing in me and my writing process and, you know, fighting crime on my behalf. You’re awesome.
The team at Skyscape, Courtney and all the publicity, you guys are rock stars. When we talked about the marketing for this concept, I’m pretty sure I went home and jumped up and down in excitement. Thank you so much for believing in me as an author and allowing me to write for you!
Danielle Sanchez and the Inkslinger team . . . thank you for all the work you put into each release!
Bloggers.
Oh man. Bloggers and reviewers. Again, I feel like I need to just start dedicating books to you guys. Thank you for all of your constant support, and thank you for reading my books, seriously. I can’t thank you enough.
Rachel’s New Rockin Readers, Jill, Becca, AHHH, and all of the many people in that group who make my job so much fun. Thank you for putting up with my craziness!
And Nate, thanks for not judging me when I ask you crazy questions about guys’ psyches. I think this is why I LOVE writing from the guy’s point of view!
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Hugs,
RVD
To my son. You’re never getting married!
HA-HA! No, but seriously . . .