An epic motion picture! A gay Napoleonic War love story! Ballrooms and battles at sea! Romantic happy endings on the silver screen! And a film that’ll change everything for its stars ... Jason Mirelli can’t play adrenaline-fueled action heroes forever. He’s getting older, plus the action star parts have grown a little thinner since he came out as bisexual. This role could finally let him be seen as a serious dramatic actor, and he needs it to go well -- for his career, and because he’s fallen in love with the story and the chance to tell it. The first problem? He’ll be playing a ship’s captain ... and he hasn’t exactly mentioned his fear of water. The second problem? His co-star: award-winning, overly talkative, annoyingly adorable -- and openly gay – box office idol Colby Kent. Colby’s always loved the novel this film’s based on, and he leapt at the chance to adapt it, now that he has the money and reputation to make it happen. But scars and secrets from his past make filming a love story difficult ... until Jason takes his hand and wakes up all his buried desires. Jason could be everything Colby’s ever wanted: generous and kind, a fantastic partner on set, not to mention those heroic muscles. But Colby just can’t take that chance ... or can he? As their characters fall in love and fight a war, Colby and Jason find themselves falling, too ... and facing the return of their own past demons. But together they just might win ... and write their own love story.

Seaworthy

Colby took a sip, raised eyebrows, took another. Glanced at Jason—inched a fraction closer to Jason, in fact, who did not know what to do with this reaction—and then assumed the most exaggeratedly flirtatious expression Jason had ever seen, including batted eyes across a martini glass. Even his accent got more upper-class English and more over-the-top. “Darling, even if I have, you’d have to work much harder to find out the answer.”


“Oh my God.” Leo slumped back against the booth, evidently physically stunned into submission.


“Okay,” Jason said, “you need to eat more,” and nudged more nostalgic pizza onto Colby’s plate. “No drinking whatever that is until you finish that piece.” He wanted to imitate Leo’s dramatic shock; he worried about Colby not having eaten much and drinking drinks with decent alcohol content; he was unsure whether to be delighted at Colby feeling secure enough for playfulness, or to be genuinely concerned about consequences.


Chapter 64