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 didn’t need that. Violence was the lastthing Colby needed.


He cleared his throat. His voice came out rough. “Yeah. I mean no. I mean…fuck. I won’t. I won’t do anything you don’t want. I swear, Colby, I swear, okay? Just tell me what you want me to do. Where you want me. Anything.”


“Jason…” Colby freed a hand from blanket-tendrils, held it out. “I know you. You won’t hurt me. And I’m okay with this.”


“Are you?” His own hand felt cold. He did not want it to be cold. What if that made Colby’s hand cold?


But Colby wanted to touch him. Was offering. Was even smiling, wry and suddenly radiant. “I am. Truly. Can I…”


“Fuck,” Jason said, hopelessly surrendered to that certainty, hopelessly in love; and put his huge clumsy hand into Colby’s.


The world didn’t spin faster, then. But it should’ve. Stars might’ve laughed. Wishes, dancing and granted.


Chapter 91