A love story for the ages! An intimate confession! An epic quest! And happily ever after on the horizon ... Jason Mirelli loves Colby Kent. And Colby loves him. They’ve told the world. And Colby’s recovered from injury, so they’re back at work and back on set. Jason just might have everything he’s ever dreamed of, with a serious leading role, an epic love story, and Colby safe and happy in his arms -- but they only have two weeks of filming to go. He’s afraid of the dream falling apart, and he knows Colby has a secret to confess -- one that could transform both the ending of their movie and their future together. Colby never got around to telling Jason his final secret before his accident on set. Now that he’s recovered, he plans to -- he wants to share his writing and his silent script doctor work with the man he loves. Besides, he’s rewritten this script to give their characters a proper happy ending. But he’s nervous about making changes to a classic novel, and he wants the author’s approval. Colby’s hoping to seek out the famously reclusive author in question, but first he’ll need to trust Jason with this last piece of himself. If he can, he and Jason might finally find their happily-ever-after both on screen and off -- for their characters and for themselves.

Steadfast

He contemplated, “Tying me to a chair, you said…”


“I won’t,” Jason said. “You don’t like being held down. Trapped. I won’t.”


“It’s not exactly a no. Nothing I can’t get out of. But…I like being yours. And you like me being yours. Completely. At your mercy, taking what you decide to give me. I brought scarves.”


“I don’t know.” Jason tapped Colby’s nose with a fingertip: not a rejection, but serious consideration of the proposal. Graveness in forest groves. “I don’t want to push you. And you said you didn’t like restraints.”


“I don’t like pain and I don’t want to feel as if I can’t get away, if I truly need to.” He met Jason’s eyes, serious too. “I think that’s likely to be a fairly hard limit, at least for me. But that doesn’t exclude everything, and I know you know what you’re doing, and I enjoy you taking care of me. And so do you. So if I’m…I don’t know, not allowed to use my hands, not even allowed to move, perhaps, while you do everything for me, to me…”


Chapter 49