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Before he can reply, I’m already reaching for the TV remote for the massive screen facing us on the wall of the cabin. I turn it on.
“What are you doing, Josie?” the movie star asks.
“I’m thinking of watching one of your films,” I reply cheerily and with a teasing smirk plastered across my face.
Victor groans. It’s good to bring him back down to earth in this way.
“Please don’t...”
“You just told me I can do whatever I like on here, Victor.”
The actor groans again just as I start to search his name on the screen’s movie catalogue.
I’m determined to embarrass the perfect man. Keeping him captive watching a movie of his on this flight is the best idea I’ve had for a long time.
23
JOSIE
Victor drives us from the airport to his pad high up in the Beverly Hills once we’re in Los Angeles. It was a totally smooth process – he had a car delivered to greet us when our private plane landed. It’s a very flashy sports car. Of course Victor just has to have the loudest and coolest vehicle on the road, but even I have to confess that the sound the car makes is deafeningly incredible.
Yep, I’m impressed.
And I can tell that the actor likes that I’m impressed. Even with all his money and fame, he still likes to show off to the small town barista. It’s a cute little vulnerability of his.
“First time in Los Angeles?” Victor asks me as we zoom through the palm tree-lined streets.
I look around me in awe at this amazing city and nod.
“Yep.”
“I’m glad I get to be the man who shows you.”
This is a place I’ve only seen in movies, so it feels like I’ve walked onto a real movie set and not somewhere real. I expect to see every famous face walking on the sidewalk or in the cars parked alongside us. There are so many sports cars on the streets. So many rich boutique stores.
It’s nothing like Crystal River, that’s for sure.
I feel the vibration of the sports car’s engine as we shoot around a corner in a very expensive-looking leafy street.
“What about our luggage?” I ask Victor, suddenly remembering. “We didn’t pick it up when we left the plane...”
We were so fast off that plane. It was unlike any airport experience I’ve ever had. We were shot straight into Victor’s waiting car from the aircraft. I’m still suffering from the whiplash of it all. I didn’t even think about our bags.
“My team has sent the luggage ahead with a driver,” Victor says matter-of-factly. “Don’t worry, it’s all been organized ahead of schedule. Your bags should already be at my place by the time we get there.”
“Oh, cool.”
We spin around another corner and, yet again, I feel the powerful vibration of the vehicle under my ass.
And then we arrive at our destination.
It’s a gated mansion nestled in a row of mansions – the grandest one on the block, of course. Victor’s place is not as big as his family complex back in Crystal River, but it is still pretty jaw-dropping to a girl like me.
The gate automatically opens for us, and Victor drives straight into a very secure underground parking lot below his building. We pass by a fountain and statues of Roman gods – a fancy Mediterranean style.
“Very nice place,” I remark to the man as he turns off the engine.
He looks at me with a flicker in his blue eyes.
