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“Has she ever been overseas before?” Hayley asks.
“Not that I know of.”
“She’s probably feeling far from home in a foreign country. Start with that.”
“Oh,” I reply. “And what I can do?”
Hayley gives me a plentiful amount of side-eye.
“You can just be there for her, Victor. Support her. That’s all women want: a man who is there. That’s all. That’s all they need or want.”
Okay.
So... I just got to be there for her...
“That’s all she truly wants?” I ask my co-star.
“Yes, Victor. That’s all she truly wants. I’ll bet you a million bucks.”
And it’s like a million lightbulbs go off at once in my head.
45
JOSIE
I hear the telltale sounds of the elevator doors opening, and my heart stops.
It’ll be Victor.
I don’t know how to act around him, especially after that kiss we shared in front of the paparazzi. It was real in the terms that our lips touched, and that we actually kissed, but then I also know it was simply a ruse to get our photos out there. All fake, just like our relationship, and it’s now really playing on my mind.
I know I should just accept it all as a delusion and keep going about with my life in Italy. This is what I signed up for, after all. But I guess I just never thought that all of this would play havoc with both my mind and my heart.
I step out of the bedroom, and there he is.
Victor... looking every inch the movie star.
But I’m not focusing on his physical appearance, I’m instead looking at what he’s holding.
Flowers. A big, beautiful bouquet. And a box of chocolates wrapped up in a silver bow.
Are they for me?
“Josie,” he starts as I slowly make my way across the suite toward him. “I wanted to get you something. I want to show how I appreciate you doing all this with me, and I want to make sure that you’re okay.”
“You got all these?” I ask him. “For me?”
“Here.”
He hands me the flowers. I take them and sniff.
They smell so nice.
They smell of home.
“Thank you, Victor,” I whisper. “Thank you.”
“I just wanted to do something spontaneous,” he says in a near whisper.
