A Humble Heart (Hollywood Hearts #1)(72)

As an avid bather she fell in love with the room instantly. She actually hugged the guy when he showed it to her. To the left of the room was the largest Jacuzzi tub she had ever seen. She liked to call it her "little pool". There was a toilet and sink to the far right, black to match the Jacuzzi. A huge flat screen was on wall above the tub’s faucet. It had a killer sound system, which she used often to relax and listen to music. A double mini fridge was custom made and adjacent to the tub, which she filled with juices, waters and most importantly pints of Ben and Jerry ice cream. She had framed posters of all her favorite movies hung on the walls. It was the ultimate relaxation room, well, in her opinion it was.

Edward stepped into the room. His mouth was open and his eyes were bugging out. The room was beyond cool, for a bathroom that is, ah hell, for any room. He checked out the room and bent down to check out the mini fridge. Everything was impressive. His eyes were drawn to the posters that lined the wall.

“The posters?” he asked while he checked out each one.

“They’re from some of my favorite movies,” she said.

There was one from her movie of him and Jennifer. He wasn’t surprised about that, she was proud of the book and had every right to be. The movie was still number one at the box office. What did surprise him was a poster of him from an earlier movie. It was the movie that gave him his real start, made him famous.

She followed his gaze and shrugged indifferently. “It was a good movie.”

Dana turned her back on him, allowing him to take in the room as she filled up the tub. She picked up the stereo’s remote and pressed play. Alternative rock came on. She pulled off her clothes and turned around expecting to see Edward leaving. Instead he was already naked.

Her eyebrows came together.

“What? You’re not the only one that could use a good bath,” he teased. “Why didn’t you tell me about this room before?”

“It’s my secret room, duh,” she said with an exaggerated eye roll that earned a chuckle.

Dana grabbed a juice and stepped into the tub. Edward stepped in cautiously. He sat down and leaned back. The tub edges had the perfect incline. Yeah, the guy who built this room was a genius. They sat at opposite ends relaxing. She sipped her juice and read the script.

She giggled at something funny.

“What?”

“Nothing, I really like this script. I think it will be fun.”

“It has some pretty steamy sex scenes,” he said casually.

“Where?"

“Page fifty-seven,” he said, watching her.

She quickly flipped through the script and read. He watched her cheeks flush. “According to Amy that’s the first scene we’re doing. They want to do all the love scenes before you start showing. There are a few scenes where you’re stomach will show those will be done soon too.”

“Oh. Interesting,” she said nervously.

He moved through the water to her. “Hey, it will be okay. You’ve done it before and it came out great.”

“Yeah, but I wasn’t turned on doing it. I didn’t embarrass myself.”

He smiled hugely. “You’re afraid you’ll be so turned on with me that you’ll scream my name at the top of your lungs?”

“You think you’re being cute, but yes,” she said, feeling mortified.

“It will be okay. I’ll make sure we have fun. I won’t let you take it too seriously,” he said, settling next to her so he could put an arm around her.

They sat in silence for a minute. A question was playing at the front of his mind and for the life of him he couldn’t let go. “I do have a question. Don’t get mad, but I’m just curious. When you were doing the scenes with Lucas…umm, you didn’t get-”

“Wet? No!”

“Good,” he said, sounding satisfied.

“However, Lucas had a problem not getting excited. I teased him relentlessly for two weeks about it.” She laughed at the memory. No one on set but Lucas and she knew he was too excited. She helped him hide it. He was beyond embarrassed about it. She wasn’t a guy, but she could understand how he felt. He looked really upset when it happened.

Poor guy had to tell the director he had a cramp and couldn’t move off her. They shared a look. He silently pleaded with her not to say anything and she hadn't. She laid there picking on him instead. He stayed half on top of her for five minutes until Mr. Happy went to sleep.

“Lucas got hard with you?” Edward asked, sounding completely amused.

“Yes, just keep your mouth shut. He was embarrassed about it.”

“Amateur,” Edward said mockingly.

She looked at him sideways. “You’re going to tell me that with all the beautiful women you kissed on screen and had sex scenes with you never once got too excited?”

He shook his head. “Nope, not once.”

“Hmmm.”

“What’s that supposed to mean?”

“I take that as a personal challenge.”

“Do whatever you want, sweetheart. I have more self-control than that. There is nothing you could do on a set filled with twenty people that will cause me to get a hard on.”

“Oh, how are you going to stop it from happening?” She was curious now.

He bit his lip. “I’ll take care of it before I go on set. It’s an old trade secret.” He laughed. “Someone should have told Lucas about it.”