Chapter 18 #3
You’re the only one I’d wanna share it with, I make sure not to say aloud.
“Of course, I would love that. Jett and I have been close family friends for eight years, and people say we have a pretty great chemistry together.”
Lee smiles. “Oh, yeah, we knew about Jett’s special relationship with your dad, but weren’t sure if the two of you were still just friends after this morning’s viral video. Loved it, by the way.”
“Thanks, it sold out my mum’s new swimwear collection in a few hours. Did … did it not look like normal modeling? It appeared to be a … soft launch?”
“Hard launch,” the men say in unison.
Jett bursts out laughing. “What made ya think that? My face looks like I’ve been pining forever? Like I’ve been stuck in the friend zone for—”
“Eight years?” Jay grins. “Yeah. A hundred percent.”
Jett scratches my back before playing gently with the tips of my long curls and I’m no longer a person, just a puddle on the floor.
“Is it a soft or hard launch, Mads? I’m dying to know, myself.
Over the weekend, we … decided to explore what more than friends can look like in our insane little lives. Things are rather … fresh.”
“Um … medium launch? Medium well? Sorry, I think I might have forgotten to eat with my life flipping upside down and all. Now I’m thinking about steak.” I give a cute laugh, pretending not to feel completely, utterly discombobulated.
Jay and Lee laugh, but Jett’s eyebrows knit in the middle. He places a concerned hand on my knee.
“You crashing, Mads?”
“I- I’ll be all right, Jett.”
His head gives a small shake before he bolts from the room. Jay raises an eyebrow, “Maddy, you always travel with unhinged rockstars that are high key obsessed with you? I’m straight up fascinated right now.”
I most definitely don’t, but the way Jay asks has me stifling a giggle. “I have hypoglycemia. My family is overprotective and they’ve trained him to be the same, that’s all.”
“Uh huh,” Lee laughs. “Sure.”
Jett comes back with a protein smoothie, places the straw in my mouth, and doesn’t take his eyes off me until the glass is empty.
Seriously. Someone comes to powder our shiny areas, and a few other people follow into the room while nerves tingle up my spine.
Jay insists his assistant pull up every bit of info she can find on Jett, and I’m sure that means raunchy tweets about him, too.
They film me answering fun questions and I play a game of ‘Kiss, Marry, Kill’ with all the characters on my show, while teasing little hints about season two which comes out next month. The ones HBO approved, nothing too juicy.
“Ready to read each other’s thirst tweets?” Lee rubs his hands together and does a silly eyebrow wiggle.
“Fuck yeah!” Jett jumps in front of the camera like he was made for it, because he is. They prep us briefly, and here we go.
“Hi! I’m Maddy Morningstar!”
“And I’m Jett Raven, and I’m tagging along to read Maddy’s thirst tweets!”
“And I’ll be reading Jett’s!”
“If she can handle reading them without getting jealous, I’m taking her out tonight.” He smiles a mile wide and holds up fingers crossed.
“Well then, I’m starting now.” I wink at him and swear he blushes. It’s the perfect time to read the first one. “Whoa, Jett went from Babygirl to baby DADDY!”
He shakes his head, “Have I entered my Daddy Era, Mads?”
“Daddy adjacent, maybe? I dunno, ask me tomorrow morning.”
Jett pretends to start panting and fans himself with the tweet cards, and I legit giggle before reading the next one, “Jett can put that massive cow tongue of his in any hole in my body.” I snort.
He deadpans at the camera. “I’m not putting it in your nostril, if that’s what you mean.”
I put my hand over my face and try so hard not to laugh. “If I see one more pic of Jett Raven’s new abs, hipbones, and tattoos, I’m gonna squirt.”
“Mads! You sure you didn’t post that one?”
I smack him with the card, “I don’t even have X!”
After a couple more, it’s time for him to read mine, and I’m already turning pink when he peeks down at the card, then back at me, looking cheeky and sexy as hell.
“When I read that Maddy Morningstar was single again, I came. Yeah, join the club, man!”
My face is crimson now, and I hide it with my hands and make an embarrassed squeak.
“I’d eat Maddy Morningstar out for hours and then run off to change my name in case her dad tries to kill me.” Jett chuckles. “Fair, fair. Good thing he’s my mentor and best mate, he might just let me live.”
“Oh my God!” I groan. I can’t handle any of these and they just keep coming!
“I was watching Maddy Morningstar play that evil bitch princess on my flight, and my nipples got hard. The flight attendant noticed.” Jett opens his leather jacket and looks down comically, “Oh, wow, mine are hard right now, too. See the effect you have on us, Mads?”
After that I just about black out until the tweets are exhausted and so am I. Everyone in the room claps when we’re done and I can’t feel anything but relief that I get to spend the rest of the day and night alone with Jett.