He hissed, his movements uncontrollable. Her orgasm loomed and suddenly let go. It felt like thousands of shockwaves invaded her body. She opened her mouth to scream but all that came out as a squeal that only dogs and bats could sense.

Cage, on the other hand, was still moving. He held his hips and he continued, twisting and turning her until he growled and came. He kept their bodies joined, pumping as he released.

He collapsed on top of her, breathing like he had run a marathon. Her heart was beating wildly and she could feel him against her back.

The bed moved as he rolled over and left the bed. She didn’t know why he was leaving but she didn’t have the energy to think. When he returned and wrapped his arms around her middle, he pulled her into his naked body and spoke.

“Are you okay?” he asked tenderly, his fingers lightly grazing her pubic bone. “It doesn’t hurt, right?”

“No, not at all.” She eased closer to him. “It was amazing.” She knew what his roughness meant. He had missed her terribly.

He chuckled and kissed her shoulder.

– – –

They were leaving for different cities that day but he insisted that he drive her home before going his way.

“I told you I could get back myself,” she said as Cage’s hand tightened around her waist.

“It’s no trouble,” he waved it off. “I just wanted to spend a little more time with you before I have to go back to my dreary work routine.” He groaned.

“Do you want to come in?” she offered. “You need a little break before you go on a four hour drive. You have barely had any sleep.”

“I want to come in, really, but it is getting a little late and I don’t think I will be able to hold myself back and take you again.”

“You have little self-control. Didn’t know this about you.”

“Who has made me like this?” he asked. “It’s hard not to see you for so long. Now that I have seen you, I’ll be yearning to talk to you again all month.”

“Don’t remind me,” she frowned. “But you gotta go to work so that I get a new movie!”

“You only like me because I am an actor.”

“Yes, this way I can date multiple people at once.” She giggled. He growled and leaned in to gently bite her shoulder.

With one more kiss, Cage sighed and stepped back. “I’ll see you soon, okay?”

She bit the inside of her cheek and nodded. She was sad seeing him go and knew that they would talk in his free time, but it was so hard being apart from him all the time. At the same time, she was nothing but excited for his work, supporting him and helping him go through scripts. The anticipation of meeting him after a long time and seeing the passion for her unravel in him kept her giddy.

He stood and watched him leave. Finally, she made it inside the apartment and winced as she moved.

“Wow, that good, huh?” Katherine yelped in surprise, spinning around and facing the room. Angelina was sitting on the couch, dressed, probably ready to go out for a shoot. “Are you actually walking bow-legged?” she laughed.

“Didn’t expect to see you.”

“I saw the videos. I was surprised that you were going out before I realized Cage had actually driven down to see you for a couple of days.” Angelina smirked.

“I’m surprised ‘you’ watch my videos. Good job. You have great taste.” She stuck her tongue out. “And yeah. It was beautiful. The convention was tiring but not going to stop me from seeing him.”

“Girl, Cage is head over heels for you. What busy superstar would drive hours to get to you?”

“Only Cage,” Katherine sighed, plopping down beside her. “How was your time with Stephen?” she asked off-handedly.

Angelina looked at her with surprise before speaking. “He arrived half an hour after you left, actually. I was especially happy about him coming over until your Cage called him and asked him to dig out information about someone…” she shrugged.

“Sorry about that. I had a rabid fan to take care of. They found out about Cage and I,” Katherine admitted in a small voice.

“Seeing that the internet knows you are taken, you aren’t afraid for it to come out to the public, either.” Angelina looked at her curiously. “How did you muster up the courage? Stephen was scared for a bit but Cage called him off. Apparently, your boyfriend is over the moon that everyone knows you are taken.” She snickered.

Katherine shook her head. “I saw what a fan could do. Sabrina was the one who reacted poorly and I got a taste of what it would be like. It just flipped a switch, you know? Ian knows. Laurence knows. And now, Sabrina knows. So… three people with three types of motives know and I am not complaining. I like it.”

Angelina sighed. “You may lose some fans because of it… or you may gain even more because people are curious who you are dating.”

Angelina was correct. She had checked her messages frequently and lots of questions had been thrown her way. Some asked if it was Laurence, others grieved the loss of their ship. But most of them were beyond curious about who had stolen Katherine’s heart.

There might have been some nasty comments, but Katherine was somehow immune to looking at them.

Angelina was scrolling through her phone when she squealed and shoved her phone in front of Katherine’s face.

“What?” Katherine groaned.

“Laurence posted a video titled ‘My Girlfriend Tag,'” Angelina commented before clicking on it.

Katherine stopped breathing for a second. She scrambled closer to Angelina and listened as the introduction played out. Sabrina had acted up, would Laurence act up too? Katherine wanted to have faith in Ian and his power to stop rumors, but she generally didn’t believe in human beings anymore.