* * * *
As the sheet fell away, Niall jogged past the window, hoping to look as if he was out innocently on a morning run. He only had to glance into the trailer.
Niall’s heart contracted. It was true, there was a woman with Seth. She had to be the person Dianne talked about.
He slowed to a walk and considered how to warn this woman off Seth if she didn’t leave the site within a day. If she left and Seth went back to being single, then that was okay.
After all, everyone is allowed a little indiscretion now and again, Niall thought.
He reached the place where a buggy would pick him up to reach the movie set. He looked around. There were a couple of people heading to the canteen marquee and one buggy in the distance, heading for the filming. He sighed and let his jealousy get the better of him.
Taking his cell phone from his pocket in readiness, he jogged back to Seth’s trailer. As he reached the bedroom window, he looked around once more. Luck was on his side. There was no one in sight now.
He glanced into the window at the woman still draped over Seth. They were kissing and she moved against Seth’s thigh, while he kneaded her bare bottom. Niall mournfully shook his head. He used his cell phone to take a little movie of the naked couple. He squatted down and aimed the camera aperture through the window until he was sickened by his own actions. Then he walked silently away.
* * * *
Bethany reluctantly moved from Seth.
“I wish it was different but I have to go over to see Jake and make a final report about Dianne. The truth is I should leave the set now that we found out the truth about the letters. I’ll check in with Jake and come back to see you.”
Seth groaned and held her face to kiss her again.
“I don’t want you to leave. Not now, not ever.” He frowned but he let go of her.
She moved away and dragged on her clothes.
“These clothes are a little disgusting” she told Seth.
She exited his trailer with a grin.
* * * *
Jake was up and making coffee when she quietly opened the door. He looked at her with raised eyebrows.
“Where have you been so early?”
Bethany took a deep breath. She didn’t like lying to her brother.
“I stayed with Seth. It was so late and we got talking.”
Jake looked at her and smiled. “Talking? We need to finish our reports and get off home. Brandt has a new job for us already. I just read the email.”
Bethany groaned. “Where is it?”
Jake grinned. “London. Should be fun.”
Bethany walked off to take a shower and then put on clean clothes.
As she went back to the little kitchen area, she ran her fingers through her wet hair. Jake had packed and now sat with his coffee at the table in front of his laptop.
“Is there any chance I might stay here for another day? Just today maybe—to make sure everything is finished? You know, make sure Dianne doesn’t creep back and do some real damage.” Bethany made instant coffee for herself and pretended to be nonchalant.
Jake looked up. “Do you really think there’s a danger of that? I got the impression it was all over.”
Bethany shrugged. “A day to make sure wouldn’t hurt. When exactly are we due in London?”
He pushed his hand through his hair. “Well, not until Friday, but we do need to go into the office and prep. If I leave here now, how will you get home? Maybe I should stay another day too.”
Bethany would have liked to be alone but she could hardly say so.
Jake continued, “Okay, if we leave tomorrow at lunch time, it will give us time to unpack, refresh, go into the office the next day, and then down to London on Thursday night for a Friday start. Have you finished your report for this job?”
Bethany watched him innocently planning for her to stay as she asked. He was such a darling. She couldn’t fault him as a brother or colleague. She felt a little guilty.
“Yes, I have maybe two sentences to add.”
“And they would be?” Jake grinned at her.
“That Dianne has left the movie location.” Bethany grinned back.
Jake nodded. “Oh, she has. The security team called me and told me so and that’s only one sentence.”
Bethany drank her coffee and then nodded back. “Okay. I’ll type that in now.” Her laptop was on the bench seat and she brought it over to the table to do it.
Chapter Twenty-Four
An hour later, over in his trailer, Seth was in the shower, thinking about Bethany. He wished she didn’t have to leave. She was the sexiest woman he had ever met. The way she made love made him tingle right then as he thought of her. He let himself think about the planes of her stomach, the softness of her skin, and the way she kissed—it was just so good. Seth’s cock hardened, thinking about her.
Bethany finished her work and returned to see Seth. When she walked into the trailer with the familiarity of a lover and found him in the shower, he was holding onto himself. His other arm was braced against the tiles and with his head under the water spray, he didn’t hear her.
Bethany pulled her T-shirt off. She reached into the shower and ran her fingers down his backbone. He spun around in surprise, saw it was Bethany, and his eyes darkened with passion as the water ran down his face.
She looked at his erection and then into his eyes. He stepped toward her just as she stepped to him and their mouths met. She kissed him, her hands going straight down his body to tease his erection. Then she ran them over the backs of his thighs and pressed against him.
Seth smiled against her lips.
“I was just thinking about you and how I wish you didn’t have to leave.”
“I can tell, but I’m not going until tomorrow. I want you so much right now.” She kissed him between phrases.
He held her close. His tongue made little darts into her mouth and against her lips. He unclipped the bra she wore to free her breasts. He moved it aside to suck on one breast as he found the other nipple with his fingertips. His hands were cool from being wet.
Bethany pushed her body against his.
Seth lifted his head. “Make love to me.”
He walked her to the bed and sat her down. He leaned over her and kissed down her stomach. He took hold her bra then, running his fingers down her arms as he slid it off, and dropped it on the floor. He trailed his fingertips along the top of her low-rise jeans from one hipbone to the other.
Bethany closed her eyes in anticipation.
Seth couldn’t wait and unzipped her jeans. He pulled them and her black lace shorts off together.
She opened her eyes as he leaned over her again. When he kissed her, she wrapped her legs around his waist and he thrust into her. She was wet and tight and wanted him. Seth buried himself in her.
Bethany made little sounds of pleasure against his lips and He sighed, leaving his lips against the side of her mouth, pulling back from her only to thrust into her again.
She whispered his name, meeting him thrust for thrust.
“Seth, I want more…and more…”
He moved his cock in and out of her. “You can have as much as you want. I never want to stop. I want to make you sweat and feel me for hours after we have made love. I want it to feel as if I am still inside you. I want the thought of my fingers in you—the thought of my tongue making you come.”
His thrusts were slow now and slid along her bud. He lifted her, moving his hands under her bottom.
She felt his fingertips in the soft insides of her thighs. It was this sensation that made her come. She thrust onto him, moaning and gasping against his face as he moved back to kiss her lips. He lifted his head and put his forehead against hers as his orgasm overtook him.
“Bethany.” He couldn’t say anything else.
They stayed like that for a full minute, breathing against each other. Seth nuzzled into the soft part of her shoulder and then closed his eyes.
He slid his
cock gently out of her and lay beside her, tracing her breasts with his fingers and kissing her face.
“I have to admit to wishing you never have to leave. I’ve started to want you around all the time.”
She sighed. “I feel the same about you. It’s not easy to leave, believe me.”
Turning to nestle against the side of his body, she pressed her hips against him. He kissed her and felt her wanting him, wanting more. He wanted to give her more. He trailed his fingers against her inner thighs. He kissed down her stomach. He held her thighs apart and licked her bud until he knew from her breathing, that she was nearly coming again.
He pushed a finger gently into her, while circling her bud with his tongue. As she moaned and moved her hips towards his fingers, Seth felt a wave of love for her. She trusted him, and wanted him. The depth of her pleasure filled him with love. He felt real love—probably for the first time. Bethany came against his lips and fingers.
She reached for his head, guiding him from between her legs to kiss him.
He took her kiss, loving her reaction to him, and what he could do to her.
She held him close.
“Have you had many lovers?” she asked.
The question surprised him. He leaned away from her and looked into her eyes.
“No, why?”
“Because you are so very good at sex. I thought maybe—” She left the sentence unfinished.
Seth grinned with delight. “Thank you. I just enjoy being with you. That’s the way you are too—so good and it drives me nuts. You make me so hard, as if that’s all I am—one big erection.”
Bethany laughed. “That’s funny, but also really great.”
He took a deep breath. He wanted to tell her he had fallen in love with her. She hugged him close.
He hugged her back but his voice betrayed his love. “I have to get going to makeup soon. What will you do today? There’ll be a break about four hours into shooting as we change to the little town set; maybe you can have coffee with me then?”
Bethany nodded. “I will. I’ll come over to the sets as soon as I meet with Jake. We have a new job in London on Friday. The new files were mailed to us. Since we are not leaving today, I said we could read them together and pre-plan.”
Seth stood up and dressed. He watched lovingly as Bethany collected her jeans and then went back to the shower area to find her bra and T-shirt.
They kissed each other as they met again in the little kitchen and Seth made coffee. He put his arm around her and hugged her into his side. She turned and hugged him.
The buggy scheduled to pick Seth up for his scenes arrived. Seth looked at Bethany and his expression was soft.
“See you later then.”
She reached up and kissed him. “See you later.”
Chapter Twenty-Five
Standing on the doorstep, Bethany watched Seth jump into the little Jeep. As it drove away, she sighed.
He was so lovely. It would break her heart to leave the next day. How could she tell him she wanted to come back after the next job and see him?
She wanted to ask Brandt for leave and spend more time with Seth. Her boss would be surprised because she never took her holiday entitlement but she had quite a lot accrued. She closed Seth’s trailer door as she thought and walked to her own trailer.
* * * *
“Bethany, what have you been doing? I thought it was a quick touch base with Seth. I’m getting the distinct impression that you really like this guy. There’s some kind of happy aura about you. Let’s hear it.” Jake grinned at his sister.
She took a seat opposite him at the little table.
“I’m in love with him. I’ve never felt quite like this. I know it’s not ideal but I really want him in my life somehow, anyhow, any way I can get him.”
Jake frowned at her confession. “Do you know how he feels about you?”
She shrugged. “I feel loved by him, but then again it could be sex. He says he wants me around.”
Jake raised his eyebrows. “You’ve had sex with him? Bethany—” Jake shook his head, not saying anymore.
Bethany looked down at her laptop. “Yes. I love him.”
Jake got up and made tea in silence. When he sat down again and they both had a cup of tea by the side of their laptops, he ran his hands through his dark hair and gazed at his sister.
“I wish you the best of luck with this. I hope it works out. I wish I had someone sometimes. Be careful, I don’t want you hurt.”
Bethany got up and hugged her brother around the shoulders, putting a kiss on the top of his head. He smelled of herbal shampoo. She hugged him tight.
“Thank you.”
They read the files on the new job and Bethany made notes on a new document as they talked.
“Let’s go to the canteen and get something to eat when we’ve finished this,” she said.
Jake nodded. “Great idea.”
It never occurred to them that the case they were currently on was not finished.
Chapter Twenty-Six
Niall sighed as he watched Seth arrive on set. He looked at Seth’s lean hips and then at his dear face. Niall’s heart ached as he watched his idol walk across the set with those long, sexy strides of his.
Seth didn’t even see him because he was mentally in his character. He casually swung his black sword over his head and pulled it down into the black sheath on his belt.
As Seth arrived, Niall was finished on the set and caught a buggy ride over to the refreshment marquee. He wasn’t needed for two hours and, having missed breakfast, he was hungry.
He was in line behind two people, one of whom he was quite certain was the woman who had been draped over Seth that morning. He cringed.
He listened to the two talk. Not knowing that Jake was her brother, he assumed the woman was stringing Seth along. Niall didn’t like it. As they ordered bacon and tomato sandwiches, he looked around to find out who was in the place and where he could sit.
He saw one of the hairdressers having coffee by themselves near the back of the marquee. Daniel would be good to sit with. He often knew lots of gossip. Niall wanted to know who the pretty young woman two timing Seth really was. She didn’t look to him as if she was the detective Dianne had talked about. He sighed as he reached the counter and asked Dougie for coffee and a fried egg on toast.
Dougie grinned. “Hard or soft, Niall?”
Niall gave him a stare. “A fried egg with a soft yolk, okay Dougie?”
“Coming up.”
He turned and yelled the order through the hatch, where one of the short order cooks started making the late breakfast.
Niall took his coffee to the table where Daniel sat. “Can I join you? I don’t feel like eating alone.”
Daniel smiled. “Sure.”
Niall put his coffee down and walked back to the counter for his egg. He took it to the table and sat down to eat. He had eaten half his meal when he asked Daniel about Bethany.
“Do you know who that is over there—the young woman with the long, dark hair, sitting with the attractive guy? They make a striking pair, don’t they?” Niall nodded his head toward Jake and Bethany.
Daniel glanced over the table.
“Interested in the girl? I thought you were into guys. She’s Seth Carbery’s personal trainer. As for the guy, I’ve no idea. What’s up?” He was affable and Niall flashed him a smile, before he raised his eyebrows.
“Personal trainer?” So, she wasn’t the woman Dianne was talking about, which didn’t surprise him. Maybe Dianne was trying to go out on a high, saying the detective was in bed with Seth. Nevertheless, he saw this woman in bed with Seth, whoever she was. Now, here she was with another guy and they looked like they knew each other well.
Niall finished his food and then asked Daniel about his day. It would be best not to seem too interested in the couple.
When Daniel left the table, Niall turned again to look at Bethany and watched her for a moment. It hurt to think Seth was
off working, not knowing the woman he made love to was with another man. He was sure Seth should know. He decided right then to slip a note under the door of the actor’s trailer.
Niall didn’t take too much care. He tore a page out of his own notebook. He used it to make notes, rather than use anything electronic that could be a nuisance when he was working. He never considered people saw him use it. They were generic notebooks that could belong to anyone. He printed the words.
Seth, I want you to know that your lover is two timing you. It breaks my heart to see. I will have to take action against her if it continues.
From someone who loves you.
He flipped the little notebook closed and stuffed it into the back pocket of his jeans.
Niall left the canteen marquee and sprinted up to the trailers. He looked around as he reached Seth’s trailer. There was no one around because everyone was working. He bent and slipped the tiny note under the door. He paused for a second to think about how easy it went under there. Seth would get quite a draught when the weather was cold. Niall’s kindheartedness kicked in and he decided to do something about the door, knowing there were rubber strips to attach on the inside to stop these draughts. He walked away, thinking that somehow he would get maintenance to deal with that door.
He walked back to the area where buggies lined up to take people to various areas and took one to the set. He had warned Seth about the woman and that was the most he could do right then.
Chapter Twenty-Seven
Jake and Bethany finished their food and walked back to their trailer. They sat down to finish talking about their new job. They video chatted at length with Brandt about the new case. Their boss was unconcerned about them staying the day on the current case. Bethany explained that it was prudent to wait and make sure Dianne didn’t come right back to carry out one of her threats.
When Brandt signed out, Jake gave Bethany a little touch on the shoulder and smiled at her. “That went okay, didn’t it? In a way that’s true—she could be the type who wants to get back at someone and turns around to do damage. She isn’t of course.”
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