Stars, Love And Pirouettes (Dance 'n' Luv Series) by Roy Street, Alicia Street Page A

important people in his life would be taken by the same dreaded disease? Unbidden tears snuck out. He wiped some drops from his cheeks.
    “Don’t you go crying on account of me. I ain’t dead yet. And nothing’s gonna take me out easy. Learning how to fight to survive is something we both have in common.”
    Aiden reached forward, clutched Buster Cote’s hand and squeezed. “You’ve been my best friend, my father, my teacher…”
    “Enough,” Coty said. “That lady? She made you smile. And you need that in your life. Now do the right thing before it’s too late. Show her some sweetness.”

 
     
    Chapter Sixteen
     
     
    “Not in the mood? Oh, come on. Not this again. For the past couple weeks all we do is play cute in public. But in private it’s always no.”
    Jenna glanced at Sean, the same man she’d only minutes ago been kissing during today’s shoot for Sunrise Lane . She’d put her all into the kiss for the camera, just as she’d done her best for that stupid lovebirds campaign their publicist had arranged. But ever since she realized she had feelings for Aiden she couldn’t bear the thought of being intimate with Sean.
    Today after they finished shooting their scene and Jenna was crossing the parking lot to her car, he approached her again. And once again she refused his advances. Making sure there were no spectators, Jenna said, “We need to talk.”
    “So talk.”
    “From now on I think we should keep our relationship strictly professional. Otherwise it will only create problems.”
    “Problems?” he said, moving in for a nibble on her ear. “I don’t have any problems with it.”
    “Yeah, well maybe I do.” Jenna pushed him away.” Let’s chill out. For the sake of the show.”
    “In other words, you don’t want to sleep with me.”
    “Right.”
    He smirked, an expression she’d seen more often on him since they’d recently been forced to spend so much time together. Two weeks where she discovered she didn’t like him very much. “Let me guess. Sophie told you about my list. Well, she’s just jealous because you moved her down to number three on my active file.”
    List ? Active File ? Why am I not surprised ? “No, Sean. We never agreed to be exclusive, anyway. It’s more than that. We’re just not a good fit.”
    “You’ll be missing the Aftermath premiere. A shame. I was going to introduce you to a lot of people.”
    His quick retaliation hurt, but going to the premiere wasn’t worth selling her soul, despite the glorious dress Lexi had made for her. “Guess that’s the way it goes.”
    “You got somebody else, don’t you?”
    “No.”
    “It’s Pacca.”
    “Tony?” Tony Pacca was the director of Sunrise Lane and very married.
    Sean’s hand closed in a fist. “That sonofabitch. Always competes with me. Every time I reel in a top of the line catch he wants a piece of it.”
    Oooh . “You’re way off base, Sean. Tony never made any moves on me.”
    “Who is it?”
    “Nobody. Look, we had a good time for a little while, but now it’s over.”
    “Oh, it’s over all right,” Sean said, with a tone as icy as freezing rain.

 
     
    Chapter Seventeen
     
     
    The private kitchen in the back of the farmhouse was part of the extension her brother Parker had built, creating a ground floor apartment for her mother separate from the B&B. That evening Jenna sat eating a bowl of vegetarian chili and wishing she hadn’t opened her mouth about Sean.
    “If you ask me, Jenna, you made a big mistake. This was a chance you may never get again.”
    “I’m still on the show. It’s only my romantic relationship with Sean I’ve ended.”
    Lauren Richardson shook her head. “So you can what? End up marrying some nobody?”
    “Who said I was going to marry Sean?”
    “I had my hopes. And the newspapers didn’t exactly disagree.”
    “I told you that was all an act for publicity.”
    “But you did like him.”
    “At first. Until I got to know him.” Jenna walked