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After Lysander shows up at LACMA with Theo following his return from New York after that momentuous phone call the night that Theo finished creating their song collaboration, now Theo is headed back to meet Lysander at his apartment to listen to the collab together. Will Theo find the courage to ask if they’re officially dating now or not? How will the world-famous pop star respond!
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The personal assistant Lysander sent to fetch Theo turned out to be a woman in her thirties, dressed in a professional-looking white dress shirt and black pencil skirt, her brown hair pulled back into a tight bun. She was pretty, but indifferent, giving him only a perfunctory smile as she led him downstairs to where a plain black company car was parked perpendicular to several other spots.
As he slipped into the back seat—somehow, the idea of sitting up front with her was more intimidating—Theo tried not to wonder how many similar errands the woman had been sent on…how many times she’d driven paramours over to meet Lysander exactly like he was about to be.
Drowning in the silence, Theo tried to start a conversation by asking how long she’d been working for Lysander. But she gave only halting answers, close-ended with no opportunity to keep the conversation going. At every intersection, she consulted her phone—which made Theo nervous, since he’d been in accidents before caused by distracted drivers—but just under an hour later, they pulled into the expensive apartment complex’s underground parking lot. She escorted him to the elevators, then rode with him all the way to the top floor.
Stepping inside gingerly after she’d opened the apartment door for him, Theo took a slow gander at the interior. It was exactly as he remembered it, although there were a few suitcases next to the couch, not yet unpacked. Lysander himself was nowhere in view, but the assistant said, “Mr. Delion will be with you in a moment,” then left the apartment, leaving Theo to stand awkwardly on the other side of the door with his arms clutched about his laptop as if it were a lifejacket.
At last, minutes later, Lysander strode into the living room, hair damp and body naked except for a towel about his waist. Theo’s mouth went dry at the sight of the pop star’s sculpted chest—he’d seen topless photos of Lysander in magazines before, but they were nothing compared to the real thing.
“Oh!” the singer called out to him, immediately delighted. “Theo. Welcome. So Cindy got you here okay?”
Belatedly, the memory of the personal assistant introducing herself when she’d first shown up at his apartment door passed through him, but he’d been so nervous that he’d promptly forgotten her name again—guilt suffused him as he gave a slow nod, tearing his eyes away from Lysander’s abs to his face.
Lysander’s smile turned vaguely sultry, obviously catching Theo’s hungry stare at him, and he hooked a thumb inside the rim of the wrapped towel, almost as if toying with the idea of dropping it and revealing his entire body. He kept it on for now, though, indicating the couch with a nod. “C’mon, sit down. You thirsty? Hungry? The video call is supposed to happen in half an hour, but it shouldn’t last more than three hours. You’re welcome to go wherever you want while I’m on the call. You can play around in the recording room if you want, or I can show you the media room. You like video games, right?”
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