Back Before Now
Chapters (123)
  1. PLAYLIST
  2. CONTENT NOTE
  3. Dedication
  4. 1
  5. REMI
  6. 2
  7. FOSTER
  8. 3
  9. REMI
  10. 4
  11. REMI
  12. Before…
  13. 5
  14. REMI
  15. Now…
  16. 6
  17. FOSTER
  18. 7
  19. FOSTER
  20. Before…
  21. 8
  22. REMI
  23. Now…
  24. 9
  25. FOSTER
  26. 10
  27. REMI
  28. Before…
  29. 11
  30. FOSTER
  31. 12
  32. REMI
  33. Now…
  34. 13
  35. FOSTER
  36. 14
  37. FOSTER
  38. Before…
  39. 15
  40. REMI
  41. 16
  42. REMI
  43. 17
  44. REMI
  45. Now…
  46. 18
  47. FOSTER
  48. 19
  49. FOSTER
  50. Before…
  51. 20
  52. REMI
  53. 21
  54. FOSTER
  55. 22
  56. REMI
  57. Now…
  58. 23
  59. REMI
  60. Before…
  61. 24
  62. FOSTER
  63. Now…
  64. 25
  65. FOSTER
  66. Before…
  67. 26
  68. REMI
  69. Now…
  70. 27
  71. FOSTER
  72. Before…
  73. 28
  74. FOSTER
  75. Now…
  76. 29
  77. REMI
  78. Before…
  79. 30
  80. REMI
  81. Now…
  82. 31
  83. FOSTER
  84. 32
  85. REMI
  86. 33
  87. FOSTER
  88. 34
  89. REMI
  90. 35
  91. FOSTER
  92. 36
  93. REMI
  94. 37
  95. FOSTER
  96. 38
  97. FOSTER
  98. Before…
  99. 39
  100. FOSTER
  101. Now…
  102. 40
  103. REMI
  104. 41
  105. FOSTER
  106. 42
  107. REMI
  108. 43
  109. FOSTER
  110. 44
  111. REMI
  112. 45
  113. FOSTER
  114. 46
  115. REMI
  116. 47
  117. FOSTER
  118. EPILOGUE
  119. FOSTER
  120. Later…
  121. ALSO BY C.G. BLAINE
  122. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  123. ABOUT THE AUTHOR

The top two buttons of her shirt are open. I pause on her collarbone and flick my gaze over the top of the camera to hers. Her chest rises in a deep breath before she glances away.

“We need to do your interview still,” she says.

As if a mention of work matters at all. Not when I’m still buzzed with her right in front of me.

I slowly roll my head side to side on the tiles in a headshake, and I tsk her. “I’m the one with the camera, which means we need to do your interview.”

“Foster,” she warns.

“Remi.”

“You’re not even recording.”

I pan farther down, over her arm covering her middle. I pause where the plaid ends and skin begins on her outer thigh. The little red light blinks on that indicates I’m rolling, and her pouty mouth pops open. I hit stop and raise a brow in challenge. It earns me another glare, but then she sinks against the porcelain, adding her knees to the parts of her touching me.

“So, who are you hiding from?” I ask.

She hesitates, brows slanting. “What do you mean?”

I half-smile at the three seconds it took her to turn a question on me. “You ran in here to hide, right?”

“Wasn’t that the game? Hide and Keep?” Her head tilts on another question before she finally uses a period. “I know they’re messing with me about the sex part. I’ve been around long enough to know they like their women enthusiastic. But I wouldn’t put it past Felix to keep me on the backhoe while he drives it directly into a police station or something.”

Of course they were fucking with her—they would never cross those lines whether I said anything or not. She’s not wrong about the last part, though. If he finds keys, the night will end with Felix driving the equipment. He’ll go from back shot to backhoe.

“So, you’re hiding from Felix?”

“All of them,” she says like it’s obvious.

“But not me?” I watch her through the screen as she stares through it to me. “You said all of them and not all of you.”

A flush creeps up her cheeks, barely visible with the camera but there. She messes with the laces on her boot. “What about you? You never told me who you’re hiding from.”

“All of them,” I say.

She glances up at the repeat of her phrasing. A silent but not me? floats between us until I sigh and redirect like a champ.

“You’re terrible at giving interviews. I’ll hook you up with my publicist.”