I stare at him. “What? When?”

“As soon as we can get this off the ground. We’ll fund it together, but we’re going to try and get some interest from one of the big studios for distribution. He’s doing all the groundwork in LA, and he found us an office. He’s even hired a couple of people to get us going and we’re on the lookout for others who know more about how all this works.”

I grin. “Josh, this is wonderful.”

“I wouldn’t have done it without you. If I hadn’t made the break from Mac, I’d probably still be going from film to film without feeling like I was moving forward. I found our first story, and Reece has had a screenwriter working on it for months. All he needed was me in on it, and you were … are my motivation for doing this.”

I’m not sure what to say. I’m blinking and my eyebrows seem to operate by themselves as they rise.

Josh takes my hands in his. “I’ve wandered the world for so long when everything I ever wanted was here. I’ve made no secret of wanting you and Amelia to move to LA with me, but doing this means I’ll be based there. No more running around.”

What he’s saying is huge. The last thing I wanted was to up and move to LA only to be left there while Josh travelled from location to location. It’s not only a change in direction for his career—he’s doing this for us.

If I didn’t love him already, I’d fall in love all over again.

But there’s something left unsaid, and I don’t have to be a mind reader to know what it is.

“You’re going back to the States.”

He nods. “I have to be hands on for this. Reece can’t do it all himself, and I can only do so much from here. All our contacts are in Los Angeles and so are the studios.”

“It’s okay. I knew you weren’t here forever.” I lick my lips. “When are you going?”

“I’ll spend another week. I want you two to come with me.”

I swallow hard, blinking back tears. “We can’t. Not that quickly. I need to work out everything. There are business decisions with Pania, and it’s a big change for Melly when she’s settled into school here.”

“I know. And if you want to stay here, that’s fine too. We’ll make it work.”

His smile’s reassuring, but I can already feel the chunk of my heart that is his leaving my chest. These past weeks have been the best of my life. It’s all just been so normal.

“I have a lot to think about.”