Free More Than Famous (Famous #2) by Kahlen Aymes

fall in love with Brook? I saw the film and the chemistry is strong on screen. What’s it like in real life?" The question slipped out, immediately after a caller had just finished asking about doing the stunts in the film, so given the change of subject he was taken off guard.
    Okay, what?
    "Yes. She's amazing," Cade replied and then the people in the studio broke out in laughter behind him.
    My heart leapt in my chest. Holy shit. He did not just say that, did he?
    "There's that quote!" The DJ shot back.
    I sank down on the edge of my bed with my toothbrush in my hand.
    Cade, my mind implored, Try to save it, or Jeanne and Denise will have your ass.
    "Uh, I just like making her life really difficult." He laughed some more. “You know, she’s got a bloke.”
    "But help us understand it, Cade. You said earlier that you really felt this film and it's gotta be bizarre to sit with this girl... a beautiful girl... who you’ve spent a lot of time with…" The DJ’s voice drifted off.
    "Yes."
    "And develop this type of instant chemistry, which we all sort of look for in real life, have it play out on film and then not develop feelings for her?"
    Okay... here we go , I thought. I couldn't breathe; my heart was pounding so fast I could feel the blood rushing through my ears.
    "Yeah, it's really quite strange. Well, you do though. Sometimes. You do because that's the type of damage you undergo when trying to do anything real in acting. Like, you know, you kind of leave jobs with both people feeling like we have no idea who the other person is, so it's just like this horrible experience afterwards."
    He was laughing it off, but I knew the pain behind the words he'd stammered around. He wanted to admit how closes we’d become, but instead had to make it seem like we’d left the set as strangers.
    But for us, the horrible part being left with very real feelings you have to deal with when you try to go back to your regular life.
    He told me it wasn't always like that on previous jobs; taking a very real chunk out of you, but it was for this job... for Cade and me. Remembering the agony at the wrap party and the morning after... I'd never experienced anything that painful ever before.
    My heart seized and my mind screamed with love for him. I needed to get to him as fast as I could. I rushed around and got my stuff together so I could get over to the Beverly Wilshire before he made it back from the station. "Mom, are you ready?" I ran down the stairs with my purse in hand.
    "Yes, Brook. Let’s go." She followed me out.
    An hour later, as I sat on the couch in the hotel room laughing with Cade's parents, his brother and sister, I wondered what I'd had to feel nervous about.
    His mother was generous and giving, and his dad had a wicked sense of humor. He told me how he practically had to force Cade to try his hand at acting, but his son had insisted it was for sissies.
    "He was only fifteen and he'd had aspirations of being in a rock band, but what kid doesn't at that age? He was wise to listen to his old dad. Look at him now."
    "Carter, I'm sure Cade won't like you telling all of those old stories to Brook," Lillian Carlisle admonished her husband.
    "Cade's already told me the story, but it seems funnier when you tell it, Mr. Carlisle."
    "Oh, sweetheart, how many times do I need to tell you to call me Carter?" he smiled at me warmly.
    "Thank you. If you're sure."  I smiled back. "You must be very proud of your son. He seems to excel at everything he does."
    "Well, he wasn't always like that. He hated his studies. Not that he did poorly, but he always had better things to spend his time on, at least that's how he tells it."
    "Dear, did you get a chance to hear Caden's interview today?" Layla moved into the room with a plate of food from the buffet set up on the bar in residence on one side of the suite.
    "Most of it.  We get asked the same questions over and over. It's hard to sound fresh in those things, but he always does a much