Chapter 34

April sighed, her heart feeling three sizes too big as she sat waiting in the airport. Her plane was delayed again - thankfully she was supposed to fly into Houston early enough that it wouldn’t make a difference for the recording time, but it was still one of those things that was a real hitch in the day. The heart thing wasn’t about the delay, though. It wasn’t even about the script for the series she was going to do some voiceover work for; she’d been known to tear up when reading some of the particularly good ones, but this one was a little-known, kind of niche theme she didn’t expect to go very far with a Western audience. She was also being brought in to do a few of the different background characters so she wasn’t particularly invested in any of the main storylines. No, the real reason her heart felt three sizes too big was because of the extremely sweet text messages Olliver had sent her.

He was her big-dicked, big-hearted teddy bear.

It was still a little hard for her to believe how goddamn fast she’d fallen for him. That first date through the dating app sponsorship had been a surprise. She’d almost written off the experience right off the bat when she saw him - just another fan meet-and-greet sort of situation. Sure, she didn’t rack up the huge lines at Comic Cons like the big actors did, but she did well enough that she was used to the cycle of meeting a new fan, giving them a bit of personal attention, and then moving on. It got weird if you got too involved.

But she’d been open enough, the door almost shut, that she noticed once he relaxed just a little bit, Olliver was charming. And not just charming, she realised over dinner, but downright sweet. And everything had clicked. And somehow she’d found herself swooning over a guy she’d just met, and inviting him to her hotel room, and...