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Before I could open my mouth and pitch Webflix on Jude as Liam, Robert asked me if I was comfortable with them offering the role to my boyfriend.
Easiest answer ever. A big, resounding yes.
Sebastian Lowe is off the project, and Jude is on. He got his marquee queer rom-com after all.
Jude and Christian start shooting in three months, once the final episode ofUnfinished Businessis in the can.
My boyfriend is busy with work, and I’m so proud of him.
But I’m busy too. I’m halfway done with my novel about a fake romance with an ex. The best part? My readers want it. Turns out, they didn’t cancel me when they learned I’d faked a romance.
The opposite.
Most of them left hearts and emoticons all over ourcoming outvideo.
I guess sometimes life is a little like a love story.
Or really, a lot.
FINAL EPILOGUE
TWO MEN WITH TOP HATS
TJ
A year or so later
When my publisher tells me they’re sending me to London for the final stop of my book tour, I can picture my nights there unfolding like a dirty fairy tale.
Well, duh.
My life with Judeisa dirty fairy tale.
We live together now. He moved in with me a few months after the Oscars. We don’t always agree on how many blankets we need, and we don’t have enough closet space for a couple of clotheshorses, but we make it work.
Especially at night, under the covers. Or in the morning, in the shower. Or during the afternoons, on the couch.
Like I said, dirty fairy tale.
We might move into a bigger apartment since Oscar and Wilde take up a lot of space. Our two rescue cats have big personalities. They parade across the kitchen counter, knocking mugs to the floor, strut on our bureau, swatting picture frames, and curl up on the windowsill, demanding belly rubs.
Also, they’re perverts because they like to watch us screw.
They recently took ownership of my box of books from my publisher when the copies ofLook Me Uparrived. But hey, that’s great social media fodder for The Real FoxMan. We changed the name of our Instagram handle for obvious reasons. The Real FoxMan is better than a couple name that sounds like cigarettes and pork.
Living together feels full circle in the best of ways. That’s how our romance started, but now we have a king-size bed, and neither one of us is moving across an ocean. Sure, Jude is on location from time to time. He shot a film in Vancouver recently with Carrie Winslow and Sebastian Lowe. He loved working with the two of them and told me stories every night when he’d return to his hotel room, exhausted but creatively satisfied from the day.
But he’s in Manhattan a lot too, especially sinceUnfinished Businesswas a hit, and he just completed shooting the second season.
When he’s in town, we make the most of our time together—both alone and with our friends and family. Jude’s become a huge baseball fan, so we go to Cougars games when Chance plays in New York. The first time I took him to a game, we went out to dinner after with my brother and his wife. After everyone ordered, my boyfriend turned to Sierra and said, “We scored, didn’t we?”
“We sure did,” she said.
My guy and I spend lots of time with our friends in New York. We go to clubs with Olivia and her girlfriend, Amelia. Occasionally, they try to drag me to a musical, but I do my best to resist. Jude keeps threatening to perform in a musical someday, insisting that’s how I’ll fall in love with the genre.
He’s probably not wrong, but I’ll believe that when it happens.
We also love to people-watch at bars with Ellie, where we play the name game, go to pinball arcades with Luke, and on runs on the High Line with Nolan.