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couldn’t help but wonder just how far she took her fandom.
    She shrugged. “There were three of us that started it together. I do most of it under my pen name, because that’s how I’m active on social media. There’s no point in being me at this point.”
    “Why did you decide to use a pen name?”
    She shrugged. “I went to a Christian college, where no one admitted to reading romances with sex scenes. Everyone read Janette Oke in the open, but while no one was looking, they snuck and read Nora Roberts. I didn’t want to be ostracized, but I felt like romances needed sex scenes, so I compromised. I wrote my scenes, but I didn’t do it as me.” She hadn’t admitted to being published until after she’d graduated and already had a following.
    “Do you ever regret it?”
    “Sometimes. At first, I was kind of ashamed that I’d written anything like that, but now, I’m proud of my work. I’ve hit bestseller lists over and over. I work my butt off, and I deserve to be recognized for that.”
    Bob smiled. “Yes, you do.”
    May shrugged. “Sorry, I guess I get a little passionate about my work sometimes.”
    “If you’re not passionate about your work, no one else will be!”
    She smiled. “That’s a really good point. A true one as well. I very much believe that a real writer laughs and cries as they write. If I can’t make myself laugh or cry, how am I going to bring my readers to those emotions?”
    “You’re right. And if I don’t feel those emotions as I act, how can I make a viewer feel them?”
    “I never thought of what I do as similar to what an actor does, but I guess in some ways it is.”
    “It sure is. We’re both in the business of making people feel things. Intense emotions are our calling cards.”
    “I like that. I really, really like that.”
    He backed the SUV out of the spot in the parking garage. “Let’s go home to Wiggieville.”
    She sighed. “I can’t wait.”

Chapter Three
     
    Bob talked to her as he drove, dropping little details about what it was like to film a popular television show. “We’re just getting back from a week-long hiatus. We work three weeks on and a week off.”
    “What do you do during your time off? Do you have a place somewhere you go home to?” May asked, genuinely curious how much of the fan rumors about this man were true.
    He shrugged. “I have a tiny little apartment in LA. I sometimes go there. Sometimes I stay on set. Sometimes I travel. I’m good friends with Jesse and Amber.”
    “People want Bob and MaryBeth to get married.”
    He shook his head. “Not happening. MaryBeth is way too young for Bob.” He always referred to his character in the show in third person, which was odd, because it was his real name as well. Sometimes he even confused himself.
    “I agree. Are they going to bring in someone new for him?”
    He shrugged. “They haven’t so far. And I can’t tell you what’s going to happen on the show! You’re too involved with the other fans.”
    May grinned, loving that she had the freedom to just watch him now that he had to concentrate on driving. “Would you do me a huge favor?” she asked, feeling more daring.
    “Anything.”
    “Would you let me put my Team Bob T-shirt on, so we can get a selfie together after we get to my house? My Team Bob friends will freak out!” She couldn’t let the opportunity pass her by. The others would never believe she’d spent an afternoon with him otherwise.
    He laughed. “Sure. As long as you’ll autograph that book for me.”
    “Are you still on that? Fine, I’ll autograph a book for you.” She glared but pulled a book from her purse and found a pen. When he stopped at the gate to pay to leave the airport, she quickly signed it. “To Bob, Thanks for helping me dream. Love, Jolene Gold.” She set the book on the console between them. “Happy now?”
    “Yup. Very happy.” He couldn’t believe he was actually excited to read a romance novel, but he was going to read