When Dreams Come True (The Star Series Book 1) by M. Stratton Page A

know why I’m such a mess.”
    “I could tell you. Do you want to hear the long or short version?”
    “Shut up.”
    Hannah closed the drapes. “Get some rest.”
    “Thanks. Love you.”
    “You, too. Now, get some rest.”
    Lissa fell into a dreamless sleep within seconds of Hannah leaving the room.
     

 
     
    A few days later, Hannah was standing at the front door waiting for Will to show up. Beau had been in contact with her and they’d planned everything. They both knew Will and Lissa needed to see each other. After the incident at the grocery store, Lissa had been down on herself and Will had become irritable. There was another issue on the movie which ended up giving Will two days to come out to see her. They hoped it was going to be enough to get them through the next two weeks before they could spend more time together. The movie he’d been working on had one delay after another, and shooting was running behind schedule.
    They talked quietly as she led him through the house and to Lissa’s room where he set his suitcase down. She knew they were going to want to spend every minute together, and that included sleeping.
    “Wow,” Will said as he walked over to the windows which filled two of the walls. One of them directly faced the mountain and a rock wall with cactus clinging to it. The other set of windows framed the mountain range to the east, where you couldn’t see any other homes.
    “When we were looking for a house, she didn’t like this one too much. She said it was too modern for her, but then she saw her office, and she was sold. By the time we got back to her bedroom here, she was telling the real estate agent to make an offer.”
    “And you? What if you didn’t like the house?”
    “There were a few other houses in the neighborhood and knowing her, she would’ve bought me one so we could be close. But I like the modern lines, and I have the whole other side of the house to myself. Especially these last two months.”
    He turned toward her, focusing all of his attention on her and what she was going to say. She could completely understand how Lissa had fallen under his spell before they’d even met. People rarely completely focused on the person they were talking to any more.
    “She is either in her office or here. I stock her mini-fridge in her office, but there are times the only thing missing is the sodas, the things which help her stay awake.” She sat down in one of the chairs by the fireplace. “We’ve had a great working relationship, and it hasn’t just been about work. We’re great friends. We divided everything… well, everything she’d let me do. We’d take turns going to the grocery store, cleaning and cooking. That way, both of us felt we weren’t taking advantage of the other. It took us a while to find the balance, what with me wanting to do everything for her since this is my job and her not wanting to ask me to do anything since we’re friends.
    “I come and go as needed since most of my work is done during the day anyway, so my nights are free. I prefer to go work out in a gym with other people, but she prefers to work out here, alone. We’d time our work-outs, mostly to keep her motivated since she stayed home. Now, she goes through the motions, but she’s been spending more and more time alone. More and more time working. If I had to guess, I’d say she’s missing you more than she ever thought she would and trying to keep her mind off you.”
    “This won’t do. It won’t do at all.”
    “I know.”
    “We’ve got to come up with something. First off, you’ll hire a cleaning crew and someone to go to the market for you. We need to take things off your plate so you can focus more on her and making her take care of herself.”
    “That’s all fine and dandy, but this is just going to continue. Every time you have to go away or are apart from her for a long time, she’ll fall back into this funk. And quite frankly, I’d hate to see what would happen