16
SAVANNAH
PRESENT
“Cassie, we’ll figure this out together,” Martin Harper said to me on the set of the Academy movie.
The lights were focused on us. Maddox’s incredible visual effects were on the two-hundred-and-seventy-degree screens surrounding us, which displayed the setting, as if we were really standing in Faerie, the world in which Academy took place.
My hand went to Martin’s chest. I looked up into his impossibly green eyes. “I don’t know if I can do this anymore.”
Tears welled in my eyes. I could bring them forth with hardly a blink. It was one of the reasons I’d aced the first audition for the show. I’d managed to bring on actual waterworks while opposite Martin. I’d been cast into the lead a week later.
“We can,” Martin said.
Then, he dipped his head down, and his lips
