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"Damn it."

His rare curse surprises Stephanie and she hears him drop the knife he was using to slice vegetables for dinner.

"You okay?" Her voice holds concern as she stands from the couch, setting her wine glass and script on the coffee table.

"I had a rare moment of incompetence and injured myself slightly." He walks to the kitchen sink and begins running cool water over his index finger, gritting his teeth and scowling.

She hurries into the kitchen, her bare feet pattering across the tiled floor. When she reaches his side, she sees the blood colored water disappearing down the drain.

"Let me see." Her hands gently pull his to her.

She carefully examines his finger, assessing how deep the cut is and deciding it isn't worth going to the emergency room, but it will need to be bandaged.

She begins pulling him down the hall to his bathroom, knowing there are first aid supplies in his cabinet.

Thomas watches as she searches through his drawers, pulling out different medical supplies. Gauze, bandages, ointments and antiseptics. He furrows his brows as he watches her soak a gauze pad with some isopropyl alcohol. As she begins to grab his hand his jerks back.

"You don't know anything related to emergency medical care."

She scoffs and grabs his hand forcefully, holding it tightly. "Please, I've seen every episode of General Hosptial twice. Of course I know how to help."

His free hand holds hers away, keeping the gauze away from his finger. When she looks at him, he raises an eyebrow, scowling again. "My point still stands."

"Thomas, this is basic first aid. You don't need stitches, I just want to clean the cut and then put a bandage on it. Stop being such a wimp."

He glares at her and reluctantly allows her to take his hand and begin cleaning the cut. The alcohol burns as she wipes it clean, thoroughly he thought, causing him to grit his teeth once again and his free hand clenches into a tight fist. Once clean, she throws the pad away and grabs a bandage, wrapping his finger gently and tying it off neatly.

"There. All finished, now you can go cry in your office." She pokes his stomach playfully and smirks when he glares again.

"You are an irredeemable nuisance in some cases."

"You love this 'irredeemable nuisance'."

He begins walking out of the bathroom without a glance back, his right hand toying with the bandage on his finger.

"No thanks for my heroics?" She smiles when he pauses, shaking his head and no doubt hiding a smile from her.

PB has made it very clear in the book. The MC encountered 2 types of directors - one who harassed her horrendously just because she didn’t give in to him and ruined her reputation falsely on tv as well as in front of the world; while the other made sure she regains her lost self confidence by pushing her to the limit and creating a masterpiece of a movie which was a hard slap to the man who wronged her.

The issue about Hunt being creepy is just not relevant at all. There are so many people who are willing to go to any extent to keep things secret from their competitors. Hunt meeting the MC at an underpass and getting her approval to do the movie secretly at her house, proves that he is extremely competitive and would do anything it took to keep the making of the movie under wraps. Being so competitive is very normal.

Secondly, even though he is clearly very attracted to her, he makes sure he doesn’t cross a line and keeps her away from him at all times until the end of the movie. Throughout the book, it was the MC making advances at him.. He was trying his best to keep her at bay and not lose control.

All these instances are very clearly seen in their interactions.

Hence to sum it up, Hunt is a respectable (unlike Montemarte), competitive individual who’s willing to push the MC to achieve her goal of success while getting back at the man who tried to pull her down.

I love him. I officially owe him one.

I owe him for the rest of my life. I think that's fair.

+ Bonus: 😍😍😍

Pathetic fallacy pours heavily around Thomas Hunt as he walks in pilot mode to his car. He doesn’t even hear the double beep, to tell him that it is now open; but he knows he pressed the button.

He finds himself somehow sat in the driver’s side, his seatbelt already on, but he doesn’t even know how he got to that point. Hunt stares out across the space in front of him, his dripping wet clothes soaking into his seat, but he doesn’t care for the lack of comfort.

Thomas knows that he is in the Hollywood U car park, but his eyes haven’t quite sent the message to his brain yet, as nothing seems to be registering itself. He feels like he’s underwater, and nobody can stop him from drowning. How can everyone be so fucking happy?

Without thinking, his foot presses the clutch and his finger presses the start/stop button on his car, which purrs into life. The radio player turns itself on and music crackles on and into the last song that he was playing, before leaving for work this morning.

Give me five minutes more, only five minutes more, let me stay, let me stay, in your arms.

Thomas starts to feel a burning behind his eyes and his chest starts to rise and fall heavily, as his thoughts start to replay a vast array of memories, connected to Frank Sinatra’s beautiful sounds. Jabbing the stereo to switch itself off, Hunt swallows the knot in his throat and put’s his car into first gear.

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