The Rules by Helen Cooper Read Free Book Online Page A

real talent. When you spoke to Maria in that last scene, I could see the tears in your eyes, feel the tension in your shoulders and hear the tremble in your voice when you said to her, “Maria, at some point in his life every man has to make a decision. He can enjoy the …” She broke off as Oliver repeated the words that made her fall in love with him.
     
    “He can enjoy the quiet solitude of passionate nights and adventurous mornings, or he can ride in the bliss of a family love so strong that it brings downs mountains.  He can shout out to the world of his love and bear the pain of disappointment and heartache when things go south. Or they can do what I’m doing now. They can leave unbroken, unharmed and unloved. Some may say I’m a coward but I think I’m strong. My journey, our journey was never meant to be.”
     
    Alice looked at him in wonder; his face was transformed by the moonlight and the words. She could see the hurt and pain in his eyes. This was a man that had known pain. She wondered briefly, if that was why he didn’t want a relationship now. If he was so messed up from being given up for adoption that he would rather remain unbroken than to try and find love.
     
    “You have good taste in movies,” Oliver grinned at her, attempting to break the tension that had grown between them.
     
    “I couldn’t believe you didn’t win the Oscar for that role.” Alice licked her lips as she spoke, suddenly nervous.
     
    “Alice, can I ask you a question?”
     
    “Sure.”
     
    “It seems as if you have followed my career for years. Why then did you act like such a bitch at the Diner, that very first time we met?”
     
    “I was the bitch? Are you joking?” Alice’s voice rose and he put his hands over her lips to quiet her.
     
    “I thought we didn’t want to wake your roommate?” He winked.
     
    “Then don’t ask such obviously dumb questions.” She turned away from him in the bed and he laughed. He moved up behind her and started spooning her.
     
    “Then tell me why you want to be a writer,” he whispered in her ear.
     
    She closed her eyes and enjoyed the moment. She could feel him wrapped around her all warm and hard, his breath tickled in her ear as he spoke and in that moment, she felt as if she were one with Oliver Park.
     
    “I want to make people feel. I want to make words transform emotions, transform lives. I want people to have to pinch themselves to make sure they are truly alive because their feelings, my words and their feelings overwhelm them with greatness.” She rushed out the words and paused to hear his response.
     
    “Don’t you think that will be hard writing a porno?” He laughed into her ear and she turned around and hit him. “You are incorrigible Oliver Park, you act like a little boy. Everything is not about sex.”
     
    “Well, everything good is?” He looked down at her and then bent his face to kiss her. “Everything worth living for centers around sex.” He quickly moved his face down her body and sucked on her clit. Alice tried to resist the heat in her body and attempted to weakly push him away but she knew she didn’t want him to stop. She came about 5 seconds after he stuck his tongue into her and tried to ignore Oliver’s triumphant groan.
     
    “You see Alice. You feel the pleasure in your body? That’s from sex. Good old fashioned sex.” He grinned at her as she pouted at him.
     
    “That’s not all that can make you happy in life.”
     
    “But it’s the only thing that can pretty much guarantee satisfaction pretty quickly.”
     
    Alice just stared at him. “Why do you think that way?”
     
    He averted his eyes from her gaze for a second and changed the subject, “But don’t worry. We’re not writing a porno. Like I told you before, this movie is not going to be about sex.”
     
    “Have you ever been in love Oliver?” She looked at him curiously.
     
    “Love is the least important emotion in the world Alice. Love causes