Excerpt: That's Entertainment by Clare London

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That's Entertainment by Clare London
Release Date: September 10, 2009
Publisher: Red Rose Publishing
ISBN: 978-1-60435-392-1
Buy Link: http://redrosepublishing.com/bookstore/product_info.php?products_id=467

Blurb: Jack and Grady are casual extras in the adult movies made by 'WrinkleTheSheets' productions. They're devoted to each other - until Jack starts to have doubts about his ability to satisfy Grady's high sex drive. While filming the outrageously sexy movies the public demands, the other actors are happy to give their dubious advice to Jack. Why is Grady keeping secrets? Just what are the strange noises, coming from their shared trailer? And does Jack really want to find out?

Excerpt:

“Is anyone offering any sensible advice here?” Jack was startled to hear how plaintive he sounded.

“I can hear a humming noise now,” Gerry said, his attention back on the trailer. “Sounds happy enough.” He looked ruefully at his watch. “Back on set, everyone?” No one answered him, which wasn’t surprising. The whole production schedule followed the stars’ moods, and not always with good results. A glance at Gerry Geraldo’s clipboard would have shown very few dollars left in the budget.

“Is it like singing? Does Grady sing?” Quinn gazed hopefully at Jack. “We could do a re-run of Seven Pumps for Seven Peckers.”

“No, it’s like something mechanical…”

“It’s a new sex toy!” Quinn grinned with glee. “Now I remember, a parcel came for him the other day, but he wouldn’t open it in front of me.”

“That’s because you’re a nosy little creep,” Luca hissed.

“New toy?” Jack felt cold sweat spring up on the back of his neck. “But we’ve tried them all. When the samples come through, we always take a look together. Together.” He caught Quinn’s pitying expression and Luca’s raised eyebrows, and he frowned again. Did he seem that pathetic?

“Hey Jack,” Luca said. “Enough with the kicked puppy look, right?”

“Right.” Obviously he did.

Quinn snickered. “And you take just a look? I doubt that. What about the Vibrating Pleasure Probe?”
Jack knew Quinn was provoking him, but he couldn’t stop the blush from creeping up his neck. “Okay, yes. We tried it.” Grady was always so adventurous….

“The Robo Suck 2?”

Jack nodded. “That, too.”

“The Robo Suck 3 that giggles?”

“That one did me!” Gerry’s attention had obviously drifted to more personal memories.

“I was sure we’d done them all.” Jack ignored Quinn’s voyeuristic eye-rolling. “Even that special Cock-n-Balls Erection Maker offer last month of Buy One, get Six Free.”

“Ohh! Ohh!! Seven!!!” Quinn struck a pose. “I was a perfect Ernst Blow-Well in that movie, wasn’t I, Gerry?”

“Did all of them,” Jack repeated. His blushing made him feel uncomfortably hot. “Several times.”

“So did I,” Luca said, though presumably his mind was on the movie rather than Jack’s erotic memories. “A bunch of over-enthusiastic extras, if I remember rightly. Twelve Horny Men, Gerry called them.”

“Gerry?” Quinn persisted. “Wasn’t I perfect?”

The director grimaced. “Perfect, Quinn. Shaken but not stirred.”

Quinn sniggered like some errant schoolboy. “Seen that, done that, got the tee shirt….”

“Got the sore ass,” Luca complained.

“Isn’t it always about your ass.”

Jack sighed loudly, but no one was listening to him.

Quinn’s eyes sparkled, and he looked sideways at Gerry. The coy look contrasted vividly with his blatantly provocative outfit. “The giggling Robo Suck 3 sounds good, lover. For us both.”

Gerry grimaced. Again. “For God’s sake, not now, Quinn, I’ve got a movie to shoot.”

“Shoot. Nice.” Quinn’s mischievous gaze dropped to Gerry’s crotch.

Luca sighed theatrically. “I’ll lend it to you both later. But buy your own damned batteries—and keep the volume turned down. I’m in the trailer behind you two this week, and I need my rest.” He tossed the unruly curls away from his smooth brow. “I have a mature public to please.”

“And that cute boy from Catering,” Quinn muttered.

“I can’t see what Grady would want to try out without me,” Jack said. He caught the look the others exchanged. It said quite clearly that however fond they were of him and Grady, did they really have the energy to worry about anyone else’s sex life at the moment?

“Sometimes a guy just wants to be alone with his own feelings, sweetie. With his own toys—his own fantasies.”

“His own palm,” Gerry added. It earned him another flirtatious glance from Quinn.

“Relax, Jack,” Luca said. “You two are made for each other—dammit, we all know there’s nothing doing with anyone else. You only do scenes where you fuck each other, don’t you?”

“A match made in Hollywood.” Quinn grinned mischievously at his co-star. “Their last appearance was in Swingin’ in the Rain, as I remember.”

“They’re always at it like rabbits.”

“Who Poked Roger Rabbit?”

“Actually, you did,” Luca reminded him. “In scenes seven, eight and twenty-six. I should report you to the ASPCA.”

“But honey, the fluffy ears were so adorable!”

Gerry put a hand on Jack’s arm. “Just one hour left of filming today, you know. We need Sperminator 8 in the rental stores by the end of the month.”

“No pressure, then.” Luca smirked at Jack over Gerry’s shoulder.

“Could you just go in and…?”

“I’ll wait for Grady to come out,” Jack said.