Zenith of Desire: The Hollywood Incubus

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”Two months dead now, and Warner Brothers is treating his final film like a contagious disease. They cut the orgy sequence to pieces, they’re releasing it with minimal fanfare, and Tom—” She stopped, her voice breaking slightly. ”Tom is furious with me because I won’t play their game. I broke the contract, Marvin just as you told me. I told Warner I wouldn’t do the circuit, not the way they want. No Letterman, no red carpets, no pretending this film is just another thriller.”

”And they haven’t come after you,” Marvin observed.

”No,” she said, turning to him with narrowed eyes. ”How did you know they wouldn’t? How did you know they’d let me walk away from promotional obligations without suing me into oblivion? How are you always so certain?”

Marvin swirled his juice, watching the liquid catch the moonlight. ”Because they want the film to fail quietly, Nicole. Kubrick made something too honest, too revealing about the power structures, the rituals, the way things actually work behind closed doors in this town. If they could, they’d lock the negative in a vault and forget it exists. The last thing they want is you—Nicole Kidman, one of the biggest female star in the world—drawing attention to it. Your silence serves them better than your presence ever could.”

She stared at him, her mouth slightly open. ”Christ,” she breathed. ”You really do understand this place.”

”I understand predators,” he said. ”And I protect what’s mine.”

The possessiveness in his voice sent a shiver through her shoulders. She set her glass down on the stone arm of the chair, turning fully to face him, her knees nearly touching his.

She stared at him. ”You’ve thought about this.”

”I’ve watched this industry for years.”

She laughed softly. ”You’re beginning to worry me.”

”I’ve heard that before.”

”No...” she corrected gently. ”I don’t mean you’re frightening.” Her eyes met his. ”I mean you see things most people don’t.”

Something warm settled over the conversation.

Nicole found herself smiling again. Not the practiced smile cameras expected. A real one.

”I’ve been wondering something.”

”What?”

”When did we stop talking like co-stars?”

Marvin chuckled. ”I think it happened somewhere between the fourth pineapple juice and the twentieth argument about screenplays.”

She laughed. ”You still think Casablanca has the perfect ending.”

”It does.”

”It’s heartbreaking.”

”Exactly.”

She shook her head. ”I’ll never win that debate.”

”You’ll keep trying.”

”I probably will.”

Another comfortable silence settled between them.

Then Nicole spoke so quietly he almost missed it.

”That’s why we fought,” she admitted, her voice small, suddenly young. ”Tom and I. Because I refused to promote Stanley’s last work, and he called me—” She stopped, her eyes glistening. ”He said terrible things. That I’m sabotaging my own career, that I’m ungrateful, that without him I’d be nothing but a failed Australian soap star doing dinner theater in Sydney. He said my career is always going to fail if I keep making these choices instead of his ones.”

Marvin felt rage rise in his chest, hot and protective, but he kept his expression gentle, reaching out to brush a stray hair from her cheek. ”Look at me,” he commanded softly.

She did, her blue eyes swimming with tears she refused to shed.

”Nothing like that will ever happen to you,” Marvin said, his voice steady as the stone beneath them. ”You have not failed at anything. You are one the finest actress of your generation who simply hasn’t found her footing yet because you’ve been dancing to other people’s music. But this film—” He gestured toward the manor house where they spent their days shooting *The Others*. ”This is your moment. This is the role that will make you the most bankable lady in Hollywood, not because you compromised, but because you transcended. This film will make three hundred million dollars, minimum.”

Nicole’s breath hitched, her tears forgotten, replaced by wonder. ”Three hundred...?”

”At least,” Marvin said, his confidence absolute, magnetic. ”And it will happen because you are extraordinary, not despite it. Because audiences will look at Grace Stewart and see themselves—their fears, their love, their desperation—and they will follow you anywhere.”

”Really?” she whispered, leaning closer, close enough that he could smell her perfume—jasmine and something uniquely her.

”I am never wrong about these things,” Marvin said, his lips curving in that overconfident smile that had become her favorite sight. ”Ask anyone.”

She was inches away now, her breath mingling with his, the space between them charged with static electricity that made the hair on his arms stand at attention. Their eyes locked—her crystalline blue into his deeper stormier shade—and the world contracted to the span of their shared gaze, the moon forgotten, the ocean silenced, the very stone beneath them seeming to dissolve into nothing.

”Nicole,” he murmured, and it was half prayer, half promise, the vibration of his voice traveling the narrow distance between them and settling somewhere low in her abdomen.

She closed her eyes, surrendering to gravity, to magnetism, to the inevitable.

He kissed her.

It began gently, a soft, reverent question pressed against her lips, but the moment their mouths met, the gentleness ignited into something wild and consuming. She answered with a soft, needy sigh that parted her lips, inviting him deeper, and he accepted with a hunger that made her knees buckle. His hand came up to cup her jaw with exquisite tenderness, thumb stroking her cheekbone as his lips moved against hers — exploring, tasting, claiming her completely.

For one perfect, endless minute, they existed only in that kiss. His fingers threaded into her hair, tilting her head exactly how he wanted as the kiss deepened. Nicole’s hands fisted in the front of his shirt, pulling him closer until her breasts pressed firmly against his chest and she could feel the rapid, strong beat of his heart matching her own.

When his tongue touched her lower lip, seeking entrance, she granted it eagerly. Their tongues met in a wet, heated dance — sliding, stroking, tangling with desperate curiosity and passion. The kiss quickly grew messier, wetter, and hungrier. Thick, slippery saliva coated their tongues and lips as they devoured each other, exchanging it greedily with every deep thrust and swirl. Soft, obscene sounds filled the quiet garden — the slick glide of tongues, heavy breathing, and Nicole’s soft, needy moans vibrating into his mouth.

He tasted pineapple juice, youth, and something uniquely, dangerously intoxicating. The combination made her dizzy with lust, made her forget the nearly twenty years between them, made her forget everything except the skill of his mouth, the confidence of his touch, and the way he kissed like a man who had loved a thousand women and yet somehow made her feel like the only one who mattered.

She lost track of time, lost track of breath, lost track of reason itself. His free hand slid down her throat, thumb resting possessively over her racing pulse, feeling how wildly it beat for him. She arched into him, her body betraying every ounce of restraint as she pressed her soft curves harder against his solid frame, seeking more of his warmth, his strength, this boy who kissed like a god.

Marvin’s other hand roamed down her back, gripping her waist and then boldly cupping the curve of her ass, pulling her flush against him so she could feel exactly how much he wanted her. Nicole moaned louder into the kiss, her tongue thrusting deeper, more desperately, as saliva dripped down their chins in messy, glistening strands.

The kiss went on and on — deep, wet, passionate French kissing filled with raw hunger and tender love. Tongues explored every inch of each other’s mouths, sucking, licking, claiming. Their bodies moved together in perfect rhythm, hips subtly grinding, hands roaming with increasing boldness as the world around them faded completely.

When they finally broke apart, it was with a wet, reluctant sound, both of them gasping for air. A thick string of mixed saliva still connected their swollen, shiny lips for a moment before it broke. Nicole’s eyes were heavy with lust and affection, her chest heaving, cheeks flushed, lips glistening and slightly puffy from the intensity of the kiss.

Reality crashed back in.

Her hand flew to his stomach, pushing gently but firmly. They parted with a shared space with a gasp that sounded like loss, like drowning, like the end of something beautiful before it had barely begun.

”Marvin,” she whispered, her eyes still closed, her forehead dropping to rest against his shoulder as she fought for breath. ”Oh God. Oh my God.”

He pulled back immediately, respecting the boundary even as his body protested, his breathing ragged, his pupils blown wide with desire. ”I understand.”

”No,” she said, lifting her head, her eyes meeting his with desperate, terrified honesty. ”You don’t. I want to. God, you have no idea how much I want to keep kissing you. I want to pull you into my room and forget the world exists.” She laughed, a hysterical, broken sound. ”But look at us, Marvin. Look at me, and look at you.”

She gestured between them, her hand trembling. ”I’m thirty-one years old. I’m married. And you...” Her voice cracked. ”You’re not even fourteen. You’re a minor. You’re just a boy.”

”I’m old enough to know what I want,” he said quietly, his voice steady despite the flush on his cheeks, the evidence of his arousal straining against his trousers. ”I’m old enough to know that when I look at you, I don’t see age, Nicole. I see you.”

”But the law sees age,” she said, her eyes filling with tears she refused to shed. ”The world sees a woman and a child. They’d crucify me, Marvin. They’d call me a predator, a monster. They’d take everything—my career, my reputation, my freedom.” She wrapped her arms around herself, suddenly cold despite the warm night. ”And even if they didn’t... what am I doing? What kind of woman am I to feel this way about someone who can’t even vote, who shouldn’t be kissing a grown married woman in a garden at midnight?”

She turned away from him, her shoulders hunched. ”You kiss like a God,” she whispered. ”You talk like a man. You look at me like you own the world. But you’re not a man, Marvin. You’re a boy. And I’m... I’m sick. I must be sick to want you like this.”

”You’re not sick,” he said firmly, stepping around to face her, refusing to let her hide. ”You’re lonely. You’re trapped in a marriage with a man who’s abandoning you for a cult. You’re surrounded by people who see Nicole Kidman, the movie star, not Nicole, the woman. And yes, I’m younger than you. Yes, I’m still legally a minor. But my soul isn’t, Nicole. My soul has been waiting for you for centuries.”

”Don’t,” she said, her voice breaking. ”Don’t say things like that. It makes it worse.”

”Then tell me to leave,” he challenged, stepping closer, crowding her space, his youth and his intensity radiating off him in waves. ”Tell me you don’t feel this connection. Tell me that kiss didn’t change the axis of your world, and I’ll walk away. I’ll be leaving the production anyway. I’ll never speak to you again.”

She stared at him, her mouth opening, closing, her mind a battlefield of morality and desire, of right and wrong, of the law and the heart. She thought of Tom, of the empty marriage certificate, of the Scientology auditors who were slowly taking her husband’s mind. She thought of the way Marvin looked at her—really looked at her—like she was art and religion and home all at once.

”I can’t tell you that,” she admitted, the words torn from her throat. ”Because it did. It did change everything. But that doesn’t mean it’s right.”

”Then we wait,” he said, his hand finding hers, their fingers intertwining despite her protests. ”Until you feel like it. Until your heart and mind are in one place. Until the world is ready, until you’re ready. I’m not going anywhere, Nicole. I’ll wait two years. I’ll wait ten.”

She laughed wetly, wiping at her eyes, the conflict still raging in her expression. ”You should be running from me,” she said. ”You should be terrified of me. I’m a married woman twice your age who just kissed you like my life depended on it. I should be arrested.”

”Arrest me too,” he said, his lips curving in that overconfident smile that had become her favorite sight. ”Because I’m guilty. Guilty of wanting you. Guilty of loving you. Guilty of knowing that when I’m thirty and you’re forty-six, no one will blink, and we’ll have had sixteen years of this—” he squeezed her hand ”—instead of wasting time worrying about what people think.”

”God,” she breathed, looking at him with something like awe mixed with terror. ”Who taught you to talk like that? Who taught you to be so sure?”

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