1984: Against All Odds (Love in the 80s #5) by Rebecca Yarros

Author:Rebecca Yarros [Yarros, Rebecca]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Amazon: B01ESE8I9S
Publisher: WaWa Productions
Published: 2016-05-26T23:00:00+00:00

The crowd was massive, the roar reaching backstage and rumbling in my bones. Danny drummed lightly the arm of the couch, rocking back and forth with the rhythm.

Chad checked himself out in the mirror for the hundredth time, making sure his eyeliner was right.

I’d gotten mine on without jabbing myself in the eye, but I drew the line at the amount of makeup Chad had on his face. He could be the fashionable sex symbol all he wanted. I’d be the broody guitarist as always, and now I didn’t care what the hell anyone thought anyway. I had Brie.

I felt the corners of my mouth tug upward as I thought that again. I have Brie.

A month ago, we’d been in Europe, playing sold-out stadiums, drinking ourselves into oblivion, and I’d been anything but picky about the girls in my bed.

A month ago seemed like a lifetime away.

“I’m going to check on Brie,” I told the guys.

“Be quick, we’re on in twenty,” Chad reminded me, moving his face to make sure he’d covered every angle.

I nodded my assent and left, thankful that the security here was good and kept the girls off the dressing room door. Sure, some of them would make it through, but I didn’t have time to wade through the girls who wanted me for my guitar—not now that I had one who wanted me for my soul.

I knocked on her dressing room door, and Heather answered. “She’s not ready—oh, hey, Hawke. I’m really glad to see you.”

She opened the door and I slid inside. “Hey, baby…” my voice trailed off.

Brie sat in front of her vanity, her hair and makeup perfect, and that bright pink dress hugging her body like a wet dream, but her eyes were vacant. Even when she looked up at me, she was a million miles away.

“Heather, give us a while?” I asked.

“No problem,” she answered, closing the door behind her.

I turned Brie’s chair and knelt before her. “Hey baby, come back.”

Her eyes found their way to mine on a sort of delay. “I can hear them from here. There’s eighteen thousand of them out there.”

“Yeah, it’s a full house. Did you take your medication, Brie?”

She nodded, then cringed. “I can’t even do a show without meds. What does that say?”

“That you have a condition you need medication for. There’s nothing wrong with it, or you. If you had a headache, you’d take aspirin. If you were diabetic, you’d have insulin. This is no different.”

“It is.”

“Only because you let it be.” I took her face in my hands. “You live an extraordinary life that would be hard on anyone, let alone someone with your condition. You kick its’ ass every single day, and today will be no different.”

“And I called my mother after we landed. I got the machine, but I left a message. I can’t believe I flew across the country for a show without telling her.” She tried to change the subject.

“It’s just one song, Brie. One song that I know you love.

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