Bad for You (Fallen Star Book 4) by Candy J Starr

Author:Candy J Starr [Starr, Candy J]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2016-09-27T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter 20.Devon

I’d promised. I’d have never promised in a million years though if I’d known that’s what she’d ask. I’d figured it’d be some fan question. Like what had I been thinking about when I wrote my second album or what the lyrics to a song meant.

My relationship with Julie had always been hidden from the press. Tex had made sure of that. A few things had come out but my relationship with Julie had been kept secret.

“We don’t want that kind of spotlight on her,” Tex had said, from the start. Well, that was after he’d said a lot of other things about beating my head in and killing me. If it hadn’t been for the trouble of getting another bass player, I think he’d have really done it.

“Anything but that,” I told Daisy. I couldn’t. I wouldn’t even know where to start.

“Okay,” she said, folding her arms. “Deal’s off then.”

“Fine by me.”

“Fine by me too.”

Joke was on her though, because she’d already gone with her side of the bargain.

I wanted to walk out and leave her. This conversation was over, the mood was no longer fun and there was no point sticking around. But it somehow felt childish to just walk out like that. God knows why, when I’d done that kind of thing a million times before. I had a stupid need to stay in her good books and show her the best side of me.

“I don’t talk about Julie,” I said. “Not to anyone.”

“Maybe you should. Maybe it’d help you.”

“There’s nothing to help. It’s just a thing that happened.”

She stood, picked up our dishes and took them into the kitchen. I followed her. The kitchen was way too small for two people and I had to stand close to her.

“Do we need a photo of this?” I asked.

“I think we have enough.”

“You think? Me helping wash dishes, that’s a historical first.”

She didn’t smile. She didn’t turn toward me and her voice had sounded cold. A gap had opened up between us. Even though I’d been trying to cool things down, I hated not having her smile at me.

With our bodies almost touching, the silence seemed obscene. I needed to close that gap or it’d be between us forever.

“She died,” I said.

Daisy nodded. “You loved her? Of course, you loved her. She’s the one in the songs. Even when you’re not singing about her, you are.”

She ran a sink full of water and I picked up the tea towel. I’d not dried a dish in years but it seemed the natural thing to do.

“She’s the one.”

“So, what happened? Why is she not in your latest album?”

I shrugged. “She’s always there. Maybe now she’s fading a little.”

“Maybe you need to let her go.” She sat one of the plates on the rack and I picked it up.

“I’ve tried. I’ve tried a few times. But there’s no letting go. We were soul mates. And now she’s gone, there’s no one else for me. Just her.”

“She’s been gone a long time.

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