Dissonance by Tracey Ward

Author:Tracey Ward [Ward, Tracey]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-01-01T16:00:00+00:00

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“This girl is trouble,” Sarah snaps, throwing a magazine down on the table between us.

I glance down at it. I’m not surprised to see Greer and I on the cover together. We’re coming out of the studio, my hand on her back and her small body tucked in close to me. She didn’t do well with the photographers. She wasn’t ready for how aggressive they are. I made sure to get her into the car quickly, but they still got plenty of shots of us together.

“She’s literally nobody,” Grant argues. “She has no history. She’s not going to be a problem.”

“He’s fucking one of his dancers again! This shit is exactly how we got to the place we’re in! Because he can’t keep his dick in his pants!”

“I’m not sleeping with her,” I argue. I’m pissed that I have to have this discussion. It’s none of their business. “I know you want me to lay low, but damn. I’m still a man. Let me have my life.”

“You don’t get to have a life. You sold the world your life years ago. And right now, the world wants you to stop fucking everything in sight! At least let the last scandal blow over before you kick off the newest one.”

“What scandal? We did a background check. She passed the drug test. She’s a saint as far as we can tell.”

Sarah shakes her head, her lips pulled tightly together. “No one is a saint. No. One. She has triggers, we just haven’t found them yet.”

“What kind of triggers?”

“I don’t know, but when we find them they could detonate all of this all over again. And we can’t keep recovering, Jace. Especially with you not working.”

I stand up, my anger in my muscles propelling me forward. “Are you for real? Work is all I do. Meetings, rehearsals, tours, not to mention the charities and appearances. I barely sleep. I hardly eat.”

“You barely work. Where’s the new album? That’s what we’re all wondering when we’re not busy asking why you can’t stop fucking everything. Where’s the new album?”

“I’ve been working on it.”

“You haven’t sat down behind a piano in five months.”

I freeze, my blood boiling. I look at Grant sitting on my right. He meets my eyes calmly. He shows no remorse for selling me out.

“She needed to know, man,” he tells me evenly. “There’s a whole team that works on you, you know that. And we all need to know what’s up.”

“And what is that, Grant? What did you decide is up with me?”

“You’re not creating anymore. You haven’t since your mom died.”

“Then what do you think I’ve been doing for the last year?”

“Destroying,” he answers immediately, the unabashed sorrow in his voice like a punch to my face. “You’re destroying yourself, Ryker. You’re destroying yourself as a person and you’re destroying yourself as an icon. You’re tearing everything down and there’s nothing behind it to take its place. You keep it up, and there’ll be a black hole where your world used to be.

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