Find Her by Tessa Bailey

Author:Tessa Bailey
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction
Publisher: Tessa Bailey
Published: 2019-09-23T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Five

Johnny woke up feeling light as a feather.

Until he opened his eyes and experienced that lack of weight on his chest, he didn’t realize how long he’d been living with it. Damn, he could finally breathe again.

It wasn’t enough, though, just to have this lightness. He wanted to fortify it. Keep it. And that meant no more locking himself up in hotel rooms to avoid the noise. No, he needed to find a new way to manage his notoriety, now that Hope was in his life. A way that wouldn’t lead to him being miserable, his creativity sapped.

Hope didn’t like being locked up, either, but he needed her safe above all else. It was only a matter of time before the press got wind of him having a serious girlfriend and then they’d start hounding her, following her, prying into their private life. She was taking a huge leap of faith coming with him on tour, considering she didn’t like being confined and he spent a good deal of his time that way. So before he tackled the nine million songs circling in his head, he needed to ensure Hope’s happiness. He wouldn’t rest until that happened.

Open space. His Hope loved open space.

His house in Los Angeles was big, but it was surrounded by a fence, more houses beyond that. A congested city in the distance. Yeah, LA was the furthest thing from open space.

Serene scenes spread out in his mind. A pasture, a sunset, a back porch with a porch swing. He hadn’t conjured those images himself. They were real. Last year, Citizen had filmed a music video at a ranch in Wyoming—had anyone been living there? He didn’t think so. As soon as he made love to Hope—twice—he’d get his agent on the phone and find out. Hope would love the ranch. It was private, secure and he suddenly wanted to bring her there so bad, his pulse was tumbling end over end.

Johnny’s head wasn’t so up his ass that he believed Hope could be happy just being Johnny Scott’s girlfriend—and eventually his wife—forever, though. She had dreams of her own. Social work. Helping kids who lived through what she did. Johnny wanted to help give those dreams to her. If she didn’t want to be stuck in a classroom, maybe they could set up some kind of charity together to benefit orphans like Hope. That way she could accomplish her goals without being confined in a way that made her uncomfortable.

Wanting to tell Hope his ideas now, Johnny reached a hand toward her pillow, frowning and lifting his head when he found it cold.

Like, really cold. Not just she-went-to-the-bathroom cold.

Johnny jackknifed in bed. “Hope?” The weighted silence cut through him like a sword and he lunged out of bed, jogging toward the balcony. “Hope.”

When he didn’t find her outside, he spun around and spied the bathroom door open across the huge room. The light was off. She wasn’t in there. She wasn’t here.

Somehow, with his throat

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