Flirting with the Rock Star Next Door by Lee Nadia

Author:Lee, Nadia
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Four Isles Press
Published: 2021-03-10T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Two

Killian

The next day I got up early and went for a hard run. I kept thinking about what my band mates had said.

June First.

Then no more Emily.

Despite the sweat pouring down my body, I felt a cold shiver along my spine. It made my teeth clench.

Cole and Teri stayed together despite a lot of time apart and all the bullshit that came with him being in a rock band because they’d known each other since forever. Emily and I had barely exchanged a kiss.

If I left Kingstree in June, she’d move on. Probably find some other guy who didn’t play the drums or guitar or sing. The fucker might have heard of Emma Grant before meeting her. Might even be a fan and consider it his duty and privilege to cook for her. If gods loved me, he’d be terrible in bed. Otherwise, Emily would let him stay for more than ten minutes.

It was a predictable outcome. And unreasonable of me to expect she’d pine away for me or swear off other men forever. But her with some other guy sat in my belly like a lump of cold, congealed fat. I wanted to barf, even as my legs moved faster, my strides long and furious.

My jaw ached. I forced the muscles to relax. My dentist would be unhappy if I cracked a molar.

After looping around the trail three times, I headed home. Billy’s Plumbing had replaced my water heater, and it was producing plentiful hot water.

But I’d be damned if I’d take advantage of that.

I grabbed my stuff—and breakfast ingredients—and went over to Emily’s house. It was after eight, so she was probably up. Or maybe she’d be sleeping in after finishing her project.

I knocked extra quietly just in case. If she was sleeping in her room, she wouldn’t hear me. But if she was in the living room, she would.

She opened the door with a confused look, squinting at me through her glasses. She’d told me she wore them when her eyes felt too dry for contact lenses or if she’d stayed up too late. I hoped she’d been up all night thinking about me. But it was more likely she’d been thinking about her next book.

“What are you doing here?” she asked, sweeping her gaze over my sweaty body.

I watched her mouth move as she spoke. Everything inside me tightened, blood pumping hotter and faster, even though I should have been cooling down after the run. “Here for a shower, like always.”

“Isn’t your water heater fixed? I saw the contractor’s van outside your house yesterday.”

“Oh…you did? Yeah, uh, the water heater they brought over was DOI.” Dev would be proud. He believed white lies were perfectly ethical, if done in the service of getting a girl you wanted. I wasn’t a fan of lying in general, but I had kept my promise not to play the drums, so I felt like I’d earned the right to use her shower.

“DOI?”

“Dead on installation.”

Her frown grew deeper. “Seriously? Didn’t they test it before bringing it over?”

“Probably not.

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