Fractured Beat (Meltdown Book 1) by RB Hilliard

Author:RB Hilliard [Hilliard, RB]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Romance
Publisher: RB Hilliard
Published: 2016-09-17T21:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seventeen

Who Says Counseling Can’t Be Fun?

Grant

Mallory Scott was quickly becoming my obsession. She was real and unlike any woman I’d ever known. She was also a runner. I could see it in her eyes each time I got close. If I rushed her or didn’t handle her with care she would bolt. While I was trying to find a way in, she was busy planning her exit strategy. With anyone else I would cut my losses and walk away, but this was Mallory. I wanted her and I was sick and damn tired of pretending I didn’t.

“Have you given Mallory the bottle yet?” Hank asked.

Swiping two beers from the fridge, I carried them to the living area where he sat waiting. I handed him his and set mine on the table. Then I disappeared into the bedroom to retrieve the bottle of Oxy he’d delivered to my room earlier that day. As I plopped the bottle down beside my beer we both stared at it. Would Mallory be able to trace it back to the person who tried to kill me? I sure as hell hoped so.

“Why would Kirkland go to such extremes just to rein me in?” I asked out loud.

“If Kirkland loses you he loses Meltdown. I mean, seriously, everyone in the industry knows that Happenstance is as much yours as Blane’s. I bet when the old man discovered that little nugget it really stuck in his craw.”

I opened my beer and took a sip. “Kirkland thought Blane was stupid for investing in the label in the first place. He told Blane he would never make anything of it because he wasn’t smart enough to bring in the right music.”

Hank’s brow shot up. “Blane told you this?”

“Yep, right after he told me he lost the label.”

He shook his head and laughed. “Clearly, Kirkland had no clue what he was talking about. I mean, shit, who really knows how much money Meltdown is actually making him? According to Marcy, the concert numbers alone are staggering. You have to admit his evil plan was extreme but effective. He now has you exactly where he wants you.”

I did not disagree. “So, Kirkland drugs me and sets me up with my bandmates by planting drugs in my hotel room. He then proceeds to call in a favor with his doctor friend, who runs a rehab, and the next thing I know I am rotting in a clinic for two weeks under the pretense that I am a drug addict, all just to gain leverage over me. Extreme isn’t quite the word I’d use. Try demented. What if I’d died?”

“You forget that no one knew you were allergic to Oxy,” Hank reminded me. I still wasn’t convinced.

“Do you think the old man knew?”

“No, but I think once he realized the situation, he didn’t hesitate to use it to his advantage.”

“We both know Blane would have investigated had it not been for his old man,” I pointed out.

“Blane is running scared right now.”

“Kirkland has him jumping through hoops, but I can’t decide if he’s actually in on it or not.

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