Hard Rock Improv by Ava Lore

Author:Ava Lore [Lore, Ava]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: drummer hero, tattooed hero, strong heroine, hawaii, bad boy hero, rock star romance, rock band romance, holiday romance
Publisher: Brittle Divinity Press
Published: 2014-03-26T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

I blinked, confused. Coz? As in cousin?

I looked to Manny for clues as to what to do, but he just stood there, his frown gone, a distant smile on his face. “Hello yourself, Yago,” he returned.

Yago? What was going on?

The man pushed away from the tree trunk he was lounging against. “Good to see you again. Why didn’t you come drop by while you were in town?”

Manny waved the hand that had previously been holding me. “Oh,” he said. “You know. Work things.”

The man laughed, and it wasn’t pleasant. I had been around plenty of sociopaths in my life—and not all of them necessarily criminals, seeing as how I was a lawyer and all—and this person reminded me of all them with a powerful vengeance. Something in the way he met our eyes, with an intensity any normal person would find unnerving, set off a thousand and one alarm bells in my head.

“Work things that kept you away from family?” he said.

I hated the way he talked, the way he caressed the word family with his tongue and lips, like it was some sort of sacred word and he was profaning it. I’d heard it often among others, other people who wanted their families—who acted nothing like the sort—to treat them as though they were the closest of bosom relations, even when they were anything but the case. The sort of people entertainment lawyers were made for. The sort of people who preyed on the talented, on the lucky, sucking them dry with their own ambitions.

I felt it, right there in the warm sand. I felt the unraveling and ensnaring of familial bonds, just as I had felt it so many times in my office back in LA.

“Who are you?” I asked, stepping forward, even though I knew it was futile, even though I knew I had no idea what I was getting into.

Yago turned toward me with a wicked smile on his face. “And you are...?” he asked.

I had no answer. Honestly, I wasn’t anybody. I was a nobody, actually, and even when I might have been said to be a somebody I had been so unbearably, inevitably unfamous that it hadn’t even mattered. I wasn’t famous enough for VIP access, except for when I accompanied or name-dropped the right people. Even then...

“What the fuck do you think you’re doing?”

Sharp tones brought me out of my reverie, out of my hypnosis. I blinked, swaying where I stood, and looked, dumbly, toward the figure striding toward us without mercy in her eyes.

Me? I wanted to say. Good question.

I thought I was doing well, but one look at the tall, imposing figure of Sonya and I knew that I had not yet had my first lessons in true psychological warfare.

She came striding up the beach in white, her Greek robes flowing, her red hair flying in the wind, and I found myself wanting to be just like her—proud and indomitable.

The men turned toward her and seemed to draw together, and I had the distinct impression that they had dealt with Sonya before.

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