Losing Us by Jen McLaughlin

Author:Jen McLaughlin [McLaughlin, Jen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance
Publisher: Jen McLaughlin
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

MACKENZIE WAS trying to kill me. Okay, she might not be trying...but she was. She really was. I was barely holding my shit together, and she was out there giving the performance of her career. She was okay, and I was a hot fucking mess.

How was that fair?

How was any of this fair?

My phone buzzed in my hand, and I glanced down at it. Barry, the owner of the bar I worked and performed at, was calling. He’d kind of been the father I’d never had, since I didn’t count my actual father. He’d been a dick, and nothing more.

Barry had been so much more.

Gripping my phone, I turned my back to the stage and Mackenzie, who I couldn’t stop watching even though it hurt like hell, and walked behind a big speaker. My heart thudded in my ears, washing out Mackenzie’s song. I was sitting by the side stage, waiting for my cue to come on with her. It should be any minute now.

“Hello?”

“Hey, you called?” Barry asked. I could hear the bar noises behind him, and it made me homesick. “Sorry, was working in the cooler.”

“Yeah. I had a question.”

I tried to think of the best way to phrase it…and apparently took too long. After a little pause, Barry said, “And it was…?”

“The other night, I came in with a girl.”

“I remember,” Barry said, his voice deep with disappointment. “I told you that you were being a fool. You laughed and walked off, like the cocky son of a bitch you are.”

“I should have listened,” I muttered.

“When do you ever listen?” Barry asked, his voice tinged with amusement.

“Did I… Did I do anything… Did I…?”

“No. Absolutely not.”

I sagged against the wall, my heart pounding in my chest. “Are you sure? One hundred percent positive?”

“Yes, of course.” He snorted. “Do you think I’d let you do something so stupid as to cheat on that sweet little girl? Who do you think I am?”

I closed my eyes, the nausea that had been plaguing me since yesterday sinking low in my stomach and dissipating. “How do you know, though? She could have come over to my place once I went home.”

“No, she couldn’t have. I walked you home and crashed on your couch, in case you got sick.” Glasses clanked, and he muttered something to someone. “I knew Rachel was at a friend’s house, so I didn’t want you to die in a puddle of vomit or something. You might be a rock star now, but doesn’t mean it’s gotta end like that. You were never alone with that girl, as much as she might have hoped otherwise.”

“Oh thank fucking God. I could kiss you right now.”

“Why would you think you did anything, anyway?” Barry closed a door behind him. Probably his office door, considering how much quieter the background noise got. “You love Mac, right?”

“I know, but…” I rubbed my forehead. “I said some stupid things that night, and she…she broke up with me. And since I’d said those things, I’d worried that maybe I’d done more than talk.

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