Love's Rhythm by Lexxie Couper

Author:Lexxie Couper
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Romance, Erotica, Contemporary, Fiction
ISBN: 9781609287023
Publisher: Samhain Publishing
Published: 2012-04-17T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eight

Lunch was wonderful. Damn it.

Nick was funny, relaxed, casual, self-effacing and charming. He regaled them both with tales of his life, painting lavish details about tantrums thrown by other recording artists. Recording artists that, according to Nick had “to remain nameless for fear they will hunt me down and slice my…ahems…off”. He told them wild stories about tour mishaps, about some of the more bizarre fan mail he’d received. He spoke about the nervous anticipation he would endure every time he was up for an award. He had them both in stitches as he showed them his practice routine for the perfect oh-crap, I-didn’t-win-it-but-I-have-to-still-look-happy face. He sang them a rather twisted version of “Gotta Run” he’d learnt while touring India, his Indian accent atrocious, his smile infectious.

He talked about growing up in Murriundah with the only cop in town for a father and then told them highly exaggerated stories of Lauren’s supposed adventures when they were school together, even informing Josh in a loud whisper about the time she was put on detention for kissing a boy behind the sports equipment shed. He left out that the said boy was him.

That Lauren’s heartbeat tripled at the memory of that kiss—their first—made her want to smack him. But she couldn’t. Not when he made her laugh so much. Not when her face ached from smiling, damn him. He entertained them both, and answered every question Josh threw at him, even one about groupies.

Lauren had sat motionless for that answer, pretending to study her apple cider, her fingers gripping the sweating glass, her heart doing its damndest to thump its way into her throat. It had been there so much since Nick returned she suspected the deluded organ believed that’s where it was meant to be.

“Groupies are like chocolate, Josh,” Nick said, mirth still threading through his words. His eyes however… Lauren could feel them on her, serious and contemplative. “A stupid man will think he can gorge himself on them with no consequences. But then he turns around and discovers they’re just empty calories. They’ve just messed up his life when the only thing good for him was what he’d already been eating all along.”

Josh raised his eyebrows, the action so like Nick’s that Lauren’s belly clenched. “And what’s that?” Josh asked, voice almost a bated breath.

Nick held up the last of his lunch. “Toasted cheese and Vegemite sandwiches,” he answered and popped the final corner into his mouth with a grin.

Lauren wasn’t surprised to see Josh was utterly, completely enthralled. So much so, that when Rhys called and asked him to come over for a game of Rock Band, he said no. She’d never known her son to turn down his best friend. It should have petrified her. It didn’t. It made her heart sing. And her soul weep. Even more so when Nick rose to his feet, gathered up the dirty dishes and began washing them in the sink.

Finally, Aslin returned, the bodyguard moving about Lauren’s small kitchen

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