Maybe This Time: A One Time Only prequel novella by Lauren Blakely

Author:Lauren Blakely [Blakely, Lauren]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Little Dog Press

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Stone

The next few weeks, we’re on the road, and Jackson and I are together nearly every night on a short European tour, visiting Vienna, Paris, and Madrid.

In Paris I am officially starving after the first show, so we swing by a brasserie near the hotel in Le Marais, where I order a salad and a glass of wine as the bells on a nearby church strike midnight.

“And for you, J-man?” I ask, dropping a nickname on my bodyguard for the first time.

He lifts one brow. “Should I call you S-man?”

“That or Favorite Rock Star Ever,” I say with a grin.

He doesn’t crack a smile. “We’ll stick with Stone.”

“Fine, J-man. Leave the nicknames to me. And the ordering. What tickles your fancy?”

He tells me he’ll have the chicken dish, with vegetables on the side, and a glass of water.

When the waiter arrives, I handle the ordering in French.

After the server leaves, Jackson asks, “Are you fluent? That was a little more than tourist French.”

I nod, pride spreading through me that he noticed. “Yeah, pretty much. Learned it in high school and college, but I made an effort to keep practicing, since I tour here a lot.”

A small grin crosses his face. “That’s awesome. It’s always good to know another language.”

“Yeah, it is. Are you impressed with me?” I ask with an eyebrow wiggle, like I’m fishing for compliments. Because I am.

But the man isn’t stoic for nothing. “Do you want to impress me, Stone?”

God, I do. I really want to impress him. “I always want to impress you,” I say lightly.

“Good. I’ll keep that in mind,” he says in that deadpan tone that leaves me wondering if I’ll ever make any inroads with him beyond his dry sense of humor.

But then, why do I want to?

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