Playing You: A Rockstar Romance (Players to Lovers Book 4) by Ketley Allison

Author:Ketley Allison [Allison, Ketley]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Ketley Allison LLC
Published: 2019-05-13T16:00:00+00:00

21

Easton

I’ve never been so fucking terrified.

My grip digs into the white sheet of my hospital bed—another fucking hospital bed—when Taryn leaves.

She doesn’t know, not in the way I thought she would. There was no way I could foresee the anger and betrayal in Taryn’s face when I announced there’d be no implant in my skull.

A procedure I’ve researched extensively, since my mom shoved pamphlets in my hands the day I was diagnosed as a kid. Since the evenings my pops sat me down and tried to convince me it was the right way to go.

Unfortunately for them, it was right about the time I discovered acoustic guitar.

Was language more important than music?

The implant helps to understand the world better, sure, but it can’t help you listen to the notes of a piano, the strums of a guitar. It doesn’t let you understand all the frequencies and intricacies of a great song.

It would all be gone.

As I rub my face, the scruff of my beard scrapes against my palms. My eyes are closed and I dive into the sense of touch, focusing on the feel of my whiskers against my skin, and hear the beeps, squeaks and static of the hospital while blind.

Is this how it’s gonna be? Losing one sense, demanding more focus from the remaining ones, feeling less and less like a person the more the normal world revolves around you?

And—fuck, could I play deaf? If I completely lost my hearing, which hasn’t happened yet and won’t, goddammit, would I still grasp music? Am I gonna lose it either way?

God. Hell.

I want Taryn back.

“Holy fucking shit, East.”

Ash bursts into the room with Ben and Locke quickly following behind.

“What the hell happened?” Ash asks.

“I …” Now is the time to tell them the truth. I don’t know how much longer my hearing will hold out. “I collapsed from dehydration. Doc said I’ll be fine.”

“Well, thank fuck for that,” Ash says, visibly relieved.

“Is that all?” Locke asks skeptically. “Why are they keeping you overnight, then?”

“You talking to my doctor now, Dad?” I say to him.

“Nurse.” Locke corrects. “She couldn’t resist imparting information.”

“I’m sure Carter’ll appreciate that,” I say.

“Hey.” Locke points at me. “I did not flirt back. Can’t help it if a lady old enough to be my mother falls for my innocent, non-sexy smile and wants to tell me everything, including that she’s single.”

I shake my head, enjoying the moment of normalcy. Of listening. “I believe you. You’re too gross and happy with your fiancé and daughter to do anything to jeopardize it.”

“Hear that,” Ben says. He reaches out his scarred forearm from an old burn and pats my leg. “Glad you’re okay, dude. You need a good publicist? Gonna be hard to explain your damsel moment to the press.”

I chuckle and push his hand away. “Fuck off.”

“Dehydration, huh? You sure that’s it?” Ash asks.

He, out of all of them, seems the most serious and studies me more carefully than the others. I’m wishing he’d go back to bro-speak and not read me so closely.

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