Rock & Release by Riley Edgewood

Author:Riley Edgewood [Edgewood, Riley]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: new adult, romance, music
ISBN: 9780986213045
Published: 2015-01-02T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE

"So," I say to Vera, in the car. "Jeff."

Not that I have any right to call her out about kissing someone she's not supposed to. But I don't want to think about my own situation right now. I don't want to think about Gage, though now that I'm away from Luca, my head is clearing and Gage's face, his sweet, sexy face is swimming through my mind. And a healthy dose of regret swims laps in my chest.

"Shut it," Vera says, but not maliciously. I keep silent and after the space in the car between us grows fuller and fuller of whatever we're not saying, she finally continues. "Fine. You and Teagan were having all this fun. I wanted to have some, too."

"What about Luca? I thought you loved him. I thought—"

"Oh, please. He was only talking to me to get points with you." She sighs and stares out the window. Then she swivels back toward me, her eyes wide, demanding. "Are you going to tell me nothing happened with him in his dressing room?"

Shit. "No! It didn't—I mean, it shouldn't have… That's why I left."

"I don't want to know the details." She watches lights go by outside the passenger window. "But if you're keeping away from him on my account…don't."

"I don't even like—"

"What? His music? Who cares?" Now she turns to look at me. "The attraction between the two of you is impossible to miss. Like, even in the band's dressing room. Even when Luca was talking to me and my back was to you—I felt like my skin was about to start smoking from the heat radiating between you."

"I'm sorry." I don't know what else to say.

She shrugs. "You're the match and he's the tinder. You're one quick strike away from an explosion—and I don't want to be the bucket of water to make it fizzle."

"You could never be a bucket of water, Vera." I reach across the car and squeeze her arm. She stares out her window for a long moment, obviously upset. "I'm serious. If you—"

"Jared's never going to forgive me."

"Jared?" I ask stupidly. And then relief floods through me. She's unnerved about Jared; not Luca, not me.

"If he finds out about Jeff, he won't want anything to do with me anymore."

"I won't tell him if you don't."

"Maybe I should tell him."

"Oh." I adjust my grip on the steering wheel and think about how to respond. "Do you want to end things with him?"

"No… Yes… I don't know." She blows air through her lips, exasperated. "Are you going to tell Gage?"

Regret is a sharp knife in my stomach. "I don't know…"

She doesn't press me further, but it doesn't keep my thoughts from spinning.

Luca and Gage.

They're so similar in so many ways—and so, so different at the same time.

Gage and I are not a couple. Not in a committed-to-only-each-other sense, anyway. But I think we could be. The guilt in my chest over Luca's kiss tells me there's more between Gage and me than I ever meant for there to be.

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