Rock Me Deep by Nora Flite

Author:Nora Flite [Flite, Nora]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Silver String
Published: 2016-08-20T23:00:00+00:00

- Chapter Seventeen -

Drezden

Coffee dripped on my shoes. It stained my jeans, burned where it had soaked through to my skin. Everything screamed for me to find cold water, a towel, anything.

I didn't fucking care.

“Whoa, Drez!” Porter stammered, hands rising while he stood nervously in the middle of the aisle. “Holy shit! Calm down man, let me get you a rag or—or something.”

“Tell me again.” There was a quiet threat on my tongue. Porter and Colt had heard it before; the wary look in both their faces said enough.

The drummer remained in his seat. I could tell from the tightness around his eyes that he was doing his best to control the adrenaline flooding his veins. “I said you missed the action last night. Yeah, you fucking heard me. Johnny came around looking for you.”

Johnny. Johnny Johnny Johnny. The crushed Styrofoam cup fell from my fist. The noise it made when it landed was hollow. “That's what I thought you said.” That piece of shit actually dared to show his face. Did he want to fight, to get back at me for kicking him out?

Wiping my palms on my shirt, I debated reaching for my cigarettes. It wouldn't have done any good if I had. After last night with Lola I hadn't bothered to replace my empty pack.

Lola.

Imagining her face was enough to turn my rage into something just as heated, yet different. Johnny thinks he can waltz in after a show as good as last night and—what? Try and change my mind? Get me to take him back?

The idea was laughable.

Lola is the best replacement I could have dreamed of. I dug my nails into my opposite shoulder. I wanted to pretend they were hers, that she was clawing at me desperately like she had this morning. Knowing the girl wasn't here, on my bus, made my skull pound.

And Johnny would dare fucking show up and interrupt— A sudden wave of paranoia dropped my jaw.

“Drez?” Porter risked coming closer, approaching like I was some rabid animal. “Hey, you alright? Don't worry about anything. They arrested Johnny, he's probably sitting drunk in some cell, his usual motif. You know that.”

I'd heard him, but I was too busy working through my nugget of worry. Johnny might not have been there to talk to me. Cramps wormed into my guts. There's a chance he was looking...

Looking for Lola.

“Drez, man, snap out of it!” My bassist squeezed my shoulder. The touch sent me reeling, eyes focusing on his furrowed brow. If it weren't for the familiar worry in Porter's eyes, I would have pushed him off of me.

My fingers pinched the bridge of my nose. “I'm fine. Just pissed that Johnny would have the balls to show up like that.”

“It's not about balls,” Colt snorted. “He's always been a little nuts. I figured that was why you picked him years ago.”

The reminder that I'd chosen Johnny to be in my band didn't make me feel any better. I'd been sure he'd work out, he'd played better than anyone else who'd auditioned.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.