The Wildcard (Like Flies Book 2) by Fallacious Rose

Author:Fallacious Rose [Rose, Fallacious]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-06-29T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 22

"Did he say he was going to be here?" Green asked, looking about her in awestruck envy. So this is where celebrities got to relax after the show. She could have murdered a beer.

"Well, yeah - I told him you were coming to the show, and he was really looking forward to meeting you - so I don’t understand where he's got to. Never mind," she said, turning around with a disappointed shrug, "maybe he’s held up or something."

"I know where to find him." Little Stevie swaggered in, still dripping with sweat. Ruby made belated introductions.

"You do?" Ruby looked at Stevie doubtfully. "New York’s a big place. He could be anywhere, the sneaky bastard."

"Yeah, but he’s not. He’s at a bar just around the corner, getting plastered and taking shit he shouldn’t touch with a bargepole." Stevie parked herself on a seat by the bar and ordered a double whisky.

"Right." Ruby got up determinedly. "So where’s this bar?"

Sure enough, sitting at a corner table in a dark and smoky bar a short walk away from Madison Square Gardens, they found Orpheus. Stevie was right - Orpheus wasn’t just drunk, he was very drunk - and his pupils were pinpoints.

Ruby groaned. "Not again!"

Baldur looked at her, then at Orpheus, a dawning understanding in his eyes, and something else.

"Hiya. Pull up a stool."

Orpheus waved vaguely towards a neighbouring table where three bar stools sat empty. Baldur pulled them over, and the trio sat down awkwardly. Ruby plonked herself opposite her man, and glared accusingly.

""You were going to stick around to meet my friends, remember? What the hell are you doing here?"

Baldur put a cool hand on her shoulder.

"It does not matter. Here is as good as anywhere. You were incredible out there, my friend - I should congratulate you. I have never heard such music - and I knew Mozart in his prime."

Orpheus blinked.

"Mozart? Say what? Well, I’m no Mozart. Glad you enjoyed the show, though. So, uh, introduce me, baby?"

Ruby cleared her throat.

"This is Green, and this is her boyfriend Baldur." Green flinched at the term ‘boyfriend’ - like Baldur was some average guy she was dating - but Baldur just smiled sunnily, as usual. ‘And this is Baldur’s brother Hodr. He," she said with a touch of spite, "slept right through the gig."

"Really, man?" Orpheus’ long, slightly uptilted eyes focused on Hodr, and he beamed a slow, utterly charming grin. When you saw him smile like that, Green thought, you could see why the teenage girls swooned. Most rock stars cultivated a sultry look, as if their undies were too tight for them - but Orpheus was drop-dead gorgeous, and with that lazy, brilliant smile, he was irresistible.

"No, no, it is just that I wear these sunglasses," Hodr objected. "They think I am asleep but I am wide awake. I will buy the CD, no question. You are very good."

"I’m very rich, anyway," Orpheus agreed with a wry grin. Green’s brows rose - this wasn’t exactly the kind of remark she’d expected from the tortured artist.

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