Diva by Molly Joseph

Author:Molly Joseph [Joseph, Molly]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 0000000000000
Published: 2021-11-06T11:30:08+00:00

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Ransom stood in front of eighty thousand screaming ravers, waving his arms like a maniac. They ignored him. All eyes were on Lady Paradise, floating upon the palms of her minions. He shouted for them to return her to the stage as a thousand dire scenarios filled his brain. Broken bones, asphyxiation, trampling, rape, kidnapping, head injury, mob stampede, death…

He was going to kill her. He was going to fucking slaughter her for this.

He was so wrought up, so livid by the time security waded into the fray that he could barely look at her. They plucked her from her admirers and handed her over the barricades. When she was close enough, he reached down and pulled her into his arms.

“What the fuck?” he shouted over the din of the crowd. “What the everloving fuck is wrong with you?”

She grinned at him. “I can’t help it. It’s fun.”

When he continued to glare, she laughed and wrapped her arms around his shoulders, and kissed him on the lips. The crowd screamed louder, encouraging her to continue. His body reacted, hardening, responding even in front of all these people. Even when he knew it could ruin him.

He tried to peel her off. Cell phones pointed at them from all directions. One of his friends back in L.A. had sent him a link to a social media blog dedicated solely to him, Lady Paradise’s bodyguard. They called him Gilberto. There were fan fiction stories about their romance. None of this was okay, and holding her here in front of all these people wasn’t going to put that kind of speculation to rest.

“Get the fuck off me,” he said. “Finish your fucking set.”

Even through the arousal, through her intoxicating closeness, he couldn’t rein in his anger, because it was a fury born of fear. He cared for her. He worried for her. In some way, he thought he was falling in love with her, which was the worst thing of all. Was he driving this wildness on her part? Had this been another stunt to get a reaction? She seemed pretty pleased with herself as she picked up the mic and stirred up the audience again.

He stood beside the sound console for the last few minutes of her set. She wasn’t going into the audience again, ever, and as soon as they returned to the bus, they were going to have a talk about her attention-getting tactics. When she finished and signed off, Ransom took her arm to lead her downstairs.

She jerked away. “Leave me alone. Don’t get in my face. That was a great set and I don’t want you bringing me down.”

She ran down the stairs ahead of him, only to be corralled by Don, who looked equally pissed. Ransom watched as the two started bickering in the midst of the backstage chaos.

“Let’s take it to the bus,” he suggested, talking over them.

“Gladly,” Don said.

The next artist ran up the stairs, more beats, more shrieks, more glowing, flashing fireworks polluting the air.

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