Gypsy Hearts by Lisa Mondello

Author:Lisa Mondello
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2013-02-06T13:06:00+00:00

figured you'd tell me in your own time. I know the two of you were an item."

She snapped her gaze to him, surprised he knew even that much. The wind blew her hair up in circles around her face, making it hard to see him even in the moonlight.

"Did you get that straight from the person who told you where to find me?"

"It's no big deal. We don't have to talk about it if it upsets you."

"That's where you're wrong. It was very much a big deal. I gave up everything for Grant Davies," she said, bitterness bubbling up in her throat with the words. The pain of his betrayal still stung.

"You were what, seventeen?"

"Just shy of my eighteenth birthday when I met him." She shook her head. It all seemed so long ago and yet it was still fresh in her mind, sharp as the pain of remembering it. "You do stupid things when you're young."

Josie hiked the blanket up around her shoulders and felt the grit of sand that clung to it fall beneath her shirt, making her as uncomfortable as the subject they were discussing.

"Grant was just a local then. No one in Nashville knew him. My friends and I used to sneak out of the house and go down to the fairs to hear music. My girlfriends wanted to meet the musicians, but I was just a sponge hanging around the sound engineers. I was always so fascinated with what they were doing. I used to talk to the techies while my friends were grabbing autographs and pretty soon I began to learn." She paused, revisiting the past, then continued with her story.

"One night we met Grant. It was his first time in the area and his band was still trying to work out all the kinks of playing live. He had an argument with his regular sound man and the guy took off right before the show."

"That sounds vaguely familiar," Brock said, chuckling.

"I'd been talking to the sound man before Grant came by. I was just standing there during the argument, and when it was clear the sound man wasn't coming back by the time the band was due to play, Grant pointed to me and said, 'You're my girl. I need you to do sound for me tonight.' I was scared. I didn't know anything about doing live sound except what I'd learned and then used back at school. They'd already done a sound check. All I had to do was run the board and make sure nothing happened during the performance."

"And nothing did."

She eyed him. "Did you hear this story before or are you going to let me tell it?"

Laughing, he said, "I'm your captive audience."

"It was pure luck things went off without a hitch. It was fun and I felt important for the first time in my life, like I could do something I really loved. Grant asked me to come to the next show and then the next. I was ... smitten.

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