Heartbreak Beat: An LA Rock Star Romance by Elle Greco

Author:Elle Greco [Greco, Elle]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: 56West, LLC
Published: 2020-06-28T16:00:00+00:00

11

“Dion should go on a preshow bender every day,” I mumbled to myself as we wrapped up our final song. Post intravenous fluid drip and anti-nausea meds, Dion was on point, and we finally seemed to find our rhythm as a band. Maybe the afternoon scream fest was our “Come to Jesus” moment. Our set killed. The crowd practically tossed themselves at Dion’s feet, scantily-clad women taking up the entire front row. Vince stood at the side of the stage, watching Dion with a measure of pride. Dion beamed at his dad. Apparently, they’d had a heart-to-heart at the doctor’s office during the IV procedure.

The crowd was still revved up from the set, and Dion didn’t want to get off the stage. He turned to me and Rafe. “We can’t walk off yet,” he called over the din of the crowd. “One more song.”

“What do you want to play?” Rafe yelled.

Dion looked at me. “‘Ruined.’”

Rafe jerked his head back. “I thought we agreed to keep it off the set list tonight.”

Yeah. So, after my blow up, Vince hadn’t exactly been happy with me. He let it be known by striking the song from the set list. I remained persona non grata, the drummer for hire. Whatever, Pop Art was looking better by the minute.

I shook my head, rolling my wrists to keep my muscles limber, a sliver of discomfort scoring its way from my wrists to my elbows. “This crowd is too amped for ‘Ruined.’” The last thing we needed was to end with “Ruined” played at the slower tempo. The crowd would riot.

“How about a cover?” Rafe asked. “Pull out an old Prince or some shit?”

“We do ‘Ruined’ Nikki’s way,” Dion said, turning back to the crowd and assuming rock god stance. The place erupted.

“Nikki’s way?” Rafe asked Dion’s back. I knew he was thinking about Vince’s reaction.

“Ever hear an old song a new way, and it just feels… right?” Dion’s question to the crowd was dead sexy, and I am pretty sure the wall of women all orgasmed at once. He stripped off his electric guitar, which kept the crowd screaming, and picked up his Brock Model OM acoustic. There was elegance in the guitar’s simplicity, and the sound that came out of it was sublime.

He turned to me, his eyes smoldering. “You lead us in, Nik.”

Rafe released his hold on his bass, and it swung loose in front of him. “Nikki leads in? Really?”

Dion ignored him and met my eyes, and the look he gave me sent all the blood in my body straight to my groin.

“And take it easy on me, Nik. It’s my first time,” Dion said into the mic, but he turned his head and shared a smile so intimate that I nearly came undone in front of the crowd. The crowd picked up on it and erupted into whistles and shouts. The wall of boobs looked slightly deflated.

When my heart caught up to my adrenaline, I launched into the new beat, and Dion picked it up easily on his guitar.

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