How Beauty Saved the Beast by Garren Jax

Author:Garren, Jax [Garren, Jax]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Carina Press
Published: 2013-02-10T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seven

Jolie kept her face neutral as she slid out of Paul’s arms, but his onstage crap had her seething inside. Three months ago she’d have cried happy tears to have him so possessive. And now? All she could do was wonder what Hauk had thought of their shenanigans. But Paul didn’t seem to notice her discomfort.

Kirk, their drummer, greeted her with a high five she was happy to return. She’d always liked him. “Nice job, Red! We should have you up there with us all the time!”

Paul laughed. “Whatcha say, gorgeous? You wanna be our official dancer?”

Jolie gave him a brittle smile her mom would’ve been proud of. “Yes. I trained with Houston Ballet for thirteen years in the hopes that I could be a backup dancer for a local punk band.”

“Ooooh…” Everyone but Paul joined in.

Paul took her arm and pulled her to the side. “What’s wrong? I was kidding. I know you’ve got your own thing.”

Maybe she had overreacted. She patted his hand but couldn’t bring herself to look him in the face without grimacing, so she turned back to the stage instead. “No, it’s fine. I shouldn’t have snapped. But if you’ll excuse me—” She tried to slip away, but he wouldn’t let go of her arm.

“You going to the after-party?”

“Yeah. A couple of us are performing at it.” She tried to get away again. Still no dice. What was it about this boy? When she’d been trying to hang on to him last fall, he’d been casual. Now that she wasn’t sure she wanted him anymore, he was like glue.

“What to ride over together?” he asked.

“I’m giving a ride to some of my troupe-mates.”

“Okay. Well, I’ll see you there then.” He smiled. “Gonna keep wearing that outfit? ’Cause hot damn, woman.” The smile morphed to the killer grin he regularly felled women with, turning that high-wattage focus entirely on her.

It reminded her that despite the lack of a defined relationship, they’d always had an understanding that when they were both at the same place at the same time, they went home together. Between his concert tour and her dancing schedule that hadn’t happened in two months, but Paul seemed hopeful the deal hadn’t changed.

Everything had changed, though. For her, anyway. Or it had, provided Hauk wasn’t taking Ashley home.

The thought threw ice on her anger. From the overheard conversation, it sounded like they’d had sex—no, not sex, it sounded like they’d made love the last time they saw each other. And that was after they’d broken off the engagement. Ugh. Engagement. She shuddered at the word.

Did she really want to spend the night at her condo pounding pillows and trying to sleep while Hauk’s ex-fiancée explored his skin and he showed her exactly what he could do with that first-class tongue? Did she really want to toss and turn and not getting a damn wink of sleep while Ashley gave Hauk his first orgasm in years? To wake up alone, knowing Ashley was waking up in the world’s strongest, most comforting arms?

Oh, shit.

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