Rise by L. A. Cotton

Rise by L. A. Cotton

Author:L. A. Cotton
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Delesty Books


Rafe

We were a week into the tour when The Rock Report article landed.

“If that doesn’t get people talking, I don’t know what will,” Hudson dropped the magazine on my lap and I fingered the glossy pages.

“Rose between two thorns,” I laughed bitterly. They didn’t know the half of it.

“Eva looks every bit the star, don’t you think?” Hudson was probing, trying to get a rise from me. But I kept my thoughts to myself, grumbling some half-assed reply.

The truth was it hurt to look at her. She was damn beautiful, smiling at the camera. They’d gone with a shot of the five of us: me and Eva holding her guitar looking right at the reader. Hudson’s smirk was enough to catch panties on fire up and down the country. But it was Levi who would be the talking point. He wasn’t looking at the camera. His head was dropped slightly, his body turned into Eva, and he was looking at her. Longing and lust burning in his eyes.

Jesus. He was falling for her. My brother, the most important person in the world to me, was falling for the girl who already owned me.

And you let it happen.

“You noticed that, huh?” Hudson was watching me quietly.

“It’s nothing.”

“Doesn’t look like nothing to me. Looks like she’s about to go where no girl ever went.”

“Hud...”

“Yeah, yeah.” He wrapped his knuckles against the table before getting up. “Let’s do what we always do, right? Pretend everything is fine and hope the truth goes away. Because that always works out so fucking well for us.”

I stared at him in disbelief. Hudson was as bad as the rest of us. Hiding behind his wicked smirk and easy charm.

He let out an exasperated breath. “Look, man, I love you like a brother and I like Eva. I like her a lot. But you’re lying to yourself if you think this,”—he jammed his finger at the magazine—“isn’t a problem.”

“Levi won’t go after Eva,” I said, hating how uncertain I sounded.

“That’s your comeback? You know better than anyone that Levi does whatever the fuck he wants without consequence.”

“Why is this so important to you?” I was clutching at straws now, picking a fight that I was bound to lose.

Hudson was right—Eva was a problem.

I’d walked away once because I didn’t want her to come between me and Levi, but that was when I was never going to see her again. When I could push her to the recesses of my mind and keep her in my dreams.

But could I keep doing it?

Especially after kissing her again.

Fuck.

Everything was so fucking screwed up.

“Are you kidding me right now?” Hudson sneered. “The band is all I have, man, you know that. You, Levi, and Damon are my family, my brothers. You can’t blame me for wanting to protect that.”

Guilt snaked through me. He was right. Of course he was fucking right. We were all each other had; a fact that had kept our heads above water more than once.

“I’ll figure it out.”

“You’d better hurry the fuck up then before this thing goes sideways.



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