Tamed (Torn #5)(62)

The shopping had been incredible. I’d spent two days just shopping. Chloe had groaned the whole time, but I’d ignored her. It was just like old times. I just hoped I would be able to fit all my new clothes into my luggage. It wasn’t like I’d had a lot of room to begin with.

I hadn’t seen any of the band members, except for Drake, and he hadn’t been around very much. Apparently, they were working on a new album and spending hours in the studio. I counted my blessings. I couldn’t have come out here at a better time. I didn’t have to share Chloe and Logan with Drake and Jade. Plus, I didn’t have to worry about running into Adam. Talk about a win.

Naturally, my luck turned to shit.

Two days before I had to leave, we were sitting at Starbucks when Chloe’s phone rang. Based off of her goofy grin, I knew it was Drake.

“Hello?” she asked.

Her smile faded a bit, and she glanced over at me. “Um…I don’t know.”

I raised an eyebrow as Drake spoke again.

“I’ll see, but I doubt it. I’ll call you back in a few, okay?”

When she ended the call, she looked anywhere but at me.

“What’s wrong?” I asked.

“Uh…nothing,” she said, still not looking at me.

Some things never changed.

“When you stare at your feet like that, I know you’re hiding something. Come on, what’s up?”

She sighed. “That was Drake. He wanted to know if we wanted to come to a beach party tonight. A few other bands from their label will be there, too.”

“Oh, sounds fun! Is Avenged Sevenfold going to be there by any chance? If so, we need to start plotting ways to make M. Shadows fall in love with me. Maybe I can kidnap him and force him to be my love slave.”

She grinned. “I don’t think he’ll be there, but if he is, Drake is shit out of luck. I’ll help you kidnap him.”

We giggled like idiots, both of us gushing about the hotness of M. Seriously, he had to be the sexiest man on earth. Even Adam and Drake didn’t stand a chance against him.

“I’d love to go,” I finally said once we stopped plotting our imaginary illegal activities.

“There’s only one problem,” Chloe said, the smile slipping away from her face.

“What?” I asked.

She bit her lip. “Um…Adam will be there. The party is at his house.”

“Oh.” That stopped me in my tracks. I hadn’t seen him once, and I wanted to keep it that way.

“Yeah. I told Drake I’d check with you. I understand if you don’t want to go. The three of us can just hang out at the house tonight.”

“The three of us?” I asked, wondering if Logan would hang out with us or go to the party with Jade.

“Yeah. You, me, and Drake. He said he didn’t want to go without me.”

Shit. Sitting around and watching Chloe and Drake make dopey eyes at each other wasn’t exactly on my to-do list.

“You can go without me,” I said, forcing a smile. “I can hang out by myself for one night.”

She shook her head. “No way. You came out here to spend time with me. There’s no way I’m ditching you for a party. I’ll just call Drake back and tell him to come home after they finish at the studio.”

She picked up her phone to call Drake, but I stopped her. “Wait.”

She looked up. “What?”

It was ridiculous that I was going to screw up her plans just because I didn’t want to see the biggest douche bag to ever live. I needed to grow a pair of lady balls and suck it up. “We can go.”

She shook her head. “I’m not going to make you go when I know you don’t want to.”

“It’s not a big deal—for real. Adam and I parted ways a long time ago. I need to grow up and move on.”

“Amber—”

“No. We’re going, Chloe. I’m not passing up the chance to see a bunch of hot rocker dudes, shirtless and wet.”

She grinned. “Well, when you put it like that, how can we not go?”



It was dusk by the time we made it to Adam’s house. My eyes widened when we parked outside. This was what I expected a rock star’s house to look like. It was tucked away at the very end of a gated community. The beach house was huge. It looked like it was literally made of glass with only a few steel beams here and there for support. The combination was striking. I had no doubt that, despite the glass walls, Adam had all the privacy he needed, thanks to the tight security we’d just passed through and the long blinds I saw in a few of the windows.

Several palm trees sat in front of his house. We climbed out of the car and walked to the back of the house. My eyes widened as I stared at the massive pool. The * even had a tennis court. The thought of him playing tennis was laughable.

“We have to walk down that hill, and then the beach is right there,” Chloe said as we moved past the pool.

As soon as we reached the top of the path, the beach came into view. I whistled as I looked down. It was one hell of a view. I could see several people moving around on the beach. A massive fire had been built as well. Music was blaring.

As we reached the bottom of the path, I grinned. Rock stars obviously knew how to party. There had to be at least twenty people. Several of them were guys, probably members of the bands, but the women outnumbered the men. I looked down at the white bikini I was wearing, suddenly feeling very overdressed next to some of these girls. Their bikini bottoms were nothing more than strings, and the tops weren’t much better.