Sizzle (Bad Boy Rockers) (Volume 1)(36)

“She told me she isn’t dating him. Apparently he’s asked her to pretend so the folks don’t throw all the single girls at him.” I put the half empty bottle of beer on the floor and ran my hands through my hair. “I nearly f*cked her in the kitchen.”

Both my friends just sat staring at me. “Lewis wanted me to take Mia to some charity thing Saturday night and I said no so he then got onto my dad and within seconds we were having a shouting match in the kitchen. I stormed out and onto my bike. When I returned I caught her in the kitchen looking out of the window towards the barn, for me.”

“Sounds like you’ve both got it as bad as each other. The question is have you got the balls to go after what you want instead of what your parents decide you want?” Donovan asked. “If you need a place to stay until everything calms down, the spare room’s still yours.”

“Thanks.”

My cell chose that moment to ring. With a quick glance at the display I discovered it was Mia.

Sitting back in the chair I answered.

“Yeah,” I said in greeting.

“Well, you’re in a good mood.”

“What do you want, I’m busy?”

In the background I could hear Reece whispering to Donovan.

“I need you to take me to the charity event Saturday night.”

Fuck, not again.

“Look, I’ve already had this conversation with your dad, and the answer is still no. I have a commitment, which I have no intention of cancelling.”

“Is it something with those two idiots, you call friends?”

“Yeah, it is. You finished now, because I need to go.”

“There’s no need to be rude, Jack, but I do need to attend this event.”

I felt like screaming, why couldn’t she take no for a f*ckin’ answer?

“I said I’m busy, so you’ll have to find someone else to take you.” The latter I knew would piss her off.

“I’m your fiancée and you expect another man to take me to this event. Is that what you just said?”

“Yeah, I did.”

“Then let’s put it another way, if you don’t take me to the charity event, I’ll call the wedding off.”

I was speechless, did she just say she’d call the wedding off. Fucking perfect.

Although she couldn’t see it, I grinned. “Fine, don’t forget to return the ring.” I hung up the phone and looked at my two stunned friends.

Resting my ankle on my knee and my hands behind my head I let them wait for an explanation. If I was honest I didn’t think the wedding would get cancelled that easily, but it felt good to get the last word in.

“She said if I didn’t take her to the charity event, she’d call the wedding off. I hope she meant it, but I have a feeling it was all talk.”

“Then why are you grinning,” Reece asked.

“Because it felt damn good hanging up on her.”

Reece banged his head against the wall he was leaning against, focusing his gaze back on me. “That’s f*cked up.”

“Okay ladies, let’s talk music,” Donovan said, changing the conversation as he walked back into the room with his guitar.

I shot him a relieved look and nodded, “Sounds better than my screwed up life.”

“Yeah it does, although the drama in your life is much more entertaining than anything on the box.”

“We need to decide which songs we’re going with Saturday night,” Donovan jumped in with, before I could reply to Reece.





Chapter 28


Thalia


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I’d tried on about ten pairs of boots so far, and was starting to get bored, but Liam kept saying ‘just one more pair’. I was going to scream. While the sales assistant went to root around in the back to see what else she had in my size, I started wandering around the clothes section.

They had some pretty decent stuff hanging up, one of which was a lovely, pale pink dress in the softest fabric. With a quick glance at the label, I decided to buy it along with a tank in white and a pair of pale blue denim shorts, which looked like they’d be real short.

I smiled thinking about Jack’s reaction if he caught me in them.

“Thinking about Jack again?” Liam asked. I’d forgotten I was with him!

“What gave you that idea?”

He laughed. “You’re joking right? Every time he’s on your mind, your entire face lights up like it does when you’re in the same room.”

Wow, I didn’t know what to say to that. I had no idea my reaction to Jack was so obvious, it surprised me that Liam would notice.

I needed a breather to get my composure back. “I’m just going to try these on,” I said to Liam already nearing the dressing rooms.

Inside I closed the curtain, hung the clothing up on the hooks in the room then sank to the floor putting my head in my hands.

There was no doubt about it; I wasn’t falling for Jack. I’d already fallen. I needed Callie.

Rooting around in my purse, I found my cell and dialed my best friend, but her cell just rang and rang. Damn. If I didn’t talk to her soon I’d burst. Liam had become a good friend over these past few weeks, but the kind of things I wanted to talk to Callie about I couldn’t say them to a guy, especially when it was his brother I needed to talk about. Ugh.