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DionI knew Lola would be back. Like she said, she lived here after all, but it didn't stop me worrying about her, especially when the afternoon dragged by and the sun began to set. I wasn't old fashioned enough to think she couldn't handle herself in the streets, but I couldn't help but think of all the dangers the city held after dark.And it was making me irritable and unable to concentrate, something my band mates were quickly tiring of. I couldn't blame them for that. I'd asked where she was at least a dozen times in the last hour. “Come on, man.” Jax cuffed my shoulder hard as I again uttered the words I would soon be famous for. “Get your head back in the game. We need to get this down if we want the space in the recording studio next week.”Next week. I frowned. It wasn't enough time. Usually we spent months, if not years, putting together material for a new album, yet Erik wanted us in the studio next week? It was absurd in so many ways. And yet it kind of made perfect sense
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Lola“Lola.” Elodie called out to me as I hesitated in the doorway to the kitchen. Behind me I could hear the band rehearsing, and even listening for a few seconds I could tell that the song had come on a lot since I had left earlier. I wanted to go back into the living room so I could listen to it properly. There was something hauntingly beautiful about it. Even without Dion's husky tones, it would be a beautiful song, but he took it to the next level. So full of heartache, heartache and hope. A round of applause erupted behind me, and I smiled before I could help myself. The others thought so as well. It wasn't just me.“Lo,” Elodie called again, and with a sigh, I turned my full attention back to my roommate. The boys didn't need me to disturb them, and even if I was quiet, I knew Dion would notice my presence straight away. Smiling softly to myself, I made my way into the kitchen and found a woman I had never seen before. My eyes narrowed. She was pretty in a totally alternative
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DionI loved my band mates like brothers, but Christ, they were annoying. It was more than the fact that they just wouldn't leave despite every single one of them knowing I wanted alone time with Lola. And that it was causing me to have the worst case of blue balls in the history of the world. There was also the fact that they seemed hellbent on keeping her away from me. Every time I went to pull her down next to me, one of them called her, or caught her hand and dragged her towards them.Elodie and Jax seemed to be the worst. And one look at their faces told me they thought it was hysterical. I didn't. I wanted to remind Jax that it had been me who had pushed him into admitting his feelings for El to begin with. I liked to think that without me they wouldn't have become a couple and yet there he was, trying his hardest to cock block me at every turn. The only person who seemed to not want Lola's attention was the one person I thought would be actively trying to keep her away from m
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LolaDion didn't come to me like I expected him to. Like Elodie had said he would when she and Jax had left. Like Erik had promised as he said his goodbyes and slammed the front door behind him. He was the last one to leave, and since then it had been one long silence.The apartment felt empty, even though I could hear the shower through the bathroom door. Standing outside the locked door, I listened for a few minutes, a sigh leaving my lips. It was clear that Dion wasn't going to surface anytime soon.He was embarrassed.I was as well. Even after Elodie had explained a dozen reasons why I shouldn't be, I was still mortified. Kissing me had made Dion sick. As romance went, it made ours pretty dead in the water. Not that I wanted to believe that. Whatever was going on between us hadn't even really started, so I didn't want to believe it was over already. Groaning, I rubbed my hands across my face hard, trying to remind myself what Elodie had said. It wasn’t you. It was the smell of al
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DionFive days.Five days I'd been living with Lola. spending every waking second with her and every night with her in my arms as well. And they had been officially the best five days of my life.And the worst.Because I hadn't touched her. Well, apart from a few hot kisses and light touches, I had kept my mouth and, more importantly, my hands to myself. And it was a pure torture of my own making. Not that Lola was making it easy for me, either.Her seduction techniques had started off sweet, the odd lingering look, her small hands running over my body as I fell asleep, nestling against me on the sofa. But by day three, she had become almost desperate. It would have been funny if I hadn't been dying to lay her down and give her exactly what she wanted. And she did want it. The fire I had seen in her in Vegas was back. And it made her no less of an angel to me. If anything, it made her more of one because she was like this around me. Loving, sweet and passionate “Dion?”Twisting my
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Lola“I–what is going on here?” Pausing in the doorway, I took in the view in front of me. When Dion had told me to get into something comfortable whilst he sorted dinner, I had expected him to rustle something up from the freezer. I didn’t expect this.My eyes fell on him. He was perched on the window seat, his perfectly cut jaw seeming extra sharp in the light of dozens of candles.“Dion?” I tried to take it all in and failed. “What's going on?”The smile that lit up his face eclipsed the candles. Hell, it could have eclipsed the sun. And it was all I could see. “Food.” He gestured to a plate of what looked like cheeses and bread between him and the other end of the window seat. “Date night, remember.” He winked, a goofy, almost childlike look sweeping across his face. It was short–lived, as he finally seemed to look at me properly. Whistling between his teeth, he stood, holding out a hand for me to come to him. When he had told me to get into something more comfortable, I had tak
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Lola“So?” Elodie smiled across the table at me. Two mugs of cream topped hot chocolate sat between us. We could’ve had hot chocolate at home, but she had wanted to grab some last–minute things for Christmas. I had to admit that it was good to get out of the apartment for a while. Not that I would ever complain about the two weeks I had spent almost totally alone with Dion. I'd never lived with a man before, but he made it easy. There were no arguments, but I had a sneaky suspicion that was because we couldn't keep our hands off each other. My body ached in ways I didn't think possible, and I loved it. “So, you and Dion?” She raised a dark eyebrow. “You guys getting on, I take it?”I smiled, a knowing little smile. Getting on was an understatement. Catching my look, her grin grew. “I'll take that as a yes.” Her eyes crinkled at the edges as she smiled and I beamed at her from across the table. “It's been amazing.”“You mean the sex?”I blushed, casting my eyes around the packed co
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Dion“That was fucking...” Tearing the headphones from my ears to dangle around my neck, I beamed a wide smile around at the others, who answered it with nods of agreement. I didn't need to finish the sentence because we all felt it.That was good. Really, fucking good.The best take we had done yet, and we had only been in the studio for a few hours. Sometimes it just happened like that. Everything just clicked into place.And that's what had just happened. Yes, the song was good. The lyrics were some of the best I'd ever written and coupled with the music they had crafted, it felt polished, ready to go. Perfect. If any such thing ever existed in our world.Maybe perfect wasn't the right word, but it felt good.If the other songs we were laying down went as well as this one had, then we would record our next album in record time. Not that I was under any illusion that all of them would go as smoothly. “What do you think, Erik?”Erik, as always, was hanging around. Sometimes I didn'
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Louis“Did you just call me a silly ass?”“Is that what you got from that?” Celia muttered. Her hands were still on my chest as she shook her head. Her cheeks flamed as she took a step back. My arms went around her instantly, pulling her back to me. “Yep.” I tightened my grip. “Not sure I heard the other part properly. Because I was pretty sure you said-”“I love you.”Something happened in my chest. It was something I had never felt before. Warmth spread through me and for a moment it was as if my heart seemed to stop beating. For a split second, I thought I might have just had some sort of heart attack, and then it gave one loud thudding beat.“You love me?” I wanted to check that I had heard her right. Celia didn’t say anything at first. But the pink that tinted her cheeks deepened to a blazing red. She turned her face away from me. I didn’t want her to do that. I never wanted her to look away from me. “That’s what I said.” Her face was growing redder and redder. It made me smi
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CeliaAfter wiping my sweaty palms down my thighs, I raised my hand to knock. The door opened before my knuckles could make contact.“Hey, I saw you on the camera.” Erik's smile was as charming as I had ever seen it. He looked tanned and happy. “Come on in.” He opened the door wide. Stepping through, I glanced around. I’d been to his city pad so many times, fetching and carrying things for him, that it should have felt as familiar to me as my own home.Except it didn’t, not this time. This time it felt different. “Drink?” He carried on grinning at me. “I have white cooling. That's your favourite, isn't it?” He led the way through the spacious open-plan living room. And sure enough, a bottle of wine was cooling on the table by the window. He went over to it with hesitation, pouring me a glass before I could say a word.“Thanks.” My eyes swept across the view of the city below us and then fell on the table set for two. “But shouldn't you have waited until…?” I motioned to the table.
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Louis“Dance with me, Louis.”Blearily, I lifted my eyes to meet Elodie’s. She was holding out her hand like she expected me to take it. I’d already danced with my sister out of duty, but I didn't want to dance with anyone else. Least of all Elodie who always had the uncanny ability to tell you exactly what you were thinking and feeling, even if you were avoiding it.Shaking my head, I went back to brooding. It was a new thing for me. Usually, I left the brooding to Jax or Dion. “Come on, Louis.” Reaching down, she wrapped her small hand around mine and pulled me to my feet. I swayed for a second. “It's a wedding, after all. Your sister's wedding. We should all be having fun.” She led me forward onto the dance floor. There were already some people dancing, but the space was relatively empty. It wouldn't be for long, though. Not with the way people were drinking. “I am having fun,” I grumbled.Laughing, she placed her hand on my shoulders. I let her lead. I didn't want to dance. Not
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Celia“Are you even going to look at that?”With my fingers still buried in the fur of the cat on my lap, I lifted my eyes to Mia, who was curled up on the chair opposite me. “Celia?” she prompted when I didn't answer.“No. It’s probably Erik again.” I didn't need to check my phone to know it would be him. He had been blowing up my phone all day. Of course. Today was Lola and Dion's wedding. Things would have gone wrong, some emergency or something Erik had forgotten. Things that I wouldn't have overlooked. “You seriously mean to go through with this, don’t you? Quit your job?”I nodded.“Girl, you're crazy. The band is your life. Working with them is your dream and you're just going to throw it away?” Mia shook her head. Reaching across to grab my wine glass, I grimaced as the cat dug its claws in at the sudden movement. “Looks that way.”“What are you going to do for money?”“Absolutely no idea.” Shrugging, I poured myself another glass of wine. “Do you think maybe you should ha
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Louis“You and Celia?”Whirling around, I came face to face with my sister. There was no hello. Not even a howdy. Just her shocked face as she stomped towards me. Running my hand through my hair, I looked down at my own bare feet. “Hello to you as well, little sister,” I mumbled.“Hi.” She hugged me quickly before holding me out at arm's length. “Now answer the question.”“What question?” I knew exactly what question, but I didn't want to answer it. Ever since I had woken up yesterday and Erik had told me she had gone, I had given up thinking about the band's blonde assistant. What good would it do?She was gone. It wasn’t like I could go after her. Not when my sister was about to get married. I needed to be here. With family. Not chasing after a girl who shared my bed but was in love with someone else. What we had: the fun, the sex, had been real. But that's all it had been: fun, sex. And that was all over now.“You and Celia?”I shrugged. She shrieked, drawing a quizzical look f
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CeliaIt didn't feel fake anymore. It felt real.Real and new and exciting. And it had absolutely nothing to do with sex. Louis didn't act like this around women he’d had sex with. He was a ‘love them and leave them’ kind of guy, but he wasn't that way around me. Not that I thought for a second that he was in love with me, and I was pretty sure I wasn't falling in love with him. We were just having fun. Maybe this was exactly what I needed. Proof that other men out there found me attractive. Proof that I didn't need Erik. Except…part of me still wanted Erik. A small dwindling part, but it was there, buried deep. Which was all kinds of wrong, seeing as I was sharing my bed with someone else. And not just any someone else, either. Louis Michaelson was a panty-wetting god and somehow he had chosen me to spend time with.It was hard to wrap my head around.But it was true. The last few days had been a glorious mix of lingering looks and wild, passionate sex. The kind of holiday romanc
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LouisGiving the sleeping form of Celia one last lingering look, I slipped out of the room and headed towards the beach. It wasn’t even dawn, but I needed to clear my head. What had happened between us last night had been incredible. Better than I had ever expected, but the intimacy… I ground my teeth together. The intimacy hadn't been what I was expecting. Not the sex itself, but what came afterwards. Holding Celia, talking to her until the small hours. That had all been new.New and scary as hell.And I didn't know what the hell I was doing. I liked her.For the first time in my man-whore life, I liked a woman, probably more than I should do. I sure as hell liked her more than she liked me, and I didn't even know when it had first happened. It had kind of just snuck up on me. Maybe because Celia had always been there. Hovering in the background. A familiar smiling face. A beautiful smiling face who was in love with someone else. I had known that when I had taken her to bed, so wh
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CeliaWhy was I doing this? This was a terrible idea.A truly awful one.But I knew the answer. The reason I was doing this, taking this step with someone I worked with, was taking his shirt off and kneeling between my legs.Louis was the reason I was crossing the line. Not because of the hard washboard abs covered in tattoos that met my gaze, but because of who he was. There was a connection there. One that I wanted to explore a little. God, I was confused.I liked Louis. I really did, and I couldn’t deny the sexual chemistry between us. But-“Eyes open and on me, Celia.”My eyes snapped open. I hadn’t even realised I had closed them. Staring at him, I felt my mouth fall open. He stood there naked and, even though it wasn’t the first time I had seen him without clothes on, it felt like I was truly seeing him for the first time. Letting my eyes wander down his body, my lips parted further. He was exquisite. And not just because of the art that adorned him, either. There was a beaut
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Louis“Celia?” I knew I had heard her right because it wasn't like her words could be construed as anything else. Not many things sounded like ‘I want you to take me to bed’. But I wanted to make sure. “Did you seriously just ask me that?” In answer, she curled herself into my chest. “You heard what I said, Louis. I know you did. I can see it in your eyes. Do I really need to repeat myself?”I wrapped my arms around her, holding her even closer. “Yeah, you kind of do.”Tilting her head up, her eyes sparkled with the moon shining over her. It would have been a romantic moment if she hadn't been asking me to fuck her. “I want you to take me to bed.” She said each word slowly, like I was an idiot and that's exactly what I felt like.A damn idiot. Because I didn't know what was happening. What had changed in Celia's world so much that she was now into me for real?“Celia…” My lips pursed as I blew out a breath.“Or here. I've not done it on the beach before. ““Damn it, Celia.” Stepping
