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Something uncomfortable shifted through me. I didn’t like Ronnie referring to her as hot. But that made no sense. She was hot, it wasn’t like I’d seen her first and planned on making a move. For fuck’s sakes the woman hadn’t even noticed me.
“She’s beautiful, that’s all.” I turned my attention back to my friend. “You were telling me about hiring some of the men we worked with.”
“Craven, you should remember him, he was in the same platoon as us.”
I nodded, remembering the redhead who was faster than anyone else. “Who else?”
“Goose. You remember him, right. Big tank of a man. He’s actually working tonight.”
“Nope.” I shook my head. “Must’ve been after we split.”
“Could be.” Ronnie looked over at the bar and smiled. “Looks like a certain blonde pop star has just spotted you.”
My head automatically turned to the side and my gaze caught a pair of sparkling turquoise eyes. Her smile had been transformed into a sexy smirk and those pretty pink lips hadme imagining things I had no business thinking about. She was a pop star, an up-and-coming one at that. I doubted that she would know who my parents were, but if she did, she’d want to stick around, and that was the last thing I wanted.
As the evening progressed my gaze barely left hers. I heard my friend chuckle frequently when he needed to repeat what he had said. Her friends walked past our table a few times as well. When she changed to bottled water at about the same time I did, I knew I was about to break all my rules.
At one point the band who had released the album went and sat with her and her friends. Before long, one of them tried to discreetly follow a man out of the restaurant. They were probably successful to everyone except the military trained security.
Each of her friends left to dance with a member of the band and she was left with the last one. Probably the one the record label considered as the good looking one. But he wasn’t going to get lucky.
Ronnie eventually stood. “Dude, Jeanie is probably getting home from set about now. I’m going to steal a few hours with her before she needs to get back.” He motioned to the barman. Presumably to put the bill on his tab. “Why don’t you go shoot your shot. It doesn’t look like Pretty Boy over there is going to get lucky.”
“I’ll do just that.” I grabbed my bottle of water and shook Ronnie’s hand. “See you around, man.”
Slowly, I walked over to the woman known to the world as Eve Halle. I wedged myself into the gap she had created between herself and Pretty Boy. I looked at the other man. “Dude, you’re sitting in my seat.”
Pretty Boy’s eyes widened. “Sir, can’t you see I’m talking to the lovely lady?”
“The lovely lady would rather be talking to me.”
At least the guy had confidence, I’d give him that. “Are you sure about that?”
I smiled at him. “Let’s ask her.” I turned around to her and offered her my hand. “I’m Noah, would you like to get out of here?”
“Everly.” She took my hand and held on to it. “I have a room upstairs and would love to get out of here.”
I held her hand as she stood. “Let’s go.”
“Bye, Ricky.” She wiggled her fingers and waved at Pretty Boy, and we made our way out of the restaurant and through the hotel’s lobby.
The hairs on the back of my neck rose and a chill ran down my spine as we headed to the elevator. I pulled her closer and looked behind me. I saw nothing out of the ordinary. Well, Ricky stood in the lobby glaring. The only other people watching us were the hotel security. I shrugged off the feeling as we entered the elevator and the doors closed behind us.
I turned to Everly. “If you were using me to get rid of Pretty Boy, I can get off on the next floor.”
“His name is Ricardo Gilles. Or Ricky, and he’s harmless.” She shook her head and pressed the button to the tenth floor. “It’s not the penthouse suite, but I promise you, the king-size bed will be all we need.”
2
EVERLY
THIRTEEN YEARS AGO
Noah patted lightly on my back urging me to shift off his hard body. His breathing was still heavy, and his body covered in a sheen of sweat. “Babe, condom.” I soaked in the endearment that became so natural in just about twelve hours.
It would seem we were going for some kind of record. We’d already used three condoms and it wasn’t even lunch time. Add those to the two we used the night before when we got to my hotel room and then the two we used when we woke each other overnight. Yes, definitely some kind of record.
I lifted my head and gave him a sleepy smile, my fingers brushing against his short dark hair. “Can’t move. You’ve broken my body.”
