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“Someone has to stay with him, Mads. You go to the concert. Go with Brock, Donny, and Callie. I’m not leaving.”
“You should get some dinner.”
I point to the package of McVitie’s—the digestive cookies—that I bought at the little market in the hospital. “I’m good.”
“Oh, come on, Bree.”
“Mads, let me do this. Jesse and Rory are your brother and sister. You’re the one who deserves to be at that concert. I want to stay here.”
“Brianna, I know you’re a big fan of the band.”
“So I’ll see the next concert. It will be fine. You get ready to go.”
She finishes texting Jesse. “If you’re sure…”
“Yeah, just call a cab.”
“Don’t have to. Adolpho gave me his card, remember?”
“He’ll probably be busy transporting the band to the venue,” I say. “Call a cab. Go back to the hotel and change clothes. Text Donny and Callie and go to the concert with them. Please, Maddie.”
She finally consents, and I let out a breath.
I want her to go. I promised her a good time on this trip.
And now I have to pay the penance for my own sins. For being so manipulative. For keeping Jesse distracted when he should’ve been paying attention to the band.
This is my punishment, and I’ll take it gladly.
Chapter Nine
Jesse
With everything in me, I want to go to Dragon.
“You can’t,” Rory says, again reading my mind.
Of all my siblings, I’m closest to Rory. She would probably say she’s closest to Callie because they’re only two years apart. But Rory and I share something that Callie doesn’t—our love and passion for music. Especially since Rory joined the band. It’s like we can finish each other’s sentences and read each other’s minds. It’s damned annoying most of the time.
Despite the fact that Dragon tried to take her to bed not so long ago, I still feel like I should be there for him. I still feel like I let him down.
“Maddie and Brianna are there,” Rory continues.
“Maddie and Brianna don’t know Dragon. He barely knows them. I’m not sure he knows Brianna at all.”
“Are you kidding me?” Rory says. “Brianna and the rest of the awesome foursome have been following you guys around at Murphy’s for the last year, ever since they came of age and could get in.”
“Yeah, but Dragon never pays attention to them. He knows Maddie because she’s our sister, but Brianna?”
“Think about what you’re saying, Jesse. Of course he knows Brianna. She’s beautiful.”
My sister’s not wrong.
Brianna Steel’s image haunts me.
“I know that look,” Rory says. “You’re blaming yourself again. Don’t. Think of the big picture. The band. This chance that we have. Don’t you go running over to that hospital, Jesse. There isn’t time before the concert.”
My sister’s wrong. I should be blaming myself, but instead I was thinking about Brianna, about how my lips feel against hers, how my cock feels inside her. I wipe the picture from my mind.
