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Dawson grinned as the girl skipped away, practically walking on air, and Paige groaned.
“Fuck me. There goes his ego boost for the rest of the year. He won’t be able to fit his head through our front door.”
“Don’t be jealous, love. She couldn’t possibly have enough issues to keep me completely occupied.” His teasing smile was infectious, and I laughed as Paige pushed him back toward the banner that still needed finishing.
“So, Ry. You need more time with your booze, or can you come steal some of JULIEN’s gold-dusted truffle popcorn?”
Eleven
Halo
“I DON’T THINK we’re allowed in there.” I stopped just outside the open doors of the conference room that had been converted into a war room for the company putting on the event, and stared at the other four members of my band, who were peering inside like a bunch of busybodies.
Viper—my boyfriend, and also the sexiest guitarist on the face of the planet—glanced over his shoulder with a smirk. “What are they gonna do? Fire us? We’re the headliners, Angel. They need us.”
It was an arrogant claim, but that was part of Viper’s appeal. His confidence. He also wasn’t wrong. Ever since we’d arrived at the arena for this weekend’s charity ball, Paige and her crew had all but bent over backward to accommodate us. They’d also put up with some rather…contentious rehearsals.
I was still trying to work out what exactly had happened yesterday during the soundcheck to make Viper so disagreeable. I’d thought he and Trent had buried the hatchet months ago, but apparently I was wrong. Viper hadn’t seemed to relax until the two of us got back to our hotel room, where he told me everything was fine.
So far, that seemed to be the case. He’d woken me up to breakfast in bed, followed by a particularly enjoyable exercise routine that also…took place in bed. Then we’d made our way over here to meet up with the rest of the guys.
“Let’s sneak in,” Slade, our drummer, suggested. “Find the auction list and check out what’s up for grabs.”
I frowned and checked to see if there was anyone who looked like they had the authority to grant us entry, but there was no one but us standing in the near vicinity.
“Just like that? Don’t you think it would be easier to, I don’t know, ask someone if we’re allowed in there?”
“Angel…” Viper sauntered over to me, his jeans fitting his legs in a way that was indecent. My eyes roved up to his face, and he ran a hand through his dark hair. “Stop worrying. If someone catches us, I’ll tell them it was my idea. That I made you do it.”
I scoffed as he hooked his fingers through the belt loops of my jeans and tugged me forward. Then I wrapped my arms around his neck. “Made me, huh?”
“Yep.” Viper nipped at my lower lip. “We’ll say I blackmailed you.”
“Oh yeah? With what?”
Viper’s eyes darkened, and wow, as always, everything else around us seemed to vanish. “Hmm. I threatened to sleep on the couch.”
That made me laugh. “You would never.”
“They don’t know that.”
Bullshit. Anyone with half a brain would know that Viper would never sleep on a couch if he had a naked body—my naked body—in his bed. No way. Viper slept curled around me, connected head to toe, every night of the damn week. “Okay, you win. I’ll help you look for the list.”
His wicked smile went hand in hand with the arrogance from seconds ago.
“Are you two done?”
I pulled away from Viper to look at Slade, who was watching us with a bored expression.
“We only have a limited time here. Can you suck face later?”
Viper pulled away from me to flip him off. “You’re just jealous because Imogen couldn’t be here this weekend. I still don’t understand why you and Jagger don’t just—”
“Halo, muzzle your man, would you?” Jagger said as he glared Viper’s way.
“But your partner just told us to stop sucking face.” Viper slung his arm around my shoulders. “So which is it?”
“How about you all shut the hell up so we can get in and out of there while no one’s watching?” Killian said.
I grinned. “You mean while Levi’s busy talking to Paige?”
“Well, yeah. I want to get laid tonight, not spend my time explaining why I snuck in here with you morons.”
“Yeah, okay,” Slade grumbled. “Don’t even try to act like you don’t wanna see what’s up for grabs.”
“I didn’t say that.”
Killian, Jagger, and Slade walked through the door ahead of us. Viper took my hand and winked at me.
“So, you think there’s anything on the list that you want to bid on?”
“Hmm.” I pondered his question as he led me into the empty room. “I don’t know, you think there might be a date with Ace up for grabs?”
Viper stopped dead in his tracks, and when I looked at him, he scowled. “You better be fucking joking.”
