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Again…fuck. There was no reason I should be feeling this wave of disappointment that was washing over me, but there it was. We’d been in Miami for nearly two and a half months, and it had definitely lived up to the promise of paradise. There’d been sun, sex, booze, and music, and while I was pumped to be wrapping up an album that I knew was going to blow everyone’s mind, I couldn’t shake the less excited feelings too.
“Damn.” Jagger let out a low whistle. “We came in before deadline, too. That has to be some record.”
“No shit,” Slade said.
I glanced at the two of them. “If that doesn’t make Brian hard, I don’t know what will.”
“Uh, no offense, but the last thing I want to think about is Brian hard,” Killian said as he hung his headphones on the hook along the back wall. “I want to think about the serious celebrating that’s gonna happen tonight. We’re still going with tradition, right?”
“MGA’s yacht?” I said, thinking back to the other times we’d taken to the ocean after wrapping an album.
“Mhmm. What do you all say?” Killian asked, as the rest of the guys hung their headphones.
“As if anyone’s gonna say no to that,” Slade responded, and when we all turned to Halo, we found him still standing over by the mic, silent.
We all faced him and cocked our heads to the side.
“Aww, look, our little boy’s all grown up,” Jagger said. “Want us to take a photo of you by the mic to send to your mom?”
Halo blinked as though realizing Jagger was talking to him, then he chuckled and shot a finger in his direction.
“I was being serious.”
“He was,” Slade said. “Remember how long it took him to pick out a ‘special jacket’ for the photo he sent to his mom?”
“Forfuckingever,” I said, rolling my eyes.
“And she now has it proudly on display in her foyer, I’ll have you know.” Jagger walked to the door of the booth and pulled it open. “Don’t be hating on me because I take the time to look good, V.”
As Jagger walked out of the booth with Slade and Killian following, I called out, “I don’t need time. I roll outta bed looking this fucking amazing.”
A chorus of whatthefuckevers could be heard as the door closed, blocking them out, and I turned to see Halo now hanging his headphones.
“So how’s it feel, finishing your first album?” I asked as I leaned a shoulder up against the wall and crossed my arms and ankles—all the better to keep my hands to myself.
“It feels…” When Halo’s eyes found mine, they were bright with excitement. Then he took a step closer to me and reached out to finger the hem of my shirt. “Unreal.”
“Yeah?”
“Yeah. I can’t believe this is my life. Writing music, recording it, living in mansions, celebrating on yachts? I keep waiting for someone to pinch me. To wake me up and say, ‘Just kidding.’”
Unable to keep my hands off him, I reached down to his hand and brought it to my mouth, where I nipped at his fingers and said, “Wake up. This is now your life.”
“How?” Halo said, and swayed closer, and there was that draw again. That need and urge for more, more, more. I wrapped my other arm around his waist and pulled him flush against me so I could brush my lips over the top of his.
Halo closed his eyes and moved up to his toes to get closer, and when he wound an arm around my neck, I said against his mouth, “This is your life, because you are the most talented person I’ve ever met.”
Halo’s eyes drifted open like he was in as much of a daze as I was, and I wondered for a moment if he was experiencing that same pull as me. Was I weaving some kind of spell over him the same way he was me?
“You really mean that, don’t you?” he said.
“I wouldn’t say it unless I did.”
Halo chuckled and leaned away from me to run his gaze over my face, making me wonder what it was he was searching for.
“That first day when I auditioned for the band.” Halo flashed a grin that would soon win over hearts around the world, and my stomach tightened. “Killian asked you what you thought of me. Do you remember what you said?”
I did. My standard answer when I didn’t want to show my hand was not bad, and that day I’d been battling a serious hard-on for the angel who’d wowed me as soon as he opened his mouth. I’d been so busy trying to decide if I could work alongside someone that I had such an intense attraction to. The answer to that was apparently yes, as long as I could be inside him too.
