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Chapter Eighteen
Andrea
Under normal circumstances,Andrea would have been flattered by Rhys’s attempt at defending her honour but tonight it just made her hella mad. When Declan got to his feet, wiping the blood from his cut lip off with the sleeve of his jacket and Rhys took another menacing step toward Declan, Andi stepped in between them and placed her palms out to keep them separated.
“Rhys, go and get some fresh air and calm the fuck down. You are embarrassing me and I swear to all that is holy that I will drag your ass out of here by the ear if you don’t walk away now.”
She knew her brother was wasted by the bloodshot eyes and the slight sway as he tried to stand still but there was this blanket of darkness in his eyes as he looked from Declan to her.
“I knew it. All those years I knew you two had feelings for one another. I tried to pretend it wasn’t happening every time you both lied to my face that you were just friends.” Rhys snorted, his gaze narrowing. “Did he tell you that he went out and slept with the first available girl the night you stood him? That he hadn’t cared enough to try and get you to explain to him. He just went out and got drunk and fucked the first bitch that offered to suck him off.”
Nausea rolled in her stomach and she felt the urge to be sick, knowing it was the truth. And yet, this was more humiliating that knowing that Declan’s first reaction was to go and get laid. She felt the man in question sag under her palm and she tried to hold back her tears.
Andrea felt one of the traitorous tears slip-free, slowly trickling down her face and it was when Rhys suddenly snapped out of his angry drunken haze and looked devastated that he had made her cry.
“Jaysus, Andi...I’m sorry.”
Andrea didn’t think she could respond to her brother as she dropped her hands and felt like she might faint, her chest tightening with panic.
Then, like a dark angel to her rescue, she heard the unmistakable sound of Oli screaming into his microphone as someone hammered on the drums, and attention turned from the shitshow of her life to the unbelievable duet that was happening on stage.
Had she not been utterly broken inside, she might have marveled at the distraction Oli was no doubt providing for her, Luna on the drums as JJ strode across the dance-floor, wrapped an arm around her waist and all but carried her from the party.
She didn’t care what Declan and Rhys did once she left, ignored the buzzing of her phone as she stared out the window of JJ’s car and couldn’t bear the weight on her chest. It felt like she was watching herself from outside her body and wanted to scream at herself for letting herself let Declan shatter her heart for the second time.
“I can call Charlie...if you need to talk to her.” JJ offered but Andrea just shook her head. Her best friend was happy with her race car driver in Australia and they were prepping for the first race of the season and didn’t need to deal with all the drama.
Surely it would be all over the news in about an hour and when Charlie woke up, she would call the moment she saw it. Besides, Andrea wasn’t sure she had the mental capacity to truly explain the massive fucking dent in her career tonight would have done.
Because her career was the only thing she might salvage from the ruins of tonight.
If Heartache Melody could even function as a band after everything.
Andi was so out of it that she barely knew what was happening as JJ brought her up to their suite and went to fix her a cup of tea. She kicked off her heels and just stood in the middle of the sitting area that separated the two bedrooms and replayed the events over in her mind.
“I want to spend hours learning all of yours with my mouth, my hands, my tongue. I want to worship you like I should have done before I fucked it up. I want to spend lazy Sunday mornings with you naked in my bed, your smile and maybe those heels the only thing that you are wearing.”
“I was trying to play it cool in front of Rhys, because you were always so private and I didn’t want to tell your brother that I was in love with you before I told you.”
“I never could sleep in your house once I released that I wanted you, knowing you were lying in the beds just behind the wall. I fantasied about sneaking into your bedroom, waking you up with a kiss, and doing everything a horny teenager wanted to do with the girl who haunted his mind.”
The pressure of his hand on her arm as Declan snarled. “Don’t walk away from me, Andi. Not again. Don’t you fucking dare.”
“I didn’t want to tell your brother that I was in love with you before I told you.”
Andrea let loose the sob she had been holding in so suddenly that JJ dropped the mug of tea and it crashed to the ground, and it was as if the mug was a metaphor for just how shattered Andrea felt. She suddenly couldn’t breathe and she blindly clawed at her throat, tears blurring at her throat as she heard Declan’s sultry voice in her ear.“Fuck Andi. I want inside of you so bad, wanted to devour you since I saw you walk in dressed in that dress and it’s driving me insane.”
She tried to reach around to unzip her dress but her hands were shaking too much and then she heard herself hysterically begging JJ to get it off, to get the dress off of her because she couldn’t breathe, couldn’t think.
Andrea gulped in air as JJ yanked down the zipper and she heard the material rip as JJ tried to get it off of her as fast as he could and then, she was stepping out of the damned dress and standing in the suite, in her underwear having what was probably a nervous breakdown.
Her hands were clutched to her chest as she let loose a frustrated scream, then gave way to more sobs as she crumpled to the ground, her knees giving out, and then JJ was pulling her into his lap as she cried and cried and cried for gods knows how long.
JJ rocked her back and forth, caressing her hair and murmuring softly to her that everything would be okay and that everything would be better in the morning.
Andrea sure as shit didn’t believe him one bit.
Her eyes became super heavy and she must have dozed off because she darted awake when she felt herself being jostled, JJ carrying her to her room and laying her down on the bed. Her eyes lowered instantly the moment her head hit the pillow and she felt the warmth off JJ’s lips as he kissed her forehead before stepping outside.
