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Without saying a word, she placed Miranda’s drink on a side table, and left the room.
CHAPTER 37
There was a collectivegasp when Jase Warner and his band walked up on the stage and Jase cheekily said, “We’re the Spidermonkeys,” before launching into one of their first hits. Katrina watched as phones were quickly pulled out, as people began taking pictures and video, as texts were being made that Jase Warner was playing the grand reopening of Cade’s.
This night was about to get truly interesting.
Katrina sat at table one with Judith and Talia Warner, Jase’s wife, on one side, and on the other with noise canceling headphones on was Lorenzo’s daughter, her smile beaming as Jase winked in what was probably his wife’s direction, but Miranda could say was for her.
“Here,” Justin said, bringing over another round of drinks, and Katrina snatched up her beer and drank nearly half of it before setting the bottle down. She couldn’t consume the alcohol fast enough to dull her senses, make her feel less vulnerable.
Lorenzo was back behind the bar, serving patrons with Martin, his smile one of content as he watched his dream come to life.
And the sound...oh, the sound was amazing in this room, with the reverb and the new sound system, each note sounding crisp and clean. Katrina glanced over at Judith, who smiled in triumph, who had several business cards given to her from people who had loved the redesign of Cade’s.
Everyone seemed to be having the best time.
Everyone except Katrina, who left the table to grab another drink.
“Back so soon?” Justin quipped, but it was Lorenzo who handed her beer to her.
“Are you all right?” he asked, and she forced a smile.
“Never better.” She took a drink and turned towards the stage, watching this band draw the people in. Jase was the perfect front man, even with his guitar in hand, having an allure that Katrina had only seen once before.
In the man behind the bar.
The man whose past had come back in the form of a precocious nine-year-old girl.
Needing her distance, Katrina walked towards the back of the room, standing by the sound equipment that was being run by one of their old friends from high school, with Debra by his side.
So Katrina’s back was to the door when Emily Torrence walked in.
Katrina heard someone talking about maximum occupancy while she lifted her bottle to take another drink, only to have the bottle yanked from her hand.
“Where’s my sister?” Emily shouted, and Katrina just barely heard her above the music.
“I wasn’t aware you had an actual sister,” Katrina counted, taking the bottle back and downing what was left in it.
“Damn it, Trina, where is she?”
“She’s up there getting star treatment.”
“Is that—”
