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I love it when he does that.
“Nailed it,” I say when he stops singing and lets the music take back over.
“Thanks, babe. Anyways! I didn’t call just to sing to you. I will if you want, though.” My smile splits open my face and my mood.
“Of course, you would.” I suck in a breath like a weight has lifted from me.
It feels good to feel good.
“I miss you, baby. Like fucking crazy.” I flop back into my chair and let out a sigh.
“Miss you, too, Rexy.” My words are soft, but still manage to pull a chuckle from him. “How was the show?”
“Well …” He starts, his scoff blowing across the speaker and causing static. “It was great for a rock show. Not so good for me. Or Toby.” He snickers.
“What’s that supposed to mean?” My brow furrows at his response, but the line goes dead, and almost as soon as I look at the thing to see the call ended, a video call begs for my answer.
I accept.
And what shows on my screen is not at all what I was expecting to see.
Rex already has his hair pulled up, his face filling the screen. But it’s not the hair that catches my attention.
It’s the fucking black eye forming—wait, both eyes are purpling—and the crusted blood around the edges of Rex’s nostrils.
“What the fuck?” My eyes are wide, my free hand to my mouth.
“Good news is I get the weekend off. Bad news is that my fall is viral right now.” He’s grinning when I feel like he shouldn’t be, considering the hint of red coating his normally white teeth.
“Rex.” I chastise and prop the phone up so that I can search for his shit on my computer.
Within seconds of hitting enter, my screen is filled with hundreds of videos of Rex Thompson taking a nosedive off of the stage.
Memes have already begun to fly, parody videos mixing in with real live accounts. All of which I spin the phone to show him.
“I know.” He snickers again but scrunches up his face as if the action hurts him. “I tripped over a cord I exposed while I was jumping around like an asshat and smashed my face. Ain’t it pretty, babe?”
I roll my eyes and he laughs.
“You’re gorgeous.” I shake my head at his carelessness and replay the video of him falling. “So graceful. You know you’re supposed to at least try to catch yourself?”
“I did.” He smirks. “Just with my face.”
I laugh, his gaiety contagious across the phone screen.
“So you mentioned a weekend off?” I ask and I’m met with an enthusiastic nod before the words finish leaving my mouth.
“Yep. Ian’s getting the jet ready right now. I’m coming home, baby.” He flips his screen and shows an empty airport terminal and a lone suitcase.
“Jesus, that was quick.”
“You were pretty engrossed in those videos, babe.” Rex’s smile fills the screen again and I can’t help the excitement that bubbles up from the depths of my soul and splits my face wide open. I even do a little happy jiggle.
“You’re coming home for the whole weekend?!” He nods, the corner of his lip pulled up in a lastingly sexy half smile. I squeal and hug the phone to my chest.
“Babe …” Rex’s voice vibrates off of my ribcage, muffled by the fabric of my top. I pull the thing back to see a glint in his eye and his brows bouncing. “Do that again, just without the shirt.”
“You perv.” I giggle, my flush reaching my cheeks.
