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“Go to hell.” Aurora tossed her dark hair back over her shoulder. “Pretty little things like you are a dime a dozen. They like fucking you but when it comes time for something with a little more depth, they come to me. And don’t kid yourself—if I wanted you gone, I can make it happen just. Like. This.” She snapped her fingers like Cheyenne had.
Cheyenne laughed. “Careful, Aurora. Your fangs are showing.” She reached for my arm. “Come on, Presley. Let’s go find our dates.” She said the last word as an obvious insult since Aurora had come alone, and I grimaced as we stepped into the hall.
“Thanks for sticking up for me,” I told her, “but she’s their manager and I really don’t want to cause trouble for Zeke or the band.”
“Looks to me like there’s already trouble,” she said, her gaze traveling down the hall to where Zeke and Kingston looked to be in a heated discussion.
They immediately stopped talking when we approached, and Zeke took my hand. “Ready to go in?”
“In a moment.” Cheyenne looked at Kingston. “I don’t appreciate being threatened or spoken down to. I don’t care who Aurora is to you, but she’s a fucking cunt and I’m not riding back in the limo with her. So, you can go home with her or go home with me. You decide.”
“She threatened you?” Kingston looked surprised and annoyed.
“She also had some fun information for Presley,” she said, glancing at me.
“It was nothing,” I said quickly. “I’m fine.”
“Don’t do that.” Cheyenne shook her head. “That’s how trouble starts. Don’t try to protect him—he’s not the one who needs it. Trust me on this.” She slid her arm through Kingston’s. “Let’s go.”
“What did she say to you?” Zeke asked me as they headed into the theater ahead of us.
I didn’t look at him, feeling both frustrated and embarrassed, even though I hadn’t done anything wrong. “She told me about the two of you.”
“Fuck.” He pulled me close. “You know that’s all in the past, right?”
“Yes, but why didn’t you tell me? I thought we’d agreed on honesty and a clean slate.”
“It didn’t seem important, to be honest, because we kept talking about starting fresh, you know? What was the point of bringing up the past? It was only going to make you uncomfortable.”
“Probably less uncomfortable than I was finding out from her in the ladies’ room.”
He sighed. “I’m sorry, babe. Really. I had no idea she was attending tonight. If I’d known, I would have hired our own car to bring us here. Can you forgive me?”
“Do you promise not to keep things from me anymore?”
“I promise.”
“Then you’re forgiven.”
He smiled. “Shall we go find our seats?”
* * *
The movie was an action-adventure type thing, with lots of explosions and car chases. Everyone in the audience seemed to enjoy it, and we all cheered when Onyx Knight’s song played in the background. What I hadn’t realized was that Cheyenne had a small part in it, playing herself in a scene with the hero. It was only two lines, where he hits on her and she shoots him down, but I reached over and squeezed her arm.
“Congrats!” I whispered.
“Thank you.”
I liked Cheyenne a lot, but Didi and Aurora made me uneasy. They seemed to have formed an alliance, with Aurora sitting next to her and the two of them whispering the whole time. I wasn’t sure what was going on but there was an odd tension amongst the band. They smiled and waved as we left the building when the movie was over, but they didn’t look at or talk to each other. For guys who’d been friends for so long, something was off with them.
We went to a party at the home of the movie’s director after the premiere. He lived in an opulent mansion in Bel-Air, and there were so many famous people here I had to stop myself from staring.
“Overwhelming?” Zeke whispered in my ear, one arm around my waist.
“A little.”
“We can leave whenever you want. I thought we’d make an appearance, maybe have a drink or two, and then we can take off.”
