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As I drove, I thought about the last couple of months and how much my life had changed for the better. There had been challenges, like the press showing up unexpectedly and having to put security measures in place, but the good far outweighed the bad. And so much of that had to do with Kingston.
I could no longer pretend I wasn’t completely in love with him and though we hadn’t used the L word, he showed me how he felt every moment we were together. My concerns about his power over me with regard to the band were fading and the only thing left to do at this point was tell him about the past that could potentially come back to haunt all of us. I wasn’t sure Larry would out me because if he did, it might paint him in a negative light as well since there were other men involved in our threesomes. He probably didn’t care, though, which meant he held the fate of my reputation in his hands, and that bothered me.
I had such a good thing going with Onyx Knight and I’d already begun to form bonds with the band that went beyond the music we played. They’d become my friends and Kingston was quickly becoming my everything.
So it was time to put my faith in them the way they had in me when they’d signed me on.
Before we left for Europe, I was going to tell them everything.
Kingston first, of course, because I didn’t want him to be blindsided.
If only I could figure out the right time.
I pulled into the driveway and there was a car I didn’t recognize behind my spot in the garage, which meant I had to park in the driveway.
I wondered who had come over. Greatty hadn’t mentioned having company and she was waiting for me to bring the vanilla so we could start making the cookie dough.
I walked into the house calling to her. “I’m home, Greatty!”
“In here, sweetie.” Greatty sounded weird and I frowned as I walked into the kitchen.
Well, now I knew why she sounded off.
She was sitting at the table with fucking Larry.
I suddenly wished I’d stayed at Kingston’s. Whatever this was, it wouldn’t be good and I steeled myself. He’d used and manipulated me for almost the entire three years we’d been together, but I was a lot different now. He still had something he could hold over my head, but it was up to me how I handled it.
“What the hell are you doing here?” I demanded, hands on my hips.
“We need to talk,” he said, getting up.
“Greatty.” I looked at her in frustration. “Why would you invite him in?”
“He said he really needed to talk to you,” she said, watching me closely. “I didn’t think there was any harm in feeding him…” Her voice trailed as she probably realized I was furious, and she’d made a mistake. We’d have to talk about that later.
“You need to leave,” I told him. “I don’t have anything to say to you.”
“We were together for three damn years!” he grunted. “We can’t even have a fucking conversation?”
“No. We can’t. Not only did you cheat on me and hurt me when we were together, you went out of your way to tell Lara Simpson shit about me too.”
“I’m sorry about that, but you had me thrown out of the Whiskey,” he muttered. “I was embarrassed.”
“Too fucking bad.”
“I just want to talk.”
“No.”
“You’re going to force me to do something I don’t want to do,” he said, scowling.
“Like what? Tell that Lara cunt everything I like to do in bed? You tell her about you and Pierce too?” Pierce was the A&R guy from Hi-Hat Records and the look on his face told me I’d hit a sore spot.
He took a step closer to me, his face almost right up against mine. “You don’t have any proof of what I did. But the whole world can go online to see the things you did.”
“And what are you going to do with that information?” I asked bluntly. “You going to blackmail me? Well, good luck with that. I don’t have any money and I won’t for months. If you do anything to cost me the gig with Onyx Knight, I’ll never have any. The way I see it, you lose either way.”
“I just need a few grand,” he hissed. “My sister’s kid is sick and—”
