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I’d been at the front of the line to kick his ass when he got out,too.
And if that was true, if we had that kind of friendship, I should be able to tell him everything,right?
All ofit.
Right down to the honest and theugly.
“Well… I, uh, told him politely yet firmly, again, that I couldn’t help.” I paused to clear my throat. I really didn’t do so well with the heartfelt, emotional stuff, and this was getting dangerously close to a Hallmark moment. Time for a cold, hard bitch slap in the face, courtesy of my dad. “At which point he looked me in the eye and asked me what the hell I was managing for you guys if I wasn’t actually managing your careers, which is when I told him he was out of line, and he told me I was aslut.”
Zane’s face hardened. “The fuck hedid.”
“He did. So then I told him he was a washed-up has-been with no real talent, and he told me I was nothing but a glorified groupie, of no more use to him than my mom, and I was a, quote, ‘lousy fuckingdaughter.’”
Did I just say that out loud? God, it sounded so much worse coming out of my ownmouth.
How could he say those things tome?
I mean, I’d said some harsh things too… butshit.
A whole world of crazy was going on behind Zane’s blue eyes, and I looked away. It was more than I could handle just now, with my dad’s words hanging between us. I felt utterly exposed, admitting all that shit to him.My dad thinks I’m a loser and he hates me, and I have no idea why. I still fucking love his crazy, mean oldass.
Life’s a bitch,right?
I helped myself to some jellybeans, scooping up a handful and tossing several in my mouth. “Sweet family reunion,huh?”
It didn’t end there,though.
Nope. My dad Dizzy was a class act. As I’d gotten up to leave, he’d tossed another pretty little nugget my way. He’d offered me his suite. The penthousesuite.
He’d been checked into it, but said he’d clear out, thus solving my room problem. It was two bedroom and two bath, and he’d take one of our single suites in exchange. So now we had the two bedrooms we needed, and all I needed to do was figure out who would room with Zane. Because Zane was the only one who’d bitch if he didn’t get the penthouse… and everyone else would bitch if they had to room withZane.
Hence, my ending up here, in this beautifulmess.
I’d ended up thanking my dad for it, hating myself for needing to thank him for anything, but I really needed the suite. And how did he top things off? By reminding me to tell Zane what we’ddiscussed.
If I call him cold and you haven’t talked to him, how would that make melook?
Right. Because God forbid I did anything to make the infamous Dizzy Bowman lookbad.
At that point, I’d gotten the hell out of there, collected Coop from the bar, and dragged him up here for a please-help-me-salvage-my-nightfuck.
Good thing that turned out sowell.
Might as well start laughing. I did that, and Zane just watched me lose it for a minute, his eyesnarrowing.
“The fuck is sofunny?”
“Nothing,” I half-snorted. “Was just thinking how this night panned out exactly like I plannedit.”
“Right,” he said. “You’d be in there getting drilled by Coop right now, thatit?”
“Please,” I said, popping another jellybean in my mouth. “Coop would never last thislong.”
Chapter Five
Zane
Jesus.How did Maggie put that smile on herface?
