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Waxing poetic over a green apple… This is what Jesse has reduced me to.
I have no doubt that I’ll go back to the ranch. Ranching is my life. Performing is Jesse’s life, and if Dragonlock makes it big after this concert, and I have no doubt that they will, he’ll be traveling all the time. Would I be willing to leave everything behind? Leave the ranch, to travel with him?
Doesn’t really matter.
Jesse’s made it clear where he stands as far as I’m concerned.
I have to accept it.
But tonight…as I watched him… I felt he was singing directly to me. Especially those lyrics from “Flyaway,” the song Dragonlock sang before “Faint of Heart.”
I never knew it was you. All this time you were right there around me, and I never knew.
That song could’ve been written for Jesse and me.
Maddie and I grab a glass of champagne from the servers who are mingling in an area near the dressing rooms. A few tables are set up, but they’re all occupied. We stand against the wall, and as soon as Jesse is free from his admirers—
“Let’s go congratulate your brother.”
Maddie torpedoes toward him. “Jesse!”
“Hey, Mads.” He embraces her in a big brother hug. “Brianna,” he says once he lets Maddie go.
No big hug for me, I guess.
“You guys were so fabulous,” Maddie gushes. “I’ve honestly never heard you play better.”
“We were on fire for sure. But the acoustics here are also incredible.”
“Acoustics shmacoustics,” Maddie says. “It was all you guys. You and Rory were never more in sync.”
“I’m glad you enjoyed it, little sis.”
“Oh, we did, didn’t we, Brianna?”
I nod. “It’s the best I’ve ever heard you guys play. Seriously. You and Rory were absolutely astounding together.”
“Thank you, Brianna.” Then he looks away from me.
“So I see you already have a bunch of female admirers,” Maddie says.
A jolt of jealousy hits me right in my gut.
“Only a few,” Jesse says.
“What did they say?”
“Nothing that’s fit for my little sister’s ears,” he says.
The jolt of jealousy again, and this time it slices right into my heart.
Groupies.
They were probably offering him sex.
No. Jesse cannotgo to bed with groupies tonight.
He wouldn’t, would he? He and Rory are completely serious about making this tour a springboard for something more.
