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I turned around, and sure enough, the men who had been staring at me had their cameras out. Cameras I’d somehow missed them holding. They started clicking away. One of them asked me something, when another two men on the other side of the store started to move closer.
“Can I please pay for this?” I asked the cashier, who had suddenly paled, and she nodded. I was just taking my card back when Xander came up behind me.
“Shit, I’m sorry,” he muttered.
“Nothing to be sorry about,” I answered softly and smiled tightly at the cashier. With one look, I knew she had been the one who had leaked we were there.
“I’m sorry! I didn’t know it would be like this,” she apologized. “If I did…” Her voice drifted off, and all I could do was nod.
The whole thing felt like an out-of-body experience.
The men hadn’t stopped yelling things.
Ugly things.
Jax had warned me about the paparazzi. About how mean and disgusting they could be.
“Come one, sweetheart, look at us, give us a smile.”
“You with Porter for his money?” Another one asked.
“Does he still do drugs? Are you his dealer?”
“Next time, wear shorter shorts, babe! Those legs are amazing!”
“Not to mention that ass!”
“Jesus,” Xander muttered. His hand covered my elbow, “We gotta go.” I nodded.
Nerves got the better of me, and I dropped my bag. All the snacks and drinks littered the ground, including the magnet for the city we were in. I’d also started to collect them at every stop to remind me of my time with Jax when everything would be done and over.
“Leave it,” the bodyguard muttered. Before we could step out of the store, there he was.
“Fuck!” Xander cursed. “Jax, you should have stayed in the SUV!”
“Tough shit. She’s mine,” my fake hubby growled, and for a moment, I forgot it was all for the cameras and press.
I believed it.
He was like my very own Prince Charming and a warrior all at once.
“You okay?” he asked, searching my face. His hands tilted it up to get a better look into my eyes. “You’re freaked.”
“I didn’t think they were that bad,” I softly answered, pointing behind me. The clicking never stopped, nor did the catcalls and shit being said.
Jax’ arm wrapped around me, and we hurried out with Xander taking the lead in front of us. When we stepped out of the store, I was not prepared in the slightest for the crowd that surrounded the buses and the SUV.
I had no idea how it was possible for that many people, mostly women, to pop up out of nowhere, yet there they were. I knew some fans followed us from stop to stop. The band didn’t mind because they knew a lot of them from back in the day, and for the most part, they kept their distance. Just smiled and waved at us from time to time. But right then and there, it was different. It was a chaotic mob.
“Shit,” Xander cursed. I looked at Jax.
Without hesitating, Jax picked me up like a groom would his bride, and I buried my head into his neck. Breathing in his masculine scent, letting the smell of leather, oil, and citrus soothe me. He always smelled so damn good, yet in that moment, I couldn’t get my heart rate to slow down.
“I got you. It’s okay,” he whispered into my ear as if sensing the whole experience had overstimulated me. And he wasn’t wrong.
“We’re going on the bus,” Xander ordered. I could feel the tension radiating from Jax as we hurried toward the big bus.
We had been riding in the SUV for a reason. We hurried in, the commotion behind us a dull roar the moment the doors shut. I felt everyone’s eyes on us.
