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“I’m tired,” I grouch.
She sits down opposite me, smoothing her hands over her knees, crossing her feet at the ankles. “Still don’t know what voice you’re talking about, but I’m sure you’ll point out the error of my ways as we go along.” Her chin lifts, and for a moment she says nothing more, she just looks at me. “What kind of drugs have you used in the past?”
“Christ, don’t muck around, Jonesy. I don’t know if I should be flattered or concerned.”
“Don’t be either. Just answer the question.”
She reaches across and takes a peppermint from the bowl, popping it into her mouth, waiting for me to answer her, and fuck me if the sight of her sucking on that thing doesn’t send a huge surge of blood straight to my groin.
Ah, shit. Now I’m hard, and these damn scrubs aren’t doing nearly enough to keep my dick from pitching a tent. I grab a cushion from the couch beside me, holding it firmly in my lap.
“I’ve smoked weed on and off since my early twenties.”
“Anything else?”
“I snorted a couple lines of coke at a party once, but I didn’t like how it made me feel. I never did it again. Drugs aren’t really a problem for me. Alcohol is the whore who really stole my heart. The cheaper the better, just like the women I’ve been hanging around with lately.”
I laugh, thinking she’ll find me funny. Turns out I’m wrong.
Sienna grimaces, her lips tight as she stares back at me. “We haven’t discussed the underage pregnancy scare yet. Care to elaborate?”
“Not really.”
“Try,” she demands gruffly.
I stiffen, letting my head fall back against the couch. My dick, not so much. Down below, I’m softer than a marshmallow now. Thanks a lot, Jonesy.
I can tell she’s not going to let this one drop, though, so I take a deep breath and spill the beans on what I’ll admit wasn’t my proudest moment.
“It was a drunken mistake. I don’t remember all the details, but I know for a fact I checked how old she was before we… we, well, you know. I swear I checked. I really did. She told me she was twenty-one, and she looked every part of it.”
“Where did you meet her?”
“At a nightclub in North Carolina. We’d played a couple of gigs down that way. Jaxon and I went out on the town. He started talking to some girls at a bar, so I joined him. They were cute and seemed to like the attention. One of the girls bought me a drink and then we danced for a bit. She had a nice body, cool smile, and she laughed at my jokes. One thing led to another, I guess, and next thing I know we’re making out. I took her back to my hotel room. She left the following morning with lipstick smeared all over her mouth, and her dignity in her purse.”
“Classy.” One eyebrow rises in my direction. “What happened after that?”
“I got on with my life. We played a few more gigs down south at some smaller venues, Georgia, Alabama, and Tennessee. Reed had been working on some new material and we were trying it out. We do that sometimes to see what songs resonate best with different audiences. We were gone for about five weeks on that tour.”
“And when you were done?”
“I came home to find some crazy-ass dude banging on my front door screaming at me that I knocked up his little girl. He said he’d call the cops if I didn’t own up to what I did.”
“And, did you?”
“I didn’t know what to say. I was too stunned to speak. But while I was trying to figure out what was going on, trying to call Nick, call Reed, call our lawyers, the guy suddenly announces he wants six figures deposited into his daughter’s bank account by midnight that night, and everything magically goes away.”
Sienna blinks. “You’re joking?”
“A week later they dismissed the entire allegation because it turns out she wasn’t pregnant after all. Her family was just looking at a quick cash grab after she shot her mouth off about sleeping with me.”
She looks down briefly as if it’s hard for her to ask the next question. “How old was she?”
“Seventeen.”
“So, not technically underage.”
“No. Not technically. But still way too young for me. I learned my lesson the hard way. It definitely won’t happen again.”
