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Minutes tick by with no further responses. I don’t blame her, she’s probably passing out in our fancy hotel beds without us. Just like I would still be had I not been stuck here. Or out looking for her ass.
“Aria!” I call out with a stomp to the wall near my hanging feet, trying my best to ruin her sexcapades, but no one answers me.
Dammit, I want to fucking go home.
“Ian!” I try, but he just ignores me like a prison guard avoids speaking to the inmates.
I would try running for the door again, but that didn’t work out so well the last time. Which was like two hours ago.
No, this time, Mac and his bodyguard are stationed outside for privacy reasons. I can still see the silhouette of Mac’s hair through the shade in the small window set into the door.
They’re assholes, too.
Fuck everybody.
27
ARIA
Big badass Rex fucking Thompson is laying on my bare chest in the bed of his tour bus as we ride into the next town for yet another show.
It puts us within twenty minutes of home for me, where I intend to get my ass back into the studio to prep for opening tomorrow.
Aurora is pissed at me, Cedar chose to head home already for an early appointment I know she’s regretting making. She’s never been a morning person, but apparently it’s a big client she had to work into her schedule.
She never did share where the hell she ended up for most of the night after she ‘addressed’ Rex—we’ll call it that, anyways—but she’d messaged Aurora to let us know she was safe and back at the hotel.
I think she’s pissed at me, too, but I’m having a hard time finding it in me to care too much as I stroke Rex’s dark blond curls and listen to him snore into my chest like he hasn’t slept in ages.
His tattoos pop colorfully on his bare skin, drawing my attention more than his sculpted body.
This man … Jesus, he’s willing to give up his career, his passion for a chance at a life with me.
How the fucking fuck did this become my life?
That’s the question I can’t answer, and I know all too well not to ask too hard or the universe might jerk it away from me.
I make Rex fucking Thompson feel like a man. Like a normal human being.
Which everyone deserves.
I caress his muscled bicep gently with the back of my fingers that went numb long ago as I wonder about my sister.
I know Aurora feels left out a lot. She clung to Cedar as her best friend because she could never find one in her grade that clicked as well as C does. I love that they get along and care about each other. It makes hanging out so much easier.
Makes my life easier.
But does it make hers easier?
Another question I can’t answer and I’m not sure I’m supposed to anymore. I think it’s up to her to figure out what she wants out of this life.
Maybe Jonathon would be good for her …
“Baaabe …” Rex drones, his sleep-ridden voice even deeper than normal, the timbre sliding over my skin and landing straight in my groin. I bite my lip, keeping my voice low.
“Yeah?” I answer, not sure if he’s awake enough or if he’s checking on me again like he has throughout the morning.
I think he’s still in disbelief, too.
