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It’s a tatted wrist that lifts up above the sea of heads in front of him, with horns poised and ticking to the beat I keep.
A flash of night sky inked into pale skin I’ve had my lips on illuminates in the ocean of bodies like a beacon in the storm as they’re bathed in a wash of red.
Cedar.
She’s here.
Smashing the heel of my palm into the controller screen built into the shimmering body, I engage the riff to repeat the string of cords I play and slide the piece around my back until the body is smacking me on the ass and I move.
Cameras catch my palm as it meets the platform. Flashes capture my body catapulting off of the stage and my boots hitting the no man’s land between me and the screaming fans. Screams that amplify when my fingers wrap around the barrier and haul up onto the platform midway up the fencing. Hands grab onto my shirt without the guitar as a deterrent and tug me closer to the crowd, but I don’t see a single one of them.
I don’t register any of the faces that yell, scream, chant, and cry when I look down and motion with my hands for the mass to split.
Bodies press into others as a hole opens up with just enough space for me to toss my legs over the barrier and land with a thud I feel in my bones.
The movement is echoed by the beat racing off my back and the axe landing against me with a smack as I push forward a step and the crowd separates a little more.
Enough that when I trail my gaze across the faces looking at me, mine locks on a set of blue eyes that are going to haunt me for the rest of my life.
“Sweetness.”
In that moment, I don’t care about the elbows I catch, or the shoulders I check as I step closer because I don’t dare take my eyes off of her.
My torment.
And my salvation.
I know I’m running out of time. My recording will only last so long before I need to make a change to keep the show moving. But I refuse to turn around without her.
So I reach across the opening space and wrap my fingers around the back of Cedar’s neck.
The sea parts for her as she moves to me, the feeling of her in my grasp breathing a warmth back into that bruised spot in my ribs as her hands meet my pecs.
Cedar’s body against me, her smooth skin in my hands, and the rush that comes with having this woman anywhere near me has the rest of the fucking room fading away like nothing but her and I exist right here, right now.
“I’ve been looking for you.” My eyes flick between hers, our foreheads nearly touching, my other hand making its way to her hip and tugging her closer when she doesn’t push me away. “Fuck, where have you been?”
“I … um, I didn’t know where else to go.”
“So you …” My brow furrows when she sinks her teeth into that red bottom lip of hers, and I almost lose my train of thought. “So you came to watch us?”
Cedar shakes her head, her black locks moving across the fingertips still curled around the nape of her neck. “No.”
“Sweetness,” I growl and tighten my grip, bringing her closer still. “I don’t have time for games. What did you come for?”
“You, hotshot.”
Cedar’s lips meet mine in a crash that sends shocks right down my spine and has me wrapping her hair up in my fist to keep her close.
It’s like a piece to the puzzle of my life has finally clicked into place. Like the missing segment appeared in the last place I ever expected it, in a way that I certainly never knew I needed.
She’s here.
I don’t bother stopping the groan that escapes when she parts her lips and invites me in to tangle our tongues. And I definitely don’t stop her hands from snaking up my chest and burying themselves in my hair.
She tugs and I pull until there’s no space left between us and just as I think she’s going to pull away, she’s hopping up to wrap those sexy as sin legs around my waist and forcing me to catch her.
“Goddamn.” I’m all out of breath when I pull back, my hands firmly planted on her ass and absolutely copping every feel as she stares down at me with a wicked as hell grin and a smear to her colored lips.
