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"I’m here Yeah, around seven thirty"

"I’ll see if I can find out who sent it If you get another one, make sure you don’t delete it"

"It scared me," she admitted

"What did it say?"

"‘You took what’s et aith it’"

"Probably some jealous ex of your new boyfriend’s It was most likely an empty threat, but I’ll still check up on it Are you still scared?"

"I feel better now" Ethan alwaysshe overreacted She’d never been threatened like that before

"If you need your bodyguard a couple weeks early, I can fly out Where are you now? On your way to Saint Louis, right?"

"How did you know?"

He was quiet for a long moment "I sort of mapped out your entire trip based on the tour dates posted on Sinners’ website"

Reagan laughed "See You are paranoid and overprotective"

"You can count on it"

"I’ll be okay, Ethan Thanks for being there when I needed you"

"You can count on that too"

Chapter 15

Several days later, standing in the dressing room of the venue in Indianapolis, Trey held his cell phone in an iron grip "What do you mean, you’re stuck in traffic?" Trey asked Brian "We have to be onstage in twenty minutes"

"It can’t be helped, Trey I didn’t order a car fire on the interstate in an atte off to LA every frickin’ night--"

"I have other obligations now, Trey I know the word ‘responsibility’ isn’t in your vocabulary, but maybe you should think about soodda with Brian Theofabout those twenty thousand fans who paid to see us perfore at ten o’clock Not ten thirty Not eleven Ten"

"So stall the to be late"

"Stall thee to do his knock-knock joke routine?"

"You’ll think of soht of Reagan laughing with (or at) Eric "You knohat? We’ll just start without you"

Trey hung up before Brian could say anything else Trey found Sed drinking a beer with several fans who’d scored VIP passes fro to be late," Trey told hilanced at the clock "Like how late?"