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If I just had sos His heart was safe, even if lanced back at Grant, as on the phone with a construction site that ere headed to three hours out of town He had wanted me to come with him, and I didn’t want to be away fronotes and talking on the phone to different people I had even heard hiue with his father It was a nice look into a different side of his life He wasn’t like the other socialites in Roseular job for a blue-collar company I liked it

He finally dropped the phone onto the notebook and looked at onna keep ed you out withwith you," I told him

His face transforers throughbetter"

He loved havingrin offYou ready for so off at the next exit

"Yes, I’ rabbed it Only two people would be calling me Dad or Mase

Dad’s name lit up the screen

"Daddy?" I said into the phone He rarely called me when he was on tour

"Hey I’m headed home There’s a problem with Es are going to blow up once they find you"

Find s are about to blow up? Who’s going to find me?"

"Some motherfucker leaked the info about your mom Some new staff ing When you cahter I was attacked by the paparazzi in fucking Paris tonight I’ anywhere near your mother The bitch has been fired and escorted off the property, but the press is covering the Manor The staff is in a panic They’ll be after you, too"

I had always been kept safe fro Now e it all "What can I do to help, Daddy?" I asked, worried about thethe wo Not a fucking thing, sweetheart Not a fucking thing I gotta get to your mom She needs me I’m sorry, but you’re on your own Just be prepared--they’ll find you It’ll all co You understand that, don’t you?"

He meant my life My secrets My privacy

"Yes, sir I know"

"I’irl," he said, and the pain in his voice was honest He really wished I didn’t have to face this But I had to figure this out onI can think of is you can coet you a rooet the story Too s It will all come out You can hide for a while, and I’ll hide you But it’s tiirl anyht It was time I faced this life The one I’d hidden from

"Call et there," I told him

"I will Nan’s story will co up and I stared down at aze on me

"Ithey know The media know"

"Shit," Grant moved the notebook between us and slid over to me I hadn’t even realized ere parked until that moment "You mean about your mom?"

I nodded "Yes Myfor me I won’t be hard to find They already knohere Rush lives He makes the papers randomly when they need some Slacker Demon family stories for the sainst his chest I had to tell hi now I just couldn’t foret near you I swear," he growled, tightening his hold onstory in the endary rock band’s lead singer was married to a wohter for years

Then there was me Their miracle child The child who shouldn’t have lived but did The one wholife The one who couldn’t have kids or it would kill her The one asn’t whole, whose heart never worked properly The pills I’d taken my entire life The precautions--it would all coirl The one everyone looked at as if she wasn’t norain

I had lived that life before, and I didn’t want it again I keptout, and I had no control

"Shh, it’s okay, baby I swear I will protect you I swear, I will," Grant murmured as silent tears ran down e

Grant

Holy hell This wasn’t so I could fix, and I hated it Harlow’s shoulders silently shook as her tears wet the front of my shirt Her life was about to be splashed all over theabout it

Rush had never had to deal with this because the world knew he existed He made the tabloids at times, but his normal life didn’t supply theet no peace I could take her away and hide her We could get on a plane and leave the dao to a secluded island soo away They will find me one day and until I face it--" she hiccupped "--they will be after me I have to face this And I need to check onabout sos I loved about her But right fucking noanted her to think about herself Kiro was used to the paparazzi He was used to being in theabout hiht and now she was about to be thrown into it

It wasn’t like the world didn’t know she existed They just didn’t know that , and Kiro’s exploits were a lot more fun

"Tell me what to do and I’ll do it Just tell me what you need," I told her asbroken with each sob

"I need to go back to Rosemary and pack," she said, si the first pulls of panic

"I have to leave Nan will be less interesting to the o back to LA and hide out I’ood at that"

"I can’t work in LA but I’ll call Dad and tell him to deal," I told her

She shook her head "No, you don’t need to corabbed both her shoulders and pushed her back so I could see her face Her tear-streaked face and big eyes stared up atyou leave me Ever Don’t you understand that?"