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I was angry enough to split the steering wheel in half The rage pu to pay for this Ruiningto take Alexa doas so else

I pulled into the garage I needed to get Alexa on the phone

Charlie kept ra She was in def-con five anize our plan until I see how the optics fall out It would help if I could talk to Alexa For now, please don’t leave Austin, Luke”

I ignored her There was no way she could keep me here if Alexa needed me in Nashville

“I’ve got to go, Charlie Tell Linc I’ll call hi up before she had a chance to shove another recommendation down my throat

I dialed Alexa’s number

“Baby, you ok?”

She choked out a sob “Luke”

“Hey, what the hell is going on? Are you ok? Talk to me”

We were all in on this thing She knew she could trust me with her life I always had her back I’d do whatever it took to take care of her, especially with fucking vultures co after her like this

Her life had been anything but easy She had gone through hell with her parents She had survived so much on her won They weren’t here for her now, but I could be I could be that h for both of us if she neededcould stop me My emotions ran deep and wide

And it hitbrick to the back of the head I loved her

I loved Alexa Wilde It was fierce and overpowering The kind of love that was brutal I had held her closer and tighter than any woman I had memorized every delicious morsel of her body I missed her when she wasn’t near me I listened to her das I knew the songs she hadn’t recorded yet I wore the dalasses she had shipped toin love with her Damn it

I heard her suck in a breath “I’m sorry I didn’t know if you’d call I didn’t think you’d want to talk to me”

“I can handle this Shit, Alexa I’ve been accused of worse” If she hadn’t met me at a charity event I wondered if she would have taken the chance she did Did that one sliver of good she saw in me lead us here? This was my territory I kne to roll with the punches of bad press I could get her through this fuckup