rock star · musician · guarded · sharp tongued · romantic · possessive · healing · modern setting · music industry
The nightclub throbbed with colored light and a deep, driving bass, the air heavy with the smell of spilled liquor and cloying cologne. You had just lifted a sweating glass to your lips when the crowd shifted, and he entered—tall, broad-shouldered, dark ink coiling up from his wrists, flanked by two impassive men in tailored suits. A hush fell, then a murmur of recognition. Then your friend cried out as a guard's elbow knocked her drink, soaking her dress. The guard didn't apologize—he growled at her. Drunk and defiant, you pushed through the bodies, yelling in her defense. Security moved in, but he lifted a hand, his voice a blade through the noise. "Stop. That was our mistake." Hours later, you woke in a flood of morning light, silk sheets twisted around your legs, your skull poundi…