Page 24 of Can't Fight the Moonlight

Chelsea sighed. "Chloe and Kevin are fighting. Adam seemed to be annoyed by that. I'm not sure what's going on, or if anyone is coming back."

"I think they'll be back," Brodie said. "Maybe. But we can have fun without them. I'm thinking about singing a song."

"You are?" both Lizzie and Chelsea said at the same time.

"Yes. Justin, Zach, you two in?" Brodie asked.

"I gotta go," he said quickly.

"I thought you were going to show me how much fun you can be," Lizzie said pointedly.

"I don't sing well."

"You don't have to sing well. You just sing," she told him.

"Come on, join us," Brodie said, as he got to his feet. "We'll find a good song."

Somehow, he found himself propelled to the stage with two guys he'd met less than a half hour ago. "What are we going to sing?" he asked. "No sappy love songs, or you two are on your own."

Brodie laughed. "No love in your life?"

"Not at the moment." He perused the list of song choices, trying not to wince at the older couple on stage currently attempting to sing"Just The Way You Are".

"Here's one," Zach said, putting his finger on the page. "What do you think?"

He read the title and grinned. "I like it."

Brodie laughed. "Let's do it."

A moment later, they took the stage and pounded out the lyrics to"Born To Be Wild."

Being on stage with the lights in his eyes, and the pulsing beat of the song running through his body, he felt wilder than he had in a long time. He wasn't in a business suit. He didn't have a tie choking his neck. He wasn't talking to investors or engineers. He was belting out a song in a bar in a town he'd never been to before with a couple of guys he'd just met. It felt both good and unsettling.If he wasn't himself anymore, who was he?

That question left his head when his gaze met Lizzie's. She was wide-eyed, as if she couldn't quite believe what she was seeing. And that made him want to shock her even more. He grabbed the microphone and rocked backward on the last chorus, practically knocking over Brodie and Zach as he busted out the line:"We were born, born to be wild."

The bar erupted as the song ended. Brodie slapped him on the shoulder. "Nice job turning us into your backup singers."

Despite his words, there was no anger on Brodie's face, just amusement.

"I was fine with it," Zach put in. "I could feel myself singing out of tune."

"You were great, both of you," he said. "I just felt like letting loose, which I don't actually do that often."

They moved off the stage as the next group stepped up. When he returned to the table, they were met with applause. Adam, Chloe, and Kevin had also returned, and seemed to have eased whatever tension was brewing among the three of them. He grabbed his beer and took a long swig, then he gave Lizzie a challenging smile. "How fun was that?"

"Really fun," she said with an approving gleam in her eyes. "I didn't know you had it in you."

"To be honest, I didn't, either."

"You have a great voice, Justin," Chelsea put in. "You can definitely sing."

"Hey, what about me?" Brodie complained.

Chelsea leaned over and gave her fiancé a kiss. "You can sing, too."

Brodie grinned. "I can't, but I just wanted the kiss."

Justin smiled at the sexy banter between them. They certainly made love look easy, which was not his experience. "I should get going," he said, thinking it was past time for him to head back to the inn. "It was nice to meet all of you."

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