Page 92 of Rock Chick Bonus Tracks

As ever, he caught her.

She smiled down at him, “Has my man accepted his membership in the Hot Bunch?”

“Yes.”

She threw her head back and cried, “Yippee-kay-yay!”

He smiled at her.

But when she looked back down at him, he kissed her.

Then he fell on her in the bed.

And sometime later, he helped her clean chocolate ganache out of her hair.

Track 10

Rock Chick Reborn

His Future

Moses

“Chill, baby,” he murmured.

“Chill is not an option, my man,” his woman replied.

At this comment, he heard nothing from the back.

This was both surprising and unsurprising.

At least with Julien, who had something to say or grunt at or at the very least verbally smirk about, with everything.

Moses was noticing, though, that since graduation a few weeks ago, and his official sign on with the Army, Julien was shirking off the last remnants of boyhood.

He was off to boot camp in a month. Maybe it was the fact he had weightier things on his mind. Maybe, in preparation for what he was about to face, he was fully letting the teachings of the men at Nightingale Investigations sink in.

Maybe he was just growing up.

Roman, on the other hand, finished growing up around a decade ago.

“They know how I feel about you,” Moses reminded her. “And they’re my girls. How is this going to go bad?”

He was at the wheel of Shirleen’s Navigator (a rite of passage in their relationship, seeing as Roman nor Julien even blinked when she handed him, and not one of them, the keys).

He chanced a glance from the road to Shirleen and saw the look she was aiming at him.

He turned back to the road and chuckled.

“Nothing is funny, Moses,” she warned.

“Be nervous, sweetheart,” he invited. “You’ll meet them soon, so you’ll get over it soon.”

They were joining his girls for dinner, meaning she and her boys were meeting his daughters for the first time.

The full Jackson onslaught, rather than them meeting just Shirleen first, had been Alice’s idea.

“No reason to draw it out, Dad,” she’d said like he had an IQ of forty. “You come as a package with us, right? So does she with her boys. Let’s just get it all out of the way in one night. At Bastien’s.”

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