Page 56 of Behind the Lights

“Joey baby?” Lucas pleaded, “he meant nothing to me.”

“That’s not what you said five minutes ago,” the naked tool on the bed chimed in.

“Not helping, dickhead,” Stoli warned him. “Get him out of here too,” he told security.

“You can’t kick me out, I’m with Maiden’s road crew.” He stood, crossing his arms in defiance, clearly not caring that his deflating dick still bore the condom he just had buried in my soon to be ex’s ass.

“He can’t, but I fucking can.” We turned, finding Derek standing beside us. “You’re fired.” He nodded to the security guard before walking away.

The commotion drew a crowd which included Diamond and Mickey as well, Diamond nudged me, handing me a bottle of Jack.

“Come on, Joey baby, tell them I can stay,” Lucas begged, now standing directly in front of me and staring at me with the blue eyes that I had once given anything to, but now I found only disgusted me.

“Don’t ‘Joey baby’ me,” I told him, taking a swig from the bottle in my hand. “Get the fuck out and lose my number while you’re at it. We’re through,” I told him before walking away.

When the guys found me, I was sitting on a chair on the balcony with my feet on the railing, draining the bottle Diamond had given me moments before.

“Man, you alright?” Stoli asked, pulling up a chair beside me.

Diamond and Mickey followed suit. I loved these guys, if one of us hurt we all hurt and right fucking now, I was dying on the inside.

“I can’t tell you how happy I am that we never went bareback.” I chugged the rest of the bottle down.

“At least the now unemployed idiot he was fucking had the foresight to wear a condom.”

We laughed at Mickey’s comment, but sadly, my laugh was short lived.

“Someone wanna grab me another bottle?” As if on cue, Derek appeared and handed me a fresh one.

“You okay, man?” His care and concern blew me away.

“Thanks.” I took the bottle, peeling the plastic seal off and uncapping it. “Not yet, but I will be.” I held the bottle up in cheers before taking a swig.

“We’ve got the whole floor to ourselves. I asked security to set you guys up in one of the rooms, I hope that’s okay?” Derek informed us.

“Yeah man, thanks,” Stoli told him. “I’ll get Easton to have a runner bring our bags over.” He pulled his phone out and shot off a quick text.

“You gonna hog that bottle or you gonna share it?” Diamond asked me.

I passed it over and they each took a swig.

“Stoli,” I asked without turning to look at him. “You were telling me the truth when you said you saw him blowing that guy before, huh?”

Here we were at a jam packed after party, yet that question seemed to stop everything for us figuratively of course. Like it was just the four of us out here alone and we weren’t surrounded by tons of people.

“I’ve never lied to you, Joey.”

Those six words hit me like a ton of bricks and I felt like the biggest fucking asshole in the world. I’d let Lucas come between us and chose him over Stoli.I can’t believe he doesn’t fucking hate me.

“I love you man,” he said grabbing my shoulder.

“I love you too, brother. All you guys, you’re my boys and you tried to warn me and well, fuck,” frustrated with myself, I roughly ran my fingers through my hair, “I should have listened.”

One of the servers came out with a tray of meats and cheeses. “Here, shhh, I’m gonna give you guys the whole tray.” She sat it on the patio table, smiled and walked back inside. All the while Diamond’s eyes were plastered to her ass.

“See something you like?” Mickey teased.

Diamond licked his lips and followed her inside.

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