Page 98 of You Rock My World
I’ll keep shining while you throw out names.
So just see me now, higher than you could dream,
No regrets, baby—I’m the one and only queen.
You settled for average, but that’s not my style,
I’m the one you’ll remember, mile after mile.
Just see—oh, you’ll see,
I’m the lesson you’ll never be free.
When the song ends, Dorian shakes his head. “This is pathetic.”
I don’t respond. Because I’m too busy panicking.
“She knows,” I whisper.
Dorian frowns. “What?”
“Billie knows who I am.”
“Josie, it’s just a bad pop song.”
“No.” I shake my head hard. “The title. ‘Just See.’ It’s basically Josie. ‘Your just-see life’?”
He blinks.
“And the pre-chorus—‘She got a name that says just fine’—it’s basically a different spelling of Josephine.” I wave a hand. “Even if the pronunciation is different. She knows.”
Incomprehensibly, Dorian smiles. “Wait. Are you telling me your real name isJosephine?”
I groan. “Dorian.”
His lips twitch. “How did I not know that?”
I swat his arm. “Be serious.”
He bites back a grin. “Okay,Josephine,” he says, voice teasing but eyes soft. “I’m beingveryserious.”
“No, you’re not. And I’m worried. What is your ex-wife going to do?”
“Nothing.” Dorian pulls me close to him in a side hug and kisses my temple. “I won’t let her do anything to you.”
This time, my phone goes off with an alarm, a reminder that I have to go pick up Penny from ballet practice.
We stand and Dorian walks me to the front door. “I’ll call before bed.”
I smile, the panic in my chest easing a little. “Okay. I’ll text you when I’m home.”
I turn to leave, but before I can go, he catches my hand.
“And Josie…”
I glance back.
He tugs me closer, his grip gentle but firm as he whispers, “I almost forgot this.”
