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“He’s not. He knows me, and he knows that this is just a one-off. It’s fine. No big deal.”
I said the words, but I didn’t believe them. Everything about me and Daws felt like a big fucking deal and so far from a one-off. My heart told me to run with it, but my head had reservations.
And for someone who avoided intimate relationships, it was scary as fuck to consider that maybe, just maybe, I was gonna break my rule for Dawson. He’d already broken his rule for me.
“I don’t believe a word you just said,” Brodie replied.
I turned and looked my friend in the eye.
“I’m not sure I believe me either.”
CHAPTER 27
DAWSON
Iwatched Iain during soundcheck, knowing the guys were talking about us.
Not that I was close enough to hear what they were saying, but I knew them. And Iain was fooling nobody. Neither of us were. At least, nobody who’d been around us long enough.
For him, that wasn’t such a big deal, but for me?
It was a problem.
I didn’t want to be taken off his detail, but if I couldn’t focus when it came to his security, I needed to tell Regan. Not that she didn’t already know what was going on.
But if Iain decided that’s it, he and I weren’t going to fuck again, there would be nothing to tell. So, for now, I held off.
My phone rang, and I glanced at the screen:Unknown Number.
I had that awful feeling in the pit of my stomach again.
I stepped away from Van.
“Dawson Everly speaking.”
Silence. I quickly tappedrecord, just in case.
“Hello?”
“Leave him alone.”
The voice was low and raspy, but I didn’t recognize it.
“Leave who alone? Who is this?”
Then the line went dead, the telltale beep of disconnection.
Shit.
Regan was talking to Ace, and I waved her over.
“I think Iain’s stalker just called me again. They told me to ‘leave him alone’ and hung up. I recorded it just in case, but I didn’t recognize the voice.”
Regan regarded me with concern. “It’s not much, but we’ll take it. Send the recording to the PI.”
“Will do.”
“By the way, I talked to Greg about Harlow—about his comments to you and to me last night. Harlow apologized and said he’d be here today. Just a heads up, he’s arriving around seven.”
