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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.”

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