Full Circle (Rockin' Country #3) by Laramie Briscoe Read Free Book Online Page A

band had flown in to show support, and Stacey was spending the night with Brad. Garrett still wasn’t happy about his sister in a relationship with a band member. She still had awkward moments when anyone mentioned the dinner where he and Brad had almost comes to blows. “I hope so, but you never know with her.”
    “I’ve been trying to talk her into coming with us for weeks. Maybe she cares about you enough to do it.”
    The way he said it made her heart constrict. “Oh Jared, she cares about you, but she’s scared.”
    “And she doesn’t think I am? Love is scary.” He rubbed his chest, pulling his lip ring between his teeth.
    A small smile played on Hannah’s lips. This was the first time he’d ever alluded, at least to her in words, that he loved her friend. “Love is very scary, but sometimes you have to throw up your hands and let it lead you whichever way it may.”
    “Kinda like letting Jesus take the wheel?” His tone was dry.
    She laughed. “Exactly like that. Maybe that should be your new motto.”
    “Ha! They’d send me straight to hell.”
    He got up, walking out of the lounge area as she called out words to his back. “I have a feelin’ she’ll be here for Valentine’s Day! You better have a good gift for her, or else you’ll have to answer to me.”
    Laughter could be heard in the commons area of the hotel, and she could tell the guys were laughing at her, but that was okay. If it helped Shell become a more permanent part of their lives on the road, they could laugh at her all they wanted to. It wasn’t the first time, and she was sure it wouldn’t be the last.

Chapter Seven
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    “A re you sure you have everything you need?”
    Hannah felt like she and Garrett were going to the prom. He’d posted a ton of pictures of them on Instagram, and they’d posed for even more so that the band and management could take pictures of them together. Now Stacey and Marie were situating them this way, and that, trying to make sure that they looked flawless together.
    “I have everything,” Hannah assured them.
    “Garrett, make sure you help her when she steps out of the limo,” Marie told her son as she shook out the train on Hannah’s dress, a Cavalli number that had been expressed for her.
    He rolled his eyes at his wife, pulling a face that caused her to giggle. “Mom, I think I got my wife, it’s good.”
    “I’m just so proud.” She pulled them both into a hug.
    Garrett pulled back and looked at Hannah in a way that made her heart stop and breath become shallow. “If anyone’s proud, it’s me. All I did was sing on it; she wrote it. This night is hers. Tonight I’m the arm candy.”
    She fought to keep the tears out of her eyes. Garrett was normally sweet, but those words were some of the most romantic she had ever heard in her entire life. Songwriting was something she loved and she thought she was good at, but she’d never been recognized for it before. This was definitely a special night for her. “Thank you, but you are way more than arm candy. You’re gonna be the thing that keeps me sane when we perform in front of everyone tonight.”
    That was something he was nervous about. He could hold a crowd of peers in the palm of his hand; the Grammys was a contemporary music crowd, and he wasn’t sure anyone would know who the fuck he was. He would do it for her, because for her he would do anything, but it didn’t mean he was completely comfortable with it.
    “We need to get goin’,” she told him as she glanced at the time on her phone and stuck it in her clutch.
    “Alright.” Marie came up to them, holding two plastic shot glasses. “Let’s do a celebration toast real fast and then send these two on their way.”
    Everyone held up their shot glasses, except Jared, who held a bottle of water, and toasted them for good luck.
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    “Are you nervous?”
    They had successfully made it into the limo and were in the long line of cars that