Heartstrings (Rock With You #1) Rock Star Romance by Adriana Hunter Read Free Book Online Page A

“Surprisingly, it’s not just you.”
    Logan
glanced at the wine list, ordering something Melody didn’t catch. The waiter
returned with the bottle, pouring Logan a glass of the deep, red win.  He
took a sip, nodded and the waiter poured a glass for Melody.  She took a
long swallow of hers, scowling as Logan grinned at her.
    “On
your way to getting wrecked again? I’ll not be responsible for you…or what I
might do to you…if you do.”
    Melody
shook her head. “No, if you mean am I getting drunk. It’s been a long, strange
day. I needed a drink, and this is really good.” She set the glass on the
table, noticing there was far less in it than when she’d first picked it up.
    Slow
down, Melody… or you’ll be right back to where you were last time.
    “And
I suspect I was the start of it?” Logan took a sip of wine. “Couldn’t have been
easy for you to find me at your office, knowing how you feel about me.”
    “Seeing
you at the office was certainly a surprise, yes.” She took a deep breath,
feeling the warmth of the wine radiating through her limbs. For the first time
that day she relaxed.
    “But…it’s
nothing.” She waved her hand. There was no way she could explain to Logan
Ryan’s behavior…she didn’t think she even understood what was happening.
    “The
rest is work stuff and you said you didn’t want to talk about that.” She
resisted the urge to take another gulp of wine, instead toying with the wine
glass, twirling the stem between her fingers.
    “Tell
me about your band, Logan. I don’t know much about the type of music you play.
I’ve only heard the one song on the radio since…well, since that night.”
    Logan
laughed. “That’s what you call our night of passion, together? ‘That night?’”
    Melody
grimaced. “I don’t know what to call it, because I don’t know what it was…is.”
She pulled her glass closer, finally giving in, taking another swallow.
    Logan
sat back, watching her for a moment. “Alright…the band…Revival. We’d been mates
in school, messing around in garages and playing for our friends. Got the idea
we were good…started playing for free in the pubs, although we got in more than
one stramash…” Logan caught Melody’s puzzled look. “Bar fight, I guess you’d
call it. But failin’ means yer playin’, so we kept playin’. And we got better.
Enough so we were getting paid.”
    There
was a wistful smile on Logan’s face as he spoke. “It was good back then.
Sleeping on the road, writing songs in the wee hours of the morning, playing
out that night and singing the same, the words on a paper stuck to the floor so
I wouldn’t forget them. But it was us then, only us, and we were happy.”
    “And
that’s all gone now? Because of Jack Ashton?”
    “Aye.
It is…or it’s going fast. Me striking out on my own wasn’t so bad, but Jack’s
made it seem as though I’m leaving the band. And that’s not what I’m doing. The
band is my heart; the solo stuff’s just messing about. I’d leave that in a
heartbeat, to be honest. But Jack’s driven a wedge between us and I don’t know
if it can be pulled out.”
    Logan
looked across the table at Melody. “And then you, not knowing if you’re mad at
me or hate me or what. It’s been tearing at me, Melody. I thought I’d lost you
before I even had you.”
    Melody
laughed, shaking her head. “You haven’t ‘had me’ yet, Logan. You slept with
me—once. That does not make for a relationship. And now you’re my client.”
    Logan
shook his head, that charming smile of his playing around the corners of his
mouth. He reached across the table, taking her hands in his. “I know. But I’d
like the chance to make it something more.”
    “You
would? After just one night?”
    “Don’t
you believe in love at first sight?” Logan rubbed his thumb briefly across the
knuckles of her hands, before turning them palm upward.
    “Do
you?” she whispered. It seemed to Melody the room had gone