Lullabye (Rockstar #6) by Anne Mercier Read Free Book Online Page A

to his lips. I bite back a growl. I’ll give him this one.
    “I’m sorry, Xan,” Lucy tells him, bringing their joined hands to her chest.
    “Promise to never leave,” he pleads, saying all the things I wanted to but held back.
    “If I could promise you that, I would. But you know that’s not how things work.”
    He nods.
    “I can promise to do my best?” she questions.
    “That’ll do,” he replies with a wink.
    “I wanted to ask you something Xan,” Lucy begins.
    “Should I go?” I ask.
    “No, no. It’s fine.”
    “Okay.”
    “What’s on your mind, Luce?” Xan asks.
    “Where’d you go those two days in New York?”
    A wall of sadness blankets him at the question and I know exactly where he went.
    “I went to see Tera.”
    Lucy gasps softly. “What?”
    “There’s so much you don’t know, Lucy, and I promise one day I’ll tell you—just not yet, okay? I have to work some shit out.”
    “Okay, okay,” Lucy agrees. “Can I ask—what is she to you?”
    One side of his mouth kicks up in a grin. “She is to me what Jesse is to you.”
    “Oh, wow. I had a feeling that’s what you were going to say. She’s your ‘one’.”
    He looks up at Lucy. “Yeah. There are just some things standing in our way right now that we’re both trying to get through—mostly Tera. I don’t want you to not like her because she’s not here and I’m sad, Luce. I saw that look on the bus that day. She’s got her reasons and they’re valid. I promise you.”
    Lucy meets his gaze head on. “Okay. I just don’t like to see you hurting. It hurts my heart.”
    “I know. I’m all right. Trust me, okay?” he asks.
    She kisses his hand she’s still holding to her chest. “I do.”
    “Good,” he replies.
    Sitting here, watching them interact, seeing their closeness, I know that if anything were to ever happen to me, he’d take care of Lucy—Tera or no Tera.
    “I need to pee,” Lucy announces, reaching for the ‘call’ button.
    The nurse hurries in and helps Luce to the bathroom.
    I look at Xan. “You’re in love with my wife.”
    He has the grace to look sheepish. “If she were my wife, wouldn’t you be?”
    “Yeah, yeah I would.”
    “You pissed?”
    “Nope. I trust you both and I know you,” I tell him.
    Xan nods. “I told you before we started on the tour that if you fucked up and she dumped you, I was going to make my move, but you totally manned up. I wouldn’t ever try to break what you both have worked so hard to make together.”
    I look at him and hate to admit this. “She’s in love with you, too.”
    He smirks. “Not the way she loves you, dude. Not even close.”
    “That how it is with Tera?”
    He nods. “Always has been. Always will be.”
    “Then do what you gotta do, man. Make it happen,” I advise.
    “We’re both working on it.”
    “Good. If you need anything, just say the word.”
    “Thanks.”
    I nod.
    “Why is it we have this same conversation whenever we’re in the hospital?” he asks with a grin.
    I shrug. “I’m not sure. Maybe because it’s easier to see.”
    “Maybe.”
    “Oh, that felt so good !” Lucy tells us as the nurse helps her back into bed.
    I can’t help but laugh.
    “What? It did,” she defends.
    “Sometimes after birth women have a hard time knowing when their bladder is full,” the nurse informs us.
    “I had to pee in this bowl thing so they can measure my urine, right?” she begins. Xan and I nod, smirks in place. “I overflowed it!”
    “Nuh-uh,” Xan scoffs.
    “Uh-huh,” Lucy defends. “Just ask her,” she says, pointing to the nurse.
    “It’s true. Mrs. Kingston did, indeed, overflow the measuring unit.”
    “I’m just glad I didn’t pee the bed,” Lucy states.
    “We’ve been over this,” Meggie cuts in. “It’s Jace that pees the bed.”
    “What the fuck?” Jace interrupts.
    “Jace Warner. Language!” Mama scolds.
    “Sorry, mama,” he says, “but what the fuck?”
    Mama just gives him the