Only The Beginning (Rockin' Country) by Laramie Briscoe Read Free Book Online

believe you just said that to me.”
    He laughed, a deep belly laugh. So hard that he had to put the phone down. When he brought it back up, he was brushing his eyes. “You are so easy to rile up. I can’t believe how innocent you’ve been able to stay while in this business.”
    She bit her lip. “I always had people around me that didn’t let me get involved in the sex and drugs side of it.” Should she admit to him her darkest secrets?
    “Really? Do you wish that maybe you had? Some of my best times were in my early twenties. I pretty much screwed anything that walked,” he admitted. “But now that I’m almost thirty, I’m much more selective. It’s not as fun as it used to be.”
    Steering the conversation away from her, she asked him. “What about the drug part?”
    “I experimented just like most young people do. Granted, I probably did it on a larger level because of our position. We did a lot of rock festivals back then where drugs were very easily accessible. I didn’t ever have a problem, but I did become a little too dependent at one time. Luckily, I have family who doesn’t want to see me go down that road. I don’t want to go down that road. So I stopped. I still drink; every once in a while I’ll have a cigarette or smoke some pot, but for the most part I’m through experimenting. That’s not to say other guys in the band aren’t, but I can’t tell them how to live.”
    He was so honest with her and she loved that. “I like that you’re honest with me. My last relationship…The guy wasn’t so honest, and it’s hard for me to trust now.”
    “Well that guy was a dumbass then. I can’t help but be completely honest with you. There’s something about you that makes me want to be honest.”
    She smiled tiredly. “I’m glad, because I want you to be honest with me—even if it’s not the easiest thing—it’s something I appreciate.”
    Garrett yawned again. “I’ll mark that down in my file labeled ‘Hannah’ in my head then.”
    “You have a file?”
    “Oh yeah,” he ticked off facts on his fingers. “You like carnations, anything coconut, and now I can add to that honesty.”
    “Yet, I know almost nothing about you. I don’t even have a file named ‘Garrett’ in my head.”
    His mouth hung open in shock, and he brought his hand up to his chest, holding it over his heart. “Ouch. Damn, girl. You know how to bring a guy down a few pegs.”
    “Somebody’s gotta keep you on your toes. I have a feeling you get what you want just a little too easily.”
    She did have a point there. He usually did get what he wanted, but not because it was easy. “I work for everything I’ve got and everything I want. If I decide that I want you, trust me. You’re going know it and you’re going say yes.”
    Hannah could hear the promise in his voice. “Then I guess I’m just gonna have to figure out if you want me or not.”
    “If you haven’t guessed by now, then I’m not doing my job right.”
    That warmed a place within her. The last man she had tried to have a relationship with hadn’t worked at it. She had done all the working, all the sacrificing, everything. This time around, she promised herself that it would be equal opportunity and she wouldn’t lay her whole heart on the line without him laying his heart on the line too. “You’re doin’ just fine,” she yawned on the end of her sentence.
    “You’re tired, I’m tired. I’m going to let you go.”
    It was true, she really was tired, but she didn’t want to let him go. “You’ll call me again?” she questioned.
    The smile that spread across his face was bright and wide, showing his dimples. “You bet, but you know you could call me too. I do like getting phone calls from beautiful girls.”
    She rolled her eyes.
    “Text messages too, nudie pics, whatever,” he grinned to show he was teasing.
    She laughed. “You are way too much.”
    “I like to keep things interesting, what can I say?” He made no