Revelry (Taint #1) by Carmen Jenner Read Free Book Online Page A

pressure them into being just another emo punk rock band, I could totally learn to appreciate them.
    So far, I hadn’t seen much of Levi’s talent past having a massive member—that, let’s face it, probably deserved its own bunk on the tour bus. Ash had been pretty absent yesterday, but I knew from the tracks the label played around the office that he had skills, and I’d already been pretty clear on my feelings towards Zed and Cooper. I’d actually seen the band live before they’d gotten picked up. They’d played a little Irish pub venue near Central Station about a year ago, and as much as I disliked his stupid pompous arse, the fact remained that you couldn’t see Cooper Ryan on stage without feeling it right down to the very last nerve ending in your vagina. This was fact. And as much as I hated to admit it, I hadn’t been the exception to that rule.
    I run my hands through my hair. Not only is it sticking out at all angles, but it’s also limp and greasy at the roots. I move closer to the mirror, peering at the small white stick poking out from the nest at the back of my head. I wrap my fingers around it and pull out a lollipop, sticky and matted with my hair.
    “Oh, ick,” I say to my disgusted reflection and then I stare at the lollipop, wondering where the hell it had come from because I must have been all of seven the last time I had one of these. I throw the offending sucker in the bin and cradle my face in my hands. And for the first time since my grandmother’s funeral, I lose it. Right there on the disgusting floor of a dingy public bathroom, I fall apart. I cry. I breathe, and then I pull myself together. I leave the bathroom and I pull the last five-dollar note from my wallet. I march through the mall to the supermarket, where I buy a bottle of two-in-one. Then I go back to that bathroom and I wash my hair in a sink with a leaking tap and next to no water pressure, and I dry it by crouching down under the hand dryer.
    My hair poofs out like a big fluff ball. I look like a freaking Pomeranian, but at least I’m halfway clean. Just two more days and I’ll get paid. I can stay in a backpackers’ until I find somewhere more permanent to live. Just two more days and things will get better. I know they will.

Z ed had found me the following morning, and the one after that, cramped up in my tiny car. The record company had screwed up my pay, and if it weren’t for the free food stationed at the studio I’d have more than likely starved to death. I’d found a gym nearby and had stuck close by a group of gym bunnies as they entered the building early last night. I’d followed them as far as the elliptical machines before I’d made a run for the bathrooms. I’m pretty sure the manager was onto me, though, so I may have to find someplace else to shower tonight. Maybe I’ll take Zed up on his offer. I mean, I hate to ask anyone for anything, but until the record company sorts out my financial situation, I’m destitute. And losing a crap tonne of sleep. Finding him alone will be the hardest part, and isn’t it just my luck that when they are done for the day, the boys decide to leave together.
    “You coming, Red?” Levi asks, as I hurry through the building and out the door. He catches up to me though and slings his arm around my shoulder.
    “Thanks, but I’d rather choke down stale co—”
    “Babe, if you wanted to choke on my cock all you had to do was say so.”
    “Get off me, you pig.” I shrug out of his grip and practically bump into Cooper in an attempt to get away. He steadies me with his hand on my lower back, and I freeze. It seems as if it’s been a lifetime since I felt a pair of warm hands on my back, and even though he’s using the lightest of touches I feel a thrill all the way through me to my lady parts, which are entirely too warm and yeah, a little wet, not gonna lie.
    “You should come,” Cooper says and good god, do I want to. I want to ride that man as though he