“Ah.” She turned back to West, and Dean clicked back to Liana’s latest message.You should go to your bunk.
Too obvious. Jackie’s watching.
That’ll kill the mood.
Nothing kills my mood for you.
Awww.
You don’t sound busy.
I want to wait for you.
Killing me in a different way now.
Soon. Forty-five minutes.
— —
The problemwith a lie is that you inevitably get caught in it.
While Liana had been sexting with Dean, Andrew had tweeted that she would be doing a live WhisperSnip broadcast from her hotel at nine o’clock, and there were now three hundred people expecting her to show up and be funny and sexy and sweet—the last thing she wanted to do right now for anyone other than Dean.
She wanted to be Sweet Tits and get ravished by her bodyguard, but apparently that was the kind of fantasies she couldn’t allow herself if she didn’t come up with a better cover story.
“Okay,” she said weakly as they climbed off the bus.
Dwayne gave her a sympathetic smile. Little did the driver know that it wasn’t fatigue talking—she was just being selfish.
“You want to join in the fun?” She teased him.
He surprised her by saying yes, which is how literally everyone from the bus ended up in her room fifteen minutes later.
In the same span of time, Dean sent her five dirty text messages, and one sweet one.You take such good care of your band. That’s hotter than almost anything else.
Almost anything?
You touching yourself in the back of the bus still wins.
Mostly sweet, anyway.
She tucked her burner phone away in her bag and set up her regular phone on the tripod after signing in to her WhisperSnip account. As soon as her face appeared in the live streaming video, hearts started dancing up the screen.
“Awww, thanks for the love, everyone!” She blew a kiss to the screen.
Usually she prepped for these things, because usually they were planned. Not a freaking lie so she could be alone with dirty text messages.
“Let’s do a Q&A tonight,” she ad libbed. “I’ve got the usual crew here, plus Dwayne our driver is making a guest appearance. Those of you who regularly watch these broadcasts will remember him from our first recording on the tour, when I showed you the bus. Say hi, Dwayne!”
She swivelled her phone around and Dwayne waved.
Andrew started laughing from where he was watching on his own phone, volume turned off. “Oh, lots of comments now. They saw Dean.”
“Uh oh.” She made a face as she spun the camera back to herself. “Oops. That’s the guy with the arm from the last video. Ignore him.” She looked over at Dean and shrugged apologetically.Sorry,she mouthed.
He gave her a slow wink.It’s okay.
“Okay, what do you guys want to know…” She perused the list popping up. “New music? Yeah, we’re working on some stuff on the road. Just rough ideas right now, but I’ve got a new album in the pipeline. I’m excited.”
