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I’m not shy when my clothes are off. I’m all about enjoying sex and not being ashamed about it. But sitting here, talking about the possibility of having sex with three rock stars that I was acutely aware of before ever meeting them, is an entirely different story.

Hell, if I had sex with all three of them, I’d be close to doubling my lifetime body count. I’m not too fussed about that number, but they’re also ridiculously out of my league.

“That is good to know.” Mal winks, licking his lips.

“You know, the tour has a nurse practitioner that travels with us,” Kincaid says conversationally. “We could all do a round of testing. It might not be a bad idea.”

“I wouldn’t mind,” Mal says.

“I’m down,” Riser chimes in.

I nod because speaking feels like a lot of work.

Riser leans over, offering me the blunt.

I take it, passing it off to Kincaid.

Smoking could calm me down, or it could make me unbearably paranoid. There’s no in between for me when it comes to weed.

“You don’t smoke?” Malcolm asks.

“Very occasionally, but probably not anytime soon.” I shrug. “I’ll take a gummy every once in a while. I just don’t like to be high out in public. I get too paranoid. I prefer to stick at home and chill.”

“Understandable.” Kincaid blows a huge cloud of smoke out of his nose.

Riser leans his arm on my chair and gets close to my ear. “Hey, wanna take a walk with me?”

I turn toward him, which puts our mouths dangerously close together.

I nod. “Yeah, I’d love to.”

Chapter Twenty-Seven

Riser

Lumen leans against the elevator wall as we head down. I’ve never walked around Columbia, so I have no idea where we might end up.

“Are you doing okay over there?” I ask, grinning. “It seemed like you needed some fresh air.”

She smiles, grabbing my hand. “You’re not wrong. It’s just been a long day.”

“We can go back upstairs and watch a movie,” I offer, interlinking our fingers.

“Nah, a walk sounds nice.”

The elevator doors open, and we step out into the hallway on the bottom floor.

Lumen and I are still holding hands, but I pat my back pocket with the other to verify that I have the key card. We make our way down the hallway and into the lobby.

The doors open when we’re still about ten feet away, and a large group of people spill inside. I don’t recognize the first few, but I frown when Theo walks through with a couple of his bandmates at his side. There are women dispersed around the group, and Lumen stops dead in her tracks, so I do too.

I’m familiar enough with the experience to guess that Tangled Desires went to a bar after the venue.

“Do you wanna run?” I offer, bending and keeping my voice down. It’s probably too late, but I would try to get us out of here if she asked me to. “We could hide.”

“Nah,” she says softly. “We have nothing to be ashamed of. They don’t either. It’s just going to be awkward for a while.”

“Yeah,” I agree.