Hard Rock Unrehearsed (11 page)

“What have you done Dad?”  Jade asked nervously as she glanced at Diego.

“Nothing that you need to concern yourself about Princess, you just relax and we’ll talk when we meet up in Seattle.  I understand from Luis that you have two days set up as travel days to get to Seattle.  Mike despatched the company jet, it will pick you up tomorrow morning and fly all of you to Seattle to ensure that you avoid the media until such time as we release a statement as to the actions we will be taking against Rutherford, the station she works for and the corporation that owns that station.”  Jade could hear the cold rage in her Dad’s voice.

“I’m grateful for the jet Dad but don’t you think it’s a bit of an overreaction going after the corporation who owns the station?”  She made big eyes at Diego and the guys as she spoke to her Dad.

“Princess no one fucks with my family!  Absolutely no one!”  Jade gaped as her Dad swore, something she hardly ever heard him do.  “I didn’t work this hard to give security to my kids to have some jumped up tart talk trash about my girl.  She is going to regret the day she crossed swords with a Galloway.”

“Dad I don’t want you to go all terminator on her ass!  We need to find the bastard who fed her the false information and then you can have your fun.”  She gave big eyes to Diego again but he grinned at her as if her father’s actions were completely normal as far as he was concerned.

“Is Diego there with you?”

“Yes he is.”

“Let me speak to him Princess.”

With a sigh Jade held her phone out to Diego.  “My Dad wants to speak to you.”

As Diego took the phone from her she threw herself down on the couch next to Jimmy and dropped her head on his shoulder with a big sigh.

“Molly Rutherford is so totally fucked it’s just not funny.”  She murmured.

The guys sniggered as if they couldn’t give a damn as she tried to listen to what Diego was saying.  But he had walked to the other side of the room and was quietly talking to her Dad with a heavy frown distorting his perfect eyebrows.  Jade gave up trying to eavesdrop and closed her eyes instead and relaxed against Jimmy.  Their amazing night had turned into a horror show of epic proportions and all she now wanted was a shower, a cup of hot chocolate and bed.  The plans Diego had for them was going to have to wait because she wasn’t even a little bit in the mood after the shit they had just gone through.  Her eyes slipped closed as she listened to the murmur of Diego’s voice.

“Thanks Michael, we appreciate it.  We’ll see you in Seattle.”

Jade came awake as Diego stroked a hand over her hair as he finished his conversation with her Dad and threw her phone onto the coffee table.

“Okay so this is the plan.  Jade’s Dad is sending the company jet to pick us up and fly us to Seattle to ensure no media or paps get to us.  He’s putting us up in a corporate penthouse his company has there and arranging for a helicopter to transport us to where we have to be while in Seattle.  There will be a complete media blackout until further notice as my Dad has cancelled all media appearances scheduled for the band.  So if there is nothing else.”  Diego looked around as everyone shook their heads.

“Great, if you guys don’t mind I’m throwing you out.  My woman is dead on her feet and needs to get to bed.”

Trace grinned at Diego but said nothing just leant across, kissed Jade’s cheek and followed the others out of the room.

Diego bent over her where she was still lying on the couch and touched his lips to her cheek.  “Get ready for bed baby.”  His voice was soft and sweet.  “I have to check on Tank and the guys then I’ll be back.  Do you want me to order you a hot chocolate?”

He was so damned sweet!

“Yeah I would love a hot chocolate.”  Jade whispered.

“Okay baby.”  His kiss was soft and just a touch of the lips.

Jade watched him as he ordered her hot chocolate.  Diego Delgado was one incredibly hot man and he loved her.  Yay to her!

There was a tap on the door and Diego was at it before she could move.  She smiled as Rick walked in.

“Just popped in to say goodnight Princess.”

“Are you staying in the hotel?”

“No Princess, I’m staying with some friends of mine.”  He looked slightly uncomfortable and Jade frowned at him and then suddenly it registered and she grinned.

“It’s okay Rick I’m a big girl, and just to let you off the hook, I’ve always known what you and Mike sometimes get up to.”

“Shit Princess don't tell me that.”  Rick sighed.

Jade smiled up at him as he kissed her cheek.  “Good night sweetheart.  I’ll see you in the morning as I’m going to Seattle with you lot.  Michael’s orders.”

“Good night Rick.  I love you.”  Jade said softly as he reached the door where Diego waited.

“Love you too Princess.”

Then they were both gone and the door firmly closed behind them.

Jade changed into a camisole and soft cotton pajama pants, cleaned the make-up off her face and brushed her hair.  She was grateful when her hot chocolate arrived with no fuss and she curled up on the couch with it, sipping the sweet deliciousness.  Taking a deep breath she turned on the late night talk shows, she had to know what was being said.  She was in time to catch the start of one show.

The host stood in front of his audience with his signature grin as he waited for the applause to die down.

“Hello everybody!  Before we start the show tonight I want us all to reflect a little on the media storm that erupted around the band Storm Front tonight.  Their drummer, Jade Delgado, or as she’s known in music circles, Jay Gallado was accused on air by reporter Molly Rutherford of aborting her child, of being a lesbian, of sleeping with her uncle, of sleeping with her father, of using sexual favours to get to the top of her profession, so many accusations it just boggled the mind.”  He held his hands up as the audience erupted.

“Easy now, I’m not saying any of it is true, in fact I’m saying it is all a pack of carefully constructed lies.  The Galloway family have responded in the media with the following statement.  For those of you who don’t know, Jade Delgado is the daughter of billionaire businessman Michael Galloway.  So let’s get to the statement."

"The Galloway family will at this time answer no questions in the media.  The matter has been handed over to our legal representatives and they will be pursuing the matter to the fullest extent of the law.”

There was silence in the audience and then a voice shouted.  “Why won’t they talk to the press?  What are they scared of?”

The host had his hands full with the storm that erupted.

“Whoa there people!  Just think about it for a minute!  If your daughter was just attacked in such a manner on national television would you put her out there again?  Would you let her suffer through it again?  If she was my kid I would certainly not let any reporter anywhere near her.  She lost a child and her husband in a three month period.  Those among us who have a life partner and a child empathise with her loss.  She was only twenty years old at the time, a young girl who had to go through one of the hardest life experiences there is.”  He looked around the silent audience some of whom nodded with agreement.

“I want to state here on live television that Jade Galloway Delgado has my full support.  I don’t believe any of the drivel that Molly Rutherford sprouted on her so-called exposé.  Miss Rutherford needs to go back and re-check her facts.  I had my people check those very same so called facts and it quickly became clear that it was a carefully constructed smear campaign against Ms Delgado.  That’s all I’m going to say about it, so let’s get back to the show.”

Music played and the host walked to his desk as Jade turned the television off.  She sat quietly for a few minutes before she slowly rose to go and brush her teeth.  She avoided her eyes as she brushed, spitting and rinsing like an automaton.  Crawling into bed she drew the covers over her shoulder and curled into a ball as the tears she had been suppressing all night came.  The tears turned into full out sobs as she cried for her child, for Val and for the girl she had been.  In one move Molly Rutherford had ripped the scar wide open again and it bled through Jade’s tears that soaked into her pillow.

She never heard Diego returning he was just suddenly there in bed with her, drawing her softly into his chest and folding her in his strong arms.  She felt safe, she felt loved, and she felt as if after an extremely long and tiring journey she had finally come home.  She heard his deep voice murmuring against her hair, assuring her that she was safe, she was his and she was loved.

“I’ve got you baby, sleep, I’ve got you.”  His deep voice soothed as his big hands kept her tight against him.

She slept.

CHAPTER ELEVEN

Diego lay in the dark with rage boiling through him.  He hadn’t only checked on the security measures they had in place to protect the band while he was out of the room, he had been in contact with Clint.  The fuckin’ bastard who was trying to ruin Jade’s life hadn’t made a move yet.  It was still unclear where the package that had been delivered to the Rutherford bitch had come from.  Tag was on it though.  The two of them with Tank and Hanson had gone through Luis’s suite with a fine tooth comb and had found two listening devices that they had missed on their midday sweep.  Or maybe not missed, they could have been placed after the sweep had been done and that meant that one of his crew was a traitor because no one else had had access to that suite before they had the band meeting to decide on a course of action.  What the hell was going on here?  Who hated Jade to such an extent?  Who the fuck on his team was selling them out?  He had been so sure he could trust all of them as they had been working together for a fuckin’ long time.

Diego had no answers just a whole fuckload of questions and he had to protect the woman in his arms at all costs because her sobbing had almost broken his heart at the sadness of it.  He had loved his brother, he still did, but there were unanswered questions regarding the day he died that needed answers and the man who had the answers was Jonathan Taggart.  If Tag thought he was going to let sleeping dogs lie he was making a big mistake because he had a hunch that everything that was happening to Jade was somehow connected to that day.  Diego wouldn’t rest until his girl was safe and happy and if that meant making Tag unhappy then so fuckin’ be it.

Closing his eyes he drew in a deep breath, filling himself with the scent of the woman he loved as she lay sleeping in his arms and drifted into sleep.

Jade slowly came awake and then froze.  A heavy arm lay over her and there was a very warm presence at her back, and then she remembered.  Diego, he was in bed with her, his one arm curled under the pillow on which she lay while the other was curved over her waist, her back was tucked in tight against his chest and his heavy thigh was shoved between her legs.  Even in sleep he had totally claimed her.  He was obviously a cuddler and wanted her close.  As she moved the hand on her midriff slid up and closed over her breast, giving it a soft squeeze.  Then his head dipped and his lips trailed over her neck as he breathed her in.

His deep sleep rough voice rumbled against her neck.  “Morning baby.”

“Morning.”  She whispered shivering as his mouth slid up to the hinge of her jaw and he pressed an open mouthed kiss there.

The arm under the pillow slid out lifting her head slightly then curled over her chest pulling her even tighter in to him.  The hand on her breast slid down and under her camisole stroking the skin on her belly then slid right up until his thumb ended up stroking the underside of her breast.  His hard thigh pushed in against the soft core of her while the other hard part of him pushed insistently against her bottom.

Diego groaned then slid his hand out of her camisole and turned her towards him.  He lifted himself up over her as his hand slid under her camisole again.  The thumb doing it’s stroking thing again.   That thumb of his was a lethal weapon!  His head dipped towards her and planted soft kisses all along her jaw before slipping his mouth to her cheek and down over her mouth.

That’s when she found out that if there was one thing Diego Delgado did extremely well it was kiss.  It consumed her and she gave back as much as she received.  Lips, tongues and even teeth were duelling with each other as they kissed.  The kiss drew her in so deep that when he lifted his head she was breathless and both her arms were around his neck, her hands deep in his hair keeping him close to her.

“Baby I want you.”  He murmured in a rough voice as he looked down into her eyes.

“I want you too.”  Jade whispered back then gasped as his thumb was suddenly right there, giving her nipple a soft swipe.

A knowing grin appeared as he watched her expression and that thumb moved backwards and forwards sending tingles through her down to right there!  Suddenly her nipple was softly pinched and then pulled and the tingle became a wave of sensation and she gasped as she felt herself start throbbing right along with her heartbeat.

The hand on her breast moved away, slid down her belly into her pants and panties and was cupping her gently while the heel of his hand rubbed over her clit sending shards of sensation through her.  “Baby you wax.”  He groaned.  Jade moaned out loud and arched her pelvis up towards him while his eyes were latched on to hers, watching her, only to slide away to watch his hand working in her pants.

“Not working for me, have to see this.”  Diego muttered in a rough voice as he slid his hand out of her pants and she moaned her denial.  He was suddenly gone and then his hands were back and her camisole was whipped off in a flash.  Going onto his knees over her both hands took hold of her pants and dragged them down her legs, taking her panties with them and suddenly she was lying naked in front of him.  She watched as his face changed when he saw her tattoo.

“Shit!  You have a tattoo right there!  Who the fuck saw you like this?  Who touched you where only I am allowed to touch?”  He snarled at her.

“My friend Pixie, she's of the female persuasion, does all my work Mr Jealousy Jones.”  She grinned wide when his face relaxed.

“Okay baby that’s acceptable, as long as she’s the only one who works on your skin I’ll stay happy and everyone stays breathing.”

Jade gasped as he traced the outline of the tattoo on her lower belly, he smiled at her gasp and opened his hand over her belly, holding her in place. Diego sat over her on his knees staring down at her body, his hand tracing lines over her breasts and belly.  “You are so beautiful baby, so very beautiful.”  An extended finger rubbed softly over the line of neatly trimmed hair that covered her pussy.  “And you wax and trim, damn baby I love a neatly trimmed pussy, makes eating you so much better.”

She didn’t know how to answer that so she kept quiet only to sigh with delight as he levered himself down over her, fitting his mouth over hers and kissing her deep, oh so deep.  Jade ran her hands over his broad strongly muscled back, alternately pulling and stroking from his shoulders down to his lower back as she revelled at being skin to skin with him.  He still had his pajama pants on and she slipped her hands down and in to cup his ass, it elicited a groan and had him rubbing himself against her.  She could feel the heat and hardness of him through the fabric and she arched into him.

“I want to see you as well Diego, take them off.”  Jade gasped out as she pulled at his pants but his hand closed over her breast and tweaked her nipple causing a shudder to run through her.

“Not yet baby, if I take them off now I won’t get to play and it will be over too soon, there’s a lot I want to do before we get to that part.”

His slid to the side of her and watched his fingers as they caressed their way down to where she was throbbing so hard and felt so desperate for his touch that she gave a loud moan when he stroked over her.  Then his fingers slid through the wetness between her legs and moved right in to where she throbbed.  He slid them through the wetness so demandingly, so deliciously and strummed her clit with his thumb so masterfully that her orgasm caught her unawares and bowed her back.  Then his hand was suddenly gone and she felt disappointed at the loss.  But not for long.

His mouth was suddenly right there, taking over where his fingers had left off.  He was incredibly good at it and it was patently obvious that he didn’t just do it because it was expected.  No, Diego Delgado did it because he liked doing it.  He did it because he got something out of it, needed it from her.  He kissed her down there just like he kissed her mouth.  It was intense, lips, tongue and a touch of teeth on her clit just to keep her on edge.  He added his fingers and it sent her hurtling into another orgasm so intense she screamed.   She rated it at least an eight!  An eight!  Who knew you could get an eight from having your man go down on you!  This was a first for her.

She was still shuddering when he reared up over her, ripped his pants down and then he just slid right in.  Filling her up so full she gasped.  He fitted in her tight, so tight it was uncomfortable but then she hadn’t had sex in almost eight years!  It was to be expected but then again Diego was a big man, a big man everywhere!  He stilled giving her a chance to get used to him before he started moving, slow and steady.  But that wasn’t what she wanted, what she needed.  She needed it hard and deep.

“Harder babe, please!”  Jade begged.

Diego went solid on her, bent his head to look down at her, then grinned.  “Anything for my baby, anything at all.”  He grunted as he lunged and seated himself deep.

He powered deep, hard and fast using the strength of his back and thighs.  Jade swore it felt as if he powered himself right into her womb as she arched up into his thrusts.  She liked it, she liked all of it.

Still powering deep he went on his knees and pushed her knees out and up exposing her to his view and his finger when to the magic spot.  As he rubbed and circled her clit magic flooded her body and it built in her.  She felt it rushing towards her like a freight train, huge, so huge!  Diego was pounding into her his face intense, his eyes heated as they slid between her eyes and what he was doing between her legs.

“You need to get there baby.”  He growled as his finger worked and the magic built.  “I need you to get there!”

Moving over her again he took her mouth in a hard kiss, sucking at her tongue then leaving her mouth and shoving his mouth against her neck, giving her small open mouthed biting kisses.   The hand not busy with her drew her leg up around his back and she threw the other one around as she got his intention, it got him even deeper in her and she shuddered as she clasped her arms around his shoulders.  Through all of it he kept pounding and his finger kept rubbing and suddenly it was there!

It hit her so hard she screamed out his name and it bent her back right up and off the bed.  She was moaning and calling his name as he pounded in harder slid his hands under her ass to lift her for him and pushed in so hard he moved her body up the bed

Diego gave a deep groan and shouted her name as he pushed deep and came.  She held him as he shuddered and groaned and as she twitched and moaned with aftershocks.  He slid his hands out from under her ass and hugged her to him while he stayed within her.  She listened as his breathing steadied and loosened her grip on him as he pushed up on his forearms to look down at her.

“Holy shit baby!  Never ever had it this good, not ever.”  He leant down and kissed her softly.  “I love you baby.”

Jade smiled up at him, and she knew her love for him was visible in her eyes.  “Love you too.  Have to say all the talk about you was true, never had three orgasms in one go babe.”

Diego just grinned one of those superior male grins as he looked at something behind her.

“Fuck me baby I think that was close to a force ten because this bed is wrecked!”  Diego laughed as she jerked her head up to look around the bed.

Shaking her head she laughed up at him and he shuddered as she clenched around him.  “That was easily a force fifteen in my book Delgado, you rocked my world big man.”

“I didn’t hurt you sweetheart did I?  I was rough there towards the end baby.  I should have taken more care with you.”  Diego asked with concern.

“No, you didn’t hurt me, I might be a little sore today but it’s a good kind of sore.  It’s the kind of sore that will remind me of you the entire day until we can do it again tonight.”

“Damn baby I’m still semi-hard for you but you’ll have me hard as a rock again if you keep on sharing.”  Diego slid in and out and then froze with a strange expression on his face.

“Fuck!”  He said softly and then leant down and pressed his lips to hers in a soft close mouthed kiss.  “I forgot baby, in all the excitement of having you naked in my arms I forgot.”

Jade frowned up at him.  His eyes were heated and intense all at the same time as they searched her face.  He moved on her again and she shivered as he slid in and out.

“I forgot to put on a condom baby.”  Jade stiffened then forced herself to relax as she worked through the implications.

“Are you clean?”  She asked softly.

“Yeah I’m clean I had my regular check up for insurance purposes right before the tour started and I haven’t been with anyone months before or after.”

Jade grinned at his dazed expression.

“So do you screw up and forget the condom often or was this an aberration?”

“Baby I never fuck without a condom, never!  Damn sweetheart even as a horny teenager I always kept my junk covered.  There is no explanation other than you fuck with both my heads when I’m anywhere near you.  Shit woman!”  He shook her gently as she laughed at him.

“Are you on birth control baby?”  Diego watched her carefully.

Jade didn’t know if he was going to like her answer so she just blurted it out.

“I stopped taking birth control after Val died.  I’m sorry, I should have warned you and reminded you about the condom.”

Diego looked serious as he moved off her and tucked her into his side turning her head with his big hand so she would look up at him.