Hard Rock Unrehearsed (26 page)

“Hello LA!”  Trace screamed out as he ran out on the runway on the front of the stage.  The runway had been added to the stage set up for the last two shows only.  He stood at the end of the runway laughing and throwing comments back at the girls then ran back as Jade counted them in.  They played and laughed and joked with each other and the crowd joined right in.  The adrenalin ran through all of them and they played harder and louder than on any of the other nights on the tour.  Trace’s voice raged and cajoled and whispered through the stadium setting it alight.

Jade played so hard she broke two sticks, the second one shattering so completely pieces of it flew into the air and fell onto the front of the stage.  Trace grabbed the pieces and lobbed them into the crowd as he ran out on the runway.

“Hey sweet thing how about a song?”  He half turned back towards the stage as he spoke.  “She’s a fuckin’ amazing drummer but you should hear her sing!  Makes your palms sweat!”  He laughed as Jade smashed her sticks down on the snare to interrupt him.

Suddenly Max was there right beside her and shoved at her to get off her drum stool.  Giving in gracelessly she grumbled as she got out of her chair taking Tag’s hand to help her off the high drum stage.  All the while Trace was chattering away to the crowd but she just wanted to shove a drum stick up his nose!  They had not rehearsed this!  Taking the towel Tag held out she dried her arms and patted the sweat off her face before walking out onto the front of the stage to screams of ‘sweet thing’ echoing around the stadium.

Trace was waiting for her.

“What are you doing?”

But he ignored the question, taking her hand and drawing her to the front of the stage.

“We’ve got some help tonight to get us through the next number.  Give a big welcome to Max of ‘Killing Fields’!  He’s going to play drums for this song.  The song was written a few years ago by Max and Val Delgado and tonight Jay and I are going to sing it for you.”

Jade gasped as Max played the opening sequence of
‘Hypnotised’
, a song that Val had written for her with Max.  Max counted the band in and Trace was off and racing down the runway.  Her heart was beating in her throat as she sang the opening lines while standing unmoving on the stage.  But it moved her, moved through her and she could no longer stay unmoving as she stalked down the runway towards Trace while singing as she reached him he let rip and joined her.

It felt as if they were soaring as they sang, as they screamed the lyrics at each other.  It came to a crashing end as Jade softly sang the last line while looking back at Diego where he was watching from backstage.

Waving at the screaming crowd Jade made her way back to the drums.  Max wrapped her in his strong arms as she reached him giving her a hard hug then lifted her back onto the drum stage.  They ended the night on an incredible high, doing two encores.

Backstage they were caught up by those VIP’s who had backstage passes and it took a while before they got to their dressing rooms.  Jade felt like a sardine in a tin can squished between Diego and Tag as they guided her through the crush to the meet and greet.  She signed various body parts, t-shirts, hats and anything shoved at her before the thirty minutes allocated ran out.  Along with the guys she was again marched back to the dressing rooms where Mel waited with heaven knew what she was supposed to wear to the after party.

He was going to kill Mel!  She had warned him that she was going to sex-up his woman’s clothes but it was hell trying to hold on to his temper.  His woman looked so hot he wanted to grab her and leave.  Her hair was loose and showcased her beautiful face, her make-up heavier than she ever wore it but shit she looked good!  She was dressed in a very short black flirty skirt made out of some kind of lace that left her thigh high lace top hose exposed to all and sundry while her feet were encased in sky high calf length boots, an exact replica of the ones she had worn to play in, only with a heel.  But that wasn’t the worst, her shirt wasn’t a shirt, it was made out of completely see through black netting tied on her right shoulder leaving the left bare and showcasing her tattoos that ran from her shoulder to her wrist.  Her bra was a black and silver piece of sin that glimmered through the netting.  He was definitely going to kill Mel Harris, right after he fucked his woman in those boots.  Fuck!  He was as bad as the assholes crawling all over her!  Taking a deep breath he tried to calm down but it just wasn’t possible, he was wound up tighter than a damned clock!

The after party was in full swing and every fuckin’ asshole with a dick was coming on to his woman.  He was going to break some heads if they didn’t back the fuck off.  Letting his eyes roam he frowned as he saw a starlet he had had a short fling with a few months ago make her way over to Jade.  He watched as she introduced herself and he knew the exact moment his woman lost it.  Her back went straight, her shoulders squared and a hand was slammed down on her hip.  Tag put a restraining hand on her shoulder but she shook it off as she leant forward and said something to the bitch in front of her.  The bitch lost her smirk and went white under her heavy make-up as she hastily retreated.  Tag shook his head with a resigned look on his face then turned towards Diego, meeting his eyes the man shrugged and Diego knew he was in deep shit.  Whatever the bitch had said to his baby had her riled up and she was looking for blood.  He laughed silently as he made his way over to her side.  He looked forward to getting back to their bedroom, they hadn’t had angry sex yet and he knew it was going to blow his mind when they did.

“If one more of your bitches get up in my face telling me how good you are in bed I’m going to have the whole lot of them kicked out on their fat asses!”  She snarled at him as he slid his arm around her waist and pulled her into his side.

“If another asshole comes on to you I’m going to rip his dick off and feed it to him, slowly.”  Diego growled back at her.

His woman was silent for a beat and then she burst out laughing.

“Don’t want to see that babe it would be just too gross.”

His woman leant against him and he couldn’t resist, he lifted her chin with a finger and kissed her, long and deep.  Fuck the rest, he knew the phones were out and taking pictures, this woman was his and he wasn’t averse to giving a demonstration making it crystal clear that she belonged to him.  Her lips smiled against his as he ended the kiss.

“That’s to tide me over until we can get out of here.  Going to fuck you long and hard tonight baby.”  He whispered in her ear and he smiled as she shivered against him.

“I love you babe.”  His woman whispered before she stepped back and slid her hand into his, knitting their fingers together.

He stood beside her, smiled and chatted to one after the other who wanted a piece of her and kept his temper tightly wrapped.  His cold eyes sent more than one of the vultures scurrying away.  The bastards all tried to finesse her into business lunches and dinners to discuss her future which she graciously turned down.  When one slimy individual refused to take no for an answer she looked up at him and lifted an eyebrow.  Diego looked down at the arrogant piece of shit.  “Ms Gallado has representation, she’s not interested.  Get yourself gone.”

The piece of shit did not listen.

“You are her bodyguard not her manager.”  He said condescendingly.  “I was speaking to Jay not to you.  Leave us while we talk business.”

Before he could retaliate his lady exploded.

“Get the fuck away from me.  I’m not interested in what you’re selling.”  She snapped out, pulled on Diego’s hand and led them over to a watchful Michael and Astrid.

“Who the fuck is that and how did he get in here?”  Diego growled at Astrid.

She watched the dick with a heavy frown before she answered.  “He’s here with Luciana Grimaldi, her manager or something I think.”

“Who invited her?”  Michael asked coldly, and Diego knew shit was about to hit the fan.

“If I remember correctly, she’s a childhood friend of either RJ’s or Jimmy’s, I don’t remember which.  Whichever it is he should get her out of that slimeball’s clutches.  The man makes me feel like I need a bath after speaking to him.  Ugh!”  Astrid said with an exaggerated shiver.

Michael just nodded and Diego knew it would not be forgotten, the slimeball was going to learn the hard lesson that you did not fuck with Michael Galloway’s girl.  Or should that be his girls?  Diego watched as Michael steered Astrid around the room with his hand low on her back.  Hmmn, a possessive gesture.  He wondered what happened with Michael’s girl toy, Holly.  Not his business or his problem.  All Diego wanted was to get out of this damned room and back to the penthouse.

“Have we been here long enough baby?”  He whispered in Jade’s ear.

She grinned evilly.  “Nope.  I haven’t spent any time with Cat yet and I’m not leaving until I’ve seen her.”

Diego scanned the crowd of party goers, found Cat standing with Seth Radcliffe, a member of her band, and dragged his woman unceremoniously towards her.  Coming to a stop just outside the circle of people around her he pushed Jade towards Cat.

“Talk to my woman, make it quick, I want to get out of here.”  He growled at a laughing Cat.

He barely smiled as the two women hugged and whispered together.  Then he hugged Cat, promised they would visit soon and dragged his laughing woman out of there, making a spectacle of them but he didn’t give a fuck.  He wanted his woman and he didn’t care who knew.

Jade was grinning as she followed Diego through the party crowd, not that she had any other option.  He had her hand in his and was dragging her along behind him, making for the exit.  Every time someone wanted them to stop and talk he growled furiously and they melted away.  The exit was in sight when he was summarily stopped by Rick and her brothers, she could see that they were going to tease and delay their departure just for the hell of it.  That she couldn’t allow as she now wanted to get back to the penthouse as much as Diego wanted to.  Leaning past Diego she whispered in Mike’s ear.

“Have to get out of here quickly, female problems.”

She wanted to cackle with laughter at the change in his expression.  He couldn’t get them out of the room fast enough.  Diego gave her a curious look as they rode up to the roof top where the helicopter waited to ferry them back to the penthouse.  The ride was made in silence and quickly.  She was ready to kick off the torture chambers masquerading as boots and get out of the barely there clothes Mel had coerced her into.  The night still buzzed through her but she was starting to feel tired and achy.

In their room Diego lifted her bodily onto the bed and pulled off the offending boots, dropping them on the floor next to the bed.

“Get ready for bed baby.”  He whispered as he kissed her softly.  “I’ve got some things to take care of then I’ll be back.”

With that he did his ninja thing and disappeared out of the room.  Jade stretched then slid off the bed and sat down in front of the vanity mirror, staring at her face she grimaced as she started to remove the caked on stuff.  This was one part that she would never get used to, being painted up.  Once she was finished with her face she got undressed dropping her clothes as she made her way into the shower.  She sighed with pleasure as the hot water cascaded over her, easing her achy shoulder and arm muscles.  Washing the gunk out of her hair took some time but eventually it was clean.  She was clean, her face was clean, her hair was clean, it was time to get out of the shower dry her hair and crash into bed.

Dressed in panties and one of Diego’s t-shirts Jade was sitting up against the pillows on the bed when he came back into the room.  His heavy frown changed into a smile as he ran his eyes over her.  Sitting down in the chair facing the bed he pulled off his boots never looking away from her.

“Having my shower baby then I’m going to fuck you long and hard.  I've been going out of my mind with you prancing around in that skirt and those boots showing off your amazing legs and ass.  You walked out of your dressing room in those skin tight pants and I could see every single muscle in your legs and belly move as you walked towards me.  Damn baby I’ve been fighting going hard the whole fuckin’ night!  Now I’m going to shower this night off me and then it’s just you and me.”

With that her badass stalked into the bathroom and she smiled when she heard the shower go on.  When he stalked back out bare assed naked and vigorously drying his hair she lost her breath, he was stunningly gorgeous, everywhere!  His eyes were locked onto her and burning hot with intent.  Swallowing hard she licked her suddenly dry as the desert lips as she watched him prowl over to the bed, drop the towel on the floor and climb on.  He was suddenly looming over her, caging her in with his body as he nuzzled her neck.

“Need you naked baby.”  He whispered and immediately set about achieving that goal.

Jade shivered as he place soft sucking kisses all the around her neck, paying special attention to the sensitive area just below her ears.  Kissing down her throat again he kissed lower, adorning her upper breasts with tiny kisses and soft painless little bites.  All the time he had been kissing her his hands caressed her body, sliding down her sides, avoiding all the good spots, down her thighs and back up again, again avoiding all the good spots!  The man was a tease!

“Babe I need you to touch me.”  Jade tried to urge him on.

“Not yet baby.  Have to stroke your gorgeous skin some more.”  He murmured as he kissed his way down between her breasts and onto her abdomen.  Shivers raced through her as he kissed and licked her belly, bit her softly next to her belly button but didn’t stay there long.  The damned tease moved on down her belly onto her hip bones and down the top of her thighs, placing a sucking kiss on the inside of her knee he moved to the opposite leg and proceeded up her leg.  Again avoiding the good spots!  She felt like she was hyperventilating her breathing was so rapid and she could not stop the groan when he slowly ran his tongue from her hipbone down towards where she was aching for his mouth.  But the damned man avoided it again!  He just started on the opposite hip bone and did the same again.  When he sucked her skin into his mouth and laved it with his tongue she lost it, grabbing for his head to direct it to where she wanted him to be.