Marooned with the Rock Star (A Crazily Sensual Rock Star Romance, with Humor)

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Authors: Dawn Steele
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tracks. There was no way he could ever get into
college without a scholarship. At least my parents had a little bit
stashed away.
    Adeline plunked the beer down on Kurt’s lap.
He grinned, and the tension dissipated. I doubted Adeline noticed
anything was wrong.
     
    *
     
    You would think you have guessed the reason
for Kurt leaving Adeline now.
    You must think it was because of me.
    Well, you are wrong. You are so wrong by a
long shot.
    What happened was a lot more tragic than a
love triangle.

KURT
     
    I stare at Rebecca across the table.
    That night.
    “I didn’t exactly leave her,” I
splutter.
    “Oh, yes, you did.”
    The waiter arrives with our starters, and we
have to call it a truce for a moment. Correct that. My starters. The lobster bisque was in a boat-shaped bowl and piping
hot. Thick and creamy, the way I like it. The foie gras came with a
spring of parsley and some lemon dill.
    I have absolutely no appetite.
    “Do you want some?” I ask Rebecca.
    She shakes her head.
    “Do you remember?” she says in a low
voice.
    I remember what happened in the car at the
parking lot of the Seven Eleven, but I think that is not what she
is referring to.
    It is what happened after.
     
    *
     
    Adeline was driving into the night, and our
spirits were up again.
    What was I thinking of when I touched
Rebecca’s hand? I felt her freeze, and I knew what she must have
been thinking of me. Especially with a reputation like mine.
    You cad. You’re my best friend’s
boyfriend.
    But Rebecca seemed unnaturally affected. I
liked Rebecca, though I had always felt a little uncomfortable
around her. In fact, I secretly thought she was a lot more
interesting than Adeline. I didn’t want to think that, but the fact
was out there, like a puff of acrid smoke that trailed and lingered
in the air.
    I had never ‘dated’ a Rebecca before – a
girl who could give as good as she got. She was feisty and so smart
I honestly thought she was too good for this town. She deserved to
go out there and make a better life for herself. She deserved
better than us.
    It would be terribly interesting to be with
Rebecca. And I didn’t know why the thought kept encroaching into my
brain recently, like a spreading tumor.
    I mustn’t think such thoughts, I told
myself.
    The atmosphere between the front and back
seats began to lighten, especially as Adeline jabbered on about our
SATs and which questions she found particularly difficult. We were
on the highway, heading for the Interstate turnpike ten miles
down.
    And then it happened.
    I was preoccupied with not being preoccupied
by my thoughts for Rebecca, when the white SUV barreled down onto
us on the same side of the road.
    “Shit!” I yelled. “Swerve, Addy,
swerve!”
    She turned the wheel all the way to the
left, but there was a car on the other side of the road as well. We
would have slammed into it had not Adeline turned further left, off
the asphalt and onto the grass. The car kept running forward as the
trees rushed at us like a swarm of low-flying birds. The car
creaked and jolted and flew over bumps and roots and stuff, and
there was no way we could continue this. Somehow, somewhere, we
would have to stop or be stopped.
    I was sure Adeline was slamming against the
brakes because I could hear the sound of tires screeching. A tree
loomed just ahead and we crashed into its bark. Something white and
ghostly blew up in front of me and punched me in the chest and
gut.
    Passenger side air bag.
    The air whooshed out of my body and I feel
as if a giant hand had picked me up and slammed me against the
ground. My heart was bursting to claw out of my chest and my limbs
were completely numb. My brain was screaming with an infernal
howling that swept like an arctic wind in my ears.
    It took me a long time to pick up my
senses.
    Everything was silent around me. Everything
was dead calm.
    I finally found my voice.
    “Adeline?”
    I heard a groan behind me. The entire front
of my body hurt something

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