Heartstrings (Rock With You #1) Rock Star Romance (12 page)

“No,
Melody. I don’t have to leave. I know you really don’t want me to. And I think,
if you just let yourself relax, we can make this much better for both of us.”

He
bent his head, his lips finding hers in a crushing kiss. She twisted her head,
trying to break free, but he grabbed the back of her head, winding his fingers
through her hair, holding her tight against his mouth.

She
tried wiggling out of his grip, but he held her hard against his body, his
other arm wrapped around her waist. The more she squirmed, the harder he held
her and the more evident his arousal became as he pressed his hips forward into
hers.

He
broke away from her mouth, looking down at her, his breath rasping from his
parted lips.

“You’re
playing hard to get, Melody. Or…” Ryan yanked her hair, pulling her head back.
“You think the boyfriend is going to save you?”

Melody’s
eyes went wide.

“Don’t
play coy. I know he’s on his way here… ‘seven-thirty or so?’ But I don’t think
there’ll be any dinner for Mr. MacKenzie.”

“Why
are you doing this, Ryan? Why?” Tears were pooling in Melody’s eyes, tears of
fear and anger.

“Because
you’re all I’ve ever wanted, Melody. You were so distracted with Patrick, and
now with this… musician… to even see it. But I’m tired of being patient, of
waiting for you to come around and realize what we could have…together.”

“But
I don’t want you…I never have.” Melody looked up at Ryan. “You’ve been a
mentor, a good friend…but nothing more. I haven’t thought of you in any other
way. You have to know that.”

Ryan
let go of Melody’s hair, his hands running down her back, one sliding down to
cup her ass. She struggled briefly but he pressed himself against her again and
she went still in his arms, afraid she’d only excite him more. She could feel
the hardness of him, the heat, as he rubbed himself against her.

“No!
It’s never been that…ever. You’ve either misunderstood or you’re delusional…there’s
never been anything between us…I don’t feel that way about you.”

“Liar...”
Ryan growled the word in her ear as he pulled her close again, his mouth on her
neck. She felt one hand moving to the front of her blouse and as she struggled
to push him away, she heard the tearing of fabric, the patter of buttons across
the kitchen floor. His hand groped her breast and she gasped, suddenly wild to
be out of his grasp.

The
sound of glass breaking made them both jump. She turned toward the noise and
saw Logan standing in the open doorway to her apartment. A shattered bottle of
Macallan was on the floor at his feet.

“Logan…”
She saw the confusion in his eyes, and then the pain.

“Aye…I
should have known,” he muttered, looking down at the puddle of Macallan on the
floor. “Waste of a good bottle of Scotch.” And then he was gone.

“Let
me go!” Melody pushed away from Ryan and he let her go. She struggled to pull
the front of her blouse together.

She
cried out as she ran through the glass, sinking to the floor, a shard embedded
in her foot.

The
slam of the stairway door was loud, echoing back down the hall. Melody sat for
a moment, her foot forgotten. She felt tears rolling down her cheeks, her mind
racing.
How can I explain this?

“Well,
that’s unfortunate.” Ryan was standing behind her, looking down at the broken
glass, the amber liquid seeping across the floor.

Melody
twisted around, looking up at him. “Unfortunate?” She struggled to her feet,
pushing aside Ryan’s offer of an outstretched hand.

“You
call hurting the man who loves me unfortunate?” She rounded on Ryan, anger
stilling her tears.

“No.
I meant the Scotch. Macallan isn’t cheap and this was a good year. The
man…well, if he’s so easily put off, then it wasn’t meant to be, I guess.”

“You
bastard! What do you know about him? What do you know about me?”

“Oh,
I know enough. And I know that this little…affair…you’ve been having needs to
end. For many reasons. It’s beneath you, for one thing.
He’s
beneath
you.”

The
crack of her hand against Ryan’s cheek was surprisingly loud. Melody’s palm
stung and she clutched it reflexively with her other hand, breathing hard.

“What
the hell?” Ryan took a step forward. He briefly raised a hand to his face,
grimacing slightly. Then he stopped, a slow smile spreading across his face. Melody
was almost repulsed by his calmness.

“Be
very careful Melody…” He walked to the door, carefully avoiding the glass and
whisky, now tinged with a few drops of blood.

“You
really should clean this up before it stains.”

He
looked at Melody, the smile on his lips not quite reaching his eyes. “I’ll see
you tomorrow at work.”

* * *

Melody
tried Logan’s cell phone, calling over and over, reaching only his voice mail.
She left a message each time, and finally his number stopped accepting voice
mails. She’d finally dug the glass out of her foot, called a cab and headed to
his hotel.

Arriving
breathless in the lobby, she punched the elevator button, willing the elevator
to hurry. On Logan’s floor she ran down the hall, pounding on his door. But as
her fist struck the wood, the door swung open.

“Logan!
Logan!” But her voice echoed. She flipped on the light switch by the door.

“No…”

The
room was empty, the door to the bedroom open, the bed stripped. No flowers
remained, nothing.

He
was gone.

* * *

In
The Next Chapter…

Melody
has lost the one man that she’s ever loved and it’s all because of Ryan
Marshall.  As the saying goes
“hell hath no fury like a woman scorned”,
and Ryan is about to come face-to-face with the stinging bite of a woman’s
vengeance.
Will Melody get through to Logan and make him understand what he really means
to her?  How will he react when she shows up at his concert, desperate to
talk?  And will he help her take down Ryan, once and for all, or leave her
to fend for herself against a ruthless enemy who threatens to destroy
everything she cares about?

Find out in “Broken Melody”, the next installment in the explosive ‘Rock With
You’ series!

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