Page 57 of Never Sleep with the Enemy

“No!” Jordan says. “No one is calling Jonah. He’s on his honeymoon.”

“So?”

“So... the last thing we’re going to do is disturb the manon his honeymoon,Knox. We’ll talk to him on the 29th when he gets home. Until then,no one is calling Jonah.”

Knox sneers at her before looking at me again. “What happened after the show?” he asks.

I don’t move a muscle. “Nothing.”

His glare hardens.

“Nothing!” I say. “I met them backstage. We had a friendly chat, and I walked home.”

“Alone?” Addison asks.

I keep my expression blank, hoping the blush climbing up my neck isn’t as noticeable as it feels. “Yes,” I say, forcing myself not to blink.

“Friendly?”Knox asks. “You had afriendlychat with them?”

“Yeah.”

“So, you’refriendsnow?” he asks, clearly hating that idea.

I stutter, my lips trembling with memory, with the subtle bruises of Logan’s kiss. “I... I don’t know.”

“You don’t know? You don’t know if you’re friends with the guy who spied on my girlfriend? Who bugged our dressing room?”

“The yellow roses weren’t bugged, Knox. That’s silly.”

“Oh, did he tell you that?”

“Yes.”

“And you believe him?” Jordan asks.

“Yes, I do.”

Knox throws up his hands before rising out of his chair, too pissed off to sit still. “Jesus, Kat...”

“He’s not a liar,” I say. “At least, I don’t think he is. He and Goldie and Tesla... they aren’t bad people.”

“No one’s saying they are,” Jordan says.

“I am,” Knox says, standing tall. “The Electrics are the bad guys, little sister. I don’t care what youthinkorfeelabout it. They’re the enemy and this friendship ends here.”

I narrow my eyes. “Excuse me?”

“You heard me.”

“Knox,”Jordan warns.

“You can’t tell me what to do, Knox,” I say.

“Pretty sure I just did,” he says.

“And I’m pretty sure you sound just like Dad right now,” I say, knowing it’ll land.

His face sinks. His shoulders, too.

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