Page 105 of Of Heartbreak and Harmony
The door swings wide open and Torren marches through it before slamming it behind him. I jump up from the bed, put my hands on my hips, and stare him down.
“You asshole.”
“Get used to it.”
When he’s three feet in front of me, eyes locked on mine, he folds his arms over his chest.
“We need to talk.”
“I have nothing to say to you.”
“Fine, then you can listen.” His attention falls to my duffle on the bed and his eyebrows furrow. “You think you’re going somewhere? We don’t get on the bus until after tomorrow’s show.”
“I’m not getting on the bus. I’m going home.”
“You’re not leaving.”
“Yes, I fucking am. You said I could leave whenever I want, and I want to leave now.”
“You’re not fucking leaving over this.” He takes another few steps toward me. “Not until we figure this out. I need you here.”
I bark out a laugh. “Figure this out? Figure what out? You said you remember everything!”
“I do, Callie, and that’s why I’m so fucking confused. You’ve been holding a grudge, and I want to know why, because I’ve been spending weeks trying to figure it out. I need to know what happened for you to hate me so much.”
“What’s there to be confused about? You fucked me like a groupie then went back to your ex-girlfriend.”
“I didn’t fuck you like a groupie.”
“The hell you didn’t! You think taking my virginity and thenscrewing Sav against your tour bus the next night is how you treat someone who isn’t a groupie?”
His face pales. “You were a virgin?”
I roll my eyes. “Yeah, I was a virgin, you asshole. Though I suppose you were too high to notice. And my first time is unfortunately seared into my brain, yet it was just another groupie fuck for you.”
“You weren’t just a groupie.”
“Oh, shut up. It doesn’t even matter now.”
“You had a boyfriend, Callie. Aboyfriend.”
I jerk my head back. “What?”
Torren takes another step toward me.
“I saw you with Becket before your set the next day. I saw you kiss him. You lied to me all week, came to me that night so we could hook up, and then turned around and kissed him before your fucking set.That’swhen I decided what happened between us was just a festival fling. You weren’t just a groupie to me, but I was just a famous fuck to you.”
My head spins for a moment at the revelation. First, that he came to the stage like I’d asked, and second, that he saw me kiss Beck. It did happen. I remember it clearly, but had Torren taken the time to fucking talk to me, he would have known that I also told Beck off after our set. If I was important enough to warrant a conversation...god, what a fucking mess.
“You weren’t just a famous fuck,” I defend. “I lost my virginity to you.”
Torren lets out a sinister laugh. “Yeah. What a story, too, right? How many people did you dazzle with that story? Losing your virginity totheTorren King.”
My blood boils. “Oh, get the fuck over yourself. That’s not what it was for me, and you know it.”
“Do I? Do I know it, Firebird?”
“Don’t fucking call me that.”
