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was not a
man she could easily resist. “Fine, but I’m counting on him not seeing any more
naked breasts.”
    Cole laughed as
he let his arm drop. “You think it’s his first time?”
    Shannon looked
at him, shocked from his comment. “Yeah, I do.”
    Cole cocked a brow.
    “Okay, well
maybe not, I can only hope. He’s only sixteen.”
    “And what were
you doing at sixteen?”
     “None of your
damn business,” she choked out.
    Cole burst out
laughing and dropped a quick kiss on Shannon’s cheek. Then he proceeded to pull
Cameron on stage with him. The kid’s eyes were bugging out of his head, no
doubt, from having witnessed the kiss.
    As the concert
went on, the audience demanded more and more. And Cole and the other members
did not disappoint. They delivered big time, especially Cole, as he had the
most to prove and the most to lose.
    When the
concert ended, the band members vanished into their dressing rooms, she
presumed to shower and change. Shannon and a hot, sweaty and stinky Cameron
waited for them in the back stage room. The room swelled to capacity with
people. Some Shannon recognized from earlier and many new faces she’d never
seen before.
    AJ, the first
band member to join them said, “Hey Cameron, do ye want tae shower and clean
up?”
    Cameron raised
his arm slightly and sniffed. “Why. Do I smell ripe?”
    AJ laughed and
made a face. “Aye man, ye do. Go tae the second door on the right. Shower and
grab a clean T-shirt out of my bag.”
    Shannon smiled
at AJ in relief as she watched her son stroll away. It amazed her his feet
actually touched the ground after what he’d just experienced. The opportunity
of a lifetime most people could only dream about. “Thanks, he reeked. It
would’ve been a long ride back to the hotel.”
    “Aye, luv. It
would have. Listen, we have tae hang out here for a bit tae speak with some
radio people and those fans lucky enough tae have nabbed backstage passes. And ah’m
told one local television station has come hoping for an interview with Cole. Boy,
won’t they be disappointed when he’s a no show. Also, some guy from a Boston
radio station wants tae interview Cameron. Would that be fine?”
    Shannon frowned.
“I don’t know... did you just say Cole won’t be here?”
    AJ’s brows drew
together and his lips tightened. “Cole’s not ready tae face any interviews just
yet. He kens the subject of his wife’s death will come up and he doesn’t want tae
talk about it. We’ll meet him back at the hotel. Now, about the interview with Cameron,
can he do it?”
    Had her
imagination run wild or had she witnessed sadness flash in his eyes as he spoke
about Lindsey? It must have been horrible for all the band members to lose her.
And why, with there being so much more to Cole than a dead wife, couldn’t
reporters come up with something else to talk to him about?
    Glancing around
the room at the crowd of people, she hoped her son knew what he was doing. “Only
if I supervise,” she finally replied to AJ’s query.
    “Of course,
without a doubt, wouldnae have it any other way. Ah and here’s Cameron now.”
    AJ, Brad and
Ted spoke to the local radio D.J.’s and the one local television entertainment
reporter. She recognized the woman as the same reporter who’d done a story on
her a while back. AJ then introduced Cameron. He appeared nervous, but handled
himself well. Answering all their questions truthfully and expressing his
thanks to all four members of the band for letting him jam with them. Shannon’s
heart swelled with pride. Sometimes he seemed way beyond his years.
    When they
arrived back at the hotel, Shannon and Cameron went to the band’s suite and
found Cole sitting on the sofa eating a sandwich. He smiled at her with a mouth
full of food and waved her over.
    She stood
frozen to the floor, her legs refusing to move and her palms damp with sweat. She’d
just met this man, and he had such power over her body physically, and her mind...well
he