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yelled.
                  Dean flinched. ‘It was much more than that. Let me finish.’ Dean continued. A few days later the girl called him. He didn’t remember giving her his number. She wanted to see him again. At first he said no and ended the call. She was there again at the next show, with her friends. The band had invited them to join them backstage, as guests. The front guy had taken a shine to her friend, so wanted another night of fun before leaving the UK. Dean gave in a second night in a row as the girl genuinely seemed to like him. He was flattered. It was later that night when he heard a row coming from the singer’s room. He was yelling hysterically for the girl to get away from him and the band’s manager was trying to calm it down. The girl had claimed she was Twenty and to be fair she looked it. Fake ID to back up her lie, she had slipped up when she mentioned to one of her friends about their recent exams results. They were school leavers. Legally they were not underage, as they were all sixteen going on seventeen, but morally it wasn’t right and it was then he realised just how bad his little fling had been. The band were all late twenties or thirties, but no matter what the law said, it wasn’t going to look good for any of them. It got nasty as one girl threatened to go public with it. She’d started to blackmail the band and him, but Jay-Den had paid her and her friends off. It went away, but he always had that card to play.
                  ‘Jay told me if I didn’t do him this one favour it would all come out. He would tell my wife, find the girls and pay them to ruin me. Take everyone involved down with me. We didn’t know. Those guys were as mortified as I was but they’ve moved on, built other careers. I just couldn’t risk losing everything. I couldn’t put my family through that. My daughter’s five now and she doesn’t deserve that, nor does my wife. I’d never cheated before or will again. I wasn’t protecting me. I couldn’t care less about me. My wife and daughter are my world, and I couldn’t put them through that. I couldn’t...’ Dean was sobbing and couldn’t speak any more.
                  ‘Shit,’ Luke said, his tone low and shocked.
                  ‘I never wanted to hurt you. I had no choice. I couldn’t let my wife hear what I’d done. It would have destroyed her, everything.’
                  ‘Well, fuck, Dean. I thought I knew you, trusted you.’ Luke sounded disgusted and he looked at Dean with the same expression.
                  ‘Don’t look at me like that. She wasn’t underage in the laws eyes.. I made a massive mistake. I’m so sorry for what I’ve done to my family and you.’  
                                Dean looked at him, desperate to get them to believe it wasn’t how they thought. ‘Luke, you know damn well some look older. We’ve joked about it. You remember in Portland? Those fans, who we all chatted to, all looked old enough. If they hadn’t said how old they were, we’d have been completely none the wiser. I remember you being completely shocked at their age. You were convinced one was at least in her twenties.’
                  Luke shot forward but Melissa held him back. ‘Don’t put me in the same box as you,’ he said.
                  ‘It’s true, Luke. Can you be absolutely certain that every one of those girls you bedded was legal age. Did you make them show ID before you took them to bed?’
                  Luke grabbed Dean round the neck. ‘Yes. I am sure. Yes. I did check it out first. I’m not a complete idiot.’
                  Dean shoved Luke’s hand away. ‘Really?
                  Luke smiled smugly, knowing that he had covered himself. Yes. He had made damn sure they were adults. If there was even a hint of doubt he backed off. There was