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second, Eric thought she was going to burst into tears, and then she straightened her spine. She nodded curtly. “Of course.”
    She started toward the exit. Eric’s first instinct was to follow her and make sure she was okay. Brian had been too hard on her. Eric figured it was mostly the shock of knowing his complicated sound would be at the mercy of some amateur. Master Sinclair expected perfection in his live sound and so did Sinners’ fans. But he shouldn’t have said those things in front of Rebekah. She glanced over her shoulder with longing and then grabbed the handrail to start her decent of the steps. Eric couldn’t stand to see someone so full of life look so downtrodden.
    “Hey, Reb,” Eric called.
    She glanced over her shoulder, her pale eyebrows raised
in question.
    “Would you do me a huge favor?”
    She grinned deviously and his heart skipped a beat. “Depends.”
    “Um, could you move my car into storage? Travis can show you where to park it.”
    She smiled and nodded eagerly. Eric tossed her his keys and she caught them. She cradled them against her chest and hopped down the stairs with a spring in her step. Eric grinned. He just prayed his stubborn car would start for her.
    “Uh oh,” Sed said in his typical, low baritone growl.
    “Houston, we have liftoff,” Trey said. He cupped his hands around his mouth and made CB radio scratch noises. “Head in the clouds confirmed. Roger.”
    Eric turned his attention to his bandmates who were staring at him with wide grins.
    “What?” Eric asked.
    “Someone has a little crush,” Sed said.
    “Nah.”
    “Dude, you let her drive your car,” Trey said. “You don’t let any one drive your car.”
    “Drive is a relative term in the case of that piece of shit.” Sed chuckled.
    “Fuck you, Sed,” Eric grumbled.
    Sed just laughed harder.
    Eric shook his head. “That isn’t why I let her drive it. I don’t like her, like her.”
    Jace choked on a laugh. Eric sent him a look of warning. No one needed to know he had already locked lips with Rebekah. And oh yeah, he’d liked it, liked it.
    “She just looked…” Eric sought the right word to explain why he’d broken his no-one-drives-my-car rule. “…sad.”
    “If you do like her, and I’m not saying you do, but if you think you might, do not let her walk all over you like the others,” Trey advised.
    “I don’t like her,” he insisted. “Besides, she has a thing for you, Trey.”
    “Does she?” Trey grinned. “I guess I’ll have to use that to its greatest advantage.”
    “What do you mean?”
    Trey’s grin widened. “You’ll see.”
    “I didn’t call a band meeting to discuss Eric’s nonexistent love life,” Brian interrupted. “How could you guys just hire her without consulting me?”
    “You were unreachable,” Sed said.
    “That’s bullshit, Sed. You could have called me. This isn’t some trivial decision you make on the fly. Have you even seen her work?”
    Sed crossed his arms over his broad chest. “Well, not exactly, but Dave vouched for her. That makes her okay by me.”
    “Of course Dave vouched for her. She’s his sister.”
    “So what do you suggest we do?” Sed asked.
    “Find someone who knows what the fuck they’re doing. How about that?”
    “I think we should give her a chance before we fire her,” Jace said.
    Everyone hesitated, still not used to Jace speaking his opinion. It wasn’t that they didn’t respect it. They just didn’t expect him to voice it so readily. Jace’s woman had somehow managed to break through the impenetrable wall he’d hidden behind since he’d become a member of the band. Aggie should consider a job in top secret military weapons development or something. If she could break through Jace’s defenses, she could break through anything.
    “I agree,” Eric said. “I think Reb will do fine. Dave wouldn’t throw her off a cliff without a safety harness.”
    “Does Marcus know about this?” Brian asked.
    Shit. Wow,