Sea Breeze 02 - Because of Low

fall in love with her.
    “Yeah, you look amazing.”
    She beamed at me and I walked over to her and took her hand in mine.
    “Where are we going exactly?”
    I wanted to surprise her but looking down at her I fought the urge to take her back to my bedroom and lock her in there with me. I’d be able to keep her forever that way.
    “You don’t by chance have a thing for rock stars do you?”
    She frowned and shook her head slowly.
    “No, why?”
    I felt a little better but the need to keep her safely tucked away still tugged at me.
    “Okay, good. No reason. Come on let’s go do this.”
    She laughed and followed me.

    The place was packed. Not exactly surprising. I pulled up to the security gate. A guard stepped out of his station and approached my truck. I rolled down my window and waited.
    “Can I help you?” he asked frowning down at me.
    “Marcus Hardy and guest. My name’s on the list.”
    The guard nodded and spoke into his headset, “Got a Marcus Hardy and guest.”
    “Let me see some ID,” the guard said somewhat more friendly. I pulled my wallet out of my back pocket and handed it to him. He checked it out and handed it back.
    “Alright Mr. Hardy when the gate opens take the road around to the right. Park over in the small parking lot. Then the second entrance door will have another guard. He’ll need to see ID again before he lets you inside.”
    “Got it, thanks.”
    He nodded and stepped back as the gate opened. I started to pull through and glanced over at Willow. She was taking everything in. Her eyes met mine and she grinned.
    “We’re about to go back stage for the Jax Stone concert aren’t we?”
    I laughed. I guess that was an easy one to guess after all that security stuff in order to enter a private entrance to a civic center crawling with people.
    “Lucky guess,” I replied.
    She clapped her hands together once and squealed.
    “Oh wow! I’ve never been to a concert before and my first one I get to go back stage.”
    I pulled into an empty parking spot and turned off the truck before looking at her.
    “You have all kinds of vintage rock concert t-shirts,” I pointed out.
    She shrugged, “I like them. I figured I’d never actually go to a real concert so I buy them whenever I find one at a thrift store.”
    Interesting. I filed that piece of information away for later.
    “So your excitement is because it’s a rock concert not because you’re about to meet Jax Stone?” I needed to clarify this for my own peace of mind.
    She giggled then raised her eyebrows teasingly, “Wel-l-l-l-l that is kind of cool. I’ve never met anyone famous before.”
    Why was I jealous? This was stupid. Jax loved Sadie. He wasn’t going to swoop down and take Low from me. I nodded.
    “Okay, fair enough.”
    I went around and got Willow out of the truck then we headed for the door. The security guy checked us both out this time. He actually checked Willow out a little too much for my taste. I should have made her change. That get up she had on was damn distracting.
    As soon as the door opened Sadie greeted us.
    “You made it,” she beamed at me then Willow.
    “Yep,” I replied smiling at the excitement in Willow’s eyes as she took in everything around her.
    “I’m so glad. Follow me, I want Jax to meet Willow before he goes out. He’s had a little girl and her mother in there the past thirty minutes. It’s a long story but we met her at Sea Breeze Foods this summer and she recognized him even though he was incognito. He gave her his personal card and a promise to get her backstage passes for his concert here. Then he ended up canceling that concert due to some things with me and my family. Anyway, this is his makeup concert and he wanted to make it extra special for her since she has had to wait so long.”
    “How sweet,” Low said a little too dreamily for my taste. Shut up Sadie.
    Tightening my grip on her hand Willow glanced up at me and her excited expression squelched my moment of jealousy.
    “Here we are,” Sadie said and patted the bodyguard moving out of our way on the arm.
    “Thanks Ryan,” she said and the angry giant actually grinned a little then went back to scowling.
    “I’m back and I have company,” Sadie said walking into the massive room that reminded me of a hotel suite. Jax stood up from the large black leather chair he’d been lounging in and flashed his rockstar smile at Willow and I hated him all over again. Why the hell had I brought her