One Night with Sole Regret 02 Tempt Me by Olivia Cunning

would love you to suck
me off in front of an audience,” he said in a low voice.
    Oh God. What had she done?
She'd never expected him to actually take her up on the offer. She
slid her hand to his belt buckle and for a moment, as she stared up
into his gentle gray eyes, she forgot he wasn’t the only other
person on earth. Suddenly, she wanted to suck him off. Madison
unfastened his belt, and then her fingers fumbled with his
fly.
    He caught her hand. “Madison, what’s
wrong?” he asked. “You’re not acting like yourself
tonight.”
    Heart hammering, she opened the top
button of his jeans. “I don't know what you mean. It’s no big deal.
Don’t women do this for you all the time?”
    “ Not all the time.”
    “ But isn't this what you
want? A slut who gets your rocks off.”
    There was none of the usual gentleness
in his eyes as he scowled down at her. “If I wanted that, I
wouldn't be with you, would I?”
    “ Are you with me?” she said loudly.
    “ Yeah, you see me here,
don't you?” His voice was raised in anger too. She'd seen him
pissed off, but had never been the cause of it. “What do you want
from me, Madison? You're acting so strange.”
    She realized the reason his
voice sounded loud was because the bus was suddenly silent. She
glanced around Adam's body to the other occupants of the bus.
Everyone was staring at them. She caught Owen's eye, and he gave a
barely perceptible shake of his head. Don't pressure him. His words
returned to her loud and clear.
    “ Can we go somewhere and
talk in private?” she asked Adam.
    “ I have to be on stage in
an hour.”
    “ It won't take long,” she
promised.
    “ Is there anyone in the
dressing room?” Adam asked the lead singer, Shade, who like the
others was watching their little argument.
    “ If there is, kick them
out,” Shade said, looking at Adam as if he was the biggest idiot
he’d ever encountered.
    Adam turned and stomped off the bus.
Because he was refastening his belt, he didn't hold Madison’s hand
as he strode toward the venue. She wondered if he hadn’t stopped
her, what she would have done. Would she have shamelessly sucked
his cock just to keep his attention? She honestly didn’t
know.
    Adam made the two crew members taking
a break in the band's dressing room leave and then he locked
Madison in the room with him. She opened her mouth to speak—having
already concocted the perfect line of bull to feed him about her
behavior—but before she could begin, he wrapped her in both arms
and drew her against him. He buried his face in her
neck.
    “ You're going to stop
seeing me, aren’t you?” he whispered.
    She was so stunned that she didn't
immediately deny it.
    “ Why, Madison? Is it
because I was talking to some other woman?”
    “ Talking to another woman? No, I wouldn’t stop seeing you
over that.”
    His body sagged with relief, and her
heart twisted.
    She forced herself to
continue. Cold turkey, Madison. It’s the
only way. “But tonight will have to be our
last night together.” Her heart was thudding so hard that it
threated to break through her sternum.
    His arms tightened around her. “No,”
he said harshly. “I won't let you go.”
    “ Adam, I can't do this
anymore.”
    “ Do what?”
    “ Date you. I need to know
you're committed to me. And I know you can't be.”
    He tugged away and looked down at her.
“How do you know that?”
    “ Well, because, you're
famous and women chase you and—”
    “ They’ll always chase me,
Madison.”
    And who could blame them? She stared
up at him, knowing she wasn’t even going to get one last night with
him. This would be the last time she would see him. The last time
he held her in his arms. Owen had warned her. Why hadn’t she
listened?
    Trying to find the resolve
to walk out the door and retain a shred of her dignity, she lowered
her gaze to his chest and took a deep, shaky breath. The shards of
her broken heart tore through her lungs, stealing her breath.
Adam’s