Last Song (Chasing Cross Book Five) (A Brothers of Rock Novel) (rockstar contemporary romance) by Karolyn James

all.
    He really believed that
once Rick got word of Luke drumming, he’d find his own faith that Chasing Cross
wasn’t moved on from him. They couldn’t move on from Rick.
    Johnnie wrapped his arms
around Luke, the stand in drummer, and Danny, his blood brother. He hugged them
and let out a long laugh.
    All he wanted to do was
enjoy the night.
    Chasing Cross rocked and
that’s all that mattered right then.
     
    **
     
    Thunder.
    Sarah opened her eyes and
touched her chest. Waking from such a sound sleep like she had been in made her
heart pound. Molly had her head perked up and let out a growl.
    Sarah swore she heard
thunder but if it was thunder Molly wouldn’t have growled. She would have
whimpered and found a way to hide under the covers. The big dog was completely
petrified of thunder so badly that even when it started to rain the dog took
cover because she was smart enough to know that sometimes with rain came
thunder.
    A booming sound came
again and Sarah listened.
    It wasn’t thunder, no.
    Molly growled again and
Sarah swatted at the bed.
    “Molly, hush up,” she
said.
    Molly put her head down,
a good loyal dog.
    The sound came again.
Faster. Louder.
    “What in the world...”
    Sarah threw the covers
off herself and climbed from the bed. She walked to the window and looked over
her shoulder at Molly.
    “You can growl now,” she
said. “Maybe let out a scary bark or two if you want.”
    Molly sighed and tucked
her nose and face into the blanket.
    Some guard dog.
    Sarah looked out the
window and saw nothing out of the ordinary. She was facing the street though.
The nice quiet street that had attracted her to the house in the first place. It
had a picturesque feel, like she had fallen into a television show with the
perfect neighborhood. The neighborhood had its own set of problems here and
there, but noise certainly wasn’t one of them.
    Sarah left the bedroom
and walked down the steps. With each step she took she swore she heard the
sounds more and more. At the bottom of the steps she turned on the living room
lights. She then heard the thuds as Molly jumped from the bed and finally
decided to join her downstairs. By the time Sarah walked into the kitchen she
had the noise pretty much discovered. Turning on the light above the kitchen
sink gave just enough light for Sarah to see herself in the glass of the
window. Beyond that, she saw that her new neighbor was still in the garage.
    It sounded like drums.
    “Great,” she whispered.
Sarah looked down at Molly who sat next to her. “Our new neighbor has a drum
set.”
    Sarah listened again and
soon the drumming became good. The insistent pounding became an actual
drumbeat. Not that Sarah knew anything about drums or much about music, but
still, it was... what time now? It had to be well past midnight. Who the hell
sets up drums in the middle of the night?
    She thought about what
Susie said earlier, about having some kind of noise in her life. Yeah, this was
noise alright, but not the kind Susie probably meant.
    Sarah waited it out for a
few minutes before debating what to do. When she had been in her apartment all
those years ago it was easy to deal with this problem. A quick call to the
landlord solved it. But now she was on her own. In her own house. The rules on
noise and annoyances were different. She could call the police. They’d come and
tell the new neighbor to calm it down... but did Sarah really want that? She’d
never be able to introduce herself to her neighbor then. Calling the cops on
the first night there really wasn’t the best way to greet someone to the
neighborhood. Then again, it surprised Sarah that someone hadn’t already done
that. The positioning of her house to the neighbor’s house though could have
kept most of the sound shooting right towards Sarah’s house.
    Just lovely.
    Another few minutes went
by and the drumming finally stopped. Sarah let out a sigh of relief but then began
to panic when one of the garage doors started