Although our costumes and gear were handled by the road crew, I kept a backpack with me that was locked up while I was onstage. I grabbed my backpack and tossed it over my shoulder as we headed in that direction. “Let’s go, ladies!” Bernie Stohl, our tour manager, motioned to me and one of the other girls. I was brand new but had become popular quickly, so it kind of made sense, but I didn’t know what that meant beyond the band not liking me that much. One of the sound guys told me it was because she was intimidated. The lead singer, Kay, whose real name was Annie Cromwell, was the worst of them all. When I’d first explained about the cancer, the other girls in the band had been cool, but now they teased me about how health-conscious I was. Drinking had been fun the first few nights, but after that I was bored with it. I exercised, meditated, and tried to eat healthy. The drinking age was lower in Europe than in the U.S., so I wasn’t breaking any laws by imbibing with my bandmates, but after recovering from breast cancer less than a year ago, I was extremely careful of what I put into my body. They partied like nothing I’d ever seen, and while I’d never been one to cave to peer pressure, they’d been relentless in their attempts to draw me into their shenanigans. While it had been amazing to be onstage with a group that was as hot as Special Kay was right now, every tabloid rumor about them was frighteningly accurate. The last four weeks had been the wildest, most incredible, scariest, and most unsettling days of my life. I practically felt the bad vibes moving through my veins as if they were part of my blood. Tonight’s show had gone well, but something was off. Special Forces: Operation Alpha: Protecting Delilah (Susan Stoker’s Special Forces World)īrotherhood Protectors: Catching Lana (Elle James’s Brotherhood Protectors World)
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