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us just before Danny joined the band.
He'd told us that we were good, but needed work – and boy, had we worked to
earn his respect. But we'd earned it, in the end.
              “Turns out, he's
not too happy with the direction RRR is going either, which is to say the
direction my stepmother dearest is taking it in. He's worked with Hendrix and
Bowie – and let's just say, the Dusk Riders aren't exactly what he had in mind
for his pre-retirement project.”
              “You mean....”
              “He's all on
board with Blue Records,” Danny said. “We've still got some loose ends to tie
up, business paperwork, all that – but I think that we may be on our way to our
own label. Sooner, rather than later, by the sounds of it. Slayton couldn't
wait to jump ship when I told him about our new album.”
              “New album?” I
turned to Danny. “What new album?”
              “Why, the one
we're going to write, of course,” Danny said, kissing me lightly on the nose.
“Now text those band mates of yours. We have a lot to get done, and not much
time to do it in. And I've got a very particular love song I have in mind. It's
about a girl, with long, shiny hair and big, soulful eyes and a killer smile.”
              “You mean Roni
Taylor, huh?” I laughed, kissing him back.
              “Yeah, exactly.
That's exactly who I mean.” He placed his hand around my neck, drawing towards
him, the fingers of his other hand trailing lightly at my breast, causing me to
let loose a small yelp of pleasure.
              “That's what I
like to hear,” he murmured. “Oh, Neve, can't you see? The Never Knights are
going to be back – and better than ever before, just you wait. We've got a
whole future ahead of us, you and I and the band. And it's so close....” He
leaned in and kissed my neck. “That I can taste it.”
              I leaned back
into the pillow, letting him kiss me again and again, surrendering to the joy –
lazy and delirious – of being with him once again. Yet I couldn't stop thinking
of Luc's voice, of Kyle's pain – of the heartbreak that Danny and I had left in
our wake. Would Danny and I really be able to tone it down enough for Kyle – or
for Luc? Would we ever really be able to be the Never Knights once more?
              Danny boy,
you're trouble. The problem is, you're the kind of trouble I don't ever want to
get out of.

 
    Chapter 5
     
               
              I t didn't take long for things to start moving
again. Danny Blue, it seemed, was not one for sitting around and doing nothing.
No sooner had Slayton agreed to manage Blues Records, using his decades of
business savvy to help us stay in control of the financial side of the
proceedings, than Danny opened up the phone book and dialed what seemed like
every single club promoter, manager, and agent within a hundred miles of the
USC Campus.
              “It's not going
to be easy,” Danny said. “I may have funds, but what I don't have is street
cred. And I can guarantee Roni Taylor and the Dusk Riders have filled up every
available slot already – for all I know, she's put a moratorium on us.”
              “You think she'd
do that?” I leaned in, kissing his shoulder, taking in the intoxicating smell
of his musk.
              “I don't know what she'd do,” said Danny. “But I wouldn't put anything past her. I hate that
my father's fallen for her tricks.” He laughed softly. “But that's what he
thinks life is all about, I guess. Getting rich, finding a beautiful woman to
marry, showing her off like a show pony to all of his rich friends with equally
young wives...” The contempt in his voice cut through it like a knife. “I'd
almost feel sorry for her, you know. If she weren't so awful. I can't say my
dad's been the best husband to her. Or father to me.” His eyes grew dark with
pain, and I