Page 58 of Hard Rock Tease

"We're not—! He's just—" I pressed my lips together, not wanting to go into it with them. "Did you just make a Hunger Games reference?"

"Hey, Katniss is hot. Even Damian agrees," Cameron added, using the twin's portmanteau name. I supposed even Cameron couldn't tell them apart, treating them as one entity like the rest of the world.

"Cam's right," one of the twins said as the other nodded in agreement. "We'd fuck Jennifer Lawrence every day of the week."

"Is that the royalwe?" I asked.

The twins shared a mischievous grin.

"I just don't understand Noah." If anyone could sympathize, it would be his fellow bandmates. They knew what he was really like in person.

"No one does," Cameron shrugged. "That's why he's the sexy, mysterious front man."

"I love his lyrics. I've cried over his songs.Literally cried. I know people said off stage he's more broody and closed-off, but I always thought the person who wrote with such emotion, with suchpassion, wouldn't be such a…"

"Grumpy bastard?" The twins spoke in one voice.

"Well. Yeah."

They both shrugged in unison.

"You get used to it," one of them said, giving me a sympathetic look. "You'll earn how he operates."

The other twin snorted. "Or just smack him upside the head. That works, too."

"Believe me, I've been tempted," I muttered. "August said I should be patient with him."

"That's because August has the patience of a saint," Cameron snorted. "Don't know how he hasn't killed the lot of us a million times over by now."

"It's like family," said the twin who'd given me the sympathetic look. "Even when you hate each other, you love each other."

The other twin pulled his brother into a headlock. "Aw, you getting all sentimental on us?"

The two of them tussled, throwing fake punches at each other until they crashed into a side table, knocking it over. Claps and cheers went up around the room as the glass top shattered. The twins laughed the entire time.

Cameron continued drinking his beer, eyeing me as he ignored the spectacle. "I don't know what went wrong between the two of you, but if you really want to fix it, you need to be persistent. Noah's like a hedgehog."

"Spiky on the outside, soft and cuddly on the inside?"

"Spiky on the outside and a skittish little rat on the inside."

"Hedgehogs aren't rodents. That's porcupines."

"Same deal."

"I'll take that under advisement." I sighed into my beer. "I guess I should try to talk to him again."

"Don't forget about my offer."

"What offer?"

Cameron leaned forward until his lips were against my ear. "To show you how I treat a woman."

"Are you always so forward?"

"Gorgeous, if I was really trying, you'd be flat on your back with my head between your legs already."

I backed away and flushed. "I'm going to go find Noah."