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the time we finished the last song and people were shouting for more. If every show went like this, we’d be set. I told everyone goodnight as we packed up our instruments and Adam started helping Jade tear down her drum set.

I walked over to help when Adam glanced over my shoulder and frowned. “Oh shit.”

His words caught Jade’s attention and she let out a string of curses that would have made a sailor proud as she caught sight of whatever it was over my shoulder. I was about to turn and see for myself when a pair of female arms wrapped themselves around my waist.

“Drake baby, it’s been awhile.”

I mentally groaned as I turned to face my new visitor; I knew that voice anywhere. “Kadi, it’s been a while.”

“Not long enough,” Adam coughed out from behind me.

Kadi smirked at him before running her fingers across my chest. “Imagine my surprise when my cousin and I get a text about this awesome band down at the bar that we just have to check out and I walk in to see you.”

I removed her hand and took a step away from her. Kadi was who the band had nicknamed “Drake’s Stalker”. I met her not long after joining the band at one of my first shows with them. She was a gorgeous girl, with long blonde hair and green eyes, and a body to kill despite her barely reaching five feet tall. Her personality was what had drawn me to her at first though, she was a little spitfire, and I loved a girl with attitude.

I got a little more attitude than I bargained for with her though. I made the mistake of taking her to bed not only once, but multiple times, and she decided that was the equivalent of dating in her book. It had taken me weeks to get her to back off, but even then I’d catch her sitting outside my house when I came home in the middle of the night, or she’d come to my shows and try to get me to take her home.

She was a couple of years older than I was and had moved to Morgantown to attend W.V.U. I had practically thrown a party when she had to transfer from W.V.U. back to her home state of Maryland my senior year in high school.

“It’s good to see you Kadi,” I lied, “We were just leaving.”

She pouted as I wondered what I had ever seen in her besides her appearance. Sure she was pretty, but definitely not worth all the baggage that came along with her.

“Aww, come on Drake. Come have a few drinks with me for old times’ sake,” she said.

“Can’t, we’ve got a show tomorrow that I have to stay sober to get us to.”

She glanced at the band standing behind me. “Surely you could take an hour or two out of your schedule for me. We can go hang out in your bus I saw outside while the band stays in here.”

The meaning in her words was clear. After all the times I had told her to stay away from me and she still didn’t get it.

“Not gonna happen Kadi, might as well go find someone else to sink your claws into,” I said, getting truly irritated now.

“But I only want to sink my claws into you.”

Jade stepped around me to glare at her. “Listen, Drake just told you to get lost, so take the hint and leave. He’s not interested in you; he’s got someone a little more permanent now.”

I had to smile as I watched the two women face off. Jade usually kept out of everyone’s business, but she obviously liked Chloe enough to defend her, or maybe she just couldn’t stand Kadi. Either way, I wasn’t going to complain. Jade could punch her, where I was stuck with the dude card.

“If she’s so permanent, why isn’t she here by his side?” She made a grand gesture of looking around the club, “I don’t see any girl coming over to fight for him, so that makes him mine.”

“Hate to break it to you, but I have a say in that and I’ve already told you I’m not interested. Besides, Chloe would be here if she could,” I said.

She frowned. “What could be more important than being here to support you?”

I eyed her suspiciously, not wanting to give her any more information on Chloe than she needed. My luck was bad enough for her to start terrorizing Chloe.

“She’s