Free Renegade (Bad Blooded Rebel Series) by Mellie George Page A

smiled.                   
    “He’s
fine,” I smiled. “He was just telling me that he’s going to that club with
Kris. He also told me that we should crash tonight. He wants to show me off to
that band that’s playing.”
    Danni
smiled and stood up. “Well then what are we waiting for? Let’s go!”
    “Danni,
I thought we would just have a girls’ night tonight,” I said. “I want to hang
out with you girls without the guys for once.”
    “We
can still have a girls’ night and be around the guys. I know you ladies are
taken and all that, but I am single and I’m in New York City. I want to have a
good time tonight,” she said. Before I could protest she grabbed one of her
suitcases and took off toward the nearest bathroom. “Give me fifteen minutes!”
she called out.
    I
sighed and shook my head at Jessie. “Well it looks like we are going to The
Rock Steady tonight,” I said. “I’d better call John before we get ready.”
    “Look,
I know we are going to end up there but I’ll be damned if we spend the whole
night being arm candy for the guys while they drink and shoot the shit with Jagger
and the band,” she said, obviously referring to the guys in the other band. “We
are going to go and have dinner first and then we are going to walk around and
find some of the sidewalk shops with the ugliest jewelry ever and then we are
going to load up on tacky souvenirs to celebrate our night out.”
    I
grinned at her. “Thanks, Jessie.”
    “Listen,
why don’t you go ahead and get ready and I’ll call John for you?” she offered.
“I’m already as ready as I am going to be.” She tugged at her tight fitted tee
shirt and jeans that hugged her curves. Even in simple clothes Jessie Monroe
was stunning.
    “Okay,
thanks so much. I won’t be long.” I walked down the hall toward our bedroom to
pick out an outfit to wear tonight. I shook my head and sighed as I thought of
how I was going to have to keep a close eye on Danni tonight.
     
     
     
    “Hey,
I thought we were going to that bar. Why are we stopped at a Chinese
restaurant?” Danni asked.
    “Because,
Danni,” Jessie said as she opened the back door of the SUV, “before we crash
the boy’s night at the bar we are having a little fun, just us girls.”
    Danni
sighed and smiled. “Okay, okay. Let’s go eat. I am actually starving,” she
said, following Jessie out of the back of the car.
    As
I started to climb out I turned to John. “Are you coming?”
    He
smiled at me and shook his head. “I’m going to wait out here and let you three
have some time to yourselves,” he said as he pulled the SUV into a parking
spot.
    I
frowned. “John, it’s cold out here and you need to eat too. Please come and
have dinner with us?” I asked, sticking my lip out and pouting. “My treat?”
    “I
will come in but you are not paying for me. Understood?” he said, trying to
sound tough as he grinned at me.
    “Oh
all right. At least you are coming out of the cold and eating with us and that’s
all that matters. Let’s go,” I said. John shut off the engine and the four of
us went inside the restaurant.
    We
ate, talked, and laughed for the next hour. Even though it was frustrating to
have to have a bodyguard everywhere I went, I actually had a great time hanging
out with John tonight. I had liked him since I first met him and I was having a
blast getting to know the man behind the “bodyguard” image.
    I
found out while chatting with him that he was thirty seven years old and had
been married for three years before he and his wife divorced. He’d worked
private security ever since then and had been with Ryder and the boys for the
past five years. He never had any kids and like I did, he considered the band
his family. John in bodyguard mode made me feel safe and protected but John in
a relaxed environment was funny, charming, and a blast to hang out with.
    After
we finished dinner, we paid the check (well, I paid for the girls