Free The Price of Love (Rockin' Country Book 2) by Laramie Briscoe

plane tickets. I don’t mind making the sacrifice. Besides,” she kissed his jawline, “you surprise me all the time. This isn’t going to be permanent.”
    Everything she said, he knew as true, but it didn’t make the situation any easier in his eyes. “Fuckin’ hate this.”
    “Don’t be a Negative Nathan on our last night together for a while. We both knew what we were getting into when we decided to do this. We either work at it or we let it fall apart.”
    “Talk about a role reversal.” He grinned at her. “Usually I’m the one telling you to let it go.”
    She shrugged, smirking. “I’m workin’ on it.” She turned serious. “What’s going on with you? You’re never like this.”
    “I don’t know.” He ran his hand through his hair. It was getting longer now that they were recording. It was kind of a superstitious thing that he didn’t cut it while they were in the studio. “I have a bad feeling and I don’t know why, I don’t know what about. I just don’t want you to get on that plane and go away from me tomorrow.”
    “I have to, Garrett.” She kissed his neck sweetly. “I don’t have a choice.”
    “I wish I was rich enough to buy you out of your contract.”
    Hannah laughed. “That would be awesome, if we even had that much money together. I’m sure if we sold our houses, cars, and got all of our stock options together that we could. I don’t want to quit forever though, just for a few years to experience life. Who knows, maybe I won’t want to go back to it and we’ll have to see what can be done. We don’t know the future.”
    She was right, they didn’t know the future, but he knew that he didn’t want to let her go. He didn’t want to spend the next eight weeks trying to find five minutes here and there to call her. Knowing that they didn’t have a choice didn’t make it better.
    “It’s because I’ve been here,” she whispered. “It’s always harder when you leave me. I cry for hours, especially after I take you the airport.”
    “You seem fine, every damn time,” he accused.
    “What good is it to let you know how bad it tears me up, when you have no choice? All it would do would be to make you feel like crap. I don’t want that for you, so I hold it together until you get on the plane and I get out to my car. It’s hard and it gets harder every time. It is what it is. We can’t change it right now, no matter how much we both might want to.”
    “This sucks,” he laughed. “We’re both at the top of our games in our own musical genres, and our asses have to go and fall in love.”
    “We can’t help when we fall in love.”
    He allowed her to clasp their hands together and entwine their fingers. In truth, he loved when she held his hand like that; it made him feel more connected to her. “I’m sorry that I’m having such a girl moment. This isn’t like me at all.”
    “I know that too, but at the same time, we’ve had a heck of a lot happen to us since we met. We’ve not known each other for a year yet and we’re already married. You have to admit, we’ve done things at a crazy pace.”
    Slinging his arm around her neck, he pulled her to him, burying his face in her hair and breathing deeply. “Eight weeks, right?”
    “Eight weeks,” she confirmed. “Eight more weeks and then I’m with you for over a year. It’s been approved, I’ve executed my clause, and nothing can stop it, not even legal action. This is mine to do with what I want. What I want is to follow you around and be your own personal groupie,” she giggled.
    “My own personal groupie, huh?” he raised his eyebrows.
    “I’ve never been a groupie before, but I would love to be yours.” She giggled again.
    He couldn’t tell if she was being serious or not, so he decided to see what she would do. Instead of bemoaning the fact that she wouldn’t be here, he wanted to bury himself inside of her and forget about what they had to face. Garrett licked his lips and lowered