~*~ A Love Interrupted ~*~
The phone was ringing, the doorbell was ringing, and someone was pounding on the door. AJ woke suddenly and realized it wasn’t a dream. Looking beside him, he saw that Andi was still asleep so he carefully extricated himself from her arms so he could put an end to the insidious noise. What in the hell could be so damn important that someone found it necessary to be making all this noise?
Grabbing the phone as he headed to the door, he snarled, "WHAT?"
"Where the hell are you?"
"Obviously at HOME, you idiot. Why?"
"Do you know what time it is?"
"I don’t have time for twenty questions ‘D’. Someone’s banging down the door and ringing the doorbell. It’s enough to wake the dead."
"It’s probably Seth looking for Andi."
AJ looked at his watch. 2:30 AM. "SHIT!"
"NOW do you see what I was getting at?"
AJ looked out the window by the door to see that it was Seth. "I’ll call you back, ‘D’. It is the prick."
"Just don’t let him see Andi."
"I won’t." Cutting the phone off, AJ opened the door. "What the hell do you want?"
"I want to know where Andi is," demanded Seth looking over AJ’s shoulder into the house.
"How the hell should I know? She was supposed to call me but I haven’t heard from her. If she’s normal, she’s asleep."
"She TOLD her grandfather that she was going to fill in for someone at work."
"Then check at ‘Tabu’."
"I can’t get in…but you already knew that," growled Seth.
"No, I didn’t but you know, Howie was always fairly smart. Look, I’ve been here all night waiting for Andi to call. It’s not MY problem if you can’t keep track of her. Get the fuck off my property before I call the cops."
AJ started to close the door but Seth stopped him. "You know where she is!"
"No, I don’t. I know where she SHOULD be and it’s NOT with you."
Getting in AJ’s face, Seth said, "I suppose you think you’re the better man."
"I don’t think, I know. You’ve snowed her grandfather but you can’t snow me. You’re up to something and I’m gonna find out what it is. And when I do, I’m gonna get Andi out of this ridiculous arrangement and put YOUR ASS behind bars. I love Andi more than you’ll EVER be capable of and she WILL be with me."
"That’s what YOU think. Her grandfather will NEVER let her marry the likes of you."
AJ spotted Marcus and Raoul. "Get him OFF my property and make sure he goes to HIS home."
The two burly bodyguards understood AJ completely and grabbed Seth as he threatened, "This isn’t over, McLean!"
"Yeah, it is. Come near me again and I’ll have a restraining order slapped on your sorry ass!"
AJ closed the door and turned to find Andi standing in the door of the living room. "Seth didn’t see you, did he?"
"No. Alex, this isn’t good."
The phone rang in his hand and as he answered it, he held his arm open for Andi to come to him. She moved to him quickly and put her arms around his waist.
"Hello."
"Is he gone?"
"Yeah, Marcus and Raoul are getting him away from here and making sure he doesn’t go to the club."
"Get here as soon as you can."
"On our way." AJ hung up and hugged Andi tight. "I’m sorry, baby. I never meant for this to happen."
"I know. I just hope we didn’t blow it."
"I’m sure Howie has taken care of everything and if not, we’ll deal with it."
Andi nuzzled his neck taking in his scent. "I miss you already."
AJ laughed gently. "What are you going to do when I’m on tour or off recording in Sweden?"
"Miss you…or go with you."
"What about college and wanting to be a nurse?"
"I’ll be the group’s nurse…take care of you guys when you’re sick."
Feeling her body close to his, her hands on his bare back, AJ moaned. "My own private nurse. Promise to give me sponge bathes?"
Andi laughed, "Sure."
"We’d better get going before anything else happens."
"Such as?"
"Such as me taking you to my room and having my way with you," answered AJ giving her a kiss.
Grabbing his shirt, wallet, and keys, AJ took Andi’s hand and they started out.
"Shoes, Alex…shoes would be nice."
"Why? I’m just gonna run you back to ‘Tabu’ which is closed by now. Come on, beautiful."
Andi wrapped her arm around his waist and they headed to the car.
AJ didn’t want to admit to her that he was worried that this was the last time they’d be together because he was hoping he’d be able to find something on Seth but reality was staring him in the face. If Andi didn’t know anything, chances were, there was nothing to find that he could use to discredit Seth in Mr. Powell’s eyes.
