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Outside, snow has begun to fall in earnest, soft flakes catching in her hair as we step onto the sidewalk. “Well?” she looks over at me, eyes bright.

I pretend to consider it. “I tolerated it.”

She arches one perfect brow.

“Fine,” I admit with a roll of my eyes. “I loved it.”

She smiles like she knew that already.

“And, I’ll wear the suit again if you want,” I add quietly.

“Only if I get to wear another pretty dress.”

“Deal.” She looks amazing in anything, but I love seeing how happy buying her a pretty dress makes her. I guide her under a streetlamp, snow drifting around us, city noise humming low and steady. I brush a flake from her cheek.

“Mine.” I press a kiss against her forehead.

She nods softly. “Yours.” I lower my mouth to hers and I kiss her slow. Not desperate anymore, but certain.

As we walk down the Chicago sidewalk, her hand tucked into mine, I glance once more toward the theater doors behind us.

Control looks different on everyone.

Some of us fight it.

Some of us embrace it.

I pull Quinn closer against the cold, embracing my comfort and lower my lips to her ear. “I love you.”

Her grip tightens on mine, her face turning so she can look into my eyes, a smile lifting her lips. “I love you too.”

And just like that, there’s no more noise.

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Hayden Sloane has built his life on control, onstage and off. As the bassist for global rock phenomenon Devil’s Halo, he knows how to keep his emotions locked down. The only woman he ever trusted with his truth walked away from him years ago, leaving him convinced some wounds never heal.

Vanessa Caldwell restores fractured art in the heart of Chicago, piecing broken things back together for a living. She never expected to come face-to-face with the man she once loved or the feelings that never truly disappeared.

Nearly ten years later, their reunion cracks open everything they thought they left behind. She’s confident, strong, and even more beautiful than he remembered. He’s older, darker, and still the one she’s never stopped wanting.

“I’m still the same,” he warns.

“Maybe I’m not,” she replies.

What begins as a tentative reunion becomes a reckoning of desire, trust, and the kind of love that demands they risk everything they were once afraid to give.

Devil’s Bass is a steamy contemporary rockstar romance about second chances, buried truths, and a love that refuses to stay in the past.