Heart Break Her: A Steamy Rock Star Romance (Enemy Muse Book 1)

Contents Copyright Author Note Playlist Dedication May 1. Sebastian 2. Cassie 3. Sebastian 4. Cassie 5. Cassie 6. Sebastian 7. Cassie 8. Cassie 9. Sebastian 10. Sebastian 11. Cassie 12. Sebastian and Cassie June 13. Sebastian 14. Cassie 15. Sebastian 16. Sebastian 17. Cassie 18. Cassie 19. Sebastian 20. Cassie 21. Cassie 22. Sebastian 23. Cassie 24. Sebastian 25. Cassie 26. Cassie 27. Sebastian 28. Cassie 29. Cassie 30. Cassie 31. Sebastian 32. Cassie 33. Sebastian 34. Cassie July 35. Sebastian and Cassie 36. Sebastian 37. Cassie Epilogue What's Next? Forever and Ever Books By Eva Simmons Acknowledgments About the Author Copyright Heart Break Her Copyright © 2023 by Eva Simmons All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, including photocopying, recording, or other electronic or mechanical methods, without the prior written permission of the publisher, except as permitted by U.S. copyright law. For permission requests, contact Eva Simmons. The story, all names, characters, and incidents portrayed in this production are fictitious. No identification with actual persons (living or deceased), places, buildings, and products is intended or should be inferred. Published by Eva Simmons Edited by Kat Wyeth (Kat’s Literary Services) Proofread by Hannah Green (@greenproofreads) Cover Photography by Michelle Lancaster (@lanefotograf / www.michellelancaster.com) Cover Model JJ Michaels (@j.j.michaels) Cover Design by Eva Simmons Formatting via Atticus Author Note The characters in this series are human and flawed, with real struggles, and real triumphs. Hard topics will be discussed with on and off page content that may be sensitive for some readers. Trigger warnings (which contain spoilers) can be found on my website. Playlist If It Means A Lot To You – A Day To Remember Losing My Mind – Mayday Parade Six Feet Under – Billie Eilish Sweater Weather – The Neighbourhood Little Do You Know – Alex & Sierra One Last Breath – Creed Closer – Kings of Leon Spirits – The Strumbellas Hear You Me – Jimmy Eat World Honey – TRACE Fuck It I Love You – Lana Del Ray Sunshine – OneRepublic I'm Yours – The Script Set The Fire To The Third Bar – Snow Patrol, Martha Wainwright Fall For You – Secondhand Serenade Meant To Stay Hid – SYML Standing Tall – Extreme Music Losing You – James Arthur Never Be Enough – Emily Brophy Animal – Neon Trees Trouble – Cage The Elephant I'll Be Good – Jaymes Young Run – Harrison Storm You can find the complete playlist on Spotify. Dedication For the stargazers, finding beauty in the darkness. 1 SebastianGive me tits and a sharpie. Give me women screaming my name. Give me thousands of nameless faces. But look them in the eyes and pretend I can still feel anything through the pot and booze? No thanks.Unplugged shows are the worst.Up close. Personal. No massive stadium to drown out individual sounds and faces. Instead, the fans are close enough for me to watch them sweat. Close enough to see the tears streaming down their cheeks. There’s no room for mistakes.Which has the potential to be a big problem when I’m already wasted. I never should have let Adrian talk me into this bullshit. Tonight is going to be rough.You need to be relatable.Adrian keeps throwing that word at me. Like he thinks that’s what women want from a fucking rock god. Women don’t get down on their knees because they want to relate. No. They want to break off a piece of the untouchable. They want to know what it’s like to suck the dick of the unattainable. They want a glimpse of the other side before settling down with husbands and kids. Something to think about with their vibrators inside them when they get bored of their white picket fences and the missionary position.So that’s what I’ll gladly be. After all, my fans are incredible. Every naked inch of them.Feedback cuts through the speakers and shoots straight to my nerves.“Fuck.” I adjust my beanie.A roadie gives an apologetic look from the side of the stage, but Adrian is already on it. He’s been our band manager long enough to be able to read me like a fucking book. He knows I’m a razor’s edge away from losing my shit, and the last thing I need is someone adjusting the sound who doesn’t know what they’re doing.Where is Rodger anyway? And when did our crew fill up with so many people I don’t know? Adrian better sort this out because the rest of this tour needs to be perfect. I might be the biggest disaster to hit the cover of Rolling Stone, but the music has to be on point.Eloise takes her seat on a stool to my left, tuning her guitar while someone adjusts my microphone.“You look nervous,” my sister says over the rim of her neon-red sunglasses. Her eyes are nearly as dark as her eyeliner.“I’m never nervous.”“Sacramento.” She throws one word at me to prove her point, tipping her sunglasses up over her eyes before returning to tuning her guitar.She just had to go there, had to do what siblings do best and open up infected wounds. Four syllables, and the reminder of that night is bleeding out all over the stage.Sacramento was a lot of things, and not just the end of our fourth tour—the roughest one yet. It was the culmination of what months on the road had been leading up to.Absolute chaos.Rain was pouring down over an outdoor stadium. The sound system was totally fucked. Half the band was wasted before the start of the set. Adrian was chewing out the crew for fucking up the lighting, the equipment, and everything else.It was also the last time I spoke to Myth. Not that I want to think about that right now.Sacramento was a shit show, a mess, a disaster. It was a lot of things resembling slowly circling the drain. But it wasn’t nerves.“I’m fine,” I say, waving my hand up,