Totally Rocked? (The Next Generation Series Book 3) Read online

  K E Osborn

  Totally Rocked?

  The Next Generation Series

  By K E Osborn

  Copyright 2015 K E Osborn

  This book is a work of fiction. Names and characters are the product of the author’s imagination and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead is entirely coincidental.

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  ISBN: 978 - 0994312723

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  Being the adopted daughter of the world’s most famous rock star, Colter Slade has its perks. A rich lifestyle, designer clothes, enough money to buy all the pretty things you desire. But does being Daddy’s little princess mean you’re satisfied with your life?

  Ella Slade has it all, she has her own band, the right friends and family supporting her as she grows into this crazy world of paparazzi, minion fans and the crazy hype that constantly surrounds her family. But what Ella craves goes much deeper than superstardom. Ella loves the limelight, she always has, and with her best friend Chad by her side anything is possible.

  Her band Staked goes on tour and her world is thrown into chaos when she meets the handsome and mysterious Danger, the lead singer from the backing band Recoil.

  Ella is taken on a whirlwind of emotions on the roller coaster of life as she embarks on a journey of self-discovery. How do you choose between the safe life you've known all along and something far more dangerous? She must decide who to turn to - the one that's been there all along - or the new Danger that threatens to turn her world on its axis.

  Who will she choose, Danger or Chad? Was there ever really a choice to be made?

  To my Beautiful Beta’s.

  Thank you for all that you do. This series wouldn’t have been the same without you.

  This one’s for you ladies.

  As always my first thank you goes to my editor, my friend, my confidant, my rock, my source of endless plotting parties, my mother and my friend – Kaylene Osborn. Without your support and guidance, I wouldn’t be able to have the career I love and adore. So thank you for making my dreams come true and helping me not only achieve them but support me in them as well. All daughters deserve a mother like you!

  To all of my amazing BETA readers – Thank you for once again putting in your thoughts and ideas not only into this book but this series. I appreciate all of your energy and ideas, and together we make a great team. Without you beautiful ladies, these books wouldn’t be at their best potential. So thank you, every single one of you.

  To my family – For your continuous love, friendship and humour. Without you guys, my life would be very dull and boring. So thank you for supporting me without question and for always being there.

  To my beautiful, playful and utterly adorable pup, Bella – I know I’ve thanked her a few times now, and you may think it’s silly, but she really does play a significant role in the creation of my books. So thank you, Bella, for being here with me every step of the way and helping me create exciting characters and adorable pups – if you haven’t noticed all my books have dogs in them ;)

  To Nicole – My PA, who has been nothing but a miracle worker since her arrival. I thank you so much for all your efforts, hard work, awesome designs and friendship. You are a joy to have around!

  Last of all, I want to thank YOU, the reader. Your continued support with my writing career is both humbling and heart-warming. I love the readers so much and honestly couldn’t keep going without the love and support you all show me each day. Thank you for believing in me, and I hope I can keep you entertained for many, many, years to come.

  Stay tuned because Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree? A Red Velvet Christmas Novel is on its way.

  Thank you,

  Much love,

  K E Osborn

  xoxo

  This book has been written using UK English and contains euphemisms and slang words that form part of the UK spoken word, which is the basis of this book’s writing style.

  Please remember that the words are not misspelled, they are slang terms and form part of the every day, UK lifestyle. Some euphemisms or slang terms have been provided below for your information. This book has been written using UK English.

  If you would like further explanation, or to discuss the translation or meaning of a particular word, please do not hesitate to contact the author – contact details have been provided, for your convenience, at the end of this book.

  Awesome Sauce – Describes something or someone as awesome.

  Bang – Fuck, have sex.

  Bird – A girl or a woman.

  Bloody – Commonly used expletive to describe something, a mild swear word.

  Bonking – To have sex.

  Chipper – A joyful person.

  Dickhead – An inept, foolish, stupid or contemptible person.

  Douche – A word to describe a person as being brainless, an idiot.

  Douchewad – A rude, obnoxious or annoying person.

  Fuckwit – Moron, dimwit, idiot, stupid, unintelligent person.

  Git – Silly, incompetent, stupid, silly.

  Lounge room – Living room.

  Lounge suite – Sofa.

  Mate – Buddy or friend.

  Mobile phone – Cell phone.

  Pash – Heavy kissing session.

  Pommie – British person.

  Punk – Gangster, hoodlum or ruffian.

  Righto – All right or okay.

  Shag – To have sex.

  Shiela – A woman.

  Snogging – To kiss passionately.

  Stupid O’clock – Very early morning or late evening.

  Taxi – Cab.

  TTYL – Abbreviation for talk to you later.

  Uber – Super, ultimate, above all, the best.

  UNO – Card game which is played with a specially printed deck.

  Up Shit Creek – Usually ‘up shit creek without a paddle’ – to be in a bad situation with no way to fix it.

  Vest – Wifebeater or tank top.

  Wanker – An idiot, stupid or annoying person. Also a person who masturbates.

  Colter (Colt) Slade – Lead singer of Slayed, manager of Staked. Married to Lia. Father of Annie and Ella, brother to Hux.

  Delia (Lia) Slade – Married to Colt. Mother of Annie and Ella. Best friends with Anna.

  Ella Slade – Backup guitar for Staked. Youngest adopted daughter of Colt and Lia. Cousin of Caleb.

  Annie Slade – Lead guitar and backup singer for Staked. Eldest adopted daughter of Colt and Lia. Cousin of Caleb.

  ‘Danger’ Pipe – Lead singer of Recoil and main love interest for Ella Slade.

  Ryan Hunter – Lead guitar and backup singer for Recoil and Danger’s best friend.

  Matt Levine – Bass Guitar for Recoil and Nate’s brother.

  Nate Levine – Drummer for Recoil and Matt’s brother.

  Dingo Everly – Drummer of Slayed. Married to Sia. Father of Chad, Carter and Carlton.

  Alysia (Sia) Everly – Manager of Slayed. Married to Dingo. Mother of Chad, Carter and Carlton.

  Chad Everly – Drummer for Staked. Son to Dingo and Sia. Brother of Carter
and Carlton. Ella’s confidant and lifelong friend.

  Huxley (Hux) Slade – Lead guitar of Slayed. Married to Macy McCormack-Slade. Father of Caleb McCormack-Slade. Brother to Colt.

  Macy McCormack-Slade – Married to Hux. Mother of Caleb.

  Caleb McCormack-Slade – Lead singer of Staked. Son of Hux and Macy. Cousin to Annie and Ella.

  Johnny Soulding – Bassist of Slayed. Married to Anna Soulding. Father to Aston Soulding. Best friends with Colt.

  Anna Soulding – Married to Johnny. Mother of Aston. Best friends with Lia.

  Aston Soulding – Bassist of Staked. The only child of Anna and Johnny.

  Blurb

  Dedication

  Acknowledgments

  Note To The Reader

  Character Relationships

  Prologue

  Chapter One

  Chapter Two

  Chapter Three

  Chapter Four

  Chapter Five

  Chapter Six

  Chapter Seven

  Chapter Eight

  Chapter Nine

  Chapter Ten

  Chapter Eleven

  Chapter Twelve

  Chapter Thirteen

  Chapter Fourteen

  Chapter Fifteen

  Chapter Sixteen

  Chapter Seventeen

  Chapter Eighteen

  Chapter Nineteen

  Chapter Twenty

  Chapter Twenty-One

  Chapter Twenty-Two

  Chapter Twenty-Three

  Chapter Twenty-Four

  Chapter Twenty-Five

  Chapter Twenty-Six

  Chapter Twenty-Seven

  Chapter Twenty-Eight

  Chapter Twenty-Nine

  Chapter Thirty

  Chapter Thirty-One

  Chapter Thirty-Two

  Chapter Thirty-Three

  Chapter Thirty-Four

  Chapter Thirty-Five

  Chapter Thirty-Six

  Chapter Thirty-Seven

  Chapter Thirty-Eight

  Chapter Thirty-Nine

  Chapter Forty

  Chapter Forty-One

  Chapter Forty-Two

  Chapter Forty-Three

  Chapter Forty-Four

  Chapter Forty-Five

  Chapter Forty-Six

  Epilogue

  Connect With Me Online

  About the Author – K E Osborn

  It was a warm evening and the whole family were out down by the willow tree playing. Daddy was pushing Annie on the swing set and Mummy and me were playing UNO as we sat on a rug under the tree watching Annie laugh at Daddy, who was making faces at her. I was turning six the next week and we were going to have a great big party. Mummy said I could even have ponies there for everyone to ride on. I couldn’t wait!

  “So we’re going to have those little fairy cakes you like for your party, Ella, and your father said he’s going to get a jumping castle brought in too. How would you like that?” Mummy asked and I opened my eyes wide and nodded with excitement.

  “That will be so much fun. I can’t wait for my party Mummy, it’s going to be so cool with all the ponies and stuff. I can’t wait for Chad to come over so I can play with him. He’s so much fun, he makes me laugh so hard,” I said as I put down a ‘Draw Four’ card.

  Mummy huffed and then giggled as she picked up four cards.

  “Yeah, he certainly is a funny kid, so full of energy, I don’t know how Sia keeps up with him,” Mummy said. Looking over to where Daddy was pushing Annie on the swing, she was giggling so much it made me smile. Suddenly a knot formed in my stomach and I started to feel uneasy and a little sick.

  Mummy looked at me and furrowed her brows. “What’s wrong, baby?”

  “Annie’s going too high,” I said as I looked over at Daddy, who was still pushing Annie on the swing. Annie laughed and let go clapping her hands together in excitement and Daddy and Mummy both gasped as Annie swung out from the swing and catapulted toward the ground. She let out an almighty scream as Daddy rushed toward her and picked her up as she started crying and holding her arm.

  “Oh God, Annie?” Mummy called out rushing over while Daddy assessed Annie’s arm.

  “Colt, why the hell would you push her so high?” Mummy yelled. Daddy shook his head and held onto Annie tighter as she cried and cried.

  I stood back and held myself as they fussed over her.

  “I don’t think it’s broken,” Daddy said pulling on Annie’s arm as she wrapped it around his neck crying into his shoulder.

  “Are you okay, baby?” Mummy asked cuddling into her while she gripped tightly onto Daddy.

  She nodded her head and Mummy wiped away her tears.

  “Okay, I think play time is over. Let’s go inside and have some hot chocolate, hey?” Mummy said. Annie cheered up straight away and jumped from Daddy’s arms and ran toward the house seeming perfectly fine. Mummy shook her head and walked over to me while Daddy chased after Annie.

  “You’re always excellent at sensing danger aren’t you my little, Ella?” Mummy said as she bent down and pulled me up onto her hip.

  I nodded and smiled.

  “That’s a good skill to have, it won’t let you down. Just trust in yourself, Ella. Whenever it tells you something’s wrong, you trust it. Remember that, okay?”

  I smiled and nodded. “Okay, Mummy. Can we have hot chocolate now?”

  We started the walk toward the manor.

  “Yeah, baby girl, we better get inside before your sister drinks it all.”

  Those words from my mother about ‘trusting in myself’ I’ve always listened to, and they have always worked for me.

  That is until now. Now, I have no idea!

  My body is telling me one thing and my heart another.

  Do I follow my heart or my body? I don’t know which way to go…

  Most girls at the young age of seventeen can’t say they’ve had the same start in life I’ve had. I was adopted at six-months-old and taken in by a celebrity couple. None other than the world’s most famous rock star Colter Slade and his wife Lia, along with their other adopted daughter Annie. I’ve grown up with celebrities and being in the limelight, so my life has not been normal by any stretch of the imagination. But my parents have done the best they can with me and my sister. And even though Annie can be a brat she’s trying her hardest to be a better person, especially now that she’s finally together with the love of her life Aston.

  They’ve been best friends forever and have finally taken that step of being more and I couldn’t be happier for them. It makes life for my band Staked much easier when they’re getting along. And seeing as we’re just starting our world tour as one of the backing bands for our parents’ band Slayed, it’s good to know they’ll be on fire on stage together. My band Staked started when I was about four-years-old and my sister Annie, cousin Caleb, family friends Aston and Chad all being the kids of the world famous Slayed band members, we were destined to follow in the musical footsteps of our parents. We started out playing for fun, but as we got older our band grew tighter and we played really well together, so we became more serious and started practicing all the time. That’s led us to where we are today.

  I’m in the green room at Wembley Stadium and the buzz filling the air is electric. I’m so nervous it’s making me starving, but I need to try and control my eating tonight. My nervous eating habit is so annoying, I wish I had some other quirk like being grumpy which is Annie or running up and down the halls in some dirty old socks like Chad. But I guess eating isn’t so bad, right? I just need to make sure I don’t eat the bad stuff, so I don’t put on too much weight. I have an image to uphold and no one wants a pimply faced rock star, right?

  I look over and notice Annie and Aston all cuddled up and canoodling in the corner, and I figure I need a distraction from my grumbling stomach. Moving across to them, I interrupt their conversation.

  “Have you guys met the members of Recoil yet?”

  Annie shakes h
er head. Recoil are the other backing band on this tour.

  “Nope, have you?”

  I shake my head. “Nope, but I can’t wait to meet them. Especially considering we’re going to be spending the next six months with them. I hope they’re nice,” I say and Annie smirks.

  “Well, don’t be surprised if they’re douchewads. I bet they’re so far up themselves—”

  “Who’s up themselves?” a man asks in a smooth American accent, and as his voice washes over me, a shudder runs right through my very soul. Turning to look at him, the first thing I notice are his bright, intense blue eyes. He’s looking right at me and his stare is so acute that it makes my knees feel weak. I swallow hard as a lump forms in my throat while every inch of my body begins to tingle. I take in his short dark black hair and his muscular body covered entirely in tattoos. They’re arranged all the way up his neck stopping right on his jaw line. Normally this wouldn’t do anything for me, but the brightly coloured ink and the way he’s looking at me right now—like he wants to rip my clothes off—is making my breathing rushed and heavy. I can’t tell how old he is, he looks young, but his tattoos make him seem older so my guess would be early twenties, maybe? As his tall frame takes a step closer all my atoms buzz and vibrate which, in turn, makes my entire body shake slightly just from his close proximity. I’ve never felt anything like this before, my body is definitely telling me something right now. I’m just not sure what it is.

  “And you are?” Annie asks knocking me out of my dazed state and back to our reality. I can’t seem to pick up my jaw from the ground, which is kind of embarrassing. This man is breathtakingly gorgeous and I can’t gain my composure.

  “Danger,” he states and he moves his hand out gracefully toward me to shake as his eyes stay focused on mine.

  I smile and bite my bottom lip finding some inner strength to actually speak, “What makes you dangerous?” I ask sounding as breathless as I am. When he takes my hand in his, a wave races through me as the warmth of his hand ignites against mine. Which sends a rush of heat straight from my hand right through my core and straight between my legs. I clench my thighs together and swallow hard.