My Rockstar's Heartstrings: Three Years of Loving You From Afar novel Chapter 1

Kaylee's POV

During my broke years, I took in a homeless teenager who played guitar on street corners.

He followed me to odd jobs and slept on my basement floor.

Eventually, I told him, "I'm marrying someone with money. This is goodbye."

Years later, he cornered me against backstage on Coachella—now the heart and soul of Crimson Chains, the rock sensation sweeping the nation with platinum albums and sold-out arenas.

"Thought you got married," he said, his voice lower than I remembered. "Where's the lucky guy?"

My face gave nothing away. "He died."

He gestured to himself, one eyebrow raised. "Got a live one right here. Interested?"

Jax Puth and Crimson Chains just dropped a new album, "Heartstrings."

Unlike his usual sound, all eighteen tracks were sickeningly sweet love songs that had everyone talking.

Overnight, social media exploded with fans and casual listeners all speculating about the same thing—

Was Jax Puth finally in love?

If true, it would break the internet. Hell would freeze over first.

After all, Jax was notorious in the industry for being "allergic to relationships." He once appeared on "Late Night with Jimmy Carson" alongside Selena Hindlin, Hollywood's newest it-girl. Selena's team had already drafted plans for stirring up romance rumors between them.

Unless I happened to be that very ex.

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I originally had no intention of listening to "Heartstrings."

But I couldn't escape it with Amy constantly playing it beside me.

She nudged me while listening: "Can you imagine how people would lose their minds if they found out this album was actually written for Selena?"

Selena Hindlin was the starlet who appeared on that talk show with Jax.

Coincidentally, I now work as an assistant on her team, and Amy is my colleague.