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“I don’t.”
“Uh-huh. So you were just standing there in his arms for no reason?”
The guy with his arm around me tensed. “Wai—you—I might’ve missed, uh . . .” As we came upon the tables now littered with food and people I didn’t know, he looked toward Dare for the first time and quickly released me as he murmured a low “Shit” and walked to the other end of the table.
“He ju—”
I jerked, my attention darting to see Dare’s hard glare set on the girl in front of me when he said a name—a name I would have sworn was my own.
“Libby,” he snapped again. “Leave her alone.”
Relief surged through my veins, the feeling so great my body wanted to sag now that the moment’s fear was gone. But with so many eyes on me, I stood still, expressionless.
I didn’t watch her turn to go sit down.
I couldn’t stop looking at Dare.
He was still leaning against the chair, gripping it as though it was a lifeline. And he was waiting to see what I would do.
I wanted to stay. I wanted the steady hum in my veins to turn into that addictive spark when he touched me.
Despite whatever was happening between Kieran and me, every time my head cleared enough to remember that I needed to get home, I felt sick for letting another man touch me at all.
I needed to go.
From the way Dare’s expression hardened and brows pulled together, he knew I’d made my decision.
I rocked back to leave but was suddenly pulled down.
I tripped over my feet as I tried to land in the chair instead of on the ground, and found myself less than an inch from the girl who’d had her face buried in her phone.
“Einstein!” Dare barked from behind me.
Like Libby, she looked to be maybe thirty, give or take a couple years. But she could’ve passed for barely legal with her doe-eyed look and small stature.
But those eyes locked on and studying me gave her away. Calculating, wild, and a little crazy. There was nothing innocent about her.
“Do I know you?” she asked once she was done studying me.
I was so thrown off by her and the way Dare tensed beside me that I didn’t have the chance to be worried about why she would ask. “No.”
“Your mouth.”
My eyebrows shot up. “Excuse me?”
“Your mouth looks familiar.”
I stared at her, dumbfounded, as I tried to think of what to say to her, but she’d already released me and was tapping furiously on her phone again—as if the odd exchange had never happened.
A laugh that was rich and full of frustration burst from Dare as he sat next to me, filling me and making me want to beg to hear it again and again.
“Jesus Christ, Einstein,” he mumbled, then reached into his pocket. Pulling out a phone, he tossed it onto the table. “Phones.”
Four phones quickly followed with dull thuds, and all eyes went to the girl sitting next to me, who still had her face buried in her screen.
“Einstein.” Dare’s tone was a mixture of annoyance and humor as he scrubbed his hands over his face. “Phone.”
“I’ve almost got it,” she said on a rush. Eyes wide with excitement. “Just a little bit more.”
