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And I hadn’t wanted her to be so emotionally scarred that she’d felt the need to hide a relationship she’d started with one of my best fucking friends from me.
So why should anyone get what they wanted now?
But Fox just kept staring at me, so I huffed out a breath, knowing he was right.
“Who the fuck do you think you are?” Ethan asked Fox, scowling at him.
Fox slowly glanced his way. “Really? We probably met half a dozen times at all the family events Bella took you to.”
Ethan squinted a second before pointing. “Oh right. You’re one of those cousins who’s not really a cousin. Damn, am I lucky to have escaped that crazy circus of a—”
He cut himself off short when Fox narrowed his eyes and took a decidedly angry step toward him. Instantly shutting up, Ethan scurried a step back and blinked at him.
“You seriously think you’re just going to keep getting away with it, don’t you?” Fox murmured, shaking his head in astounded disbelief. “That all of those poor women will just keep denying to themselves that you would do such a thing to them? You think they’ll all continue to assume they were plastered—that it was all their own foolish fault—and that’s why they don’t remember what happened.”
“Oh God,” one of the three women at the table croaked.
We all turned to see her clutching her face between her hands as the color blanched from her face.
“It wasn’t my fault, was it?” she asked Ethan, her voice ringing with dazed shock.
The man next to her whipped an incredulous glance her way, exclaiming, “Say what?”
“I—I—” She started to cry. “I would never cheat on you. I swear. I love you. But he—he said—he told me I—”
“He said what?” her man demanded, slowly coming to his feet as he gaped at her.
“I woke up naked next to him,” she explained. “But I don’t remember how I got there or what happened between us.”
“Are you fucking kidding me?”
“I’m so sorry,” she wept, growing so upset and unable to contain herself that one of her friends had to scoot close to wrap a supportive arm around her and steady her. “I c-couldn’t tell you. I didn’t want to l-lose you.”
“Son of a bitch.” He pivoted toward Ethan. “Did you fucking touch my wife?”
Ethan’s eyes flared and he started to backpedal in reverse. “I—what? No. I would never. The bitch is fucking lying. She came on to me.”
“Crystal doesn’t lie,” her husband seethed from between clenched teeth as he fisted his hands. “And she’s not a bitch.”
Fox grabbed my shirt and pulled me out of the way just as Crystal’s husband dove at Ethan and started wailing on him without mercy.
“I’m getting this tested,” the woman with the pilsner announced, grabbing it and lifting it out of the way just before the fighting pair crashed into the table and knocked it askew. Two of the women yelped in surprise. And one of the guys not brawling grabbed a wallet from the center of another table and flipped it open, tearing out the contents before he paused and lifted a ten-pack bubble package of oblong olive-green pills.
With one missing.
“It’s true,” he murmured, g
aping at the proof in his hands. “Holy shit, man, you’re carrying drugs on you right now. You’re a fucking...”
But he never finished the accusation, too busy watching his other friend pummel Ethan to a bloody pulp, while all the other members of the club stopped watching their game to gather around and either videotape the chaos or call someone for help.
Fox and I glanced at each other.
“I think our work here is done,” I announced.
He nodded, agreeing.
We turned together and left the sports club, feeling pretty damn good. At least, I did. Fox seemed to feel the same, so when he sent me a satisfied smirk, I threw an arm over his shoulder, and we pushed our way outside together, where two women immediately tackled me, throwing their arms around me and hugging me hard.
