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CHAPTER6
Evie
I burst out of the hallway and into the press of bodies at the edge of the dance floor. My heart is pounding harder than the bass line on the EDM track pumping through the speakers.
My hand flies to my neck, then down to my breastbone.
Shit!
My necklace is gone. I thought I’d only imagined it when it tightened around my neck. I should go back and fetch it… but I can still feel his fingers around my throat.
I’m a fuckingcoward.
Throwing a nervous glance over my shoulder, I scan the hallway and everyone coming onto the dance floor to make sure the guy with the terrifying concrete-gray eyes hasn’t followed me. I move through the mass of bodies at an uneven pace, looking backward every few steps as I head for the doors leading into the back yard. If he did follow me, hopefully I can lose him in the crowd.
As my panic starts to ebb, I finally register what the hell just happened.
He thinks I’m a thief?
My hand tightens on the strap of my backpack, the same hand I slapped him with.
The shock in his eyes… and then the outrage.
You have no idea who I am.
What have I done?
After finally battling my way through the press of bodies, I step into the cool night air and draw some deep breaths. Then I rummage in my bag and take out a bottle of prescription pills. I dry swallow one of them, hesitate, then force myself to take another.
Risking a final look back, I wrap my arms around myself and walk down the lawn. Drinking whatever was in that bottle had been a bad,badidea. That encounter was scary enough, but the drugs confused the fuck out of me. Squaring off with that huge guy had my knees shaking, but my nipples tightening too. Every shift of movement made Kat’s dress rub over my skin in the most delicious way.
And when he pressed against me and I felt his cock?
There’s still a hard, sullen ache in my core. A dampness between my legs that has nothing to do with the fact that I was touching myself moments before he burst into that room. As I make my way over the lawn, the friction between my thighs makes my lower body tingle. When I realize I’m brushing my fingers down my neck, remembering the feel of him clutching my throat, I quickly clench my hand at my side.
I need to find Kat and get the hell out of here before I cross paths with that guy again.
Maybe when I’m far away from this place, I’ll finally be able to get the image of those brutal eyes out of my head?
God, he was so tall. So fuckingstrong. I knew he held me there with just a fraction of his strength. That he could have squeezed just a little harder… and I wouldn’t be alive right now.
It’s a horrific thought, but that doesn’t explain why my panties are so wet.
It must be the drugs.
I swerve around a bonfire, my backpack thumping against my hip, and I realize my phone’s vibrating inside. When I stop to take it out, my body lurches forward a step before I can come to a complete stop. My balance is nonexistent, and I end up on all fours with a reeling head before I can regain my footing.
Scrambling onto my ass, I sit down hard, staring around me as my face heats to the temperature of the sun. But I might as well be invisible. No one laughs. No one even turns to stare.
I pluck out my phone and stare at the name on the screen with blurry eyes.
Wild Kat
Good God, now I’m hallucinating?
“Hello?”
“JesusfuckingChrist,” Kat snaps in my ear. “I’ve been calling for hours.”
