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I launched forward, taking several large steps toward them. “Let her go. You’re hurting her,” I demanded, grabbing his wet arm and trying to pull it away.
“I don’t know who the fuck you think you are, but club bitches aren’t allowed to just walk into our fucking bedrooms unannounced,” he barked, finally releasing Dakota. Who for the first time in the past few months we’d been hanging out didn’t have some witty remark, and instead, tears filled her eyes.
“Ripley, calm the fuck down,” Huntsman ordered, taking a step forward, but the young guy took very little notice. His mouth might have stopped running, but he was looking at Dakota and I like we were pieces of trash.
Fire flared inside me as I watched my ever bright friend cave in on herself, her body curling into mine. “Luckily then neither of us are your fuckingclub bitches,” I sneered, every word laced with venom. “So wewillgo wherever the fuck we want.”
“Enough!” Huntsman’s voice echoed off the walls deafeningly, the boom that bounced back hitting my body with force—just the sound of his voice enough to scare anyone straight.
Ripley gritted his teeth before turning around and stomping back the way he came, muttering to himself words I thankfully couldn’t make out, because God help him if he said one more thing against Dakota.
This girl went out of her way to befriend me and promised to have my back, even when she didn’t know me. And she’d always followed through on that, supporting me whenever I needed someone. I would fight tooth and nail to do the same for her.
“He’s a jerk,” I declared as I pointed Dakota toward the bar and started pulling out ingredients for margaritas.
“Yeah, but you two are gonna have to find some fucking way to get along,” he muttered, scratching at his beard. I was about to argue until he added. “You’re the only sister he’s got.”
Sister?
Damn.
