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“Miranda.”
“Well, Miranda, let me say that you could do better than affiliating yourself with an asshole like him.”
“Thanks for the advice. I need to get back to my sister. Have a good night.” I walked away quickly.
My chest finally relaxed when the band finished. Mike had creeped me out so much that I wanted to leave. Lachlan was chatting with a bunch of girls, charming the pants off them with his twinkling smile, while they giggled and touched his muscly arms.
I spied Harriet in a corner, laughing with a guy, and joined them.
“Hey, Harry, can I have a word?”
She whispered something to the guy before joining me.
“He’s cute,” she said, half-drunk.
I explained what had happened and cocked my head subtly toward Mike, who remained pitched at the bar and waved back at me.
“Shit. He knows we’re talking about him,” I said.
“He looks like a loser. If I’d fucked someone like Lachlan, I would have left him too.”
“Harry, that’s a shit answer. Why are you like this?” I needed some sobering words.
“Hey. Chillax. It’s all good. I mean, look at him. He’s just pissed off. You can’t get upset with Lachlan. You don’t know the whole story. She could have thrown herself at him. There are always two sides to every story. And Lachlan’s thirty.” She opened her hand. “We’re all a bit grungy at times. Just because you’ve decided to do things the old-fashioned way doesn’t mean we’re all picky about who we fuck.”
Despite Harriet’s crude logic, my stomach tightened as Mike’s creepy stare clawed at my body. I left Harriet to talk to a much younger guy, who looked harmless enough, and positioned myself at the edge of the stage, where Lachlan was chatting with an annoyingly pretty woman.
That Lachlan didn’t even notice me hurt. When he continued to ignore me, I left.
Just as I stepped outside, a hand landed on my shoulder, and a smile touched my lips, as I expected it to be Lachlan.
But when I turned around, I bit into my lip, virtually drawing blood.
“If you were my girl, I wouldn’t leave you alone,” Mike said, wearing a sleazy smile.
He grabbed my arm roughly, and I screamed, wriggling like mad to free myself. He proved too strong and managed to drag me to a dark alleyway.
I kept screaming, so he muffled my mouth with one hand while the other clawed at my body.
“You’re hot,” he said with a heavy breath.
He tore my shirt open and smothered my breasts. Tears poured down my cheeks. Anger burst through me, and I crunched his balls with my knee.
He jumped back, but when I tried to run away, he grabbed me again.
“Let me go!”
As he ran his hands up my legs, someone came from behind me and pulled Mike off me with such force that I nearly toppled over.
I turned, and Lachlan knocked my assailant to the ground with such a powerful punch that a sickening crack sounded.
Harriet ran toward me. “What the fuck?” Her eyes were wide with shock. “Did he try to hit on you?”
“He tried to fucking rape me.” My voice trembled as sobs constricted my throat.
Lachlan continued to pummel the cowering man, who lay scrunched up on the ground.
I finally snapped out of my daze and yelled, “Stop! It’s not worth it. You might kill him.”
