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Sofi backed away one more step, bumping into a girl that yelled at her to watch it, but Sofi hardly registered the girl’s reaction, she was too focused on the guy that was matching her step for step.
Should she turn and run?
But the bar was so crowded. She wasn’t even sure how quickly she could make it back to Rachael.
She wondered if Rachael had noticed Sofi’s situation but didn’t dare take her eyes off of this guy. Something in her warned her not to let her guard down for an instant.
With lightning speed, telling Sofi this guy wasn’t intoxicated like the rest of the bar goers, he took hold of Sofi’s arm, gripping it so hard that escape was impossible.
“Let go of me.” Sofi said each word carefully even as her voice shook.
She’d been in some rough bar situations but nothing like this. She tried to pull her arm away but the guy’s grip increased, and Sofi’s heart went into panic mode.
She opened her mouth to scream when suddenly the grip on her arm vanished and the guy was flat on the ground, Sofi’s best friend Austin on top of him.
Sofi felt another set of hands on her shoulders and was about to spin out of that grip when she heard the familiar voice of Memphis, Austin’s brother. “Take a step or two back, Sof,” Memphis directed her.
Sofi tried to release some of the tension from her body as she realized she’d been frozen in place. But how were Austin and Memphis there? How had Austin landed on top of the guy who’d been holding Sofi? What was going on?
Austin landed a few punches but the guy was able to push Austin off, jumping to his feet as Austin did the same.
Sofi glanced around the bar and just as she’d feared, no one appeared ready to intervene. The bartenders kept serving drinks and the people in the place only seemed to care about getting a front row seat to the fight. If it weren’t for Austin, that guy could have . . .
“Aren’t you going to help him?” Sofi asked Memphis, suddenly fearing for her best friend. She knew Austin could hold his own—she’d seen him in too many fights—but this guy was huge.
“He’ll be fine,” Memphis said as he pulled her close, keeping her safe from all of the people trying to press their way forward.
“The guy is giant!” Sofi declared.
“No bigger than a cow and Austin can handle those,” Memphis shrugged. Sofi wasn’t sure his logic was completely sound, but surprisingly it did make her feel better.
The guy threw his first punch and even though his fist moved so fast toward Austin’s face that Sofi could barely see it in the dim lighting of the bar, Austin easily dodged it while delivering a punch of his own to the man’s gut.
“Oh, that had to have hurt,” Memphis said with grin. “Most people think it’s the punches to the face that hurt the most and sure, those can be bad, but a shot right in the solar plexus? He’s going to be feeling that for days.”
Sofi waited for some of that pain that Memphis had promised to register on the man’s face but instead he began to charge forward, right at Austin.
“Austin!” Sofi screamed and immediately slapped a hand over her mouth. What if Austin had turned her way?
But thankfully her best friend was smarter than she was and stayed completely focused on the man in front of him. The man barreled low, ducking his head to hit Austin’s chest. The same thing Austin must have done to him when he’d laid him out on the ground.
“He’s going to hurt him,” Sofi whimpered as she glanced around for something to help her. Memphis might have been confident in his brother’s abilities, but Sofi didn’t want to take any chances.
While Sofi was looking for help she heard a crash and saw that the guy had somehow fallen to the ground once more but Austin hadn’t fallen with him this time. Instead the guy sprawled on the ground with a broken stool.
“Just like a charging bull,” Memphis chuckled.
How could Memphis be laughing? Austin seemed to have the upper hand but Sofi wasn’t taking any chances.
She grabbed a chair beside her. If she slammed this over the guy’s head . . .
Memphis gently took the chair from Sofi and set it back down. “He’s got this. I promise. And if he doesn’t, I’ll make sure he’s okay. Austin would kill me if I let you jump into the fray.”
Sofi didn’t doubt that, but she couldn’t help her anxiety. Only her love for Memphis kept her from reaching for the chair once more.
But what if Memphis waited too long? If that meaty fist that had relentlessly squeezed her arm hit Austin’s skull? Sofi bit her lip to keep from crying out as the man rose from the floor once more. This time he moved a little more slowly but with enough strength that Sofi knew the fight wasn’t over.
A new guy started to step in from the circle of spectators at Austin’s back, and Sofi recognized him. She’d seen him with the guy who’d grabbed her.
