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The guy was twenty-four andwaytoo old tobe hangingout with high school kids. But I saw him now for what he was—a predator—and I often wondered if I’d be like him when I was his age. The thought scared me, but what I did now scared me, too, and yet I couldn’t see an end in sight. I was in too deep, and I—we,Momand me—depended on this too much.
Tammi glanced over her shoulder and stared at her ex-boyfriend like maybe she was considering it. But she made a contemplative sound before saying, “Nah, I don’t feel like it right now. Yours is bigger anyway.”
I wanted to grumble a sardonicthanksbecause I didn’t doubt for a second that, if my dick had in fact been smaller, she would have sauntered her way back into Levi’s arms without a second thought. But before I could say anything, my thoughts were blown apart by a bloodcurdling scream not twenty feet away from where I sat.
Tammi turned her head abruptly in the direction of where the sound had come from. “Wha—”
She couldn’t get her sentence out before I shoved her off my lap.
I bolted from the bench and ran toward the scream that had now turned into a girl’s pleading voice, saying, “Stop it!Please, getoff ofme! Get off!”
Her frantic, desperate words crushed my soul, and what I found made my blood boil.
A young girl I had never seen before was pinned against a tree by the body of Levi’s buddy, Seth. One of his hands was on her chest while the other was working at getting his fly undone. She was writhing, struggling to get away from him, as she cried and gasped and begged for someone to help her in a field of dozens of people who were ignoring her.
But not me.
Without a moment of hesitation, I grabbed Seth from behind, gripping his shirt in my fists and pulling him off her with such force that we both fell backward into a couple of other kids.
“What the hell, man?!” one of them asked, as if they hadn’t been aware of the girl being violated against her will mere feet away from them.
Seth rolled away and out of my grasp. “Get the fuck—”
Myfiststopped his words from coming out, and a spray of blood hit my face as I broke his nose.
“Motherfucker!” he cried in agony, cupping his hands over his face. “You piece of fucking shit!”
I began to get to my feet as I turned to the girl, still standing there with her back against the tree, watching the scene unfold in front of her.
“Are you okay?” I asked,pantingand trying to catch my breath from the tussle.
She began to nod when her already-frightened eyes widened further.
“Look out!” she screamed, but I was too slow to react.
The broken bottle came down, slicing my face, just below my left eye. I cursed and hissed at the sting as a fiery heat throbbed and the blood began to pour. It hurt like a bitch, and I expected a trip to the emergency room was in my near future.
Someone—some guy I didn’t recognize—grabbed Seth, holding him back and forcing the broken bottle from his hand.
“Youwannatake care of him, Soldier?” the guy asked, and it made my skin crawl that he knew my name and I barely even recognized his face.
I laid a hand over my cheek and pulled it away to stare at my blood-soaked palm. “Holy shit,” I muttered, shaking my head before looking at Seth and asking, “What the fuck is wrong with you, man?”
His eyes reflected a rage that threatened to pierce my soul as he snarled, “Withme?! You fuckin’ attacked me out of nowhere, you asshole!”
I thrust my hand toward the girl, frozen and terrified of what was happening in front of her. Terrified of what had almost happened.
“You expect me to just stand back like all of these other pieces of shit while youfuckingrape someone?”
“Rape?” Seth snickered, rolling his eyes. “I wasn’t fuckingrapingher. Shewantedit.”
I looked at the girl, noting now that her hair was the softest shade of brown I’d ever seen. Like a teddy bear. Warm. Comforting. Almost familiar in the way it begged to be touched.
Like Sully.
“Did you want it?” I asked gently.
She shook her head rapidly, and I looked back at Seth, scowling.
