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I haven't seen or heard from her since we almost kissed in my desperate attempt at attention at our last therapy session. I'm sure I'm the last person she wants to see right now.
Handing the marker back, I peer around the mess of people until there's an opening crowd, and I spot Dylan again.Yep, it wasn't a mirage. Definitely her.
Her thick, sandy hair is down, draping across the back of her bright blue sweatshirt. She's got a deep scowl etched onto her pretty face, but I can't see why. I shuffle through more people, attempting to get near her, when I see that she's scowling at someone.
A man.
A man that's seemingly in her face.
Yeah, I don't like that at all.
I pause near a pillar, watching suspiciously at whatever this is that's unfolding before me. The last thing I need to do is interrupt her conversation with her secret boyfriend. She's looking down at something in her hands when I see her try to get around him. He blocks her movements as his mouth continues flapping. Her eyes peer up at him, and I know that look. If she could kill him with her gaze alone, she would.
I can feel the anger permeating off of her from here. She's hot with it. Enraged.
If it was directed at me, I'd probably enjoy it a little too much. I love that spicy little attitude. But it's not directed at me. It’s directed at this guy who's now grabbing her arms.
He's grabbing her arms.
Nope. No. Fuck no.
A wave of hot fire pumps through my veins at the sight. Immediately, memories of her bruises flash before my eyes. This is the guy.I'll fucking kill him.
Without thinking, I approach the situation, hearing him tell her to stop walking away from him. I don't need to hear any more to know that he's not listening to her. Pushing the fucker off her with my hands to his chest, he falls back onto the floor, causing a bit of a scene amid the crowd. I don't want to draw too much attention to the situation, but I'd deck him right here if I wasn't a special guest at this event.
I dodge the eyes of onlookers entering the building as I drag him through the glass doors, pulling him around to the side. Pressing him up against the rocky wall, he blabbers on about letting him go. I slam his back against it hard, gaining his silence.
“You stay the fuck away from her,” I spit out, my knuckles white from my hold on his sweater.
His eyes wince in anticipation of the blow I'm about to give, completely wordless and frozen in fear. But, I don't hit him. I drop his pathetic ass onto the dirt below us. Scoffing at the entire situation, I turn to get back to make sure she's alright.
“Good luck with that,” he comments from the ground, spitting from the side of his mouth into the dirt.
“What the fuck did you say to me?” I march back over and he curls into himself, his hands raised.
One thing is clear. This walking GAP ad is a pussy.
“I said good luck with that,” he repeats. “She'll never let him go. He ruins her. She'd be amazing if not for him.”
Confusion wrecks me as I glare down at him, hearing the words that make little sense. I repeat them to myself, but the only thing I get stuck on is the way he said she'd be amazing if not forhim.
I’m not sure whoheis, but I know that's where he's wrong. There's nothing that's not amazing about her, even with her secrets.
I fight the urge to get physical and split this guy's fucking skull open, swallowing down the anger with clenched fists. My jaw aches with the tension I'm holding in it.
Turning, I head back into the building to find her and whatever he thinks ruins her.
29
Dylan
I'mstuckstandingtherewith my mouth ajar, a familiar pinch in my chest, and two handfuls of food spilled beneath me.
“Shit!” I curse out, not even realizing I'd dropped everything in my hands.
I bend down to pick up the cheese fries now scattered in a large, bright splat along the gray concrete. People shuffle by me unknowingly, until an old man bends down and starts helping me, handing me a stack of napkins as I attempt to scrape it off the floor with shaking hands.
I'm shaking. Jesus, the fact that Eric can still bring out this kind of anger infuriates me even further. The loud thudding of my heart is making my head pound as Lake rejoins me. I can't imagine what he just did to him outside.
