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Turning on my heels quickly to get back into my car and leave, I only made it to my door before he stopped me, turning me around to face him and pinning me up against my car door. "Don't do this, Sloane. Don't end things with us like this I know...."
Hearing a car door slam only moments before Jared was ripped away from my body, I saw Gage, holding him by his shirt. "Are you okay, Sloane?"
Nodding my head, and feeling the panic of what it looked like, but wasn't, I felt the need to explain quickly. "Gage, it's okay, really. He wasn't harming me at all, we were just talking."
"Yeah asshole, care to let me go now?" Jared got out through gritted teeth.
"That's not what it looked like to me when I pulled up," he said, releasing, Jared. "It looked like this guy here was trying to intimidate you, and it's lucky that it was me that found you dude, because if it was Archer that saw that shit there would be no talking about it."
Hoping that Gage didn't see Jared kiss me as well, I tried to defuse the situation before it escalated. "Gage, please just go on into the café to meet up with McKenzie. I've got this."
He sternly looked between myself and Jared. "Are you sure your okay?"
"Yes, I am. I promise."
Looking back at Jared one more time, he glared at him. "I'll be right Inside, so I'd be very smart if I were you, and keep your hands off of the lady."
Jared instantly copped an attitude with Gage." Whatever, man. Are you done now so I can finish my conversation with my girlfriend, or what?"
Going pale at his comment about me still being his girlfriend, I knew now for sure that there was no stopping Gage from telling Archer what he saw here today. Chuckling to himself and shaking his head, he walked away. "Yeah, sure thing, man." As he got closer to the café, I could already see him fishing his phone out of his pocket, and I knew I'd only had about fifteen minutes or so before Archer showed up next, ready to fight Jared. I needed to get him out of here, now!
"Jared, just please go now. It's over between us. I'm not your girlfriend now, and I never was. We were just seeing each other, that's all. And now we're done."
Opening the door to my car and getting in, Jared grabbed a hold of it before I got it closed. "This isn't over Sloane. I know he's forcing you to do this, and I'm not going to let him, you hear me? You and me, we're not done here yet," he said before slamming it shut.
Looking up, I caught sight of Gage walking out of the café and heading straight towards me as Jared got into his car to leave.
Gage tapped on my car window, and I rolled it down. "You okay?"
I nodded my head, wiping the tears away that just wouldn't stop, and then I noticed Gage look off to his right. When I looked in the same direction, I saw Archer exiting one of the company Range Rovers. "You just had to call him; didn't you Gage?" I asked in a defeated tone.
"Sorry, but if it were me in his shoes, I would want to know. So yes, I did."
The passenger side of my car opened, and Archer slid in, shutting it behind him with an expression of anger written all over his face. "Thanks for the heads-up man." He told Gage.
"No problem. I'd want to know if it was my woman some guy was messing with. I'll leave you to it then." Gage replied as he tapped on the top of my car before he headed back into the café.
Sitting there for a moment, unsure of what to tell Archer about my conversation with Jared, or what was going to happen next, I chanced a look in his direction. "Did he put hands on you, Sloane?"
Shaking my head, I answered. "No, nothing like that, Jared would never hit me or hurt me for that matter. I know it looked bad when Gage pulled up, but we were just talking."
Letting out a breath, he looked out his window before looking back at me and into my eyes; making me feel as if he was looking straight through to my soul again. I knew I couldn’t lie to him. "Did anything else happen that I should know about during this... talk?"
Taking a deep breath, I closed my eyes for a moment before reopening them. "Yes. H-he, kissed me." Peeking up through my lashes to see his reaction, I watched three things cross over his face. Anger, fear, and hurt. "I'm so sorry, Archer. I tried to make it clear that I was trying to break things off with him... b-but he said that he was falling in love with me and wasn't going to just let me leave that easily. I begged him to just let me go, but I don't think he really heard me... or just didn't want to hear me."
He pulled my chin up, so I had no other choice but to look at him. "I'm going to follow you back to your place, wait for you to get some of your things and then you're staying with me for the rest of the weekend, okay? I don't want to take any chances with that asshole possibly coming back to your place and putting you through the same shit he just did all over again."
"But Archer...."
Cutting me off, he informed me. "This is not a request, Sloane. Remember I told you, your safety is my responsibility, and I decide what is best for you, and this is what I'm deciding. So let's hurry up and get your things and get you back to my place, Understood?"
Battling back and forth in my head on this show of control he was pulling on me, I decided that it would be best to not be at my place the next couple of days just in case Jared really didn't give up and thought about paying me a visit. "Okay." Kissing me on the lips, he got out of my car, and we both made the drive to my apartment.
