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Aw, crap. That made me feel like shit.
“I had the girls with me…” I started, already considering chickening out.
I hated how his eyes searched mine for something, anything that said I felt what he did.
“Well, that’s okay. I figured now that the center is done, and I won’t be seeing you as much, that maybe I could ask you out. See if I could take you to dinner?”
The idea of dating someone like that—in a regular way where we just went to dinner and he called me the next day—sounded so far from anything that I would ever want again. I wanted secret kisses in the pantry. Stolen moments in the office before little eyes caught us.
“Actually, Jeffery, I can’t. I—”
He stepped forward before I could finish, and his hands were on my face, pulling my mouth to his in a scorching kiss.
I pushed against him hard, forcing his lips to tear away from mine.
My eyes were wide in shock, and so were his, but they were focused behind me.
“You better fucking hope someone stops me from breaking your jaw!” Liam roared, storming up behind us.
I turned and moved to the side. He took my spot immediately, and he was already throwing a punch.
“Liam, I didn’t tell him we were together yet. I was about to when he—”
Liam’s eyes were huge and round—crazy. “When he fucking kissed you?”
Jeffery was holding his jaw, dagger eyes on both of us.
“You’re with him?” Jeffery asked, sounding outraged.
I nodded. “I was trying to tell you…”
“Fuck.” Jeffery wiped the blood away from the corner of his lip.
Liam pointed at him. “Lose her number. You’re not her friend or her buddy. Do not come near her again.”
“Fuck you, man. You don’t tell me what to do!” Jeffery snapped, gaining a second wind.
My face flushed a deep red as a crowd began to form around us. Where were the girls?
They didn’t need to see this.
“Liam’s fucking that piece of high school trash?” someone jeered from the edge of the crowd. There was laughter and chatter around that part of the horde. I scanned the group and saw Julie, Lacey’s sister. My gut clenched tight as she locked eyes with me and then whispered to the woman next to her.
Lacey.
I hated life. I loathed how self-conscious I felt, looking at her. Long blonde hair touched her waist, her eyes a crystal blue that contrasted with her pouty pink lips. Her shorts showed half her ass cheeks, and her top dipped nearly to her navel.
“No, Liam and I were at the hotel just the other night fucking. There’s no chance he left me for that,” Lacey mocked.
Obviously she was lying, especially because Liam had shared with me what she had offered, but it still stung to even hear it. To know there would be gossip about him doing that with her because she simply said it was true.
Liam must have heard, because he turned and gently pulled me to his side.
“Stop talking, Lacey. You need to leave. We have a restraining order.”
My face swung to the left, taking in Liam’s profile.
Oh shit.I did not know that.
