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And that is not ok.
She needs to pay. And, the way things look, she will.
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twenty-seven
My bodyguards fall on the crowd, grabbing kids and teens and throwing them out of the club, fighting their way through the human wall of bodies to Eden. I hope she is crouched in a ball on the ground, protecting her head with both arms, but my mind gets dizzy with visions of people stabbing her, stomping on her, pushing her, tearing her clothes.
Or worse.
Everything gets blurry, but I grit my teeth. This is time to fight, not to panic. To fight for her. I am powerless over here, stuck in this human fortress of security guards; they won’t let me move or see anything. Their backs are to me, immovable walls.
So, I do the only thing I can do: I shout her name.
“Eden!” I scream myself hoarse, but my bodyguards don’t let me budge an inch, no matter how much I beg them to.
I think of screaming to the crowd, of begging them to leave her alone, but nobody is listening to me. So I keep yelling her name until I think my vocal cords are shredded to ribbons in my throat.
And then I yell some more.
At some point, I see the guards begin to move as one, their shoulders joined to form a human fortress, much like mine. Three of them are standing back to back, and in their middle, a splash of red–Eden’s hair. She’s much shorter than all three of them, and their huge frames are blocking her from view, so I can’t tell if she’s ok. They start slowly making their way through the crowd.
Kids are still reaching out their hands towards them, fighting each other for a piece of her, hungry for her blood, but she’s protected now, unreachable.
“Heartbreaker! Heartbreaker!”
My eyes get blurry with tears of frustration and pure fury. I don’t stop calling her name for a second, much good that does to anyone.
And then, out of nowhere, Jude and Skye are there, barreling their way into the screaming crowd, pushing and shoving kids out of their way, their mouths spitting out swears and oaths I didn’t even know existed, until they reach the circle of the guards.
Then they slide between the bodyguards and Eden, closing in on her, so that it will be their bodies Eden has to be caged in, and not the guards’. Not some strangers’ bodies. So that she will be pressed against people she knows instead of the bodyguards.
“Thank you,” I whisper to my two friends, although I am standing twenty feet away and there are hundreds of fans between us, screaming so loudly I can’t even hear it myself.
Two of my cars swerve directly into the crowd, tires screeching. The kids scream in fear, but the cars keep moving, dispersing a few people and nearly taking out a few more. I know my drivers wouldn’t hurt the fans, but they do these tricks to scare them away when a situation gets too life-threatening. Although it has never been so bad as this.
Never.
This is a whole different level of insanity. Is this what they call hysteria? The crowds are so out of their minds, most of them aren’t even grabbing their phones to film the riot. Their eyes are glazed over with blind hate. They only want one thing: a piece of Eden. My ‘heartbreaker.’
They want to annihilate her.
Each of them wants to prove that they’re the biggest fan of Issy Woo ever to walk the earth, better than the one standing next to them. Each wants to be the one who’s killed the ‘heartbreaker’ for the sake of his idol.
For my sake.
This is it.
This is what being an ‘idol’ means.
Actual, blind, mindless murder, in my name. I am the reason this is happening. Me. I’m the heartbreaker. I’m the everything-breaker.
“Eden!” I scream and my knees suddenly give way. My bodyguards have to hold on to me so that I don’t fall flat on my ass.
The circle made up of Jude, Sky and the guards around Eden is making a super slow progress in the thick, mad crowd, but at least none of the blows reach Eden anymore. Finally, the group appears to be only two steps away from the limo, but it takes them forever to reach the open door. Then the guards quickly push each of them in, but I don’t get to see Eden’s face.
Skye and Jude are hiding her too well.
