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She swallows, her eyes bouncing between the three of us. “No. I don’t want to go there.”
Guilt crushes me. I knew she wouldn’t want to. “You are, baby doll. We need to make things right.”
Her pretty face turns bright pink, and she crosses her arms over her chest. “If you think I’m ever going to that place again, you’re very mistaken.”
Standing behind her, Xander pulls back her hair and kisses her neck. “Please, shorty?”
“You think I’m that easy?”
West smirks, and she glowers at him. “Don’t even think about saying what you’re thinking.”
“Okay, princess. But we’re going to the club tonight. A PR firm is throwing a big event. There’ll be champagne.”
“I’m never drinking champagne again,” she reminds us.
I brush her hair back and cup her face. “Don’t make us go without you.”
She keeps her arms folded and taps her foot.
“What’s the name of that PR firm again, Fitch?” West asks.
“Um. Reid Spencer, right?”
Lily’s brow pinches in a cute-as-fuck scowl. “Bree Reid’s PR firm? You’re letting her use your club for an event?”
West arches one eyebrow. “Business is business, princess.”
I stifle a grin. She’s going to punch him in the mouth any second, and he deserves it. I rub a hand over my jaw and wince at the memory of being on the receiving end of our girl’s mean right hook.
West brushes his knuckles over her cheek. “So we can either go alone, or we can go with the most incredible woman alive, who’s going to be wearing a sexy dress, and we can let the entire world, including Bree Reid, know that you’re our girl.”
Her eyes narrow, and I give her one last nudge. “Your choice, buttercup.”
She rolls her eyes dramatically. “Fine.”
* * *
I can feelthe tension in Lily as soon as we step out of the car. Not that I blame her. I’m strung tight as a bow myself. All I can think about is how cruel I was to her the last time we were here.
The flash of a camera blinds me. Damn paparazzi. I pull Lily behind me and scowl at the bouncers standing nearby. “Move these fucks out of here.”
Xander shields Lily from the other side, and we hurry into the club. “I’m sorry, baby doll. The event was supposed to be private.”
Glancing around nervously, she shrugs. West finishes speaking with our security team and jogs over to us. “They’re gone now,” he assures us.
She chews on the inside of her cheek, and Xander asks her if she’s nervous.
She blinks at him, her eyes wet with unshed tears. Fuck, we are such assholes. “Kinda.”
He wraps his arms around her and kisses the top of her head. “I promise not to leave your side the entire night. Okay?”
She’s nodding against his chest when a bouncer approaches. “Your booth is ready, Mr. Archer.” Lily’s eyes widen on the man who just spoke, and my heart sinks.
Clearing my throat, I pull her from Xander’s arms and into mine. “José, I’d like you to meet our girlfriend, Lily. You might remember her from the Hellsgate launch? When I was a complete fuck-knuckle and left her standing in the rain.”
He nods, his eyes softening on her face. “I do.”
“She ever comes here again, with or without us, she gets treated like a fucking queen. You got me?”
