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“Okay, can we please have a normal evening?” Kate asks, and we all sit down. I can’t take my eyes off Lexi, even though she’s still not talking to me. The waitress takes our orders, and then Kate pulls Lexi to the dance floor.
Needless to say, I am watching her like a hawk. And I’m not the only one.
Julius is tense as fuck while Kate is down there.
“You love her, don’t you?” I ask him.
“What kind of question is that? Of-fucking-course, I love her,” he bites back.
Jesus, what’s with everyone snapping at me today.
“Relax, I didn’t mean anything bad.” He watches me for a few long minutes.
“Do you love her?” Julius asks me pointing to Lexi on the dance floor.
She is so young and carefree, so happy, so innocent. What could I possibly offer her except for secrets and pain?
I take a long swing of my drink and pretend I didn’t hear him.
To be frank, I don’t have an answer. Or I do, but I will not voice it. And I think Julius gets it. Somehow, he gets me.
“Look, man, I love Lex like a sister, and I don’t want to see her hurt because she’s clearly into you, and if you don’t feel the same, let her go before it gets too far and too painful,” he takes a swing of his own drink. “Take it from me; the heartbreak fucking sucks.”
“I don’t know what I feel.”
“Are you lying to yourself or to me?” That gets me to swing my head over to him. “Been there, done that, have scars to show how much ‘fun’ it was.”
“When did you know?” I ask him.
“That I love, Katerina?”
“Yeah.”
“The second I met her, but…” he trails off. “I didn’t admit it or accept it until it was too late, and I lost her already.”
This conversation is getting too deep too fast, and we desperately need more drinks, but just when I’m about to call the waitress, I see a sleazy prick grinding against my girl, and I see so much fucking red it blinds me. So much fucking red I stop breathing, images of another night like this swarming in my head.
Stop. This is not the same situation. Lexi is nother.
“Oh, fuck no,” I hear Jules’s grunt, and we spring into action, flying down those stairs and pushing the two suicidal idiots near our women.
I shove the one by Lexi with such force he trips and falls on his ass, cursing me in the process.
“What the fuck man?”
“Touch what’s mine again, and I’ll make sure you don’t breathe another second,” I grid out. My skin is on fire, and I grab Lexi by the hand with rough power, dragging her into the dark hallway behind us. If I stay on this dance floor another second, I might deliver on that promise sooner than I said.
“Stop it. What’s wrong with you?” She fumes behind me, and I twist around to face her.
“What’s wrong with me? Me? Why in the fuck did you allow that sorry ass near you? Near what’s mine?” My body is shaking violently. This cannot be happening. Not again…
“If you break a rule so can I!” She tells me, and I’m confused.
“What?”
“Why don’t you invite Kira to keep you company while I dance with him?” The red is back in full force, and I slam her tiny body to the wall behind us.
“Now, why would I do that?” I say, trapping her between my arms. “Do you want someone else’s dick around you? In you? Is that it?” I know I am losing it, but I can’t reign myself in.
