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I push off the wall and start toward my brother, when a pretty girl I’ve seen around stumbles into me.I grip her shoulders before she falls and she smiles up at me.
“Cheddar.”Her hands go to my chest and she widens her fingers.“Thanks for saving me.”
I hold onto her and inch back, afraid she’ll fall if I let her go.I glance at her half-closed eyes, trying to place her.I think her name is Leeza, but I’m not sure.I’ve seen her around campus before.Never at a frat party, though.What is she doing here now?
“Are you okay?”I ask.
She giggles.“I am now.”
I lift my head and spot my brother moving in closer to Nate’s sister, and that’s when I turn and catch the way Nate is staring at them, his brow furrowed.Oh fuck.I need to get to Dane before Nate does, but there’s no way I can let go of the girl I’m holding up.
I scan the room, and note the girls on the stairs, some headed up, some headed down.“Where are your friends?”I understand girl code.They come together and check in with one another before they leave.
She waves her hand.“Gone, they all hooked up.”
“Did you text them?”She pulls out her phone and waves it in front of my face, too fast for me to see anything.“They’re not messaging back.Too busy hooking up.”
While I’d like to take her phone and look through it myself, I don’t want to invade her privacy.“Come with me.”I put my arm around her, and she sags against me.
“Where are we going?”
I push through a few people, and hurry toward Dane.“I need to get my brother.”Luckily, I reach him before Nate.
I grab him by the shirt.“Time to go.”
He shrugs me off.“What?No.The party is just starting.”The girl in my arms hiccups, and my brother gives me a knowing nod.“Ah, I get it.”
No, he doesn’t get it.You’d think he knew me better than to think I’d take a drunk girl back to my room and fuck her.“I need to get her home.”
“I’m not stopping you, bro.”
I growl.“Dane—”
“Hey,” Nate says pushing in beside me.His sister stands a little straighter, and Nate takes her cup and smells it.
“It’s just beer,” she says.
Nate takes a drink and hands it back.She rolls her eyes, and I get it.Nate is crazy overprotective of her and I can’t blame him.The players on the team have a reputation of sleeping with anyone willing, but he also knows better than to think we’d drug anyone.We’re a good bunch of guys, despite the reputation, and it’s up to the captain to ensure the new recruits follow the straight and narrow.My brother, however, is my responsibility right now and the opportunity to teach him a lesson is right in the palm of my hand.
“Dane is my brother,” I explain, and Nate relaxes.
“Oh, hey man.I heard about you.Looking forward to you being on the team.If you play anything like Cheddar…” Nate pauses and puts his hand on my shoulder.“We’re well on our way to winning another season.”He pulls Kendra closer to him, a not so subtle indication that she’s off limits.My brother is smart enough to pick up the cues he’s dropping.At least, I hope he is.
“I need to get her home,” I say as the girl in my arm hiccups again.“Do you know where her friends are?”I ask Nate.
He glances around.“Don’t see them.”
“Do you even know who she is?”
He shakes his head.“I don’t think she’s ever been to one of our parties before.”I nod, my thoughts exactly.“You want to put her in one of the rooms upstairs?”
I shake my head and bite the inside of my mouth.I don’t really want to just abandon her.Maybe she landed in my arms because fate put her there, knowing I’d help her out.Not that I’m a big believer in fate or that things happen for a reason.
“I’ll take her home.”I glance at Dane.“Find Jesse and come with me.”
He looks like he’s about to protest.Nate puts his hand on Dane’s shoulder.“Go, I’ll watch out for your little brother.”
Dane looks at me with pleading eyes and my protest dies on my tongue.“I’m going to get her home safely, and then I’m coming back here.”I deepen my voice and glare at my brother.“Stay out of trouble.”
