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Cam looked around at everyone standing there before he replied, “Which one?”
Alyssa immediately raised her hand, pointed in my direction, and replied with an evil grin on her face, “Her.”
“What about her?” Cam pressed.
Entirely too happy to do it, Alyssa answered, “She’s a murderer.”
Pain sliced through me as Cam’s eyes shot in my direction. I’d come a long way in trying to remind myself that what had happened was an accident, but being in this situation, it wasn’t exactly easy to do.
Cam didn’t ask me any questions. Instead, he assessed me a moment before he returned his attention to Alyssa and said, “I don’t think that’s right. Clearly, if Sawyer was what you’re calling her, she’d not be here, because she’d be in prison.”
“People commit crimes all the time, and justice is never served,” Alyssa noted. “Just ask her best friends from high school… oh, wait, you can’t do that. They’re dead. Haven’t you heard about what happened at the quarry years ago?”
There was a brief moment of silence before Deanna muttered, “You’ve got to be kidding me.”
Shaking her head, Alyssa said, “I wish I was.”
“Please tell me you’re kidding me,” Deanna seethed. It was at that moment that I knew things were about to take another turn. The problem was, I didn’t know Deanna well enough to be sure where the rage that was building inside her was going to go.
Fortunately, Cam held his hand up to Deanna and said, “Relax. I’ve got this.” It took her a moment, but Deanna started to breathe a little slower and buried her frustration.
With his eyes pinned on Alyssa and her friends, he ordered, “Get out of my bar.”
Alyssa gasped. “What?”
“Get out of my bar, and don’t ever come back here again,” he instructed her.
“You’re kicking us out?” she exclaimed, her voice revealing the exasperation she felt.
Cam barely nodded and confirmed, “I am. I’m doing that because you just walked in here and attempted to start trouble by pinning a tragic accident on an innocent woman.”
“But she—”
“Get the fuck out of my bar!”Cam roared.
My lips parted in shock as my body tensed.
Alyssa’s friends instantly scooted back. She was slower to move. And because she was the bitch that she was, she had to get the last word. “Whatever. I’ll never step foot in here again.”
“That’s wise, because if you do, I’ll have you arrested for trespassing,” Cam warned her.
A rush of air left her lungs. “Let’s go, girls,” she said as she turned around. “This place is a joke.”
A moment later, they were gone, and I was left standing there, a bunch of nerves. But the nerves lasted all of a few seconds before I felt a hand on my shoulder and saw Cam standing in front of me. “Are you okay?”
I nodded.
“Are you sure?”
“Thank you,” I rasped. “Thank you for doing that for me.”
Cam’s features softened, and his expression warmed. “I’m sorry for your loss.”
Tears filled my eyes. The next thing I knew, Deanna squeezed in front of Cam, wrapped her arms around me, and held me. “Those girls were absolute bitches. Please tell me you weren’t ever friends with them, especially the ringleader.”
“I wasn’t,” I assured her, loving the feeling of knowing her reaction earlier was in defense of me.
“Good. You’re way too good for them.”
