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“I’ll be back,” Oliver hollers, and walks off to a brunette that’s been trying to get his attention since we made our way down

I leave Hart and head over to the chained off area used as the ht of alance confirht she’s dressed more appropriately in a white shirt and a pair of ripped jeans—or that’s what I think until I see the ripped fabric of her fitted tee, showing off small slivers of her perfectly tanned stomach

Irritation burns in e directions and stalk toward Rylee and Charles Rylee’s awks at the huge crowd around her If I thought her being at the party last night was bad, this is ten tiet hostile; it’s the last place she needs to be

She swivels her head in my direction At first her eyes widen in surprise, but they soon narrohen she sees the expression on my face

I grab her by the upper ar her with me until we reach the hallway When I pivot to face her, I notice Charles has followed Good I’ll need hiet her ass out of here

“You need to leave,” I say, just loud enough for her to hear over the crowd’s screams

She pulls out ofher hip like a fucking diva or so

“You see ht, I’ll leave when I want to, not when you tell me to”

“And how did last night work out for you?” I ask, baring my teeth

Pink tinges her cheeks, and for a irl shows her balls and glares at me “You and Oliver can fuck off It’ll take more than that to make me bon in defeat”

“It’s not safe for you here,” I grit between my teeth

Reaching out, I grab her wrist, ready to haul her ass out and dump her on the sidewalk She tries to hide it, but I notice the wince before she can Guilt hits ht when I look down and see the bruise around the flesh of her small wrist

“Fuck,” I hiss

The light in the hallway is shit, so I lift her ar her otherwise flawless skin Hatred at myself bleeds into irls I’ve fucked who like that sort of rough shit, I’ve never left a irl before I can beat the shit out of a ht of physically hurting a girl, this girl, has bile threatening to come up

“I’m sorry,” I choke the words out past dry lips “I shouldn’t have grabbed you like that last night”