“Go find a table with Holly while Micah and I get us some drinks.” I kiss her on her forehead before she walks off.
When we reach the bar, we recognize a guy we’d gone to high school with. “Hey, Matt.”
Matt played football with me throughout high school, but we fought a few times our senior year. He was always pissing me off.
“Hey, Slade, Micah.” He tilts his head toward us. “Who’s the flavor of the week? She’s hot.” I notice he’s staring at Angel’s ass.
“It’s not like that,” I try to explain she means more, but he thinks I mean something different.
“Oh, so she’s just the flavor for the night. Don’t mind if I go get her number so that I can have her tomorrow, do you?”
“What the fuck did you just say?”
“Or maybe you could share, and I’ll just have my fill with her tonight as well. She looks like she wouldn’t mind taking us both. She seems pretty drunk.” I move to punch him in the face, but Micah stops me, pulling my arm back as he speaks to Matt.
“Hey, dude, calm down. She’s with Slade. If you mention sharing her again, I’ll punch you myself.” I was proud of my little brother, but all his talking wasn’t working.
“With Slade?” he laughs. “No girl Slade fucks is ever off limits.” He continues to stare at her ass.
I need to make myself clear.
I grab him by the shirt and shake him a bit. “She is with me. As in, she’s my girlfriend. Stay the fuck away from her. You seem to like her ass so much...did you see that little M on the ass pocket of her jeans? That M stands for mine. Don’t fucking touch it or even fucking look at it for that matter. If you do I will beat the fuck out of you. Do you understand?” I have a feeling I should just beat the fuck out of him anyway.
He nods his head really fast. “Yes. Yes, I get it. She’s yours.” He throws both hands up in the air and I shove him away from me.
I turn to Micah, who looks like he wants to punch Matt’s face in as well. Micah is not afraid to fight; he just considers other options to solve problems before throwing punches. I prefer to settle things with my fist.
“Come on. We can just order drinks from our waitress.” I turn and try to calm down my temper before reaching our table. Micah walks over to where Josh and Holly are talking to a waitress friend of hers. I don’t want Angel to know anything is wrong but, as I approach our table, I can tell by the look on Angel’s face that she can sense something’s wrong with me. I’m trying, but it’s pretty fucking hard to wipe the pissed off look I have on my face.
I sit down beside her, pulling her rather roughly out of her chair, over my lap, where she straddles me. Then I kiss her. Hard. Dominating her mouth with mine. As my tongue explores her mouth, I dig my hands into her hips and she pulls away, staring into my eyes. I release her hips, tangling my hands in her hair, and holding her face in front of mine.
“Kiss me,” I demand. Right now I don’t care what people think of me being all over her. I want every mother fucker in this bar to realize that she is mine! That she belongs to me, and only me. She tries to pull away again, but I pull on her hair, hard, and she parts her lips slightly as she whimpers.
My cock goes hard and I lower my lips to hers. “Fucking kiss me,” I whisper, and her eyes go big, but I don’t care. I want to beat the shit out of someone, and I know my angel is the only one who will be able to calm me down. I grip her hair harder, and she closes her eyes as she sucks in a breath. I can tell she likes it by the way she grinds her hips against my now hard cock. She leans down and kisses me as she continues moving her hips back and forth.
“Fuck,” I pull away and look in her bright green eyes. They dart around the room, looking to see if anyone is looking at us, but I could care less. I hope they are looking. I want them to see how much she wants me, and only me. Her eyes land on mine.
“What happened? Are you okay?” She lifts her hand up to cup my cheek.
I go to answer, but get interrupted.
“Did you want another one, Sam?” I look over my shoulder to see some scrawny red headed guy I don’t know asking Sam if she wants something.
“Another what?” I ask, not taking my eyes off the guy.
“Another shot.”
“Shot?’’ I look back at her.
She shrugs a dainty shoulder and looks at me apologetically. “When we walked over to the table, he handed Holly and I two shots.”
“Angel,” I sigh. “Do we need to have the ‘don’t take drinks from strangers’ talk?” I ask seriously.
She throws her head back, laughing out loud, and it makes me smile. Fuck, I love to hear her laugh.
“What were they? How many did you have?”
“Two. I don’t know. I think they were weak because I don’t feel different.” She giggles.
I release Angel’s hair and run my hands through it as I hear Holly laughing behind me. She sits down in the seat next to me.
“Not feeling it? You will.” Holly looks at me. “We had two shots of Crown.”
“What?” I shake my head. So much for the possibility of us fucking tonight. She will be so fucked up within the next twenty minutes, and I don’t want her so far gone that she won’t be able to remember what I have planned for her.
Angel laughs, bringing my eyes back to her. I continue running my hand through her soft thick hair.
“So do you want another?” I forgot that guy was standing behind us. Before I could tell him to fuck off, Angel speaks.
“No. I’ve had enough.” She giggles again.
I stand, placing her in my seat. She strikes up a conversation with Holly while I go to talk to Micah. He’s standing with Josh, ordering a beer from a waitress as I approach.
“You want one?” He points a finger at me.
I shake my head. “I just came to say bye. I’m going to take her home. I have a feeling she’ll be passed out in minutes after those two shots she took.”
We all laugh. “Okay, well call me in the morning. Drive home safely.”
“You too.” I turn, and walk back to the table. I can tell she’s starting to feel it, and when she looks up at me, her eyes look glassy.
“Ready to go, Angel?”
“Yes. Just let me use the restroom real quick.”
I nod, and help her out of the chair. I sit down as she walks away.
“What are you doing, Slade?” I sit up straighter not liking Holly’s accusing tone. I haven’t done anything wrong.
“I don’t know what you’re talking about.” I cross my arms over my chest.
“Yes you do.” She leans forward, putting her elbow on the table. “I know you took her to dinner. I told you to be careful.”
“I’m not going to hurt her, Holly.”
I’m getting annoyed now. Can’t they tell I treat her differently? That I feel something different for her?
“That’s not what I’m talking about.” She shakes her head.
I start to ask her what she means when that red headed guy comes running toward our table.
“Slade! Slade!” he calls frantically. How does he know my name? “Sam is yelling at some guy outside the women’s bathroom.”
I jump up so fast that my chair overturns. Out of the corner of my eye, I see Micah and Josh are running after me. I don’t know if they are coming to stop me, or planning on helping me, but I don’t slow down.
Once I get to the hallway, heat runs through my body at what I see. Matt has Angel pushed up and cornered against a wall. I can’t comprehend what she’s saying, but I can tell she is screaming in his face. I don’t stop running until we hit the floor and I’m sitting on top of him, my fist connecting with his face.
*****
SAMANTHA
Shit!
I try to pull a very pissed off Slade off of Matt, when Holly grabs me.
“Don’t!” she yells. She has to yell because there is so much commotion and screaming going on in this very small hallway that I can’t even hear myself think. Micah is
yelling at some guy; why isn’t he helping Slade?
“Slade!” I scream. “Stop! Just stop!” He punches Matt in the jaw. “Slade! Please! Stop!” Matt manages to push Slade off and sends him flying backwards. Matt jumps on him, throwing a few punches, and Slade blocks two to his face, but can’t block the one to his ribcage.
I watch as the guy who is arguing with Micah punches him in the stomach. Micah grunts, then starts swinging a fist around.
I can’t seem to focus on anything!
I look back to Slade as he kicks Matt off of him. He stands and proceeds to walk towards me, but Matt gets up right before Slade reaches me and runs at him.
“No! Look out!” I scream. By the time Slade turns around, Matt is on him punching him in the face.
I can’t take any more of this, someone has to help!
I yank my arm from Holly’s hold, throwing my purse down, and run for Slade. Matt turns around, and before I can think much about it I punch him in the face with everything I have. Which probably isn’t much, considering I’m drunk and a girl, but I don’t hold back as my fist connects with his nose. My hand instantly starts throbbing.
“Bitch!” he snarls as he takes a step towards me. I don’t step back; if he starts swinging at me I will fight back.
Slade wraps an arm around his neck from behind and pulls him back as Matt reaches for me. “Get her the fuck out of here!” Slade yells to anyone who is listening, but his eyes are on mine and he looks pissed.
Josh grabs me around the waist from behind and picks me up, carrying me to the back exit. I scream Slade’s name over and over. I don’t want to leave him. He needs help. Josh should be helping him, not pushing me out the exit.
“Shit,” Josh says as I manage to lay one blow with my elbow to his side. He drops me and I spin around to head back to Slade. “Sam!” Josh yells as I run from him and to Slade.
Slade turns when Josh calls my name. “Fucking get her ass outside!” Slade demands to Josh as Matt hits him in the back.
Josh grabs me again from behind, pinning my arms down to my side. “No! No. No! Don’t!” Tears run down my face as I watch Slade. I try hitting Josh again, but I can’t make contact. “He needs help!” I kick and scream as Josh pushes us through an exit.
“He’s a big boy. The guy can fight. You shouldn’t have gotten that close. What the fuck were you doing hitting Matt? Is your hand ok? Let me look at it,” he rattles off angrily as he sets me down, keeping a grip of me.
I shake my head angrily. “Who cares about my hand! He needed help! Let me go back in there.”
“No!” he screams back.
The back door swings open, and Holly comes running toward us.
“Get in my car. We have to leave,” she says frantically, waving my purse in the air.
“No! I won’t leave Slade here!” Are these people out of their mind?
Josh picks me back up and walks me towards Micah’s truck I’m screaming so loud that I don’t hear the back door open again.
“You can put Angel down, Josh.” We all turn to see Slade and Micah walking towards us. As soon as Josh puts me down, I run to him. I need him. Need to see that he is breathing and okay. He meets me halfway and pulls me into his arms, lifting my feet up off the ground. I know he’s probably hurting, but I can’t stop hugging him tight.
He puts me back on the ground and grabs my face. “What the fuck were you thinking?” he growls, wiping away my tears. I can’t answer. I can only shake my head. Is he crazy too? I didn’t want to see him get hurt. There’s blood everywhere, and I can’t tell where it’s all coming from.
“You’re bleeding,” I choke out. My throat is hoarse, and I have to blink several times to clear my tears in my eyes.
“Don’t worry about me,” he snaps.
I ignore him and go to wipe the blood off his face, but my hand never makes it.
I feel the wind knocked out of me, then the next thing I know I’m rolling around on gravel in the parking lot, trying to catch my breath. What the hell just happened? I try to get up on my hands and knees when a sharp pain shoots up my side. I drop back down, holding my side and gasping for air.
What happened? Where’s Slade?
I look around aimlessly to find him. He has his back against the building, and he bends over as Matt’s fist connects with the brick instead of his face. Matt screams out in agony, grabbing his hand, and Slade takes advantage, charging Matt and wrapping his arms around his waist, taking him down to the ground. They roll around as I spot Micah kicking some guy on the ground.
“We have to get you out of here,” Josh says as he helps me up off the ground, wrapping an arm underneath mine to keep me up.
I try to fight him, but the pain in my side is making it hard. “No! I’m not leaving him!” I look over my shoulder and see Slade punch Matt in the face three consecutive times until Matt falls to the ground. Out cold. I let my body relax in Josh’s arms, knowing that Slade is no longer fighting. Josh helps me over to Micah’s truck where he drops his tailgate, he picks me up sitting me on top of it with my legs dangling over the back.
“You’re covered in blood. Where are you hurt?” he asks, looking me over.
“It’s...” deep breath, “not mine.” It’s so hard to breathe. “It’s Slade’s.” I bend over in pain. Shit, it hurts.
“What’s wrong?” Slade asks, walking up glaring at me and breathing heavily.
“Nothing.” I shake my head as I look at his torn shirt and jeans covered in dirt and blood. I put my hands on his chest, moving them around to feel for anything broken. He pulls away from me, shaking his head harshly and running a hand through his hair.
“I’m going to ask one more time. What in the fuck were you thinking? Do you have a death wish? One hit from him, and you could have been killed!” he shouts.
“I was trying to help you!” I scream back and instantly regret it. I grab my side and lay back into the truck, rolling onto my good side.
“Fuck! Angel, where are you hurt?” I feel the truck shift as Slade jumps into the bed. He kneels down next to me. I try to sit up, but he has to help me.
I shake my head. This is not about me. I wasn’t hit over and over by Matt’s fist. “I’m fine.”
“No, you’re not—”
Police cars pull into the parking lot, putting a halt on our conversation.
We spend the next hour explaining to the cops what happened as they arrest Matt and his friend. Micah and Slade know most of the cops that are on the scene, so they don’t have to do much explaining.
“Miss. Hall, I need you to tell me how all this started,” a potbellied, bald headed officer named Kent said as he writes in his notepad.
“I walked out of the restroom, and Matt was standing there. He said he had seen me go in there and was waiting for me. That he was going to take me home. He said Slade had told him I was his girlfriend, but that he knew Slade was lying, and that he was going to prove it to him. He told me Slade didn’t do girlfriends, and that everyone in town knew the girls Slade slept with were always available.”
I take in a deep breath, trying to ignore the pain in my side. “I told him I wasn’t and that Slade would kick his ass if he touched me. That’s when he shoved me against the wall and screamed that Slade wouldn’t give a fuck what he did to me. That Slade would probably enjoy watching. Maybe even join him.” What he had said pissed me off!
“Was that all?” Officer Kent asks, looking down at his notepad as he writes.
“I screamed back in his face to go fuck himself, then the next thing I knew he was on the ground.”
He nods as he continues to write, once he’s done he looks up at something behind me. “Slade, can I talk to you for a minute?”
I take a shaky breath and turn around. I look up to see Slade standing there, looking like he could kill someone. A muscle in his jaw is twitching, his nostrils are flared, and his eyes are looking straight ahead to Officer Kent.
He nods his head once and starts to walk away from
me, but stops and turns around. He hands me his car keys, then walks away without saying a word. Guess he wants me to go wait in his car.
I sit down slowly in the passenger seat, leaving the door open so I can try to hear what is going on, but Officer Kent and Slade have walked out of ear shot. I can still see them, though, and Slade looks stressed as he runs his hands through his hair a few times.
He looks over, and his eyes lock on mine; I get a chill up my back that freezes me in my seat. He holds my stare for a few seconds, then looks back to Officer Kent without blinking. He is obviously extremely pissed…at me.
I take in a shallow breath and lean back in the seat, closing my eyes. My side is killing me, and the rest of my body is getting achy. Probably because all my adrenaline is now gone.
“Are you okay? I saw you hit that concrete barrier,” Holly says as she kneels down by my door.
“I’m fine. Don’t say anything. I’m not going to the hospital.” I shake my head. She doesn’t look happy with my answer. “Are Slade and the guys going to get into trouble?”
“No, they know all these cops. Any one of these cops would have stood up for their girl. I’m just glad Matt and his friend got arrested.”
“Me too.”
I hear the driver side door open as Slade gets in.
“I’ll call you tomorrow to check on you.”
“Thanks, love you.”
“Love you too.” She leans down giving me a soft hug before she closes my door and walks off.
We take off, and I notice he’s driving in the direction of his house. I figured he would take me home because it’s not like he’s hiding the fact that he’s mad at me. The drive to his house is silent. I don’t know if he’s mad at me or just mad about the entire situation, but I just wanted to help him. How can he be pissed about that?
My mind wanders back to all the stuff Matt said to me. I know Slade lied to him and told him I was his girlfriend; I just can’t figure out why he said it. And why did Matt all of a sudden want me? I had seen him around Larry’s quite a few times, and he had never even spoken to me.
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