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I smiled and snuggled closer to him. “Just take me home, Blue. It’s been a long night.”

He kissed the top of my head and pulled away.

I put on my seat belt as we drove away from the bar, my mind moving a hundred miles an hour, thinking about the event and Kai’s protection.

That obsession I was afraid would come back?

That fear was gone now.

I didn’t fear it was going to come back.

It was already here.

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KAI

I pushedthe side door open and threw the fucking bastard on the dirty concrete.

He let out a small cry. “I’m sorry. I didn’t know she was yours, Kai. I won’t go near her again.”

“That’s good and all, but how the hell am I supposed to get over my anger if I don’t fucking beat the shit out of you?” I asked, letting the door close behind us.

He cried harder.

Fucking pathetic.

I yanked him up by his shirt until he faced me and could see me underneath the streetlight just several meters away.

“If you ever have the unfortunate luck of seeing her again, you’re gonna turn the other way. If she walks into a room you’re in, you leave. You don’t breathe the same air as her. You don’t lay your eyes or hands on her. She will cease to exist in your mind. Got me?”

“I got y-you,” he cried.

I punched him square in the nose. Blood spurted out, and he fell to the ground, but that did nothing to abate my anger. All I fucking saw when I looked at the bastard was the wayshehad cowered.

Fuck.

I climbed on top of him and punched him again and again.

He tried to block my fists with his arms. I hit him with an uppercut, and the bastard passed out.

I stood up and glared at his pathetic form.

Fuck, but why was I so angry someone almost touched her?

That someone scared her?

Why the hell did I look into her, and learn every fucking thing about her earlier today, like a fucking man obsessed?

I was almost as bad as Roman.

Fuck me, but this girl was getting to me, and I didn’t like it one bit.

And I was sure the events tonight would get to Dad.

He already saw what I didn’t want anyone to see.

The effect Gemma had on me. That was why he’d brought her back to the table. And that fucking comment about there being a four-year age gap between us, as if that was my biggest concern when it came to Gemma Gallagher.

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