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“Jay,” I reply. She smiles and unashamedly runs her gaze over my body. I shudder, and not in thegoodway.

“So, did you come here to shag some bird or are you looking for more?” Her question shocks the shit out of me. I shake my headather.

“I ‘m just here for a drink with my boy here.” I point to Luke, who already has his tongue down the redhead’s throat. Fuckerworksfast.

“But you want to shag at some point tonight. Babe, I’m free, let’s hit the bathroom,” she says. Fucking hell, when did girls get so brazen as to offer up a quickie in thetoilets?

“Oh honey, you don’t need to be so fucking desperate. I’m not going home with you tonight, so don’t bother trying.” I tap Luke’s arm and lean in to speak inhisear.

“Dude, I’m going to get a drink - which was the whole fucking point of you dragging me out tonight,” I tell him. I’m fucking pissed at him. I’m going to have one or two drinks and then head home. I walk farther down the bar and I see the one girl who has been invaded my thoughts for the past two weeks. Rachel fucking Cullen. And she is dancing all over some guy, rubbing her body all over his. My blood boils beneath my skin and I start moving forward. Her eyes come up and her gaze lands on me. Her face falls but she recovers quickly. I keep moving, our eyes locked, never wavering. I am beyond fucking angry at her right now. My body is buzzing. I stop next to them, my gaze staying on the woman I thought had feelings for me,deepdown.

“Rachel,” I grit out her name. She’s stopped dancing but the muppet she is standing with is oblivious to the fact that she’s stopped moving. I take a step closer and, finally, the guy notices that Rachel is no longer dancing with him. He lifts his head and his eyes take me in. He sees the fury covering my face, and his gaze assesses me to see if he can take me. No such luck fucker, plus I haveLukehere.

“What the fuck are you doing?” I ask her. She looks to the bloke and then back to me. She shrugs her shoulders andanswersme.

“Dancing. What does itlooklike?”

“Really. This is how you want to play this? This is what you have to say to me after two fucking weeks of no contact.” My anger is building. I ignore the fucker standing next to her, still with his arms around her waist. I snap and grab her arm, tugging her away from him. I pull her towards the front door - we need a quieter place to talk. I need to get a few things off my chest, and I think she needs to come clean about some shit. I hear the guy yelling at me to stop but I ignore him. This is between Rachel and me, no fucker else. We walk past Luke and the three girls. He’s now sucking face with the brunette. I punch his arm and he lifts his head. I nod towards the front door and he gives me a nod back. He sees Rachel and a frown appears on his face. I still have her arm locked in a firm grip, but not enough to hurt her or leaveamark.

I give the doorman a chin lift as we exit the nightclub. The chilled air hits my heated skin and I feel Rachel shiver behind me, but again I ignore the reaction. I keep pulling her until we get to the side of the building. It’s dirty and smells like piss but it will havetodo.

“Two weeks of not contacting me. Is this why? You’ve been shagging your way through town?” I bite out. The guy she was dancing with comes barreling around the corner before she can answer myquestion.

“What thefuck,man?”

“Fuck off, this has nothing to do with you. This is between me and her,” I say, pointing to Rachel, who is now leaning against thebrickwall.

“It doesn’t look like she wants to talk with you. Come on, sweetheart, let’s go back inside.” He holds his hand out for Rachel. I snap my gaze to hers and she freezes. My eyes bore into hers, daring her to go back inside withthistool.

“Don’t you dare move,” I growlather.

“What the fuck? Back off, mate. I’m taking her inside, she clearly doesn’t want to be out here with you.” He goes to shove past me but a large hand stops him. I see Luke standingbehindhim.

“I say let them talk, or I can give you a love tap and you can be unconscious while they talk. Up toyou,pal.”

“Piss off,” the muppet says as he turns around to see Luke. His eyes widen as he takes inLuke’ssize.

“You were saying?” Luke says,amused.

“Hey, listen, I just wanted to get the lady away from this bloke. He’s scaring her. No harm done.”Fuckingwimp.

“They’re a couple, and she’s being a bitch. So why don’t you run along before you get up close and personal withmyfist.”

“BITCH! Did you just call me a fucking bitch?” Rachel screeches frombesideme.

“I did. You’re fucking up my boy here. He’s better off without you.” That’s Luke alright. Blunt as a fucking butterknife.

“Luke,” I say in awarningtone.

“What? It’s fucking true and you know it. I’m just saying what everyone else is thinking.” He shrugs his shoulders and pulls his phone out of his pocket, acting bored with thisconversation.

“You’re a fucking twat, Luke. Do youhearme?”

“Yep,” is all he says. I chuckle and Rachel’s head snaps back to look at me. I cock an eyebrow at her, waiting to see what she has to say. I know she’s going to lash out at me but I don’t giveafuck.

“And you. Who the bloody hell do you think you are? Coming here tonight and cockblocking me. God, you are such a knob. I’m going back inside. I am fucking done with you. Don’t contact me again. You want what I can’t give you, it’s better to end this shit now. Fucking hell.” Her words cut me like a knife, even though I kinda knew how she felt, but it still hurts. I stumble back a little, my shocked expression locked on her angry one. She’s just as livid as I was when I saw her in there, dancing withthatman.

“Done? We would have had to have started something in the first place, for us to be done. You never let me get close to you, Rach. For fucks sake. Why?” I ask her, my anger showing throughagain.

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