CHAPTER 68

LUKE

Once that scrawny blond prick was out of the picture, I didn't waste any time. I pulled Jess away from the crowd, finding a hidden corner in the club behind some purple curtains.

Privacy was all I wanted, enough of it to ask her what the hell she was thinking letting a stranger touch her like that! Not after Bryan... She should know better, and be on guard. I wasn't about to let her get caught up in any more

bullshit tonight. Last time I should have stopped it and didn't, then look what happened. Not tonight. But as I tried to yank the damn curtain closed, it got stuck on something. I tugged again, harder this time, but it wouldn't budge. I was about to rip it right off the railings wher I heard a chuckle behind me and found Jessica stifling a laugh and folding her arms across her chest with a smirk. "I mean, curtain one and Luke zero..." Jessica shrugged and it infuriated

1. me.

I didn't see what was so funny but for some reason, I wanted to smile... I turned on her, closing the space between us in a single step. She was so close that her nose almost brushed my chest. "What the hell are you doing with that guy?" I demanded.

Jess crossed her arms over her chest, huffing like I was the one being ridiculous. "I should be asking what the hell that was out

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and a part of me liked

back a little, "Saving you from that excuse of a man, it seems," I said, biting back the urge to tell her that he could be another Bryan.

going to kiss him. Relax, I just helped you get away

go toe-to-toe with me. "I was," she countered, her tone sharp

voice flat and certain. But

was," she insisted, her tone full of

feeling the frustration build. "Fine, you were," I conceded, but the second the words left my

"I wasn't," she snapped.

you weren't," I said, letting my voice drop to a lower, more confident tone. "Like I

as she processed what just happened. That small moment of victory? Yeah, I

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about to let her

her voice biting, cutting

threading through her hair as I pulled her to me. Her breath hitched, and before either of us could'think twice, my mouth found hers, crashing into a kiss. I half ex I walked us

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