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He shakes me off with surprising strength. “I have to make sure she’s all right.” Then he too disappears before I can say another word. Though what exactly I could have said that would have kept him here remains a mystery.
I stay standing, hands on my hips. I really, really, really do not want to get involved in any of this.
On the other hand when Dalton gets up there and finds Dax balls deep in one of Kara’s friends, I don’t trust him to keep his head on straight.
“I have to go help him,” I tell Evie. “You can stay?—”
I can’t even finish my sentence before she’s on her feet. She rolls her eyes at the look on my face, grabs me by the front of my shirt, and pulls me after her. “Come on, my knight in shining armor,” she says. “We’ll face this dragon together.”
I fill Evie in on what I’d witnessed in the hall this morning on our way to the elevators. As someone who’d gotten cheated on herself (and as a decent person), she’s disgusted.
“What the fuck!” she says, stomping a foot. “What a complete asshole!”
“Putting it mildly.”
“God, I feel so bad for Kara. What do you think she’s going to do?”
“The better question,” I say, “is what is Dalton going to do?”
Evie’s eyes meet mine in horror. “Oh fuck.”
“‘Oh fuck’ is right,” I say. I bang the button for the elevator and we’re lucky to not have to wait. “Hopefully we can catch him.”
“But what are we going to say?”
I shrug. It’ll have to be decided on in the moment.
The elevator clicks steadily upward. Right before it reaches our floor, Evie turns to look at me. “This is going to suck, isn’t it?” she asks.
“Oh yeah,” I reply.
We catch Dalton in the hallway, right before he goes into Kara’s room.
“Dalton! Stop!” Evie shouts down the hall.
He does, reluctantly.
“You didn’t have to follow me,” he says.
“Yeah, we did,” I say. “Look, you’re not going to like what you see on the other side of that door. Just let us handle it.”
Dalton looks between us, his patience visibly wearing thin. “What the hell is going on? Can you at least tell me that?”
Evie and I exchange a helpless glance and then in unison shake our heads.
“Well then I’m going in.”
I move to block the door. “You’re making a big mistake,” I say.
“And you’re making a bigger one,” Dalton growls, stepping toward me.
I straighten, highlighting the three inches of height difference between us. But from the look in Dalton’s eyes, he doesn’t care.
The situation is about to dissolve but we’re saved by the door opening.
Tori steps out into the hall and shuts the door behind her quickly. She presses her back to it and says, “Man, you guys do not want to go in there right now.”
“What the fuck is happening?” Dalton demands.
