Page 119 of Undeniably His

“It’s not a good idea to stay.”

“Then go,” Luke said.

Mark sighed. “This is such a bad fucking idea.”

Before the words were even out of his mouth, Luke was standing and stalking across the club. One of the men had stood, grabbed Jane’s ass and squeezed it hard. She tugged his hand away, but he grabbed her ass again as Luke stopped beside her. With an angry growl, he yanked the man’s hand from her ass and twisted it. The man howled with pain and fell to his knees as Luke leaned over him and said, “Touch her again, and I’ll break your arm.”

“Luke, no!” Jane said. “Stop it right now!”

“Do you understand?” Luke said to the man on his knees. “Repeat what I just -”

He grunted with pain when one of the man’s friends jumped on his back. He hooked his arm around Luke’s neck, and Luke let go of the other man and staggered back. He grabbed the man’s arms and bent over quickly. The man sailed over his head and landed on the table with a splintering crash. Glasses exploded, and the other men made hoarse cries of surprise as Luke punched the man twice in the face.

“Stop it!” Jane shouted. “Tony, no! It’s okay – don’t hurt him!”

Another arm wrapped around his neck. This one was thick as a goddamn tree trunk and cut off Luke’s air when it squeezed.

“Tony, stop!” Jane said pleadingly.

“Let him go, you asshole.”

He could hear Mark’s angry voice as Jane appeared in his rapidly diminishing vision. “Please, Tony. He’s a friend. Please.”

The vice around his throat relaxed a little, and he dragged in a lungful of air as Tony half-carried him across the club. He dropped Luke into a chair, and Luke stared at the giant standing before him. Tony had to be close to seven feet tall and weighed at least three hundred pounds. He stared down at him as Jane put her small hand on his forearm and said, “He won’t cause any more trouble, Tony. I promise.”

“You sure?” Tony’s voice was a rumbling truck. “I don’t want him hurting you, Janie.”

“I’m her fucking boyfriend, you jackass,” Luke said hoarsely.

Jane made a low moan of dismay as Tony rolled his eyes. “Your boyfriend always this much of a dick?”

“He’s had too much to drink,” Jane said. “Don’t tell Jeremy, okay?”

“Don’t tell Jeremy what?”

Jane turned white as the man in the knitted cap materialized beside Tony. He stared at Luke before turning his gaze to Jane. “What’s going on, Jane?”

“Nothing, Jeremy,” Jane said. “Just a misunderstanding, that’s all.”

“Misunderstanding?” Jeremy said. “I’ve got a customer with a busted nose and another one screaming that his hand is broken. You call that a misunderstanding?”

Luke stood and stared at Jane’s boss. He was nearly half a foot taller than Jeremy, and he studied the man’s face as Jeremy gave him a cool look.

“You know this guy, Jane?”

“Jeremy, I...”

Jeremy reached out and put his hand on the back of Jane’s neck. He started tugging her toward him, and Luke knocked his hand away and pulled Jane against his body.

“Don’t fucking touch her,” he said as Mark rested his hand on his arm.

“Be cool,” Mark muttered into his ear.

He ignored his best friend and stared at Jeremy. “Don’t touch her again.”

“So you do know him,” Jeremy said to Jane.

“He’s just -”

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