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“Charleigh?” Raven’s voice was filled with concern, and I jumped when she took my hand. I turned back that way, trying to smile, but knowing it was faltering.
Panic sped beneath the surface of my skin.
I tried to swallow around it as I forced myself to speak. “I need to go.”
A frown marred her brow. “What do you mean? We just got out here.”
“I’m sorry.”
“Miss Charleigh?”
Pain splintered my chest as I looked down at Nolan who was peering up at me in confusion, and I couldn’t do anything but run my fingers through his hair before I started to step around him.
Raven grabbed me by the wrist, worry taking over her expression.
I wrangled myself free, regret curdling the words as I whispered, “I’m sorry,” before I turned and fled.
FIFTEEN
RIVER
I couldn’t look awayas Raven and Nolan dragged Charleigh to the dance floor across the field.
Night had descended and covered the earth in a blanket of stars, and the lights strung up over the dance floor twinkled, as bright as the diamonds that played along the surface of the lake that were compliments of the silvered rays of the half-hung moon.
“You comin’ or what?” Kane hollered from his tent, and I forced myself to move since I was standing there like an idiot, staring at a girl that I knew better than to touch. Too bad right then I was having a really fuckin’ hard time remembering why.
I ambled back to the tent and plopped into the chair I’d inhabited earlier. Theo and Otto were already there, kicked back and sipping from the bottle of whiskey Kane had broken out.
His tent was still the rage, people lined up for a mile in their goal to imbibe, the laughter and volume of voices growing in time with the level of the music that played from the stage.
He poured me a finger into a plastic cup.
Super classy, but none of us gave a shit about any of that.
“Here you go, brother.”
“Thanks.”
I took a sip of the amber liquid, and I relished in the spice on my tongue and the fire that rolled down my throat. Immediately, my gaze was drawn back to where Raven and Nolan had hauled Charleigh out to the edge of the dance floor.
The three of them were laughing as they took turns spinning Nolan around by the hand, the kid fucking mesmerized by the woman, not that I could blame him.
“Damn, Raven’s new friend is wicked hot, isn’t she? Shy as fuck, but I’m pretty sure I could coax her out of that.” Kane said it sly, nothing but an insinuation. Took all I had not to reach out and wrap my hand around his throat, and instead, a warning growl was coming out of mine.
“How about you don’t chase the poor girl out of town since she barely got here?” I gritted, trying to play it cool when it felt like I was splintering apart. Had no fuckin’ clue what it was about her that was making me crazy.
Felt like I was teetering on something that was going to leave me unglued.
“Poor girl?” Kane’s brows rose for the sky. “Says the guy who’s been staring at her like he’s going to rip her to shreds with his teeth for the last three hours.”
He tossed it out with a cock of his head, really fuckin’ proud of himself with that smirk.
And I was finally catching on to the fact that he was setting me up, the fucker.
Theo laughed, nudging the toe of his boot against my leg. “Yeah. Anyone ever seen River here so spun up about pussy? I mean, she is fucking gorgeous, but it’s not like he’s not accustomed to thefinerthings in life. And there he sits, dude about to crawl out of his skin, foaming at the mouth.”
“Rabid,” Otto agreed.
