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His jaw tightened and I knew he was clenching his teeth tightly. "I said we're leaving. Do not make me repeat myself."
I tugged on my wrist. The effort was pathetically futile. There was a part of me that couldn't fathom the thought of him releasing me, while there was a more reasonable part…a sensible part that demanded I run for the flipping hills and never look back. Jace Rush had the potential to destroy me. Oh wait - he already had. What was one more hit going to hurt? I was already arbitrarily addicted to him. If I went with him tonight…to wherever he wanted to take me…would it really cause any more damage than had already been done? Was there anything left of me to break?
"I'm not going with you." I said forcefully. Where did that come from? I didn't mean it - did I?
"You are." He said without concern. "If I have to carry you out over my shoulder, you will be leaving with me."
Panic. Yes, it was utter panic that flooded through my veins. What the hell was going on? "Where's Trisha and Trey?"
Jace's face remained stoic and he stepped closer to me. His scent hit me like a ton of bricks to the head. Oh. My. God. I missed him.
"Trisha called me."
Abandonment. That's what I felt then…raging abandonment from my best and most trusted friend. She was my family and she was handing me over to the man who'd hurt me. How could she?
"Trisha called you?" I sputtered. Jace nodded his head in obvious irritation.
"Yes. Now, let's go."
"No."
"Olivia, I'm not into playing games with you right now."
"Then don't." I snapped, feeling a blush heat my cheeks. "Leave. You wanna go? Well then go. I'm not standing in your way!"
"Fuck Olivia," Jace growled under his breath as he ran his free hand through messy hair. My stomach clenched of its own accord. "I'm not leaving without you."
"Well, I'm not going anywhere with you." I hissed as I stared longingly at the bottles of liquor behind the bar. My mouth watered and the need to forget Jace ran hot through my body. I tugged at my wrist, more forcefully this time.
"Forget it, Olivia." Jace glowered at me. "You're finished for the night." With those words, he bent and swooped me up in his arms before throwing me over his shoulder like a sac of potatoes.
The club filled with astonished gasps and full belly laughs as I thrashed violently against Jace's back with my fists.
"Jace, you fucking asshole!" I spat my words. "Put me down right now!"
"Watch your fucking mouth, Olivia." He barked back at me as he made his way to the door.
I lifted my head in astonishment at being scolded for my language. Never before had someone apart from my stiff lipped mother bothered to tell me what a lady should and should not say. I knew my face was screwed into a look of utter distaste that was soon replaced by dark contempt as I made eye contact with Trisha. She was worrying her lower lip with her teeth as she watched me being carried out of the club she dragged me to. Oh, when I got my hands on her…the thought was chased away by the chilly night air blasting up my short dress as Jace stepped onto the concrete sidewalk. I was startled to see the white Audi SUV sitting at the curb. I knew Gabe waited inside and for some reason that made my blood boil even hotter.
Jace's hands clasped my waist. He lifted me from his shoulder before setting me in the back seat of the car. He buckled me in as my hands fumbled to retract his stealthily quick movements with the suddenly complex seatbelt.
He slapped my hands away. "Enough."
"Get away from me." I hissed with as much venom as I could muster. It was a lot. I don't think I had ever been as angry as I was right now. I was pull out my hair, stomp my foot into the concrete, shout to the sky kind of angry.
"Grow up." Jace admonished. "You're not going anywhere tonight so get over it."
"You can't just kidnap me, Jace."
"Don't challenge me, Olivia. I have a mind to lock you in a fucking dungeon at the moment. I suggest, for your own wellbeing you shut that pretty mouth of yours. My patience has run thin."
"Fuck you."
His hand moved with lightning speed to grasp my jaw. He forced me to look up into his eyes as he leaned into the car. "I said to watch your mouth. When did you start using that language anyway?"
I ignored his question and dove right in for the kill. "And I thought I told you to leave me alone and never come back into my life. You fucking promised you would give me what I wanted!"
I was yelling with no regard to the people who were surely watching us. I was completely and utterly oblivious to Gabe in the front seat, the bouncer who was most certainly debating on calling for the police, and the people lined up the side of the building in hopes of getting smashed and finding a warm body to comfort their cold beds. The only thing I could focus on was Jace. And even more specifically his eyes. His bright blue eyes were burning me with their piercing gaze. I swallowed as he leaned down close to me. I could practically taste his breath and it was all I could do not to lean into him the way I really wanted and press my lips into his.
