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“Did you clear this with the boss?”
“I don’t give a fuck what he says. Bryant and his brothers think they own this fucking city, and I want them to know they don’t. This is the bitch he’s obsessed with.”
“Are you sure about that?” The other guy sounds hesitant, and my stomach drops.
Are they talking about me? Because I’m here every weekend, and although he is known to be a playboy, I’ve never seen him speak to another woman.
Dread washes over me, and before I can think through the decision, I shove my way out into the alley.
Two men are standing over Bree’s unconscious body and I freeze in place, torn between saving my best friend and risking my own life. Because that’s the reality of this situation.
I reach into my clutch, fumbling around and fighting against the fogginess that is creeping into my vision. Fuck. Why did I have to drink so much tonight? If it was just the pills I would still be able to focus, but the vodka is dragging me down.
“Who the fuck are you?” one of them, the leader, I think, barks at me.
“Get the hell away from her.” I finally wrap my hand around the pepper spray my father insists I take with me anytime I leave the house, and I hold it in front of me.
They stare at me for long seconds before looking at one another, and then they burst into laughter. “Run along, little girl.”
I open my mouth to respond, but before I can, the door I just shoved out of ricochets off the wall and three men storm out, each with varying degrees of anger etched into their brows.
It takes me a few seconds to realize it’s three of the four Hayes brothers, the only one missing being Bryant, but I still find myself shoved behind Kai.
“What the fuck are you doing in our club?” Jaxon snaps.
He may be the youngest, but that doesn’t make him any less terrifying. Six foot three and built like he never leaves the gym. With dark eyes and dirty-blonde hair, he’s both intoxicatingly gorgeous and scary as fuck.
Welcome to the Hayes brothers.
The oldest brother, and the quietest, Kayden, drags me behind him, leaving three brick walls between me and Bree. My heart pumps wildly in my chest, making it impossible to breathe through the fogginess in my mind and the panic.
I wrap my hand around his large bicep, dragging his steely gaze down to meet mine, his perfectly styled black hair in place as if he hasn’t spent the whole night in a nightclub, but then again, I don’t think I’ve ever seen him on the main floor. Only ever in the booth the brothers hold for themselves in the VIP area.
“Bree,” I whisper, pointing toward my best friend who’s still out cold by the beat-up old car.
He nods, but his only verbal response is a grunt.
Does that mean he’s going to get her? Or just that he understands what I’m saying? Or…
Before I get the chance to think it through any further, the voices in front of me start to rise, pulling my attention back to the argument.
“I told you we had the wrong girl. That’s the one!” He points toward me, and I’m too stunned to duck back behind Kayden.
“Well, you’re not taking either of them anywhere, so I suggest you get your asses back into this heap of junk and get the fuck away from my club. The next time I ask, I promise it won’t be so polite,” Kai says, and although he’s always been kinda scary, I’ve never been quite as afraid of him as I am right now.
The two assholes look back to me and then to Bree, who’s still out cold, before turning on their heel, but not before the leader looks me dead in the eye.
“I’ll be seeing you.”
CHAPTER TWO
ISLA
Everything happens so fast that I can barely catch my breath.
Suddenly the comedown from the drugs and the exhaustion from a night of drinking and dancing are the last things on my mind as I cradle my best friend’s head in my lap, sitting in Bryant’s office.
The club is starting to quiet down, but it’s also five in the morning, so that shouldn’t come as a total surprise.
