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He towers over Izzy, which really isn’t that hard to do, but he towers over me, too, and that is hard It’s difficult to tell froot at least six inches on h his messy brown hair Like aout, hi on to his hair, and riding the wave I have to clenchand sucking against my core
I quickly shakethat no one noticed that I aler I would’ve gotten aith it, but when I shift on ainstthat comes to my ht have been mortified if it hadn’t been for the waredly handso sexy
He walks around Izzy, who is looking at ht into my space
"Hunk of sex?" he repeats His dark brown eyes alight with mischief, and if I’m not
"Ah, yeah I assu for co to make me look ridiculous Either way, you’re still hot" I set me look, but with the aht just look like a blubbering fool
He laughs, his eyes crinkling slightly at the corners "I knohat I look like, and if it works for you, then I’m all for it, Babe I’m Beck"
He sticks his hand out to shake mine, and the second I place mine in his, I feel like les or awareness This is full-blown explosion of our bodies recognizing each other Almost as if erebecomes a livewire of electricity
"D-Dee," I sputter, feeling my cheeks flame when he smiles down atto clear the iainst the bar When I catch et one hell of a buzz killing shock I can’t even ic, train wreck happening right beforeI can do about it My whole body goes stiff, and Ih to h tonight, but when I meet the eyes of our newest arrival, I swear thatto be bad Really bad
My common sense kicks in about two seconds too late Izzy turns her beautiful, ‘living life to the fullest’ s She looks confused for a second, and before I can call out a warning for the huge cluster fuck that is about to slaht into her, she turns, and all I can do is watch it play out like a damn horror movie froainst htly
No, no… There is no way this is happening I would give anything to be able to stop this fro I can do This is happening, and all I can do is wait to pick up the pieces when she falls
It happens so quickly She turns with her smile still in place, with only a little confusion, and when she sees what I’ve seen I watch as her legs give out, and her body falls li’s arms And for the second time in as many days, all I feel is fear That sa to worry will never leave et to Izzy, but halt inoddanized as Izzy’s old high school sweetheart, growls out in a tone that makes every hair on my body stand on end
"Oh God," I squeak
"Holy shit," Beck ruainst my back
"Yeah, holy shit about covers it"
Greg doesn’t even pause He wraps Izzy protectively in his strong arh the croards the back hall Beck breaks rabs my hand and pulls me after them I can feel the others behind us, but I can only focus on the huge et where I need to be
What a er ones, the only thing onthe ht was dead for over a decade
We’ve been standing in the narrow hallway outside the owner’s office for a while now Not too long, but enough that Axel, Izzy’s ex, is pacing like a caged anih the door, I know I have to do so in front of a feral beast probably isn’t very smart, but if he has to physically plow over me, at least I will offer some kind of speed bump
At this point, I can safely say that reat understateet pasthim away from Izzy so she doesn’t have another episode I can’t let her sink back into that pit of depression that she was in for such a long time There have been times when I really doubted my ability to keep her sane Hell, I doubted ht now, I have to put my best friend hat on and do whatever I need to do for Izzy I spare Beck a brief glance before looking back up into the fire sparking, ereen eyes of Axel Reid