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I growled unimpressively "This is not the time for you to try to be sweet"

"But you’re pint-sized, you are adorable"

"And you look like Lurch"

He laughed loudly before everything stopped at once Eli stopped walking, there was no sound coh ere out near the ocean air, it suddenly felt thick with tensionand I kneas all co me

"Paisley," he sneered my name, and my body froze "Get back in the bar and stay with Kristen Have Jason co to look behind o inside until I co directly past

"Who’s behind me?" I asked hesitantly

"No one," he answered When I tried pulling away, he looked directly into my eyes "Please, Pay"

"Why can’t I look? What is it?"

He took a large breath in before releasing it through his nose; his eyes never once left ht now I don’t know if he’s still here, and I will beat the shit out of hi I really don’t want you to see So, please, just trust ht now"

Eli said he At that ht be If what had gone on in the bar had barely fazed hi at that was having this kind of effect on hi to do hatever is behind me, then I need to see it even if he is still here, which I doubt he is after what just happened in the bar"

His arms didn’t loosen, and the worry on his face seemed to multiply His lips pressed into a fir his head slowly

"Don’t try to protect me froht now because I will go crazy in that bar wondering what is happening out here"

After a few h, only to loosely wrap an arm around my waist as he pulled his phone out of his pocket I waited long enough to see him text Jason, then dial a nine and a one before I turned around, and my stomach sank

All the s on Eli’s truck were smashed out, as were the s on the cars on either side But for those cars, it was only the s that were directly next to Eli’s truck

He couldn’t have Brett wasn’t vindictive like this I kneas hurtingbut he wasn’t violent He wasn’t this guy

"I need police," Eli said calmly "Yeah, I’m at O’Malley’s on H Street, someone broke all the s onas I tried to understand as happening As I turned around to see if any other cars looked like they’d had the sa inelse out of the ordinary

Brett wouldn’t do this, I told ht that he would co for Eli to punch him either

"That fucker," Jason sneered when he and Kristen joined up with us

"Oh my God! How did no one see hiht it was Brett