My whole body froze and then shook all over.
I know that voice.
I heard the slap before I whipped around to see for myself.
Zoey.
“Bitch,” the man yelled as he raised his hand.
Without even thinking, I grabbed his arm and twisted it behind his back.
“You think hitting a woman makes you a man?” I whispered in a lethal voice.
“Bitch had it coming. She slapped me.”
“And what did you do to make her do that?”
“I just offered her a bed. I’m the good guy.”
“A bed for sex. I am not that kind of girl.”
A low guttural growl rippled through me.
“You lay one finger on her and you will die. I’ll kill you myself.”
I pushed him away a little harder than I intended. He hit the wall face-first and started cursing, but I no longer cared.
“Are you okay?” I barked out in the same lethal voice.
She bit her lower lip and nodded.
I wrapped a possessive arm around her and practically dragged her down the hall all the way to Room 3. She gave no resistance, didn’t even argue. When I opened the door though, she gasped.
“Shit. I guess I’m no better than that asshole.”
“What? No. Don’t say that. I’m just surprised you have a room. They are booked out for the night. I have one for tomorrow night, but they were already full when I got here. There’s some event in town, plus the storm. Everything’s a mess.”
I waited until we were inside the room before speaking.
“What the hell are you doing here, Zoey?”
She cringed.
I continued before she could answer. “Last I saw you were heading back into the party. As Queen Bee of Theta, I can’t believe you’d just skip out like that.”
“Pretty sure that was your fault.”
“You snuck out of my bedroom window.”
“And into mine where I packed and ran like a dog with her tail between her legs,” she surprised me by confessing. “And what? You just got in the car and followed me?”
“I wasn’t following you. I was getting far away from you.”
The hurt on her face before she masked it felt like a knife puncturing my heart.
“What are you even doing here, Zoey?”
“I did go back to the party,” she confessed. “And I made amends and then decided it would be best to get away from campus.”
