She jumped. “Noah.”
“What’s going on?”
“Nothing.”
“Bullshit.”
She huffed. “You have your own stuff going on. I’m not going to pile my stuff on top.”
So shedidhave stuff going on. “I can handle it.”
“No.” She stepped around him and got halfway back to the table before he grabbed her arm.
“Addison—”
“Noah, I don’t need you to fix my problems. I’m an adult and can handle them myself.”
“Does it have anything to do with feeling like someone’s been watching you?”
Her eyes flared.
It did.
He stepped closer. “Has something happened between Sunday and now?”
She opened her mouth to reply, but she was shoved as a fight suddenly broke out behind her.
Noah cursed and grabbed her before she could fall to the floor.
“Hey!” he shouted at the assholes.
None of them appeared to hear him. The idiots were too busy throwing punches.
Great.
When one of them lifted a beer bottle, Noah shot forward and grabbed it out of his hand. “What the fuck are you doing?”
“Get out of my way.” The guy slurred his words and tried to shove Noah.
A body suddenly hit Noah from behind. He turned as a fist flew toward his face. He dodged, grabbed the guy’s wrist, and spun his arm behind the guy’s back.
Colt and a bartender jumped in to break up the fight.
“Don’t fucking move,” Noah growled at the man, before pushing him to the floor. He moved toward two guys rolling between tables, throwing punches at each other.
He grabbed the guy on top and threw him to the side. From his peripheral vision, he saw another man get shoved into Addie as she was clearing away from the fight. She fell to her knees, and the man landed on top of her.
Fuck. Noah shot toward her and tore the guy off. The asshole immediately spun and pulled a fist back.
Noah saw the punch coming. He’d already received so many that he was close to blacking out.
But he couldn’t black out. He wasn’t dying today.
He dodged the hit, and the guy growled when his fist hit the concrete wall behind him. Even though Noah was bound, he lunged anyway.
Suddenly—he was free.
He grabbed the guy around the middle and sent them both to the floor. A hand tried to grab him, but he swung an arm back to shove them away before lifting a fist. Before it could land, stronger hands grabbed his arm and ripped him off the asshole.
