“I’m sorry, but what the fuck did you just say?”I asked, standing up to dislodge him.
“Oh, c’mon,” he snorted, patting me on the chest.“We’ve all been there, man.”
Before I could deck the fuck out of him, another voice joined our group.“Are you seriously trying to one-up me by practicing before I got here?”
Forgetting about Teddy, I turned to see a guy about my height looking pointedly at Rya, and she looked like she’d just been caught with a bloody knife in her hand while standing next to a dead body.In fact, she didn’t even look like she was upset over what Teddy had said.She looked like she was trying to come up with a convincing lie to tell the guy.
It was also hard not to size him up.Though we were both the same height, that was all that we had in common.While I had black hair, grey eyes, and kept in shape, this guy had dark brown hair and eyes, and not only did he look like he worked out regularly, he was tatted from neck to everywhere else that was visible, and he also looked like he’d slit your throat, then calmly have a sandwich afterwards.
“Uhm...it’s not what it looks like,” she lied.
“Oh, really,” he deadpanned.
Just then, Teddy patted my chest again as he said, “See, she’s taken.”
Before I could say anything to that, he was making his way to the bar, leaving me with my thumb stuck up my ass, not knowing what to do.While there was no way that she couldn’t have heard what he’d said, if I apologized for him, I might make things awkward when they didn’t need to be.Rya didn’t seem upset at all, so I really wasn’t sure what to do.
“I was just...uhm...uhm, giving Koen over there a few pointers,” Rya stammered, and the look on the guy’s face was a clear indication that he didn’t believe her.“He sucks at pool and was impressed by how skilled I appeared.”
The guy just snorted.“You’re such a shit liar, Rya.”
I watched in complete stupefaction as she grinned at him.“Well, that’s what you get for being late.I mean, what else was I supposed to do?”
The guy shook his head, then shot me a look.“See what I have to put up with?If she wasn’t the best person on the planet, I would have placed a restraining order on her years ago.”
Rya laughed again, and all it did was piss me off.
Teddy really was a fucking asshole.
Chapter 5
Rya~
If nothing else, no one could ever say that my acting skills weren’t superb.When Koen’s friend had mentioned taking one for the team, I’d been mortified.Though you’d think that I’d be used to it by now, I couldn’t remember the last time that someone had been so blatantly rude like that, and so it’d been a bit of a shock, especially since I’d had no idea why Koen had chosen to come over and talk to me in the first place.I mean, pity was the obvious answer, but still.
Luckily, Dalton had arrived just in time to save me, though it was a good thing that he hadn’t been early enough to hear what Koen’s friend had said.Unlike a lot of these preppy assholes, Dalton wasn’t afraid of a good fight, nor was he scared of getting arrested.He was also very protective of me, but that was also out of pity just as much as it was out of love.
