Page 55 of Forgive You

“Alright, order me another one and a shot of tequila when that pretty brunette gets back.”

“What are you doing, Ford?” Jordan laughs, half pleading, half encouraging the motherfucker.

Ford grabs his halfway filled glass of beer, then knocks it back like it’s water before slamming it back on the wooden top. “Spending some time with a pretty blonde.”

He takes off, charming Julie with each rhythmic step he takes closer, and my heart wants to rattle in its cage with every passing beat as my jaw tenses like cement.

“You wanna rip his head off, don’t you?”“What, no,” I say, never diverting my gaze from the two people moving in sync five yards away. “I wanna do more than that.”

It’s taking every bit of my weight to stay rooted where I am and not tear Ford’s hands off her body as he guides their hips to thebase. To not jump up and act like a possessive asshole when my entire instinct comes alive like a roaring tiger.

My heart beats like a freight train and all I want to do is make it stop or make it crash.

Jordan clears his throat, and I snap out of my daze, bringing my glass to my lips and meeting his accusing eyes.

“Stop looking at me like that.”

He laughs. A full-humor, you-are-crazy-and-I’m-not laugh, then the asshole steals my beer and gulps it down like Ford did.

Fucking toddlers. Both of them.

“Stop torturing yourself.” He slides the empty glass to the middle, then lifts his hand to motion to the server that we need another round. “Brother, I’m gonna say this just once.” He leans toward me, aiming his blue eyes at the two pain in my asses on the dance floor. “You see that flicker of her eye pointed this way, every couple of seconds?”

Ford stands behind her, hands on her hips and grinding his groin against her ass. Julie’s face is partially covered by her now messy hair, but then I notice her eyes peeking through. They lock with mine, filled with full-blown seduction softening her expression. It’s quick. It’s fleeting.

A week ago, it wouldn’t have been more than a way to get my anger through the roof. But then she does it again.And again.

Jordan moves close to my side. “She doesn’t want him, Jason.”

I turn to face him, a you-know-I’m-right expression coming my way. When I flip my gaze back, it’s as if I’ve called her name, and she’s staring at me directly this time.He’s right.

“I know I’m right,” Jordan says, as if he can read my mind. “Stop torturing yourself.”

I keep staring at her, doubting, but the doubt is sucked away when Ford pushes her hair to the side and exposes her neck as if he has every intention to mark her skin with a kiss.

But my feet act quicker than my brain can keep up.

Over my dead body.

15

The last time I saw this wild expression on Jason’s handsome face was a minute before he walked out on me, and it assaulted my heart with a hammer.

This time, it’s doing a whole lot of different shit to my heart. I mean, it’s still pounding like a woodpecker on a mission to escape my chest, but it’s also swelling with excitement when I catch him charging for the dance floor like he’s about to raise hell if Ford has the bright idea to move his hand anywhere else than where he has them planted on my hips.

I bite my lip to hold back my grin, grinding my ass against Ford just to sell how much I’m into this and push Jason over the edge a little more.

“You’re gonna get my ass kicked, Julie,” Ford whispers in my ear, and I find the mischief in his eyes matching mine when I glance over my shoulder.

Twisting in his grasp, I nod in answer to his comment, right before a broad figure steps into our space, his fury palpable.

I expect Ford to push Jason a little more, and put up a fight, but he just steps back, hands up and a massive lopsided grin, full teeth and no holding back.

Jason keeps his gaze for the longest of seconds, his chest heaving. The tension between the two men springs alive thousands of butterflies in my stomach, and I gulp, my traitorous vagina pulsing as my lips part.

God, Jason is sexy when he’s in full wrath mode.

The whole sight heats my already flushed skin to a feverish point, burning me from the inside when his blue eyes slowly laser in on me, then he dismisses Ford with a jerk of his head.

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