Page 231 of Loving Ladybug: Part One
My teeth clamped down on his hand and Derick yelped, letting go of my mouth as I screamed.
“Let go of my girl.” Tenzin punched him in the face.
Clark came running, Jonas and Dimitri with him.
My girl?Tenzin still thought of me that way? Those words warmed me.
“Gwen. I’m right here.” Clark came over to me, shielding me with his body.
“Don’t touch the fucking goalie.” Jonas punched Derick in the face.
Dimitri cornered Austin with his gigantic frame. “You should be ashamed of yourself,Austin.”
“There’s no fighting in here.” Ernie, my old boss, stormed over with the bouncers.
Derick slugged Jonas. “You’re mistaken. We’re the victims. Don’t you know who we are? This little beta whore here–”
“Gwen’s a lot of things. A whore isn’t one of them,” Ernie replied. “Austin, you have some nerve showing up here, then attacking someone, after what you did. Gwen, get some ice from the bar. You alphas need to take this outside. You Deloittes are banned, you too, Austin. Knights, this is a warning. No fighting in the bar. I’m only giving it to you, because you treat everyone nice.”
“I’m the goalie that kept you from scoring, you dipshits,” I spat. Ugh.
Wait, what did he do?
“Come on.” Clark shielded me and we got some ice from the bartender.
“Where’s Lenny? We need to get the footage before the Deloittes have it erased.” I took my phone out of my pocket and stopped the recording, immediately sending a copy to the place I kept such things. I looked around the bar.
“On it.” Mercy was right there, texting. “Those assfucks.”
I took some selfies and added them to my vault, then sent everything to Kylee and Stu that she’d asked for.
Carlos brought me a beer. “You okay?”
“Austin is a fucking knotwaffle.” I downed it, my mind still reeling from everything. He hurt me to protect me?
Matty
I’ll take care of him.
How did he know? But Lenny might be out back, beating the shit out of the Deloitte brothers.
Me
The Deloittes could ruin me and wreck my career in the PHL.
“I’m right here.” Clark wrapped his arms around me.
My body shuddered. “I’d finished talking to my dads. Austin wanted to talk. It cemented that he’s a knotwaffle, since he claimed he hit me to protect me from his family, since I’m not good enough for them. Then his brothers came and…”
“You’re safe.” He held me tight.
“Thank you. Do you want some ice for that black eye you got during the game?” I offered.
“It’s fine.” Clark held me tighter.
Tenzin came back. There was a bruise on his cheek that wasn’t there before, and he looked a little smug. “I’m right here. I won’t leave you, promise.”
“You won’t?” I left Clark’s arms and buried my face in Tenzin’s chest.
