Usually, we wouldn’t take note of such issues however there was a definite, acquainted spark to the tones that each one three of us acknowledged.

A voice that pulled my intestine south in concern.

“Scarlett?” I breathed out softly.

Midway down the subsequent avenue, illuminated within the orange glow of the streetlight above, stood Scarlett. Her forehead was pinched and her stance inflexible as she gave the impression to be caught up in some type of argument with a tall man in entrance of her. All the pieces about her physique indicated she wished to get as distant from him as doable however as quickly as she took a step again, the person’s hand shot out and grabbed her arm.

Lucas broke right into a dash earlier than I might even register that he had moved, then me and Sebastian ran after him. My coronary heart leaped up into my mouth as the person pulled Scarlett nearer to him, and 100 ideas and issues flooded by way of his thoughts.

Particularly, how badly I wished to interrupt his face for grabbing her like that.

Whoever this man was, he was not strolling away.

Lucas reached them first, and he didn’t hesitate. He launched himself on the stranger and collectively, they crashed down onto the bottom as a squeal of alarm escaped Scarlett. I arrived a minute later and clasped Scarlett’s shoulder; she whirled round with huge eyes, and behind her, Lucas started punching the ever-loving shit out of the asshole attempting to mug her.

“Scarlett!” Sebastian barked her title, concern lilting his phrases. “Are you alright?”

“Fuckin’ scumbag,” Lucas snarled.

“Are you okay?” I requested. “Did he steal something?”

“Steal something?” Scarlett gasped, shortly processing that we had been all right here, then she whirled round to the place Lucas was nonetheless punching the stranger. “No! He’s not a mugger. He’s, my ex!”

Silence fell and Lucas’ fist paused in mid-air. Blood poured from the person’s nostril and mouth and an indignant snarl escaped him when Lucas climbed off of him.

“Shit, I’m sorry,” Lucas started. “I didn’t know. We simply noticed you regarded uncomfortable, after which he grabbed you and?—.”

Scarlett brushed previous Lucas and reached for the person, attempting to assist him to his ft however he slapped her fingers away.

“Shane—,” she tried however he barked an indignant noise at her.

“Fuck off,” Shane growled, urgent a hand to his flowing nostril. “What the fuck? Who the fuck assaults individuals like that?”

“We thought you had been a mugger,” Sebastian clarified in a tone often reserved for his work calls. “Straightforward mistake.”

This was her ex. Shane.

I solid my thoughts again to our espresso date and Scarlett’s phrases on how this man struggled to take no for a solution. My very own ex had had the identical downside and simply considering of how typically she turned up in undesirable locations twisted my intestine. My hand reached again out to Scarlett, stepping up towards her to supply as a lot consolation as I might.

“Mistake?” Shane scoffed thickly, wrestling along with his blood circulation. “Who the fuck even are you? Fucking Batman or some shit.”

“They’re my associates,” Scarlett spoke up, and I felt a slight pang of distaste on the phrase. I understood although, particularly going through down Shane.

“Bullshit,” Shane growled, and he turned to the facet, spitting up a mouthful of blood onto the pavement. Lucas grumbled barely, shaking his hand that bloomed purple from the blows.

“They’re,” Scarlett insisted. “Not that it’s any of your enterprise, however we’re associates. In reality, I’m even going to work for one in every of them.”

“You’re such a fucking liar. I knew I ought to have gotten right here sooner. You simply can’t assist your self, are you able to? Spreading your legs for the primary limp dick that walks by.”

“Hey!” Lucas snapped. “What’s mistaken with you?”

“How would you react in case your girlfriend cheated on you, huh?” Shane yelled sharply.

“Scarlett is single,” Sebastian stated, stepping ahead. “As I perceive it, she’s been single for some time, and also you had been the one dishonest. How she chooses to spend her time isn’t any enterprise of yours, and even when she was dishonest on you, that is no method to strategy somebody.”

“She’s not?—.”

“Shane! Hearken to me!” Scarlett’s cheeks flushed purple, and he or she shortly moist her lips. “If my calls and texts weren’t sufficient, then hearken to me proper right here. We’re over. We’ve been over for weeks and there’s nothing that’s going to vary that. So simply let it go, okay? Cease fucking stalking me throughout the nation and depart me alone!”

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