Always Remember (Memories #2)(21)
Author: Emma Hart

Chapter Nine

JEN

Lights flash, music blares, and bodies grind. We’re back in Red – and it’s also the stalking ground for the girls with boobs bigger than their brains.

“Relax.” Lexy says in my ear. “Have you even seen where he’s looking?”

My eyes trawl across the club and meet his like they’re a beacon calling out for me. He hides from the harsh glare of the lights, and his eyes are almost black, the iris meeting his pupil. They blend together, and I don’t have a clue if I’m looking at Bing or f**king Dracula.

“On you,” Lexy continues. “All night. He’s turned away three blondes, four brunettes, a redhead, and some chick with more piercings than skin.”

“Ack.” I shiver. “You’ve counted?”

“Yeah.” She raises her eyebrows. “I’m keeping my beady little eyes on my bro tonight.”

“You don’t have to-”

“No, I don’t. But I will. Because I want you to know he does care. I know him, and I’ve never seen him this way before.”

Bing raises his eyebrows as Lexy trails off. I smile at him, shyly almost. He smiles back.

“You. Me. Tonight?” he mouths the words, and desire rolls through me at the meaning of them. Holy shit, I’m a walking bag of horny and it’s all his fault!

“Maybe,” I mouth back.

He hides his grin behind his pint as a blonde approaches him. Barbie number five. She flicks her hair, puts a hand on her jutted out hip, and sticks her chest out at him.

I know my face is hard, like granite, and anger and possession ripple through me more fiercely than anything I’ve ever encountered.

“Uh oh,” Lexy says.

“What?” I glance at her then the blonde. “Who is that?”

“It’s Heidi. His ex.”

BING

“Heidi, I’m not interested.” I say blankly, watching Jen’s face transform into a vision of pure anger. Fuck me, it’s sexy.

“One night, Bing, just one more night,” she purrs, pushing her body against me. I clench my teeth and step aside.

“No. Fuck off, Heidi, I mean it.”

“Heidi…” Alec says, looking over at the girls warily. “You’re better off finding another victim tonight.”

“Victim?” she squeaks out. “How about you, handsome? Ready to ditch Lexy?”

Alec’s lip curls in disgust. “The day I ditch her for you is the day the world ends. No, wait. In fact, I probably wouldn’t even do it then.”

I slap him on the shoulder and look over at Jen and Lexy, and… They’re not there. Uh. Shit.

“I really hope I didn’t just hear you hitting on Alec, Heidi, ‘cause that would be unfortunate if I did.” Lexy’s voice is cold and unfeeling. Meet cave woman Lexy. Playful as hell, but possessive to a t when it comes to her guy.

“No, just trying to convince your brother to come home with me tonight,” Heidi smiles.

“Not f**king likely.” Jen says in a deceptively calm voice behind her. She walks around her, standing next to me. They were never introduced when we were in a “relationship.”

“Who the f**k are you?” Heidi eyes her with disdain.

“I’m his girlfriend and the bitch you wish you never messed with,” Jen says in the iciest tone I’ve ever heard. Even her eyes are ice blue. Hell, she is mad. And sexy.

Way f**king sexy.

And girlfriend? Wait – what?

“Girlfriend?” Heidi cackles. “Oh, honey, they don’t last long.”

Jen’s eyes sweep up and down Heidi’s body, taking in the skimpy clothes, the overly large boobs, and bleach blonde hair.

JEN

She looks like she’s just been dragged under a f**king lorry and puked on by a crayola eating baby or seven.

“Maybe not if they look like they’ve just rolled in from a brothel.” Jen smirks. “Go and find yourself a new toy to play with, honey, ‘cause you’re not having mine.”

Her lips curl in a menacing smile. “He’ll cheat, you know. Just like he always does. He did it to me and he’ll do it to you. You’re just another girl to him, another f**k.”

I step closer, and she flinches. “If he does cheat, then that’s my issue, but at least I’ll have more self-respect than to come running back like a desperate little hog on crack. And by the way, you’re missing half your clothes.”

“Suit yourself.” She tilts her chin up defiantly, but I see the fight in her eyes. She won’t leave this. She wants Bing.

So do I.

“And my outfit is designed to be this way. It’s called sexy.” She flutters her eyelashes over my shoulder at Bing. I grab her chin between my finger and thumb and snap her face back so her eyes meet mine.

“Then sexy got lost on its way to the street corner, as did you,” I remark. “You have five seconds to remove your ass from my line of view before I do it for you.”

She obviously sees something in my face that makes her believe me because she scoots off sharpish. She still glances back at Bing though.

“We’re going to get some drinks,” Lexy says wisely, and drags a reluctant Alec with her.

Bing grabs my hand and tugs me after him, out the back door. My back presses against the cold brick wall, and he kisses me with a passion I didn’t know he had in him. His tongue flickers across my lips before he dives inside my mouth, his hips pressing into mine. The cold wall clashes with the heat spreading through my body,

“That,” he says in a husky voice. “Was the sexiest thing I’ve ever seen.”

“What was?” I batter my eyelashes.

“You getting all possessive over me,” he growls into my hair. “You have no idea how f**king hot you are, Jennifer.”

I grab the collar of his shirt and yank his face towards mine. “Did you cheat on her?”

BING

The question shocks me and I stop.

“Why do you care?” I ask.

“Answer the question. Now.” That fire is back in her eyes, lighting them up in the darkness.

“Once. Then I broke up with her,” I admit. I won’t keep secrets. Not from Jen.

Her eyes bore into mine. “Do it to me, Samuel Edwards, and you’ll find your precious package being served for lunch on a plate in a five star f**king restaurant. Are we understood?”

I fight the smile that twitches on my lips. “Understood, ma’am.”

She narrows her eyes at me, and now the anger is receding I can see she’s turned on by the heat between us.