“Luna, I…” I didn’t let him finish. The second he tried to step closer again, I pressed closer to Beckett, my voice shaking.
“He kept touching me. I told him to stop it but he didn’t listen. He…”
Beckett went rigid beside me, but Jett suddenly had Ryder by the front of the shirt, shoving him back against the bathroom wall. Ryder let him, his arms hanging by his sides in shame. I was terrified of what might have happened if no one had noticed us walking this way in the dark.
I didn’t want to think he’d rape me, Ryder wasn’t like that, but he also never would’ve touched a girl without their permission before either.
“The fuck is wrong with you? You touched her?” Jett hissed, giving him a firm shake when he didn’t reply. “Answer me!”
“I didn’t mean… I said sorry. Fuck!” he yelled, trying to get free but Jett didn’t let him go.
“You’re sorry?” he threw back, glancing at me before turning back to him. “Look at her! Do you think sorry’s going to fix that?”
My hands were shaking as everyone seemed to assess me, and Beckett stepped in front of me to block their view. “One of you get Ryder the fuck home. He’s in no state to drive, and there’s no point dealing with this tonight while he’s that fucking wasted. I’ll stay with Luna until he’s gone. We don’t need Riley losing her shit here.”
“What do we tell your parents?” Jett grunted. “Should we take him to ours instead?”
“No. If Riley wants to beat his ass when she gets home, she can. I just don’t want it happening here,” she replied, dropping an arm around my shoulders.
Maddox jogged over, his eyes instantly narrowing when he saw me. “What…”
Jett gave Ryder a shove in his direction, his voice low. “Get your brother in the car. He fucked up. Keep Riley away from him.”
“Are you hurt?” Maddox asked me firmly, relaxing slightly as I shook my head. “I’ll deal with him. You stay with Beck, okay?”
I nodded, trying to control my tears as they walked away from us, and once I heard Maddox’s Charger leave, I let my muscles relax. “Riley’s going to kill him,” I choked out, making Beckett snort.
“The prick deserves it. I love my brother, but that doesn’t mean I’ll step in to save him when he does something stupid.” She seemed deep in thought for a second before her voice turned soft. “Was he trying to rape you?”
“No,” I said quickly, wiping my eyes. “He just kept grabbing my ass and kissing my neck. He scared me when he kept doing it.”
“I’m sorry. We’ll handle it,” she promised, cringing when Riley’s voice came from close by.
“What are you guys doing?”
I turned to face her, and anger instantly covered her face as she reached for me, pulling me close to thumb the tears from my cheeks. “Who was it? I’ll kill them. Did someone say something to you? Are you hurt?”
I couldn’t tell her that it had been her brother. I didn’t want to be the person to break her heart like that.
“You need to get her out of here,” Beckett said without hesitation, not sugarcoating anything. “Ryder assaulted her.”
Riley stilled, her eyes hardening. “Excuse me?”
“Well deal with it later, Riley. Just get Luna home,” Beckett snapped, motioning to me. “Can’t you see she just wants to leave?”
I expected her to throw a fit and storm off in search of him, but she kissed the top of my head, keeping me close. “Where’s Ryder?”
“What did I just say? Don’t worry about him right now” She scowled as Riley snorted.
“I’m not going to go looking for him. I just don’t want to take Luna back to mine if he’s there.”
“Maddox and the others took him back to yours, yes. You can’t take her back to her place like that.” Beckett cringed. “Archer would lose his fucking shit.”
“I’ll take her to Angel’s place,” she answered, tucking me under her arm and fishing her keys from her pocket. “Let’s get you out of here.”
We went to leave but Beckett stopped us. “Angel’s got Mikey and Poppy over with some of their friends.”
“I’ll figure it out,” Riley growled, leading me across the field in the dark towards the Corvette.