Eventually, Lauren left and I continued to drink. Theo had fucked off somewhere, West and his friends were on the dance floor, so it was just me at the table. Simping for a girl who fucked my best friend behind my back. A girl who was currently drunk and high, letting some fucker put his hands all over her.
I watched as she moved to the music, pushing her luscious ass against the dude’s cock. He gripped her hips and nestled his face in her neck, his hands roaming up her body.
And I drank some more.
Her eyes were barely open as he began steering her away from the crowd. I stood up, my eyes laser focused on where he was taking her. He guided her to the hallway near the bar that led to the employee entrance and the elevator. Xavier watched them too, a scowl firmly planted on his face. He looked at me and nodded. It was on.
I met him at the hall entrance.
“She’s trashed,” he said as we strode toward them.
“Why’d you give her a fucking pill?”
“She must’ve taken something else with it. She was fine an hour ago.”
Dani was on the brink of blacking out as the guy pressed up against her. His cock was out of his pants and he slid the back of her dress up, groping her ass. As he was about to touch her with his cock, I pulled back and slammed my fist against his temple.
He hit the floor just as Xavier caught Dani so she didn’t fall next to him. He pulled her dress back down as I beat the shit out of the guy who was going to take advantage of her.
My fists hit bone, cracking and mangling his face and ribs. Blood and spit splattered but I didn’t give a fuck. Dani wasn’t consenting to shit in her state. He was going to rape her, and the thought infuriated me more than anything else I’d ever felt.
“I think you got him, man,” X said as I slammed my foot down on his torso. The guy had stopped moaning a few hits ago, so I assumed he was knocked out or dead.
I shook out my hands–I’d feel it in the morning–but right now, with the whiskey and rage flowing, I didn’t feel anything. I slid my hands over my hair to push it out of my face before Xavier helped Dani stumble into my arms.
“I gotta stay down here. Take her to her room at least,” Xavier said before going back to the club.
I placed Dani’s arm around my shoulder and lifted her up from under her legs. Her head lolled to the side as I walked down the hall to the elevator. Once we were in her apartment, I placed her as gently as possible on the couch and covered her with a blanket.
She snored as I lit a cigarette, heading to the bathroom to clean the blood from my hands.
Fuck, she could’ve been raped tonight. What the fuck was she thinking mixing drugs and alcohol like that? Did she want to be used by some stranger and not have a single memory of it?
Once I was cleaned up and chain-smoked a few more cigarettes, I sat in the chair next to the couch and closed my eyes. I’d rest for a little while as she slept it off. I couldn’t leave her alone in case she started choking on her own vomit or something.
I must’ve fallen asleep, because when my eyes opened, the couch was empty and I heard a retching sound coming from the bathroom.
“Are you okay?” I asked as I tapped on the door.
“Fuck off,” Dani groaned from the other side. I heard the water running followed by some coughing, so I assumed she got most of the alcohol out of her system.
I went to the kitchen and got a glass of water. I dug around the drawers until I found some aspirin and brought it to the living room, placing them both on the coffee table. I sat back in the chair and waited for her to show her face.
“What the fuck are you doing here?” She asked as she stumbled out of the bathroom, dabbing her pale skin with a washcloth.
“Making sure you didn’t choke on your own puke.”
She sighed and sat on the couch, popping the aspirin and guzzling the water down. “It’s so cute how you pretend to care.”
“Pretend? I saved you from getting raped. The least you could do is be appreciative and saythank you.”
Her eyes widened at the word and the cup slipped from her fingers, landing on the rug. “What do you mean?” She asked quietly, keeping her eyes focused in front of her.
“You don’t remember any of it?”
She shook her head slightly.
“A guy was about to spear you with his tiny cock in the hallway downstairs. X and I stopped it just in time.”