Fighting Feelings

Chapter 52

Charlottes POV

"How'd it go?" Jay asks as we walk into the kitchen. He's sitting at the kitchen table, drinking some coffee with his computer open infront of him.

"Like usual. Got away" Alex shrugs as he sits down on one of the stools by the kitchen island.

"It's my fault. I'm s-" I get cut off by Sage covering my mouth with his hand. "Shush" Clayton tells me, and I roll my eyes, shoving SSage'shand away.

"What happened?" Jay asks. "Ignore her" Alex tells him. Clayton walks over to the kitchen counter and sits ontop of it, before grabbing a muffin off the plate beside him, and Sage goes and sits beside Jay at the table.

"Leo went to get him at the bar while me and Charlotte went to guard the doors. We got separated on the way to the doors and some asshole bumped into her and shoved her. Then fucking Ares came and punched him in the face. Told him not to touch her again. Then slipped out while I went to Charlotte" Alex explains to Jay, and I cant help but feel guilty again. I dont even know why I went in the first place. I ended up ruining everything.

"Charlotte quit blaming yourself" Clayton says, and I roll my eyes while leanimg against the doorway. "He protected Charlotte?" Jay asks, and Sage nods.

"He looked familiar. I know he was wearing a mask, but I've seen his eyes before" I tell him, feeling it might be important to mention.

Its irritating me that I can't place that guy. Mabey if I got a better look? When I was in Leo's office watching the fight, I was too far away to make out his face. And when he punched that guy, he was wearing a black hoodie with the hood up. The only part of his face that was visble was his eyes. Mabey if I saw him up close without the hood I'd be able to figure out who it is.

"Where's Leo?" Jay asks. "Fucking a bartender probably" Clayton says, and Jay sighs. "Of course he is".

"Me and Sage were watching from Leo's office. The bartender guy is clearly friends with the Ares guy. He saw Leo coming, and I think he said something tp him because Ares got up and tried to leave seconds later. When Leo stopped him, the dude fucking jumped over the bar top and stood in between the two, letting Ares slip away" Clayton explains to him.

"So its safe to say he knew why Leo wanted to talk?" Jay says and Alex nods. "Judging by the way he protected him, I'd say this Ares guy is younger" Clayton tell him.

"How old did the bartender look?" Jay asks us. "Around twenty five or twenty four" I answer. "I thought you were at the door?" Jay says confused.

"After we went back up to the office, Leo came back a minute later with the bartender. We questioned him but he was speaking pure bullshit and we knew he wasn't going to tell us" Alex explains, and Jay nods.

"So Ares is guy, is younger than twenty-five, knows Charlotte and protected her? Sound familiar to any of you guys?" Jay says, and we all look at him confused. He scoffs and I hear him call us idiots under his breath.

What is he talking about? Does he know who it is? He's acting like it's obvious.

I only know a few guys from school, which are under twenty-five. They probably just saw me, and thought, 'Hey, that's Charlotte from school getting pushed, lets help her'.

But Jay wouldn't know any of the guys from my school. And those eyes seemed so familiar. Dark green. Just like-...

"No" I mumble under my breath as realization dawns on me. Jay smiles at me while the others look at me confused.

Cameron. The eyes. The protectivness. The illegal side buisness. The fucking gorgeous brown hair that was long enough to be tied back. How the fuck did I not realize sooner?!