Devil's Eye

Chapter 4

5' 8"-5' 9"

Noah couldn't get what was happening. He didn't understand why Ethan had lost his temper and what kind of relationship he had had with that brunette hot stuff, who suddenly ended up being the main figure in this scandal. He couldn't process how much he had accidentally contributed to this brewing conflict. But Noah clearly understood that his thoughts of the guy's innocence had been wrong. While watching him knock down a head taller guy to the floor with one punch, and then start fiercely punching his face while sitting on top of him, Noah finished the rest of his vodka-punch and poured himself more immediately. Turned out it was actually interesting to witness the conflict if you weren't part of it. Although Noah was watching Ethan more. Who could have thought that this tiny guy could be so fierceful.

The crowd didn't watch the fight-well, the massacre-for long. Some basketball players from Hughes' team jumped from their seats and rushed towards Ethan. The host of the party was among them as well. Noah could not resist the urge to watch how Ethan punched Rufus in the teeth with his elbow. Another basketball player, who tried to take the guy away from his prey, met up with the wall. Which was quite funny, considering that the unlucky hero was different from Ethan's weight category, which weighed heavily against him. Judging from the look on his face, he probably didn't expect that he could have been pushed away so easily.

Nothing was clear. But it was so interesting, though. Noah didn't notice how the second cup of punch disappeared, like it had never been there.

Finally, two guys, not effortlessly, twisted Ethan's arms behind his back and took him away from the poor coughing up blood guy. He was laying on the floor for a couple of seconds more, until he realized that a hail of blows had ended and he could get up. He roared something aggressively at Ethan while standing up, but Noah couldn't make out what exactly. Ethan told him to bounce. The guy either listened, or maybe he noticed how difficult it was for two basket players to hold Ethan still so that he wouldn't attack his victim again, but the dealer decided not to stay at the party. He hobbled to the exit, continuing to mutter something malignantly. Brunette was just about to follow him, but Ethan's shout stopped her.

"Stop ruining your life trying to piss me off!" he shouted. The girl stepped back like from a slap in the face.

"Years are going by, and still nothing has changed! Do you really believe that the world revolves around your pathetic persona?!" she cried and rushed after her date.

"Audrey, stop!" Ethan tried to escape from two basketballers, but he didn't succeed.

"What the hell are you doing?!" Hughes came to himself after the punch. "You need to calm down!"

"Don't you dare tell me what to do!" Ethan growled, pulled his hand out of one of the basketballer's fingers, and tried to reach Rufus. He could have probably punched him if the third basketball player hadn't thrown him to the floor with a whoop.

"Take him to a winter garden to let the steam out," Hughes ordered, giving a nod to the closed door. His friends dragged him through the living room all the way to the garden, and Rufus suddenly looked at Noah.

"It's your fault," he declared, pointing at him.

"Yeah, of course," Noah snorted. "Did you find a whipping boy?"

"You had told him something before this whole thing happened," Rufus was shaking in anger, "What?"

"The truth," Noah shrugged his shoulders.

"That's what I thought," Hughes nodded, then grabbed Morgan and took him to the winter garden, where they just put furious Ethan. "Now you deal with the truth you've said," he said, and he kicked Noah out to the winter garden and locked the door.