I See The Light (Book #3 in LA Series)

Chapter Ten

Dan's POV
"You seem tense," Violet murmurs. Everyone else had left the bar and now it was just me and her. "Maybe I can help with that."

"Violet," I growl. "You're making me tense."

"And now I can relax you," she says. "If you'd just let me."

"Look," I snap. "Let me make this clear, I'm not interested, I'll never be interested so you should just take your desperation somewhere else."

"Way to make a girl feel special," she deadpans. "Hope you don't speak that way to Beth."

"What the fuck does Beth have to do with this?" I growl.

"Cause you are obviously into each other," she snaps. "She's a total bitch, because I told her dibs."

"I'm not an object," I say annoyed. "And I don't think you should talk about her like that."

"She was a virgin you know," Violet says. "She doesn't have experience like me."

My stomach drops. Beth was a virgin? And that prick took that away from her. And now Violet was using it as a way to win me over.

I see red.

"Are you fucking kidding me?" I snap. "Your sister went through a horrible thing and you're using it as a way for me to find her less attractive. If anything that makes you look ugly to me now. I'd rather never have sex again than be with you."

I grab Violet roughly by her elbow and push her out of my bar. "Dan-"

"Don't come back here," I growl. "If you do I'll call the cops and have you arrested for harassment."

I slam the door in her face and lock it up. I grab a chair and angrily throw it across the room, smashing the claw machine.

I turn the lights off and head up to my apartment, immediately calling Cole.

"Dan, it's 11 pm is everything okay?" Cole asks.

"No," I growl.

"Give me a sec, I'm naked and I need to get out of the apartment," Cole says. I hear him shuffling around and then finally a door shutting. "What's going on?" He asks.

"Violet has gone too far," I snap. "Firstly she tried to get me to give her drinks for free."

"You've never done that with girls you've slept with," Cole says.

"Right?" I huff. "Anyway, then Beth paid her bill for her-"

"Wait Beth was at the bar?" Cole questions.

"Yes," I answer. "I was very proud of her."

"I will tell Georgie she will be so happy," Cole says. "Anyway, you were saying?"

"Yes, Beth paid the bill and then she took Jerry home because he was drunk," I say. "Violet stayed till close, begging for my attention and then she said something that made me push her out the door and slam it in her face."

"Damn, and you never get that mad," Cole says. "Except that one time with Jade and she was talking shit about me."

"I stick up for those I care about," I say. "And Violet is Beth's sister, how could she say that?"

"You know, I would have an understanding if you told me what Violet said," Cole murmurs.

I hear a light flicker. "Are you smoking?" I question.

"Medical marijuana," Cole states. "My therapist suggested it for my nightmares."

"Is it working?" I ask, intrigued.

"So far so good," Cole answers. "Georgie hates the smell though."

"Yeah it's not flattering," I murmur.

"So what did the evil sister say?" Cole questions.

"She said that Beth was a virgin," I growl. "And that she had more experience."

Cole was silent on the other side of the phone. I then hear Georgie moaning and scrunch up my face. "Cole not now, give me two hours," she says.

"I'm on the phone to Dan who heard that," Cole says. "Dan repeat what you just told me."

I repeat my words to Georgie and she gasps in horror. "Poor Beth."

"I smashed up the claw machine because I was so angry," I admit.

"She is an evil sister," Cole murmurs. "Wasn't Beth travelling with her in Australia?"

"Yeah," I grunt.

"What a bitch," Georgie growls. "I will give her a piece of my mind."

Both Cole and I laugh.

"What's so funny?" Georgie asks.

"Baby you like a kitten," Cole says. "You couldn't hurt a fly."

"Oh yeah?" She questions. "Would a kitten make you sleep on the couch?"

I snort. "I'll leave you two to it."

"Good night Dan," Georgie says and hangs up on me.

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