“Fuck off Lauren,” comes the reply from Jarrod.
“Fuck you White. Her brother will be here in ten minutes. He will rip your head off and shit in your neck if he sees what you're doing to his little sister, now fuck off while you still have chan...”
His hand is around my throat before I finish speaking. He uses so much force, my feet lift off the ground, for a few seconds all I can hear is my blood rushing through my ears. Then I hear Stella shout my name and try to pull Jarrod's arm away. The noise from the bar hits me and people seem to move forward in slow motion. Then I am flying backwards. Jo and Jemma have hold of me and I gasp for breath. I feel sick and dizzy as adrenalin pumps through me. My legs buckle slightly. Then anger takes over. That mouthy little prick. I will fucking kill him! I try to pull free from the girls but as I look up I see him. Gabriel is on Jarrod's chest. Punching the shit out of him. Zac appears from nowhere and tries pulling Gabe off. Then the bouncer joins him. Both shouting his name and telling him to stop. I look around at my girls.
“Let me go, I need to stop this!” I shout.
They do exactly as I request.
I take a step forward and shout, “Gabriel... Stop... Now.”
His fist is in the air ready to land another blow.
“For fucks sake Gabe, you'll kill him. He's not worth doing time for.”
Gabe turns his head and his eyes meet mine. They scare the shit out of me. They aren't the beautiful blue that I have missed so badly. They don't look like his eyes at all. They are a dark blue, not the bright denim colour I love so much. He shakes his hand and stands up. As soon as he does, the bouncers pick Jarrod off the floor and run him out of the doors. Gabe walks towards me. He's back. My Gabe. My blue eyed boy is back.
“Baby,” is all that he says and I throw myself at him.
My arms around his neck, my mouth on his, he pulls away and looks at me.
“Are you okay? Did he hurt you? You should have let me kill the fucker. What’s Stella doing the fuck with him?”
All I can think is that I want sex. With him. Right now!
“I'm fine, let’s go.”
He tucks my hair behind my ear and looks around him at everyone still watching us. He nods at Zac, takes my hand and leads me to the door and outside. The bouncers shake his hand and ask if I'm okay, I nod and smile. We walk out to his Ute, parked right outside in a no parking spot and I smile for some reason. My rebel, my beautiful blue eyed rebel. And then suddenly it hits me, it comes up from my toes and I have no choice but to step around the car and vomit. And vomit. He holds my hair back as I bend over and vomit some more. Jesus! There can't be much more in me.
“You okay?”
I put my hand up for him to shush. And vomit some more. One of the bouncers appears with a bottle of water and I hear Gabe say thanks.
“She alright mate? He didn't hurt her did he?”
“Lauren, did he hurt you? Lauren?”
I shake my head as I stand up straight and take a gulp of the water.
“Sorry... I'm so sorry. I think it's just the shock. Thanks for the water, I'm fine, really.”
I pull the door open but Gabe takes over and helps me in. He says a few more words to the bouncer and jumps in, starts the engine and we pull away in silence.
CHAPTER 6
What the fuck was that all about? I've felt off all night, it must be the stress of this week’s events and what’s just happened tonight. I feel so much better now though. I take a swig of my water and look across at him. He doesn't look happy, in fact he looks thoroughly pissed off. I, on the other hand, can't wipe the smile off my face as I study his profile, just the smell from inside the Ute is doing things to me, it’s him, all him and I’ve missed it so much and all I can think is, he’s here, with me, we’re together.
It feels like just a minute later we pull into the drive. He turns off the engine and jumps out and walks around to my side, as he opens my door, I'm hit, full force by the smell of him. I slide my feet to the ground and he pulls me into him, one hand on the back of my neck, one around my waste, he pulls me in tight and buries his nose into my hair. In my heels I can reach his neck and kiss his throat and his jaw. I don't want to kiss him on the mouth with my vomity breath so I rest my head on his chest and just breathe him in deeply.
“Fuck Lauren I've missed you like you wouldn’t know.”
We stand like this for a while, just holding each other. He pulls away first.
“Let's get you inside and naked, I need to feel your skin on mine.”
How could I have left this behind? I must be bloody unhinged!