Mysterious: Liam and Mia Duet Book 2 (NeXt 6) by K.M. Scott

Author:K.M. Scott [Scott, K.M.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Copper Key Media, LLC
Published: 2022-03-14T18:30:00+00:00

I don’t know how she does it, but two pitchers of kamikazes later, of which I only had four drinks, Mia doesn’t even seem slightly drunk. Afraid she might want to try for three pitchers, I suggest we hit another bar and step away from where she’s sitting to encourage her to follow me.

Somehow, in those few seconds I’m not at her side, a fight breaks out right next to her between two guys who’ve had far too much to drink tonight. I step back to get in front of Mia to protect her, but I don’t reach her in time. One of the guys gets pushed into her, and she falls to the floor, covered in the drunk’s beer.

I spring into action, rushing over to pick her up before one or both of them fall on top of her. As I lift her into my arms, her blond wig slides off her head. Behind me, I hear someone say, “Hey, that’s Mia,” and then it’s like the crowd suddenly can only focus on her and her alone out of the hundreds of people in the bar.

Hands shoot out from all directions to touch her, grabbing at her dress and her hair. She looks up at me with pure terror in her eyes, curling up into the fetal position in my arms. Never before have I seen her so frightened, and all I want to do is protect her.

I shoulder check half a dozen people as I push through the crowd toward the door. By the time I reach the street, she sobbing in my arms with her face buried in my chest.

“It’s okay. I’ve got you. Nobody’s going to hurt you. I promise.”

Her terrified voice muffled by my shirt, she says, “I want to go back to the hotel, Liam. Take me back there, please.”

“Okay. Just hang on to me and I’ll take care of everything.”

She clings to my neck like a drowning woman, but she doesn’t have to fear anything now. I won’t let anyone hurt her.

With each step I take toward the hotel, regret fills me for letting my guard down. If only I didn’t step away from her, none of this would have ever happened.

Out of the corner of my eye, I see blood on her bare shoulder. Someone scratched her skin when they were trying to get to her, and now she’s bleeding. Anger mixes with regret, and it’s all I can do to not march right back to that goddamned bar and beat the hell out of everyone I recognize.

“Are we almost there?” she asks in a tiny voice.

I come out of my haze of rage and see the sign for the hotel right in front of me. “We’re almost there. Don’t worry. I’ve got you, Mia.”

The guy at concierge I thought had a pretentious way of speaking when we arrived sees me walk through the front door with her in my arms and rushes over to us. Whatever affectation he had earlier has

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