First was probably agreeing to go to this party at all, and everything dissolved from there.
“You are going to have to be more specific,” I said.
Her glare deepened into a full-on glower. “You accepted that challenge. Do you have any idea what this means? If you lose, Julian, Roman could have you leave Alice’s life forever.”
“That’s not going to happen,” I said.
She shook her head. “This is such a mess. How could you be so foolish? How could you punch him at all?”
The way she was digging into me brought my frustration flaring back. How could I punch him? Really?
“How could you kiss him?” I asked, equally as outraged as she was.
Between punching and kissing, punching seemed the less of the two evils committed tonight.
Though perhaps not, at least from her perspective. She was my mat
