-FORTY TWO-

Kade's POV (Since most of you wanted it :)

"I can't find my earrings," Kyra pouted at me and I held back the urge to groan out loud.

I had been chasing her like a cat after a mouse for the better part of the night and while it had been amusing at first watching her try to run away from me, it had soon turned into frustration.

"Kyra, you have them dangling from your ears," I said, pointing at them.

"I lost a part of my right earring. How would you know about it, anyway?" she crossed her arms and narrowed her eyes at me.

"Because I can see them right now?" I said exasperated.

"Are you calling me a l-liar?" she hiccupped, pointing an accusing finger at me. 

I sighed, pinching the bridge of my nose. I knew she wasn't going to let it go so I decided to let her have it this one time.

"Okay, I believe you. Where do you think you lost it?"

Her eyes immediately brightened and she thoughtfully looked around the club. I had to stop myself from smiling at the cute sight. Thankfully, we were in a relatively secluded corner of the club, which made it easy for me to keep an eye on her. 

Just like a bulb went off in her head, she grinned at me. "Let's start near the bar!"

I narrowed my eyes. "But I thought you had all your drinks in the storage room?"

She gave me a sheepish grin but didn't answer. She tugged my arm and dragged me along to where the bar was. I didn't really like the idea of going there because of the amount of people there but I relented anyway.

I barely dodged the people who were dancing around, trying to keep up with Kyra. The moment we reached, Kyra let go of my hand and skipped towards the bar. Her hand immediately reached out to a drink being served and I sprang into action and pulled her back.

"I don't think so," I said, restraining her arms from reaching the bar.

She tried to struggle but I didn't budge. 

"No more drinks for you," I announced sternly.

She stopped struggling and I let my hold loosen. She turned around, making puppy eyes at me with her lips making the biggest pout.

Oh how I wish I could kiss it away.

I shook my head to throw away the thoughts and moved my eyes to her doe eyes instead of her inviting lips. It genuinely took a lot of self-control to not act on my thoughts because God knows how many times I'd wanted to do just that.

"Okay. No more drinks," she smiled and I just about melted.

The hold this woman had on me was crazy.

"Can you look for my earring over there? I'll look on this side," she pointed behind me.

I looked at her a bit unsure but I knew that I didn't really have much choice in the matter.

"I'll look for it on one condition. You agree to go home after this," I gave her a strict look and she nodded, half dazed.

Was she even listening to me?

I sighed but moved to where she pointed, still keeping an eye on her. She turned around and started looking for her earring. I genuinely wanted to know if she thought she had lost her earring or she was playing with me.

She gave me a look as if to imply that I wasn't looking so to humour her, I bent down to look for it. Big mistake. The moment I looked back at her, she had managed to run to the bar and was already downing a drink.

What the fuck?

I quickly went to her and grabbed the glass out of her hands before she could finish it. She looked at my expression and rolled her eyes. I heard her mutter something along the lines of "party pooper" but I wasn't sure with the blaring music.

"That's it. It's time to go home," I grabbed her by the arm and despite her protests, pulled her along towards the entrance of the club. I turned around to check on her right when somebody bumped into me.

The drunk guy gave me a nod of apology as he stumbled by. The club had gotten even more packed than before if it was even possible, so much so that I was practically squeezing myself through the bodies. 

Just as I pushed myself past another grinding couple, I felt a sharp tug on the hand that was holding Kyra's arm. Thinking that it was her resisting again, I turned to give her another warning stare but what made me stop was something else entirely.

A creepy, clearly drunk off his ass guy who was way too old to be grinding against young girls was holding my girl's arm. It made my fists clench automatically, especially watching Kyra trying to break free out of his too-tight grip while he gave her a predatory once-over.

I immediately stepped back and gave the sleaze bag a rough push. Since he hadn't seen me coming, he stumbled back a little, letting her arm go. Apparently he wasn't as drunk as I'd thought he was because he instantly pushed me back. 

"Back off," I gave him a warning glare.

"Or what?" The fucker was testing my patience and I was in no mood to be cordial.

I already had a couple of inches on the douce bag and he clearly was in no shape to fight me. I took advantage of that and grabbed him by his shirt's collar, jerking him to come face-to-face with me. His eyes widened as he stood on his tip toes to look me in the eye. 

Clearly, he wasn't expecting me to get physical but he was wrong.

"Do you really want to find out?" I asked, the octaves of my voice dropping enough to let him know that I would not mind beating him to a pulp if he tried anything more.

He immediately shook his head and I let him go, making him nearly fall on his ass.

I let out a breath to calm myself down and turned to  my side to check if Kyra was okay only to find her nowhere within my sight.

Not fucking again.

I traced my steps back, concluding that Kyra would've gone back to the bar since there was pretty much no chance that she had willingly walked out to get dropped. I was about to exit the dance floor when a hand circled around my bicep.

Thinking it was Kyra, I turned to give her a good scolding only to be disappointed beyond words.

A drunk blond girl with barely any clothes was trying to give me a sultry once over and she gripped my arm firmly. Sighing, I gave her a short "excuse me" before trying to walk the other way but apparently she had other plans. She hooked her arm with mine and pulled me with force I didn't expect a drunk girl to have.

People sure were crashing my expectations here.

"Hey hottie, would you like a night worth remembering?"

I'm pretty sure this was already a night I wouldn't forget for a long time.

"Not really," I gave her a flat look and got her hand off my arm before walking ahead.

But she seemed to have other plans. "Oh come on. I'm pretty sure I can make you have the night of your life if you come with me," she said stepping in front of me, right in my personal space.

"Not interested," I deadpanned and tried to side-step her.

She was starting to get on my nerves and if she didn't stop, I was afraid I would do or say something really inappropriate. I was already pretty occupied with the lovely brunette who wouldn't stop messing with my head and this was not helping one bit.

"Don't play hard to get. I know just how to convince you," she said, stepping closer to me and putting her hands on my chest.

Before I could do anything to react, I was shoved roughly to the side, so much so that I had to keep myself from falling down. I quickly straightened up to see just what had happened, only to be surprised to see an annoyed Kyra standing right in the face of the blond girl.

"I'm pretty sure he said no, didn't he?" she glared at the girl who quickly composed herself from the shock she was in.

"So fucking what? I know he's just playing cat and mouse with me," she scoffed and turned to give me a wink.

Meanwhile, I couldn't react to her because my eyes were glued to the feisty brown-haired girl in front of me who looked ready to explode.

I had to bite my cheek from laughing when Kyra stepped into her line of sight, effectively blocking her view of me. 

"Listen, you bitch. When a guy says no, he MEANS NO. When a girl also says no, she also MEANS NO. Do I really have to take you back to basics of etiquette?" she nearly yelled at the blond and low-key I was fucking proud of her. Only she could surprise me every time.

The blond was clearly offended since instead of arguing back with sensible words, she yelled,"You slut!" and pounced on Kyra, making her lose her balance.

Thankfully I was quick enough to react and caught her before she fell down. The blond tried to attack her again but this time I blocked her off effectively. Kyra made her way from behind me and was ready to attack the blond back but before she could claw her face off, I wrapped my arms around her waist and lifted her, trying to take her somewhere else.

Even though it was not the time, she looked hot when she was pissed.

"Let me go, Kade! I will rip those fake lashes off her eyes and shove them up her freaking butt. I need to put her in place-"

"Calm down," I said, trying to get her to stop her flailing but the blond wasn't helping.

"You're a fucking whore!" I heard the blond yell and I was so grateful for the guy who had jumped in to hold that girl back.

Kyra struggled more in my hold and turned her face to where she was, behind me. Her face told me that she was reaching the peek of her rage. "AND YOU'RE UGLIER THAN THE BUTT OF A DINOSAUR."

"How dare you-"

"YOUR PERSONALITY REEKS SO BAD THAT A MONKEY'S TURD SOUNDS HEAVEN IN FRONT OF YOU," she yelled and I had to physically put in effort to not loosen my hold on her because of my restrained laughs. I didn't know whether to be amused at her or terrified of her genuine desire to rip the blond a new one.

The people around us however, seemed to be enjoying this verbal altercation way too much. The other girl must've been embarrassed with the amount of people who were laughing at Kyra's replies. They were definitely a level better than the typical ones of the blond.

When I finally reached the storage room, I opened the door and let Kyra in and gently set her down. She was huffing and puffing, looking adorable as fuck.

I smiled at her as I watched her calm down. After a couple of minutes, when she seemed relatively cooled off, I decided to speak.

"Well, that was quite a show," I grinned and loved as a rosy blush pooled in her cheeks.

She crossed her arms defensively and looked away. "Whatever."

"Are you done running around now? Can we finally get out of here?" I questioned and watched her as she rolled her eyes and grabbed the door and pulled it open. 

A gust of chilly wind came from the back door that someone had left open and she shivered a little. I decided to take my hoodie off, which I had thankfully decided to put on in my car, leaving me in my Ace tee. I gently grabbed her wrist, making her stop. 

She looked at me quizzically and I simply motioned towards my hoodie. "Take it before you freeze."

She looked at it hesitantly but another chill in the air made her take it and wear it. I loved seeing her drown in my hoodie. I was someone who wasn't very fond of sharing hoodies but seeing Kyra in this one made me want to give all of them to her.

As cliche as it was, I now realised what guys meant when they said that the girls looked better in their clothes than they did.

One look at Kyra's expression told me that she was loving the warmth of the hoodie and watching her content smile made one curve up my lips on its own.

"Let's go?"

She nodded without even sparing me a glance. I took that as my cue to start walking. 

This time, instead of taking the front door, I decided that it would be better if we went around the club from the backside. I kept Kyra a little ahead of me as I led her to where my car was parked.

As we round towards the where the entrance of the club was, I paused, patting my pockets for the keys.

"What happened?" Kyra's voice reached me as she looked back, sensing that I had stopped.

"Oh nothing, I'm just looking..." I trailed off as I watched Kyra look at me with wide eyes. Her head snapped back where a group of guys were walking towards the back entrance of the club.

"Is everything o-"

Before I could say another word, I felt arms circle around my neck as Kyra pulled me into a sudden embrace. To say I was shocked, would be an understatement.

My heartbeat immediately escalated as Kyra's scent invaded my senses, mixing with my own. My body reacted automatically by wrapping arms around her. The feeling of her body pressed to mine was doing crazy things to me. Things that I would love to get used to. 

What confused me was how Kyra was keeping a watchful eye on the passerby's who barely glanced at us. Once they had gone, she slowly untangled her arms. I didn't want to let  her go completely so I just loosened my arms enough to let her come face-to-face with me.

"What were you thinking?" she said, looking at me with wide eyes.

She looked like she had sobered up after her fight.

"What?" I was so confused.

"You're in your custom Ace tee and you have brown eyes, how could you come to the club like that? What if someone put the pieces together?" she said and her worry made me smile even more.

"I guess you being in trouble made me think less about me getting into one," I grinned at her, a little too happy at her concern. I loved it when she was not ignoring me. Would she be like this if I didn't have anything holding me back?

Fuck, just the thought of it excited me.

Her lips parted at my response and an emotion flickered in her eyes. It didn't last long because she shook her head as if to clear her head and looked at me.

"This won't do. Take your hoodie back," she said trying to shimmy out of my hold but I held her close.

"I have another idea," I smiled at her cheekily.

"Wha-AH!"

I grabbed her by the legs and picked her up. She instinctively wrapped her arms around my neck and her legs circled around my waist. I gave one little lift to securely hold her in place and made sure that the hoodie was covering her decently.

"See? This way we both stay warm and you get to hide my tee," I grinned, getting almost school-girl giddy at how snugly she fit against my body. 

I heard her grumble something under her breath as she tightened her hold on me. Safe to say, I couldn't get the stupid smile off my face all the way to the car.

I also might have deliberately taken the long way around to my car, but she didn't have to know that. The only thought that stayed in my mind as I carried her was how I wished that I could have this forever.

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