But she looked insanely simr to Noreen.


    Like a budget-friendly clone.


    "Healy, you really are here!" The woman''s face lit up, and she hurried over to sit beside him.


    Healy stiffened slightly. "What are you doing here? I thought you were at your parents'' house."


    "I just had dinner with them. I got bored and wanted to see you, but you weren''t answering your texts. Your driver told me you were here, so I just came over," Gia Vance replied.


    Her voice was incredibly soft and cloying.


    As she spoke, she naturally leaned her body into Healy''s.


    It was obvious she was wildly, physically attracted to him.


    Jude felt incredibly ufortable watching them.


    It wasn''t just because he was single-it was because Healy''s fiancée looked way too much like Noreen.


    From certain angles, the resemnce was downright eerie.


    Even her name sounded simr.


    Noreen Gilmore.


    Gia Vance.


    Just a few letters off.


    While Jude was having an internal crisis, he nervously nced at the man lying motionless on the couch.


    He prayed to God that Seth wouldn''t get up for the rest of the night.


    But the universe hated him.


    The moment Jude finished his prayer, Seth sat up.


    Seth had been incredibly bored and was actually preparing to leave.


    He tossed the magazine aside, stood up, and found himself staring dead at Healy and the woman clinging to his arm.


    The room plunged into a suffocating, terrifying silence.


    Jude''s heart stopped. He was frantically trying to think of a way to defuse the ticking time bomb when Seth finally spoke.


    He looked dead at Healy. "Step outside."


    With that, Seth turned and walked out, his aura radiating pure violence.


    Jude''s soul left his body. They were doomed.


    Healy sighed heavily and stood up.


    "Where are you going?" Gia asked, clinging to him.


    "I''ll be right back. Wait here. Be a good girl


    and stick to juice, no


    alcohol Healy coaxed before


    slipping out the door.


    Gia purred happily, "Okay."


    Healy followed Seth out to the club''s open-air courtyard.


    Seth stopped, turned around, and without


    single word of wet


    unleashed a brutalet


    straight into Healy''s jaw. >


    The sickening crack echoed in the courtyard. The sheer force of the blow sent Healy crashing to the ground.


    Healy groaned in pain, wiping a smear of blood from the corner of his mouth. Damn, that hurt.


    But Seth wasn''t done. He hauled Healy up by his cor and drove another savage punch into his face.


    Healy was seeing stars. "Alright, that''s enough! I let you have those two, but if you hit me again, I''m fighting back!"


    His jaw felt like it was unhinged.


    Thest time he had been hit this hard, it had also been by Seth.


    Seth''s eyes werepletely feral. He drew his fist back again.


    So, Healy fought back.


    Themotion was so loud that by the time Jude and Dn ran outside, both men were bloodied and bruised.


    Gia ran out screaming. She threw herself over Healy, shielding him


    shrieking at Seth, why are you


    hit?! You''re a psycho!"


    Seth gave Gia a look of pure disgust, picked his jacket up off the ground, and


    walked away into the night.


    Jude hurried after him.


    Before he could take three steps, Seth''s voice sliced through the air.


    "Don''t follow me."


    "But-"


    "I said don''t fucking follow me!"


    ...


    After dinner, Noreen and ire had gone out for karaoke and partied until they were exhausted.


    They were both tipsy, sharing a ride back to Noreen''s apartment.


    ire had rolled her window down to let the cool night air hit her face.


    As they pulled up to Noreen''splex, ire suddenly pointed excitedly at a figure slumped on the curb.


    "Noreen, look at that guy! He looks just like a stray dog!"


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