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him and she turned to putty in his hands.
    “Mind if I steal my girl for a while?” He asked, looking down at me. Dane Winters was tall, and had a body many girls had fawned over, but he was very much enamored with my best friend, which made him tolerable. Sometimes. When he wasn’t being a dick.
    “Sure,” I said. “I was about to head up anyway. I’m beat.”
    Kennedy pouted. “Ah really? You can hang out with us if you want? I swear Dane will behave.”
    Dane chuckled, and nipped at Kennedy’s throat. “I can’t promise that, sweetheart.”
    I couldn’t help but smile at them. They’d had so much to get through, and I knew they loved each other.
    “It’s fine, I’ll just go up, take a shower and climb into bed.”
    “See you in the morning?” Asked Kennedy. She squeezed my hand below the water, telling me she was here if I needed her.
    “Of course.”
    I moved back towards the pool steps, and let out a breath when I saw Reid and Stella had disappeared.
    Thank God.
    At least I could leave without having to see them groping each other.
    I stepped into my sandals, and wrapped my towel around my body. I rounded the corner, and should have been paying better attention because my foot caught on something, and I fell onto the hard marble floor. My hands stung from the impact, and I swallowed the need to cry out by biting my lip.
    “Ouch,” I muttered. I turned my head, and saw Stella glaring down at me.
    “You’d better watch your step, Jade. You could get yourself seriously hurt.”
    I frowned. The Hobbit had fucking tripped me.
    “What is your problem?” I asked, standing up and dusting my hands off on my towel. I was quite a bit taller than Stella, so I ended up looking down at her.
    “You’re my problem,” she snapped, completely undeterred by our height difference. “You keep staring at Reid, and it’s time you stopped. He doesn’t want you Jade, and you need to get over it. I saw you, at dinner, while we were in the pool. It’s pathetic.”
    It was pathetic, but I wasn’t about to tell her that.
    “He’s my friend,” I replied lamely.
    Where the fuck was feisty Jade when I needed her?
    “I made it clear that it was either you or me, and he chose me, so just do us all a favor and stay the fuck away from him. He made it obvious he doesn’t want anything to do with you, so why haven’t you caught the hint yet?”
    Her words hit their mark, but they also stirred something else inside me.
    Anger.
    My need to protect myself.
    The old Jade.
    I stepped closer to Stella, sure to encroach on her personal space. “You don’t know a thing about my friendship with Reid. If he wanted me out of his life for good he would have told me himself.”
    Stella’s mouth twisted and her smile turned sinister. “You poor, stupid girl. Reid feels too sorry for you to say anything, but I don’t. So here’s the deal, stay away from him, and we won’t have any problems, got it?”
    I shook my head, and started to turn. “No, we don’t ‘got it’. I don’t take orders, least of all from Reid’s latest bed fly. So if I were you, I’d turn the fuck around and pretend this conversation never happened.”
    I started walking away, but a sharp tug of my hair had me stumbling backwards.
    “You bitch!” Shrieked Stella. I fell to the ground, hitting my elbow on the floor, and lifted my arm just in time to deflect Stella’s fist. My head hit the floor so hard my vision blurred but at least there was no way Psycho Hobbit was going to bruise my face.
    “Get off me!” I yelled, deflecting another punch.
    “He’s mine!” Stella’s shrill voice echoed around us. “He doesn’t want you!” She spat. She’d somehow managed to straddle me, and I struggled to keep her from clawing at my face. “He said all you were was a fuck, and that it meant nothing to him. Get it yet? He doesn’t fucking want you!”
    She was lying. She had to have been. Reid would have never said anything of the kind.
    Before I could