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for something that was pushing the crowds from his mind.
    He’s looking for me.
    Diana shook her head. No—that wasn’t possible. She’d had too much to drink and was seeing things that she wanted to see.
    Did she want Darien to be looking for her? No she didn’t—she wanted nothing to do with him. In fact, she was trying to figure out how to worm her way outside before Darien saw her.
    Knowing that she probably looked ridiculous and obviously wasted, Diana snaked her way down the rest of the steps, and then crouched down into the crowd of people before making her way through the kitchen and out the back door.
    Once she sat down in her chair across from Eric, Diana sighed deeply in relief. She had avoided another potentially awkward confrontation.
    “I’ve never seen someone so relieved to go to the bathroom before,” Eric said through a chuckle.
    Before Diana could comment, her skin began to crawl like she had just fallen into a pile of maggoty rubbish—something was terribly wrong.
    Looking beyond Eric, she spotted Lani in the midst of three muscular guys standing to the side of the pool-house. As with Darien’s extreme tension earlier in the evening, Diana must have sensed their vile intentions towards her roommate. Gazing on their wicked grins, the sense of filth intensified and Diana started scratching at her arms.
    “Are you cold?” Eric asked, slightly concerned. “We can go inside if you want.”
    “No, I’m fine.” Though she wanted to run to her roommate, she knew Andrew would be back shortly to drive them away. There was no need to cause a scene.
    After a several minutes though, Andrew never returned and Diana grew more agitated, barely paying attention to her conversation with Eric.
    Panic set in when she noticed one of the guys drop something into Lani’s drink when she wasn’t paying attention. Diana quickly rose to her feet but she was too late.
    “Lani was just drugged,” she said to Eric in a panic. “We have to do something.”
    Eric stood up along with Diana and surveyed the scene for himself. “Tony Huffman.” He said the name like a curse. “That bastard is at it again. He and his football cronies pull this shit all the time.” With Diana at his side, Eric walked with purpose to Lani’s aid.
    With swift movements, Diana insinuated herself between Lani and the football players and took her roommate by the hand. “Come on Lani, we have somewhere we need to be.”
    Lani, having either reached her limit long ago or already feeling the effects of whatever was slipped into her drink, seemed very confused and disoriented by Diana grabbing her hand.
    “Huh?” she asked. “I thought we were going for a swim.”
    “Yeah,” said one of the muscle-bound thugs. “This one wanted to go skinny dippin’ and we were all gonna have some fun.”
    “No one likes your idea of fun, asshole,” Eric said while taking Lani’s other hand. “One day your dad won’t get you out of it, and your large cell mate will show you how much fun it is.”
    Before Eric took two steps away with Lani, Tony’s fist collided with the side of his head and he fell to the ground; the sucker punch knocked Eric out cold.
    Horrified by the scene, Diana wasn’t fully aware when another football player grabbed her by the arm and threw her away from them. She landed hard on the ground, her hands scratched and grass-stained, with the wind knocked out of her. As she gasped deeply for air, Tony kicked the unconscious Eric hard in the ribs, then picked him up and threw him into the pool.
    “Have a nice swim, prick.” His laugh was despicable.
    Her mind flooding with panic, Diana pushed herself to her knees. Lani was drugged and in serious trouble, and Eric had just been thrown unconscious into the pool and could be drowning. Diana did the only thing she could—she screamed for help with all she had within her.
    In moments, all eyes were on her and Diana could feel the combined fear and anger rushing off of Tony and