“Woah!” He wasn’t sure who had said it, but suddenly there were several hands pushing him back down in his seat. It wasn’t exactly hard since he was already pretty off balance.

They’d gotten him a lot drunker than he’d realized.

“You’re not going anywhere right now,” Patrick said, sounding amused.

“But I need to apologize.” He wasn’t exactly sure how he was going to achieve it, since he definitely was in no shape to drive and he recognized that (he didn’t even know for sure where Olivia was) but he could still do something. Call her? Text her? It didn’t seem like quite enough but it might be a good start. “I shouldn’t have pushed her… she knows what’s going on, she’s an adult, she can handle it.”

“Mmm, I’m not sure you went about it in the right way, but I don’t totally agree with you about not pushing her,” Andrew said, almost cheerfully. “Sounds like she was dragging her feet about putting up a security system.” His voice trailed off a little. “I wonder why…”

“I’m going to help Luke to the guest bedroom and then we can talk about that,” Patrick said.

Luke sighed but he didn’t protest. He wasn’t so stubborn as to realize he was definitely getting close to the point of needing a place to lie down.

“Don’t worry about Molly, we’ll take care of her,” Rick said, patting Luke’s shoulder. At least, he assumed it was Rick patting his shoulder since he was the one talking.

“Thanks,” he managed to say.

It ended up taking both Patrick and Liam to get him down the hall and into the guest bedroom.

The ringing of her doorbell made Olivia jump. She and Jared had ordered pizza, but they were already eating it. They definitely hadn’t ordered anything else.

“Be right back,” she said, frowning as she got up to see who was there.

When she looked through the peephole she sighed. Growled under her breath. Turned to glare at Jared.

“Did you call for reinforcements?” she asked suspiciously.

He shook his head as Patrick’s big fist hammered on the door.

“I hear you, Olivia! Open up!

Groaning, she reluctantly opened the door to admit her herd of friends—sans ladies. So at least it was only half the group.

Immediately, her apartment felt like it was half the size. Her friends were big.

Scowling, she looked around. “What? No Rick and Michael?”

“They’re taking care of Luke and Molly,” Chris said cheerfully, brushing past her and immediately heading for the pizza.