"An alarm was triggered, the police came and while me and Rupture began to retreat to avoid a fight, your dumb idiot boyfriend froze. He just froze like a cat on a road with a car coming at him. And they opened fire. He was just damn lucky I was close enough to him to absorb the impact and get him to cover." Reverb huffed in frustration, he didn't want to cause a scene but it was too late by that point so he and Dante killed everyone in that room except Axel and fled. It hadn't been a great night.

Reverb slapped Hartley's hand down before he could get his shirt any higher, glaring darkly at him. "Ask permission before you touch." He held Hartley's wrist so he couldn't make another reach for it, eyes still on him. "We need to talk first."