Joseph’s POV
“You let a b***h take your find,” one of his friends laughed. “Man, you got weak.”
“She had backup,” the guy muttered, sounding annoyed and a little drunk himself, but not completely intoxicated like Tessa was.
I gritted my teeth, hiding against the shadows that formed around the alley they were hiding inside.
“If she was as hot as you say, I wouldn’t have let anything take that away from me,” his friends said. “Next time, give me a call and I’ll be your backup.”
The two laughed, which pissed me off even more. I wasn’t going to let them continue talking about Tessa like this. I made myself known to them, and they both turned to face me with large, startled eyes.
“Hey, man. We were having a private conversation,” the one with the longer hair and yellow teeth said. I recog
