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“Have you seen Joel?”

“Nope,” she answers “I’m not my brother’s keeper”

Her spunky tone takes row a foot taller and a couple of bra sizes bigger She has cla, too?

Asher laughs I narrow my eyes at him

“What?”

“You look like someone just poured a bucket of piss over your head,” he says

That doesn’t ain, a lot of what Asher says doesn’t make any sense

“Let , little brother” Asher places his arm around my shoulder “Never ask a woood pick-up line”

“I wasn’t—”

“Actually, don’t let a question be the first thing you give a woman She’ll just seize the opportunity to shut you down before you’ve even started”

“Like the great Asher Hawthorne has been shut down before,” Claire says

Asher chuckles “Seems like someone’s heard of me”

I push his arames you play? Of course she has Joel knows so she knows”

Asher’s eyebrows furrow “You told Joel about my sex life?”

I shrug “He’s my best friend”

“And I’m your brother”

“Who won’t shut up about all the wo secret” I point out