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She sighed and kissed my breastbone "I couldn’t even care about her, Jet, and I don’t think you would be able to help it"

I wanted to tell her none of it mattered I wanted to tell her how important she was to uys had ever taken care ofabout h to make me think that I could possibly fall in love with her and want to hold on to her forever

I wanted to tell her I couldn’t see a place in my life or in my bed for anyone but her now, and that shemade no sense until she came into the picture But I didn’t, because I knew she wasn’t ready to hear it, and I wasn’t sure what itit

Just likeas I could, until the fire got too hot and burned me alive from the inside out, and she would have no choice but to watch it sht was girls’ night and had been ever since Shaw, Cora, and I had shared the house Soether with a bottle of wine and watched sappy ot all dolled up and went to a club, and then there were nights like tonight e all just wanted to forget about whatever it was that had been crawling all over us during the week

We went out with the sole intent of ending up destroyed and sloppy I had learned er took an early class on Friday -afters, and I wasn’t stupid

Shaw had picked a dive bar off Thirteenth Street that was pretty close to where she lived on the Hill Cora and I took a cab, because it was clear that tonight wasn’t going to be pretty and we both knew there was no way either of us was going to be in any shape to drive by the time the party was over We started with a pitcher of beer, and I blamed the boys There had been a tiaritas, but after spending so rained thatstarted with a cold pitcher of Coors Light One pitcher led to two, and by the time the third one hit the table, Shaas ready to add shots to the irl, Shaw liked whiskey, and Cora stuck with J&au for the conversation to devolve to ridiculous topics and for our laughter to get loud and obnoxious

Cora’s two-toned eyes were huge and Shaw had a hand over herat her because in typical Cora fashion she was explaining to us how she never could understand how the three of us could be friends, considering she had up-close and personal knowledge of our boys’ junk I lifted an eyebrow at her

"All of them?"

She licked her lips and tilted her head to the side "What do you mean?"

"Have you seen all of theh and pushed my shoulder "Don’t ask her that"

"Why not?"

"There has to be soe"

I rolled my eyes "She’s a body piercer, not a doctor, and I’rin, and while I had to ad in Jet and not soine her with her hands anywhere near that part of him

She ordered us another round and ht have protested on principle, but I knew that gleaaze and she was just as curious as I was

"All of the brother I’ve only ht and totally not into that kind of thing Rule has the most hardware, Rowdy has the second most, and Jet and Nash have the same amount And let h the privates of dudes you consider your best friends I thought Roas going to faint, and Nash took a swing at me"

I had to fan o, the idea of being with someone who had tattoos all over and jewelry in their privates would have h Now I kne hot it was, knew that no one would ever be able to do what Jet could do There was no going back to boring and plain, and I saw by the dreamy look on Shaw’s face that it was the same for her

I tossed back the Patrón and lifted the tiny glass in a salute to Cora "Well, on behalf of the female population of Denver, I salute you and offer you our undying gratitude Good work, Cora"

That reement "Yep, thanks"

"You ladies are very welco to help those idiots out It’s not like they would ever find good chicks with their personalities alone They’re awful"

Shaw snorted because it was no secret that Rule could be a real ass when he put his mind to it, but I just shook my head

"Jet doesn’t need it His personality is fine He’s wonderful"

That had both their heads swiveling in my direction and had I been sober I would have never opened that door for theht eyes in my direction

"So, what’s the deal with all that anyway?"