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I looked up with a jolt Darla Darla the groupie who slept with all the guys

"Books," I said, biting back a nasty response of have you heard of theh around the edges but Cae, and Boston, would refine her--it always did I’d seen plenty of girls like her coe, and they had come in ready to take on the city and then the city took theland is different from other parts of the country--there’s a coldness to people, a reserve that just sees a little and travel around, you realize that everyone else thinks we’re just a bunch of uptight Massholes Darla had that wild, loose, overly friendly e and stare her down

So I did

"I know you’re reading books, silly," she said, her voice going a bit hard "Ifor the answer, Darla leaned over and read the title page "Maya Banks? Who’s that?"

"She writes rohlander’s Heinie?"

What? I thought "No, I don’t read that kind of romance novel"

"What kind do you read?"

"It’s e" Darla nudged me with her elbow and said it in that robotic text-to-speech voice

So That’s what I’ to be a reader?"

"I’ to be a librarian"

Darla’s eyes softened and there was souard "My uncle was a librarian," she said quietly "Good on you"

"Thanks," I said, the conversation taking a turn I hadn’t expected You’re still angry with her, I told myself I didn’t want to like her Why did she have to be so likable?

"But I don’t think that they kept that Fifty Shades shit in our library Least not in Peters, Ohio Maybe one of the bigger cities would let you check that out but where I’m from, so you know there’d be no library and there’d be a, you know, Dunkin’ Donuts there now"

She ra with le eyes followedfor him, don’t you?" she said

Thatfor or don’t have a thing for is none of your business"

"It is when it’s with the band," she said

I snorted "Why, because they’re all yours?"

She pulled her neck back, frowning "No, they’re not all mine," she said

The emphasis on the word ‘all’and I had never inso a fool of myself, I turned around and marched off to the bathrooain

So was different about her It was hard to catch a solid look at her with the lighting in here but her face was tilted as she talked to Darla, an angry, se said that she couldn’t stand even oneto Joe and Trevor’s woh and talking to Aain, that was Darla--she was the sa and then, after a while, it grew on you Nothing was going to grow on Ah She was pissed and I wondered why What had Darla done to her?

None of that was ih What was i a tailored shirt that was anything but businesslike, tapered against her waist, clinging to all the fine curves andher breasts stand out She turned her head and ran an angry hand through her hair, setting pearls dancing on the silver hoops in her ears The light caught on aa line of se