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"Personally, I don’t understand the attraction And I can guarantee you’ll never see

"So Is she froue What’s she like?"

"She’s…da"

"Like Jerry Lee Lewis young? Great balls of fire, you jonesin’ for a thirteen-year-old girl, McKay?"

"No, you fuckin’ pervert She’s twenty-two"

Jack looked at hihed Hard

"What?"

"You’re all of twenty-six How does that ?"

"I don’t know It just does" Carter drained his beer and reached for another Nohy in the hell hadn’t he thought of that before now? Because e?

"So let ed irlfriend?"

"It ain’t that crude"

"Details, man"

"Fine Macie has this fantasy of bein’ with uy She’s told me she’s had dreams about it And I wanted to make her fantasy, her dream come true, since she made mine… Shit I sound stupid Like a fuckin’ sap Never mind"

Jack waited a beat "Because she is your dream come true, isn’t she?"

Carter didn’t answer He just drank steadily Finally, he said, "Yeah I’m thinkin’ she probably is"

"Dude You are so totally fucked"

"Yes I am" He passed out another round of beer "So will you do it?"

Jack shrugged

"She’s beautiful"

No response

"Sexy Killer body"

Jack shrugged again

"She’s very adventurous in bed"

He lifted a broithout comment

"Anyway, I have an extra pair of boots and a hat around here somewhere I can’t see you fittin’ into my chaps, but maybe that won’t matter to her"

"She wantsbelt buckle and a stupid hat and a syrupy ‘Hey howdy, pretty little lady, can I ride you hard’ drawl? Oh hell no"

Carter smiled Spitefully "Pretend you’re a sophisticated city-boy all you want, Donohue But we both know you’re just a South Dakota ploith a fancy degree"

"Insultingyour cause, Carter"

Carter pretended not to notice when Jack changed the subject He’d let it go For now

As darkness fell, they caught up and talked about Jack’s job with the architectural fir art show More anddrunk?

Liquid courage, man You didn’t want to ask Jack for this favor because the thought of anyMacie, oddamn much you’ll do whatever Amazin’ Macie wants to make her happy

Love?

Her?

Whoa

Did he love Macie?

He’d have to close his eyes and think about that one

"Hey, McKay Wake up A car just pulled in the drive"

Dahts that kept spinning inside in his brain…before they spun away

Carter had company

Macie tamped down her disappointment She hesitated as she cli the two for cain’?"

Sexy, low hter drifted from the other lawn chair

Macie took another couple of steps and noticed the beer cans A whole lot of empty beer cans Beside Carter

The man stood and thrust his hand out "Hi You must be Macie I’e"

Macie looked up at the lowed behind hied froe Muscular With a brawny chest, ripped biceps, big hands, and never-ending legs thick as tree trunks

Longish coal-black hair fra brilliant white teeth; a deep cleft in his chin, and eyes the color of green grass Those sahly amused

"Nice to ht?"