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"Uh" His attention darted from my face, to the front of his pants, and then back to ht

"Let me buy you another drink" He didn’t seeal-to-drink wristband like he was,I wasn’t able to buy hiht’ve kno severely I was tricking ht intotoward the bar "No, that’s okay How about I get you a drink instead?"

"Really?" Wow, this was allanced surreptitiously toward the bar as I tucked a long piece of bangs out of my face

My stoathered around the stage as Asher and his band began to set up their instruested I could see Noel from where I stood as he served someone a bottled beer Mason Loas behind the bar with him, but neither of them noticed me, so I took a small step to the side to hideat Mr Mission Accomplished

"I’m Caroline," I called over the noise as I held outwith o

Asher chose that moment to interrupt us He turned on his redy until the druuitars started in When people realized they were playing an original, soshot," the fean to screa, and the ferinned at how captivated he could hold an audience

Trey nudged et my attention "Have you heard them before?"

I could’ve told his--hoell I knew Asher, that I owned their albus memorized, that I came to watch Non-Castrato play just about every Friday But I kind of wanted to be a little more mysterious and illusive

"Oha couple ti evasively

He s onout my chest He definitely wasn’t uninterested If I wanted hiure out if I really wanted him

"What about you?" I asked

He paused before answering, flagging doaitress and taking two bottles off her tray before paying for the me one of them, I bit my lip He hadn’t bothered to ask if I wanted this brand of beer, or even if the drink I preferred was beer That had to be a mark on the con side of my list But he did have an awfully pretty smile and very expressive eyes that let me know just how much he liked what he sahen he looked at me That tallied two checkive him another chance before I made my final decision

"Thanks," I said and reached for the bottle But before I could gain possession, another hand swooped in and took it from him

My stomach sank into my knees

Busted

I looked up, expecting to find a furious Noel, but was shocked to see Oren instead Ignoring ht stand as if he wanted to kick Trey’s ass

A bubble of excitement bounced around in my chest Was he jealous? He kind of looked jealous A etting about his four skanks, and tookblind, asshole?" Grabbing my elbow, he lifted my aro to jail tonight for giving alcohol to acontinued to glower at Trey, because Oren just happened to be one of Noel’s coworkers who gavethe bar and Noel was not

"II" Face flooding a bright, elanced at me, his eyes ith alarm I could tell by the look on his face he’d just realized I’d played him "I didn’t know she was a otten the clue if you’d been able to stop staring at her tits long enough to see that she wasn’t wearing a wristband, fuckwad"

I tried to jerka step closer to Trey, he asked, "Do you even knoho her brother is?"