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A tear looked close to spilling frorabbed one of her hands and gave it a squeeze She looked like she needed it

"You don’t have to say anything else I’uessed that hat happened" Cheating had never crossed my mind when I’d wondered at the reasons for their break up

"Jesse was leaving town for the weekend," she began, shifting in her seat "He was going to some cattleman’s conference in Missoula the same weekend of my brother’s twenty-first birthday party Jesse was sorry he couldn’t ood friends to keep a close eye on et into toothe hell out of the heirl was a wreck "I had a lot to drink that night, more than usual, but I knew Jesse’s friend would o houy" The first tear fell down her cheek I felt so badly for Josie I wanted to hug her "Turns out I just went home with him instead" She wiped her eyes and let her hair fall around her face "When I woke up the nextI had with Jesse I couldn’t lie to hie to tell him either So," Josie’s head fell evenfor Josie, but I was hurting for Jesse, too He’d been betrayed by someone who loved him I kne that kind of pain felt I kne it left a scar behind I kne it changed a person

"Oh, God, Josie," I breathed, letting her squeeze the hell out of my hand I couldn’t believe that there, at a honky tonk, I’d just had a girl pour her heart out to me about how she’d ripped out the heart of the man I cared for It made the world seem very small "Who was it? Which friend of Jesse’s?" I’d only met a handful, most were ranch hands, but I wanted a na hot coffee poured into his lap

Her eyes flicked to mine, and I knew her answer before she said it "Garth Black"

"Coain?" That was all I had Garth Black and Josie Gibson Getting it on It just didn’t equate

"I had sex with Garth Black and have regretted it every single day since"

"And you lost Jesse" That hat I’dback to him

"Do you miss him?"

Another nod, but that tiht when I find ht Every ti with a date God, Rowen I aze shifted froth that hadn’t been there just ether again There’s too much bad history between us now So I can either spend the rest ofhimor I can move on"

"Move on?" From Jesse Walker? I edited out because if she kne to "s could fly

"Maybe not today Or to to wasteto uy-to-be"

I knew she made it sound about a thousand ti woman who’d lost a Jesse because she’d slept with a Garth, she had a good head on her shoulders

"Okay, you don’t only give out life-changing ent woman I’ve ever met," I said, still duhed, wiped the corners of her eyes one ht "Well, sometimes the lessons you learn remind you that you have to let your head run the show instead of your heart"

And so to run outside for a few et soht, and look at me" Josie waved her hands at her face She still looked pretty daht on your own for a few?"

"I’ll be great," I assured her "As soon as I’et out there and bust a move"

"Sure you are" Josie rolled her eyes as she stood up

"Don’t te a hand on her hip Her eyes glearade?" I called after her

She waved over her shoulder "See you on the dance floor, Move Buster"

I gru a drink I’d never backed down from a dare, and I wouldn’t start I’d be on that dance floor before little Miss Sixth Grade got her daring butt back in there

I was going in for e, like an electric stor in The hair on my arms rose when I looked up From across the room, Jesse’s eyes had locked in on me and, from the tilt of his brow, I couldn’t quitehis forehead My wing dropped towas sucked out of the room as he continued to stare at me