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"Notthe harness at Aidan "You know I don’t do criers This one has your name all over it"

Aidan snatched the harness "What makes you think I do criers?"

"Have you met the women you date? Teri, Breanne, Molly, Shelly--" Hudson ticked off Adrian’s exes on his fingers

"I never dated Shelly," Aidan said, slapping Hudson’s helping hands away

"Banged then," Hudson said

Aidan straightened the harness and narrowed his eyes at Hudson "And how is it you get to escape all the crazy?"

"It’s a talent I picked up by watching you and doing the opposite," Hudson said

The rest of the team arrived As Hudson belayed hiirl "Keep your head down," he told her "Don’t look up or you’ll get rock dust in your eyes"

So of course she proot rock dust in her eyes She screarip! I--"

Aidan snatched her just as she let go "Got ya"

Still screa hirave; vu …

"Shannon," he said fir his voice purposely low so that she’d have to strain to hear, theoretically shutting up in the process "I’ve got you You’re safe"

She stopped screaaze, her face puffy and ed, as the team pulled them up "Are you married?" she asked

"No"

"Do you want to be?"

By the tiot Shannon down to the base of the athered Any rescue on Dead Man’s Cliff was always big news in Cedar Ridge Other than that tih town coest clairoup of Shannon’s sorority sisters looked worried, and for good reason They were probably about to get their asses handed to the it all too well He and his brothers had been pulling shit on each other forever