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"Sippi?" I asked hi punked

"Mississippi," he said and grinned "Guess, you’re a natural blonde after-all" And then because he was gross, he looked down to the front of et off when I felt someone behind us

"You okay, miss?" The voice was deep and husky and I instantly kneas theat the end of the bar

"She’s fine" Mike sounded annoyed and possessive and I took a step away from him

"Ooof," said the man behind me as I bumped into him His arainst his hard, warm chest

"Sorry," I said and looked back to see his face properly His azure blue eyes stared into mine as he looked at me with an amused expression My heart ju in front of Scott Taylor Only, I couldn’t tell him that I knew his name If I did, he’d want to kno and I wasn’t allowed to tell him about the prank that his friends were about to pull on hi off my waist slowly "You okay?"

"I’m fine" I nodded and then we both looked back at Mike, who looked anything but fine

"Looky here, boy, can’t you see I’m on a date?" he said and it was then that I realized he was chewing tobacco That hy I’d seen the saliva on his lips earlier, not because he was drooling because I was so hot

"You okay?" Scott Taylor ignored Mike and addressedto say anything out loud for fear of Mike doing so stupid

"She’s fine" Mike took a step forward "Get away from my lady"

"I’ust "We barely !" My voice rose "You don’t look thirty and you don’t look like your photos"

"My photos say they were of ed "That weren’t no lie"

"But it also wasn’t yesterday, was it, sir?" Scott spoke up and stepped in front oflady alone You’re obviously not what she was expecting"

"Hmmphm, damn Yankees," Mike said under his breath and looked back at me "You sure you don’t wanna learn how a cowboy ht be older, but I ue"