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Kate already had a beer for Dani when she got there She nudged it across the table "Drink up! You’re behind! I have the night off Jake’s on call, so he can’t drink But I sure can And after that gig, hell yeah, I’aze trailed beyond Dani’s shoulders, and she snorted

Jonah was at the entrance, and a toned brunette rubbed against hiainst the wall as he watched Her coy smile added in the seduction, but Hawk and another friend seeroaned "Where do these girls coreement, all heads turned in Dani’s direction She knew they were looking at her She could tell from the corner of her eye, but she couldn’t lued to a person who pushed his way through the crowd Four others followed behind, and Dani felt her world shut down

Her arrabbed her hand "Hey" She leaned closer, lowering her voice "You okay?"

"Dani?" Both Aiden and Kate atching Their smiles faded, as did everyone else’s Kate asked, "Dani, what is it?"

Aiden followed Dani’s gaze, but turned back with a frown "Who is it? Is it Julia again?"

"Worse" She bit down on her lip, and her mouth dried up "My ex-fiancé"

Boone had just walked into her beer gardens

It wasn’t one of those moments when a person feels the eyes He didn’t look up like he sensed her presence He looked up to skiaze passed over her He crossed the roo into the parallel corner of where she sat The roo pulled under the surface, but her eyes fell down the length of his ar hands with a woman, a redhead Dani’s lips curled up in a sneer Boone looked so happy An eroup quickly nabbed it The redhead sat beside him and caressed his arm

Dani needed to look elsewhere The woman slid her hand to his waist He sat sideways to where Dani sat She was getting the whole view Then the woh

Dani shot out of her chair

Boone He was here

She started for the clicked back in, and she took an abrupt left She went outside instead

He was so happy He was--her chest felt tight--what she wasn’t

"Hey, wait up"

Dani ignored Jonah, alrasped the door handle, Jonah grabbed her other ar

"Whoa" He caught her face "Whoa Whoa"

She tried to look away He didn’t allow it He forced her to look up at hientled his tone "What happened? Tell ?"

"I can’t"