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He takes a long gulp of his beer, not looking any of us in the eye We’re all watching hi, and finally he looks at Natalie and says, "If I weren’t so in love with irlfriend, and didn’t respect your husband like I do, I’d attack you right here on this table Those are fucking hot"

We all bust out laughing, Luke high-fives Nate, and Natalie blushes just a bit

"However," Nate continues, "I don’t think I’ photos oflove We’ll keep it in the bedroom, thanks"

"Well," I add, "Not just the bedrooly at her

"Not as pretty from the other side, is it friend? Okay, no sex pictures But I could use some studio ti our deceiving banter, then looks over at Nate with a frown I look up into cold gray eyes

"What?"

"Why?"

I squeeze his fingers and lean in to whisper in his ear, "Your birthday is co up, ace"

"Next ork for you?" he asks Natalie, oing to love his birthday gift

Suddenly, the band breaks into another hot Maroon5 song and Natalie and I grin at each other

"Shall we?" I ask her

"Sure," she responds

The boys let us out of the booth and I take her hand as we stride out to the dance floor We join the sea of bodies and begin to raceful, and she moves with ease on her tall stilettos I’ave I closelost in the ain, the boys have joined us, Luke wraps hiainst her, all tall blonde and sexy, and suddenly Nate is pressed to my back, his hands onhot, baby," he growls against h the rest of the song, then through two h , and Nate wraps me in his arms and sways me back and forth, his hands on ainst his chest, enjoying the slowends, Natalie and I decide we need to get off our feet for a bit, and the guys decide to try their hand at soo claim an empty pool table

"Damn," I mutter as I take a sip of my drink and watch Nate lean over the table to take a shot His ass fills out those slacks so nicely

"Our rin

"Very hot," I nod and we giggle "I’lad we did this I’ve o that our lives would be so different?"

"Right? I know that it’s all good stuff, and I’m thankful, but I miss you"

"Well, we’ll have to make the effort to see each other more" Natalie checks her phone and I smile at her

"Why don’t you just call her?" I ask

"I’s "Oh! She texted lance over to the pool table and find Nate’s eyes trained on rin at him and the side of his ht to eous"