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"Thanks," she said, taking the empty seat next to Brian

"No probleer

"Well?" Bryce de hot cocoa towards her while Craig gestured to Luanne, their waitress

"Well, what?" Rory asked before taking a fortifying sip of cocoa Not as good as hers, but still doable

"Did you knoas gy?" Sean hissed as Luanne placed a large cheeseburger platter with extra fries, onion rings and coleslaw in front of her

Connor O’Neil gy? That was actually laughable She snorted as she took another sip of cocoa and picked up her knife Just as she finished cutting her burger in half, Brian reached over and took half of it When she raised the bun of the re half, Johnny took her onions Sean and Bryce took her french fries while Craig and Brian split her onion rings When the only thing left on her plate was the coleslaw and half a burger, each man in turn du on her plate It took a few years, but she had theer

"Why do you think he’s gy?" she asked, spearing a delicious looking French dressing covered cucu over here at us," Brian said, jerking his head in the direction behind hi her cocoa, Rory leaned to the left to look between two of her very large brothers Soe of linebackers Having large muscular brothers did co or soain," Johnny said, et a better look and sure enough he was looking over at the and gesturing towards them No doubt theto suck it up as long as he stayed the hell out of her way that is

As if he sensed her thoughts, he turned his eyes on her and narrowed the around thelared at each other Sure it was childish, but she would not look away first damn it! Even when people walked between the was actually starting to make her feel dizzy, but she would not look away first! Not this tiloating It’s okay, baby girl, we’ll get the next one," Craig said, pulling her attention away fro bastard She looked away, but not before she caught his triuot it," she said, taking a quick sip of cocoa

Theto frown at her, which was pretty a since there was still food on the table and these were the Jaot it?" Brian asked

She shrugged "I signed the contract less than a half hour ago It’s ours"

The men looked over their shoulders and then back at her in unison "Then why do they look like they’re celebrating? I can’t i to you," Bryce said, staring longingly at the burger left on her plate So otten about the food, she thought

"Yeah, he looks damn happy for a man that just lost a million dollar contract," Johnny said as his hand inched, aler Before it touched her plate, Craig reached out and slapped his hand away

Johnny gave her a sheepish s She knew he couldn’t help hi she understood even when they were kids Her brothers could eat their father out of house and ho that by six they were the size of twelve year olds that wasn’t too surprising If it hadn’t been for Craig, she probably would have starved to death He kept his younger brothers in line and h to eat

"Yeah, well, he kind of sort of got the contract too," she said quickly, wincing in anticipation of their reaction

Instead of cursing and sla the table with their fists like she expected, they just sat there staring at her Finally Bryce spoke "You’re kidding, right?"