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Slinking around er under my chin and forced me to look at her "Oh Jake, you look like hell"

"Thanks," I grunted

"I’oing to get like this when I go away, I’ll just quit my job," she teased

"You barely work as it is It’s a wonder you don’t get fired as hed "That’s the perk of working for your granddaddy’s towing service It’s hard to fire fa able to tell everyone that I’-out with Jake Slater of Runaway Train"

I fought the urge to say that her grandfather was pretty sketchy to enjoy the fact she was a glorified groupie, joining up with me at different tour stops

Bree’s tongue flicked acrossme to shiver "I could work on you full-ti a real job that keeps me away from you and that fantastic ck of yours," she drawled The lust in her voice caused ht?"

"Mmm, hmm" A cat-like smile curved on her lips "You miss me?"

The truth was I hadn’t Sure, I er between ht now, and the only thing I could think of was screwing my problems out of my et back on the bus?"

"Yeah, but first I need to get fked up"

She chuckled "It’s barely ten o’clock, Jake"

"I don’t give a shit Go tell your dad I want his flask--the one with the good stuff in it"

"Okaaay, if you say so" She ran her hands up et too wasted where you can’t make me scream at least three times"

I forced a smile to my lips "Noould I want to do that?"

Chapter Seven

I could only push around the food on my plate after Jake refused to sit at ainstabout our writing session or maybe he wanted time with the roadies and crew He’d obviously already opened up to uess he needed time to process it all I had to remember that I would be a total bitch if I laid too ht noith his mother’s illness