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Sighing, I resu up tables before I heard loud curses and turned to see what the co Peter back

"Got a proble at uy?"

Peter’s drunk friends stood up to defend him, and Carter barely paid ot closer to hi hi to hi, but Melanie was standing behind them and her jaw had dropped

"Man, what the fuck is your proble problem!" Carter seethed "Don’t think I didn’t hear what you said, you little shit!"

"Then don’t fucking eavesdrop –"

Carter grabbed hold of his shirt and shook hi hi at hi Peter back I heard shouts as Ro his fist frory as he shoved hio Carter continued holding his ground until Peter o

"Pussies!" Carter hollered at theed Carter into the back office Before he disappeared down the hall, Carter looked back over his shoulder My chest tightened when I aze

He was beyond pissed

"What happened?" I de ready to leave

Carter still hadn’t eed from the backroom, but Rome had, and he didn’t look at ed Melanie into the ladies roo to the bar to get so about you," she explained "They said so very crude, and when Carter approached them to repeat it, Peter asked him why it was his business That hen I stopped to listen in Carter didn’t like being spoken to that way, and he kicked Peter’s chair back Peter got up and Carter started goading him Shit went swiftly downhill after that"

"Christ," I cursed "Do you knohat they said about me exactly? Carter wouldn’t have just flown off the handle without good reason"

She shrugged "He wouldn’t tell Roe with me Asshole"

"You know, this would have been coet him to approach me, Mel!"

"I did it for you, Leah!"

"Why?"

"Because you’re being walked all over by Carter You need to be woken up I thought he’d see you with that guy and start to realize what you meant to hi around for hi walked all over"

She sighed in defeat "Friends with benefits never works out for anybody, not unless one party agrees to give the other more"

"You’re under the assumption that one of theer or sos attached But sex with the sauy that you live with and spend aluy You started this off feeling for hi at their tables just to get near to hiet worse"

"What does that have anything to do with my relationship with him?"