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I flutter my eyelashes "Gosh, I don’t know, can I?" Unbelievable Two minutes behind a bar and I’ve already turned into my überflirtatious sister If she kneas behind a bar with , the way she used to do fora serious expression onto e"

"Good" He watches inning, Shane has to point out where certain bottled beers are located or switch places withmore complicated than beer But we quickly fall into a rhyth able to re involved in several different conversations at once Some funny, some sad Some of the discussions are even about Shane, whispers about his achieveo back

I findto race upstairs and grabhis custoe aside and focus on serving drinks Theacross the bar doing just that, when I feel Shane brush behindon I have to ask the customer to repeat hi Guinness, and I feel it everywhere It’s like he’s trying to coh I can’t put a nae, my body seems to understand It wants Shane I can freely admit that at this point

I start to feel a little breathless, and a lot anxious It originates in my belly and spreads lower In these jeans, I feel sexy, a rarity for me Every time Shane and I pass each other behind the bar, we touch, and the eagerness sprouts wings Soether, but it escalates quickly toacross h to pay us any attention I’ the of Shane and where he’s standing in relation to htly, and Patrick is able to struggle his way between two custo that I’m flushed head to toe I pray that if he notices, he’ll chalk it up toyou can’t do?" he shouts over the noise, sending ainst his chest like a precious child "I can’t play guitar"

His eyebrows raise, voice dipping slightly "You know, I’h, I start to respond, when I feel Shaneover , I ainst Shane’s chest I wait for hiers across my exposed stomach slowly I don’t even have to turn around to know he’s staring at Patrick as he does it It’s written all over Patrick’s face This is Shane telling him to back off, that I’m somehow…his?

I should turn around and scratch his eyeballs out Put hiht him on fire This jealous, possessive, bullshit shouldn’t be heating me up It shouldn’t make me want to turn my head and request he take her Where he can put thehts, that I barely notice when Patrick salutes reed there wouldn’t be any co as we’re both in Dublin, there will be no sharing"

I fight another surge of intense heat and focus onhas around , you decided"

"If I’d known it would turn you into a caveainst rowl, but we’re interrupted when a flustered Orla trips her way behind the bar When she sees us standing so close, her eyebrows raise with interest, but she doesn’t cothe rest of the retort I’d worked up for Shane, I push away fro in Orla’s direction, I sto to climb the stairs to my room I need a way to relieve this pent-up sexual frustration It’s been building for days, weeks, and I feel ready to explode Shane barks a co ht in the alley co to chase you only makes me want to pin you down

I want hi the breath out of s Before I can clear the bar,pulled through a set of double doors behind the bar where I’ve never been I don’t even knohy I make a halfhearted attempt to pull away, but I do Maybe so I can tellinat the tops ofbeneath his shirt, as he leads h another door A stock roo the door closed and pressing erator The bent over position he’s put ainst the door to kisswhat I expect, is a crazy turn-on As if I need any uy I resent hiainst my bottom and my forehead drops forward on a soft ht now Not ords You’re too daainst ainst ot behind the bar when you couldn’t stop swishing your ass all over e when I hear the halting quality to my immature words

"Aye I did start it" Histo finish it"

Jesus, was that a whi one last atteht you didn’t want ives a quick thrust of his hips jarring ht, no ers a long, torturous squeeze in my lower body I’ve never been spoken to like that in a sexual context I’ritty and honest…and I wantI could ever walk away froive in and push roan "What are you waiting for? Permission?"