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"I don’t have a drinking proble and slow drink froainst the counter The half-grin was back in full force "You know, I’ve always heard the first step to recovery is acceptance that you have a proble breath and felt the warave each other a hard time, that much was obvious, but for some stupid reason, a knot exploded in the base of my throat and the back of my eyes burned as I watched him take another drink E into a tree that only bloo probleazes collided, the grin faded slowly fro face His brows knitted as his lips parted, and I quickly turned toward Sydney, ly hoarse when I spoke "Count me in"

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Aw, shit

I watched Andrea walk into the living room, the normal twitch of her hips absent No one swayed ass like Andrea, and seeing it gone froh Our norone further than I intended No doubt what I’d said had cut her, but shit, it was no different than any other day

My hand tightened on the neck of the bottle For the life of me, I had no idea what the hell Andrea Walters’s probleary words parted those pouty pink lips of hers Next second, she was a fire-breathing dragon froon, but still Her ame of flip cup

Maybe it was because she was a redhead?

I smirked

She’d always been this ithabout it, there was a part ofto coame between us, to see who could hit the hardest without lifting a finger If nothing else, it was da--or at least, it had been until noasn’t too sure about it

Those pretty doe eyes of hers had looked suspiciously daht before she’d looked away, and yeah…that didn’t sit right with rabbed a beer out of the fridge, but I watched Andrea sit on the edge of the couch, her posture unnaturally rigid

Sydney leaned against the ar, around six"

My gaze flicked to Andrea, expecting her toup that early, but she was abnormally quiet My spine stiffened

"That should put us at the cabin between nine and ten in theon traffic" Kyler stood besideback the following Monday"

"Sounds good to me" I didn’t take my eyes off Andrea as she fiddled with a strap on her sandals, slipping the softly "You’re definitely off from the fire depart to hit up the cabin before everyone headed back to class, and I’d requested the time off then Which had meant I’d pulled a lot of doubles, but I hadn’t minded it Wasn’t too different from the twelve-hour shifts orked in the first place, and I’d only be there until February of next year, and then I was off to the academy Not that I was in any hurry to leave the fire depart a cop was in ood cop I’d probably still volunteer at the fire hall once I knehat kind of schedule I was looking at on the force

"It ether" Sydney toyed with a strand of her hair "Kyler and I can pick you two up"

Andrea had twisted toward Sydney and started to protest the whole idea of taking one car I zoned out, staring at her as the bottle of beer dangled froirl Nah, she was more than cute, and it wasn’t like this was the first time I’d noticed that From the first time I’d seen her at the bar with Sydney, she’d done more than just poke my interest Hell, anyone with eyes knew she was a very pretty girl Lush lips Freckled cheeks and thick, dark eyelashes Coirl I’d had a crush on in middle school Hell, couldn’t remember that chick’s name, but she’d had freckles and red hair I think I used to pull on her braids or sorin as I lifted the bottle to h, not the kind of girl as easily tairl you even wanted to tauy for long There weren’t many who could handle her There wasn’t even one dude I could think of who could Well, other thanhandle her, if I wanted to

I hadn’t back then, when I’d first , but life had a way of slowing down, changing I wasn’t as interested in randoh Andrea seemed to think my bedroom was equivalent to the metro station Shit It had been months since I’d taken anyone hoht I’dto be like e in soht in the eye, laughed in