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“Ready for more?” Rusty held the bottle toward Copper

“Nah, brother, I’ weird before we left the diner Want to make sure she’s not sick”

A slow srin “You tapping that? That bitch always had one hell of a rack She’s been crea herself over you for years too, bro”

Rolling his shoulders, Copper resisted the sudden and furious urge to wrap his fingers around Rusty’s throat Though he’d always been a little hard for some to take, Rusty hadn’t spoken about woain, back then he hadn’t spent five years without female company, surrounded by hardened criminals

“Ain’t like that”

“No? You telling me you ain’t fuckin’ her? If you’re not, maybe I’ll take her for a spin”

Copper leveled hi to obey his orders

With a laugh, Rusty lifted his hands in surrender “My bad I can wait Just send her h if her snatch is all used up by then, I’ll probably pass”

Jesus Christ Every ounce of strength Copper had went toward keeping his fists balled at his sides instead of s his brother’s face This better just be post-prison tension relief because it would be the one and only time Copper would listen to Rusty speak of Shell that way

“She’s not a fuckin’ Honey, Rusty She’s faet that shit”

Laughter had Copper bristling “Seriously, Cop? She’s family and should be treated as such,” he said in a mock-Copper voice More whiskey flowed out of the bottle and into Rusty’s glass “Good thing I’rew a fuckin’ pussy while I was gone”

“Didn’t grow a pussy Just got fucking old Chasing a different set of tits every night loses its appeal, baby brother”

“So, what? You and Shell playing house or so on it?”

Talking about whatever was going on between him and Shell wasn’t at the top of his priority list Didn’t seeht to discuss the relationship with his brother when he didn’t have a clue hi should be happening, yet there he was kissing her senseless in the middle of the diner all because some slick suit made a play for her “Don’t know Still new She’s i it clear it was an order, not a statehter both”