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Now that Jazz was on his ht bounced around his brain What would she think of his news? Would she be proud? Would this finally be it? The thing that tipped the scales and drew her to his bed?

Only one way to find out

“Sorry, Darla, I gotta run Thunder, you’ll take care of her?”

“Sure, Screw,” Thunder called from the end of the bar

“You on a tight schedule or soo until sheout on

“No”

Darla stepped close, pressing her a if he said he didn’t appreciate her assets “So how about before you run, we hit one of those rooer smile on your face”

“Take a rain check?”

“Proain

“Sure thing, sweetheart” He kissed her cheek, then made for the exit

When he was halfway to his bike, Screw stopped cold Did he just turn down a sure thing in favor of a woive him a handshake at most?

Never once since he started fucking at the tender young age of fourteen had he walked away froasm Now he’d done it twice in one day Oh, hell, as he kidding, he’d been doing it for the past teeks

What the fuck rong with him?

Had to be the stress of the holidays and the shock of all Copper and Viper had thrown at him that afternoon

Couldn’t be the gorgeous pixie who’d become a near obsession