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“It changes nothing, Bear I’irl with the…” I cupped hed out loud, revealing a perfectly straight line of pearly white teeth

“It changes everything, actually Our bro code only goes so far Seeing as how he’s not claiood What’s fair is fair,” Bear said, again taking the bottle from my hands

I looked over at hi at his own joke, but his lips were in a straight line

He was dead serious

He also wasn’t bad to look at That night was the first tih bun on the back of his head

“Listen,” Bear said “King’s been my friend almost my entire life, but he knows the rules I live by In ame, and I would love to put you on your back in my bed”

“You’re just saying that The truth is that you’re not gonna wantwhen it coe in his jeans “—that”

“Fuck,” Bear swore, biting his bottom lip “Darlin’, I believe I want you even more now”

“You’ve got freckles under your eyes,” I said, leaning toward hirabbed onto my shoulders before I fell forward

“Yeah, kid So I’ve been told” He laughed He also had a dimple on his left cheek, which was on its own a ridiculous contradiction when it ca next to me

“Why did you send one with you You’re nice I needed a place to stay, and you’ve got freckles under your eyes, and I would’ve been a good biker whore for you”

Bear’s eyebrows shot up “Oh yeah?” he asked, a crooked smirk on his face “I don’t really see you as the biker whore type But I can definitely see you on the back of my bike”

“But you said I don’t belong here That I shouldn’t hang out with you Or any of those—” I waved the bottle around behindBear’s jaw by only an inch or two “—people up there in the stupid house Stupid people in the stupid house on stupid stilts” My shoulders slu warain”

Bear grabbed the bottle from my hand and set it down on the dock