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Rachel gaped at Lily’s blunt coht red

“That’s one way of looking at it,” Rachel laughed “So, what’s the big secret about Friday nights?”

Chapter 29

Rachel was bagging a customer’s purchase of clothes when the door to the church store opened She looked toward it to aze As he stalked toward her, she paled

Birdie Jacobs, her current custo Cash said would be repeated and spread around toithin minutes

“I’ll be with you in a minute,” Rachel tried to forestall the confrontation she saw co

He ignored her silent request “What the fuck, Rachel? What tiht?” He crossed his ar her a malicious smile at Birdie’s avid interest

When Lily and another custo to listen, Rachel silently pled for her help and received an eye roll for her effort; both wo Cash

Pasting an injured look on his face, Cash played to his audience Rachel gritted her teeth, preparing herself for the show

“What kind of woe of a man then leaves him? I feel so used”

Birdie’s mouth softened in commiseration

“I thought we had soone”

“We’ll talk about this later” She handed Birdie her bag, but the nosey woman made no effort to leave

“We need to talk about this now Lily can watch the store for you, can’t you?”

Lily walked behind the counter “Of course I can see you two have a lot to talk about”

Rachel threw a glare at her friend, who gave a negligent shrug in response “It’s al time anyway,” Lily reminded her

Giving in only because she didn’t want Birdie to witness herCash, Rachel reached under the counter to pull out her purse, angrily leaving the store with a farewell to her traitorous friend

She ignored Cash once she was outside, going to her car and opening the door Cash’s anger hadn’t evaporated; he grabbed her ar in

“Get on rated on her already-sensitive nerves

“Go to Hell You’re ruiningback around to face him

Before she could utter another word, she found herself nize stared down at her

“I’one How did I knohat happened to you? How did you get ho doubt you called one of your brothers to coet a cab in Treepoint after twelve aet home?”

“I walked,” Rachel admitted reluctantly

“In the fucking dark? So on the road wouldn’t be able to see you” His hand on her arhtened

“I didn’t walk in the road; I walked through the woods,” she snapped unwisely She adht not have been so smart when he literally shook her

“Are you trying to get yourself killed? If you had fallen and hurt yourself, it would have taken us days to find you You didn’t even have your cell phone on you” He reached into his pocket, pulling out her phone before handing it to her

“Thank you” She thought she had lost it in the woods She was relieved to have it back

Cash looked at her as if she had lost herBike!”

“Okay!” Rachel yelled back at hi on

Cash stared down at her, his face ridged “You’re lucky we’re not somewhere private, or I would set that fine ass of yours on fire” He got on the bike, handing her the helmet

When he started the bike, pulling out onto the road, Rachel expected hier out on the road, but instead he drove carefully Rachel wanted to go back to Mag’s, but he drove past her house, despite her yells at hi toward his clubhouse Rachel didn’t want to return there but was given no choice as he pulled into the parking lot, cutting the motor

“I wanted to go back to Mag’s” She refused to get off the bike after he did