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“Mick still have haers and fries?”

“I guess He has bar food, but—”

“Good, I’ the tow truck to a stop in the parking lot of Rosie’s

“Jo, this is a—”

“Biker bar I know Is that red Trans Am Curt Demaris’s?”

Rachel looked closer at the car in question Several of the locals still hit Mick’s, leaving before the bikers showed up after dark

“Yes It’s the sah school”

“I heard he’s the coach now”

“Yes” Rachel knew Curt was a sore subject with Jo He had been the one accused of trying to rape Jo “Let’s go to King’s”

“I feel like eating here It’ll bring back oldet a drink”

“Jo, so”

“And so out of the truck

Rachel sighed She liked Mick, but she was really beginning to dislike his bar

She went inside after Jo There wasn’t that many custo with Jared The tere cousins and not only did both believe they were God’s gift to woood combination

Jo sat down at a table not too far away froh Curt until Mick caot up fro the man irled her around Rachel was surprised at the closeness the two shared

“I heard you were back in town” Mick’s misty eyes stared down at Jo

Jo grinned back “I told Rachel I needed a good haer and fries”

“Coet you, Rachel?”

“I’ll take the same”

While Mick went back behind the bar, Rachel felt everyone’s eyes on the across the roo for his phone She kneas calling Cash She wasn’t going to feel guilty; she owed no explanations to Cash about what she was doing Froree with her She blushed bright red reht

“So, I hear you and Cash are an item”

Rachel waited until Mick placed two beers in front of the “I wouldn’t say we’re an item”

“What would you say, then?”

Rachel cleared her throat “I don’t know”

“I see he hasn’t changed since I’ve been gone None of the women in town knew, either”

Rachel nodded, knowing Jo wasn’t trying to be ht

“He’s with the biker club that moved into town?”

“Yes”

Jo laughed at her answer “I never took you for a biker’s woins left in our class when I left town”

Rachel winced Jo hadn’t had an easy ti a hole in Curt’s back

As they ate the food Mick brought a while later, Rachel was anxious to eat and leave, feeling the tension co from Jo as the minutes ticked by

They were finishing their beers when Curt got up fro to theirs

“I heard you were back in town, Jo It’s good to see you”

“Why, so you can get ain?”

Curt’s mouth dropped open

Rachel was shocked The gossip around town had been vicious about Jo, but none had said that he had actually raped her

“You were lucky , or you and Jared would still be sitting in prison”

Curt leaned down “I didn’t rape you; you begged us for it”

Rachel gasped as Jo picked up her beer bottle and s for the knife she had used to cut her burger

Rachel slowly got up fro Cash, Rider, and Knox co to try to reason with Jo or distract her

Curt was furious that Jo had a steak knife poised above his throat