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The shady looking iant step back

Eyes wary now, he said, “Sorry Didn’t know you ith anyone”

With that he left, leaving ain

Will was finishing the last dregs of his beer and raising his hand for another

I should probably recoht, but first I had to work up the courage to go down there

I finally did ten minutes later after my second shot

Standing up, I ood so they th of the bar to theoff a ‘don’t fuck with me’ vibe a mile wide

I reached Will’s side just as the bartender asked hiet him another

Will jerked his chin in what I assumed was a yes nod

I pulled out the barstool beside hihtly toward him

I watched as he stiffened, histo tellthere

CHAPTER 4

69 of people find so dirty in every sentence

-Cannel to Will

WILL

“Can I get you another beer?”

I looked at the bartender and gave him a chin tilt as an affirmative

Then I went back to staring at the foalass

The chair beside roaned

I did not, under any circuht

I was in a really bad fuckin’ mood, and it all had to do with ain when I’d turned her down for a date

Why had I turned her down for a date when a week ago I wouldn’t have?

Because I couldn’t get that girl out of my head

The one froreen eyes, and her skin that looked so warainst it

From the moment I saw her, spoke to her, there was no other woman that struck my fancy

Not even the partner that’d been playing hard to get before I’d met Cannel