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Penelope was dancing on the bar in a suggestiveher on Darryl took note of theher dance, and his captain, as clearly too in love with her now to see anything but how good she’d been to the people in their town Darryl turned back to Penelope and sighed as he watched a ht he saw her again Only this tiet down “What happened?” he asked Maisie “The last time I saw Penelope, she was fine”

Maisie shrugged “I have no idea, but by the looks of this, so bad”

Yeah, Darryl agreed Because now he knehen this wild side of Penelope ca The past four days with her had told him that And for once, the cop didn’t co her break aparther

“Clara is out in the car waiting for us,” Maisie said, bringing Darryl’s attention back to her “Help Please Before she does so she can’t take back”

Darryl doubted anything she did could ruin the town’s perception of her now He nodded anyway then approached the h his veins at the way they gawked at her “Move along,” he told the ulars on the bar scene “Now” He tried to erase the bite in his voice and failed miserably

Eachback onto the dance floor

Darryl pushed a stool out of the way then got closer to the bar and slowly glanced up “Penelope”

“Oooh, there’s my sexy Santa,” she practically purred, hands in the air, dancing her heart out

Damn she was beautiful

She waggled her eyebrows at hiood Christmas show”

“Penelope,” he said softer now Before when he saw her this way at the fountain, he thought she was reckless and wild and pure trouble Noell, now he saw her heart bleeding in her glossy eyes And that was the endgalossiness of her eyes, he suspected whatever shots she’d downed had only begun to hit her “It’s tiar”

She rolled her hips “You wanna go down on me?”

Yeah, most times, he did

But this was taking a doard direction Fast Before this went frorabbed her around the legs until he had her over his shoulder The crowd cheered her on as Penelope burst out laughing To keep everything light, Darryl turned to crowd, purposely glancing in theit a night She apparently helped with the cause a little too much”

The captain sed