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“But you kno you weren’t?”

“I know a lot of things now that I didn’t know then,” she said darkly “Lots of things I wish I didn’t know”

Like pain, Lake thought

“And before the moron?”

He was pleased that she laughed He loved the sound of her laugh It was borderline dirty and pros he badly wanted

“Before Brandon, the skanky thief, there was the odd date,serious I was too busy working to go for anything serious Before that there was Brian He was irl called Joanne They have two kids and run a farm outside of town”

“You obviously have a thing for guys with na with B,” he said drolly

“What about you? Girl in every port?”

She leaned against the counter, keeping things casual, but he could tell she really wanted to know

“That’s the navy I was special forces”

“Wellwhere did you keep your girls, then?”

“You make it sound like I had a harem”

She fixed him with a look

“Fine, there isn’t ed

He sure as hell wasn’t going to go into detail about his years chasing arroupies They frequented the pubs in every town he’d been stationed in, and they were only too happy to be caught That was back when he was young and stupid, and thought if his dick stayed in his pants two days straight it would shrivel and fall off