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“Bobbi?” Billie prodded

“I’m fine”

And she was Instead of the nothing that had hung in her belly for days now, there was so alive Was it because of Shane? Had that oneinside her?

Did she care what the reason was?

“Bobbi,” Billie said again “Are you alright?”

“I don’t knohat I a?”

Bobbi threaded her arh her sister’s and moved toward the bar

Chapter Nine

Shane watched Bobbi approach the bar and though he knew he should just play it cool and turn the other way, he couldn’t He couldn’t take his eyes off her

He’d known this would happen sooner or later He just hadn’t planned on the sooner and he sure as hell hadn’t planned on it happening in front of ood amount of local folk

He should leave He should pick up and get the hell out He wasn’t in thehe’d just come from And noas pissed that he’d decided to stop at The Grill for a drink on his way holow of The Grill had see than the quiet loneliness of his place

The choice had been easy, but now?

Noas stuck here with the entire toatching it seeht in his head was that Bobbi looked hot as hell Not good for his brain to go there Back to that place Back to the night when he’d held her in his arms When he’d undressed her

When he had pushed away the one thing he had thought he’d never have again

Shane sighed and closed his eyes Fuck