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“How have you been?” he asked

“Good Good You?”

He lifted the gas “We don’t even have a reason for this gas We’ve got coal for barbeques, but they haveit around anyway”

She sot to head back to the diner”

“Look, Teri, I knoe’ve got our history and stuff, but is there any chance we can be friends?”

“I don’t know Can we? Do you think people are going to look at us talking and think friends or lovers? People who fuck? The chance for friendship went out thelong ago We can be civil to each other, but that is about it” She moved around him

“One day people will forget about that, Teri It’s none of their business”

In her experience so far, everyone had so to say about it

Jao

“What was that about?” Cora asked

He nodded at Pixie “Close the door”

“Covert, I like it,” Pixie said, closing the door

Skylar had come to him in private He hadn’t knohat to do about Teri Cora was a closed book on the subject of Teri

He liked the woman, always had She was a down-to-earth person and like Damon had reminded him the other day, none of them were saints They didn’t have the upper hand

“Teri’s looking for other places of work,” he said “She’s got an interview in the city Sheto move on”

“That’s bullshit,” Pixie said

“Are you kidding me? Good riddance”

James saw Pixie’s jaw clench They all liked Cora, he loved her, and she was his woh

“What? Why are you looking at me like that?”

“I mean it, brother, you need to deal with her Teri is one of us She ht not wear the patch, but she helped us out e needed it, and look at what she has done to the place The club thrived due to the profits she made She hat allowed us to invest in the first place Deal with it”

Pixie left him alone with his wife

“Wow, has like, Teri fucked every single man in this club? Is that it? You’re all addicted to her pussy”

Ja his chair back He turned toward his wife and let her knoasn’t happy

“What the fuck, James?”