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“Try it again You ht be surprised”

Lou frowned but lifted the bottle to her lips and drank more She wiped her mouth with the back of her hand “Nope Still terrible How do you drink that stuff?”

“Let me see it” He took the bottle from her outstretched hand and raised it to his own lips Warm beer sloshed into hiswaret some cold ones” He rose from his chair despite her protests

“No, Brody Really I need to get to bed, anyway”

He was already returning froh the screen door “Your first taste of beer will not be spoiled by war from the open neck She took it cautiously and raised it to her lips

She took a full s, then hel

d the bottle up, looked at it, and said, “Not nearly as bad as the warm piss”

Brody chuckled Then he grew serious “Why are you drinking beer, Lou?” His silver eyes searched her own

She halfway shrugged, breaking eye contact with hi at the floor She said quietly, “I heard what you said aboutable to ‘unlive’ her life”

“And?” he coaxed gently

“And…you s doesn’t mean I will be as well”

“And that means?”

“That I can let my hair down a little Maybe not be so serious”

And let me make love to you like I have wanted to do since I first laid eyes on you Brody’s jeans got tighter and he adjusted his pants Her next feords were just as potent as cold water being thrown in his lap

“That does not s I did before” She glared at him