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SoI flipped him off, went upstairs to my roo T-shirt and applied a hell of a lot more makeup than I’d wanted

To hell with him He didn’t think I’d fit in

Baby, I always fit in

My jeans were tight, my T-shirt showed offacross it, andfor a good tiood, too She hadto her T-shirt, and then Jared hauled her upstairs to change They didn’t co the sauy shouted in ed and looked over at hi a double-take

His espresso-colored hair was a little longer around the ears and fell on his forehead, and his blue eyes popped underneath his dark eyebrows He was cute Really cute

He was dressed pretty casually--dark-wash jeans and some kind of beer T-shirt--but he wasn’t hard on the eyes And he definitely was dressed better than Madoc, who looked like an Abercrouy wasn’t as built--he was lean, but toned--but he had a wide eye-catching so to Northwestern You?"

"Yeah, I’," I answered, handing the bartender a few bucks and taking my Coke "You?"

"Bud," he ordered to the bartender and then looked at ineer, and orders no-frills beer Definitely my type Not that I drank Budweiser or any alcohol veryat the bar, since IDs were checked at the door and Madoc had worked his et us in, but I still opted to stay sober

"Very cool" I fist-bu back tolike he wanted to say so, but stayed at the bar to wait for his drink

Heading through the dense cluster of people waiting to place their orders, I ether near the wall of s and sat back down

I noticed the extra body at our table right away A girl was sitting next to Madoc, anddark hair hung in big curls down over her brsts, and she had tanned, toned arreen tank top that showed off the black lace bra underneath She was definitely dressed in a slutty-sexy way, yet it was completely expensive and stylish

Whereas I just probably looked slutty

She was drinking Alanced at me for a split second but then turned his attention to Jared, who sat at ood," Jared spoke up "I have to go to two separate cainto hi "Yep Say it, baby ‘Tate, your dad was right’"

Jared jabbed her in the ribs, and she started giggling, pushing hi to be apart? Like a lot" Madoc’s tone was far from friendly, and his expression was stern "And his sexy ass is going to be in the jungle or on a ship for six months out of the year away from you You okay with that?" he spoke to Tate

What the hell? Why was he raining on their parade? I had never been a fan of Jared’s, but he’d damn well earned my trust over the past couple ofout her smile "Of course" She nodded "I’ll miss him, but I trust him" And then she suys, will you?"

"Not unless he gets really horny," Jax joked

"I’ll get you a vibrator, Tate," Madoc offered "Or I could just come over You know, to check on you when he’s away"

A splinter of jealousy dug into my heart, but then I saw Jared flip hiular practice for Madoc to joke like that

"Yeah, thanks," Tate mumbled "I’ll take the vibrator, I think"

I set my drink down and looked behindthe croith bad disco karaoke

Oh, wait All disco was bad Why was it that everyone who sings either goes for disco or country?

I should get up there andnope Never ht and turned back to the table

And found Madoc staring at , but he’d stopped rubbing I couldn’t tell if he was drunk or not Usually he didn’t sport such serious expressions, but he hadn’t been up to the barwith Jax, but I wasn’t even sure if Madoc had introduced her I hadn’t gotten a na about spending his nights with

Within seconds, though, she turned back to Madoc and whispered so in his ear

I slouched a little lower in ?" A chair appeared at uy froave a half-ser than reeted Only it didn’t sound like a greeting More like a threat

"Tell irl" Aidan spoke to Madoc but htened up "Madoc doesn’t know me Not really" I offered my hand to Aidan

"Aidan, Fallon Fallon, Aidan" Madoc introduced us, ignoring my insult