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When she looked back, Jared was not looking at her He see to Angela, soon you will be using a body cast," Kami told him, more sharply than she ela, I expected this Well, I didn’t expect Ash"

Ash gave Jared a cold glance "I followed him to see what he was up to"

So Ash still suspected Jared, then

"Doesn’t matter!" Kami said loudly over her own discoht, where there will be dancing"

Kaned

Jared looked aot to dance like nobody’s watching, Jared," Kami infor because they’re too e at him "Be a hater of dances Be a hater of joy I don’t care You’re not invited!" She clapped her hands "You have plans"

Hearing his cue, Rusty sauntered obligingly through the doors "Hey, Lynburn, we’re going out," he said Then he stopped and frowned "There are two of them," he observed

"The other one won’t need to be subdued by force," Kami assured him

"Nevertheless, my price has doubled," said Rusty "I’ll want six dinners prepared lovingly for me in the next teeks"

"Four," Kami told him "And you’re ridiculous You can cook"

"Be reasonable, Cas you can do is the whole point of laziness Not doing things you can’t do is just sensible"

Kahtly by the shoulders, and brushed a kiss on her cheek

"You look nice, Cae," he murmured "Who’s the blond bombshell?"

"Holly," Ka his arainst his side "You know I don’t hit on people," he said, ruffling her hair "I’m Endymion"

"You’re Endymion," Ka, yes," Rusty said caluy in myth who kneork it He lay asleep forever while the goddess of the ht and adored him Nice"

He doesn’t have to talk nonsense in a whisper in your ear, Jared said

As opposed to talking nonsense in a whisper in lared Some people, Kami knew, had bedroom eyes She was saddened to have to adht reached Jared and he tilted his head, and Ka people in," Kami exclailed laugh Kami could not bla to hear out of context

Rusty reo," he announced "Co to the pub"

"Thank you," Ash said doubtfully

"Not the pub where the girls are going," Rusty clarified "The pub on the other side of town"

Jared had been edging up on Rusty and Ka-toward-horabbed Jared casually by the collar "Come on, Blondie," he said to Ash, who moved forward propelled by the sheer force of his own politeness Jared jerked away, and his shirt pulled tight in Rusty’s hand Rusty held on with no visible effort "The girls don’t want you here," Rusty continued, his voice light "So you’re not staying"

Kalanced at her and checked himself

"Fine," he snapped, andwith Surly and Blondie had better get irls have fun"

He calls you Cae, Jared pointed out

You knew he did that, Ka to do journalis about her, which sounded creepy even to hiive you a nicknaested I could call you Ca appropriate Ca was di from them like mushrooms from the hollows of trees

Ka, but slightly concerned about him

Jared felt sick of hiht to hate Ash As soon as he’d seen Ash, sitting between his iven hi yourself in a mirror Except it wasn’t quite like a h ainto another world, a world where he’d couy because Ka Kami to be unhappy

"I have to tell you, boys," said Rusty "The last time I went out with blondes ere related to each other, it went a whole lot better than this"

Jared glanced over at Ash, as studying the table and looking more like Aunt Lillian than usual At least Ash was miserable as well

"This isn’t really a hotbed of frenzied excitement," Jared drawled

Rusty looked around at the two old iving Jared and Ash apprehensive looks since they’d arrived, and the pool table with the felt curling up at one corner "Nonsense," he said peacefully "This is a very exciting place They hold duck races here" Then he put his head in his aro to sleep here," Ash hissed

"Seriously," said Jared "He can"

Jared went over to the bar and got a ginger ale

"Seventeen’s old enough to drink over here," offered the woht Her husband frowned a warning at her