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Angeline Of course “It’s not like that,” I said quickly
He raised his hands and quickly brought out a cigarette “I never said it was”
“And I bet you never said it wasn’t,” I said under my breath
He lit his s I ht I’d gotten a new lease on life See the other shit I was taking
I held out my hand “Can I bum a smoke?”
He shrugged and shook another one out of his pack “Be hter “And by the way, it’s notproperly”
“Oh yeah?” I said, leaning back in arette I coughed “And what is your job? You know, I saw you last night taking photos from the pit You didn’t take very many”
“It’s a long tour”
“Not that long And it was opening night Sometimes I think you’re here just for show, Max”
He shrugged “I’m not here for show, I can tell you that”
“And what else can you tellto revive my brain
I felt his eyes go to et your pecker serviced, or was there some other reason?”
I started coughing loudly, choking on the smoke “Excuse me?”
“I’”
I glared at hi that…I don’t know…it bothered me What’s your deal? What did you say to her? You see her”
Max faced to the side and exhaled a large blue cloud We both watched it rise into the warht “I don’t trust her That’s all”
Right I felt like ere dancing this big elaborate number, each footstep so carefully placed I wanted to trip him
“Well, you could say I don’t trust her, either”
He exhaled sharply through his nose and turned to id “What did she say to you?”
“Max!” Dawn’s voice rang out
I eased around on the bench to see Dawn co her on both sides, her gait crooked It wasn’t until she was quite close that she noticedforward, and Max quickly shot out his arms to stop her
She giggled, falling into him She was drunk
“Careful now, little la his arms around her waist Maybe to hold her up,to sit there and let hirip around her seemed a little too firm
I got to my feet, proud that I didn’t sway “Little lamb?”
He grinned at me “And I’m the red potato You mean you don’t have cute little pet names for each other?”
“Man slut,” Dawn said, laughed at her own response She looked at hts, and I saw nothing but hurt in them And I kne destructive that hurt could be
She tightened her grip around Max and said, “Let’s go, potato Leave hieline will pop up at any time, like the white rabbit”
I looked to Max, and I finally saw his face clearly as he was turning to leave with her He was s
“Fuck you,” I said, tossing round
He stopped, and I could see he had a short fuse if I knehere to cut it Dawn pulled at Max’s sleeve, as if she really wanted him And fuck, could she really want hi? If I let theo back to each other’s hotel rooht
Max is good for her, Jacob’s voice rang through my head
Like fuck this guy was good for her I was good and I wasn’t even good; I was better
“You heard ht have been better built and an inch taller than me, but I still had muscle beyond e That was fucking hard to duplicate
“Sage,” Max said in a low voice, “you don’t want to do this”
I stepped toward him “And why is that?”
“This isn’t the issue,” he said carefully He looked down at Daas looking at us fearfully She didn’t want this But if she was picking Max overout I was not backing down “There is soer than this at work It wants this to happen”