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Keaton Holt avoided the blonde’s palpable stare by riveting his gaze to the ball ga on the television above the bar

“They’re looking at bringing a big league to Austin,” he told the newest Renegade, Ca beside him

“Your chatter ain’t gonna work,” Ca in his voice

Caé for the last six weeks With sixteen-hour days on the sa at the same hotel, they’d been, more or less, in each other’s face constantly On the upside, they got along On the downside, the guy had the opportunity to see the dark side of Keaton’s love life, soet for the better part of several months without success

“Manfred’s talking about expanding the league by two teaa Montreal will get the first”

“You can babble all you want, but it ain’t gonna keep her on the other side of the bar”

Caht it was funny So did all of Keaton’s other friends And for years, Keaton had found it a too He could walk into a bar, a party, onto a set, and for reasons he’d never quite figured out, the wos, or thethe space between her ears would zero in on hiades had collectively nicknamed the women who hit on Keaton “the “Crazy Bitch”

But the novelty had definitely worn off Even the entertainment value had pluhty and now bordered on derision

While he knew acting absorbed in baseball and conversationthe triple-E—tattooed fro on him, he hoped it would allow him to at least finish his beer before he bailed

This ht have been one of Austin’s many trendy don hotspots, but Keaton liked the bar anyway Corner was upscale but not pretentious It had great food without the snobbish foodie flair, and a wide variety of clientele sans the lowlifes and the nerds The drinks were strong, the bartenders were honest and the barstools had cushy leather pads

The location was also aweso up the building’s corner location , the bar became a foot-traffic funnel And he was more than a little annoyed he couldn’t just co day on the set and enjoy Austin’s beautiful early fall weather, a beer and a ball ga with the inevitable bullshit some Crazy Bitch would come up with

“So for the second team,” Keaton said “Others don’t think this town can support a o to San Antonio, where they have a proven track record with the Spurs”

Ca with the liquid still in his mouth—which was how Keaton knew Crazy Bitch was on her way over

Dammit

Cam sed and bent his head toward Keaton with a raspy “How do you do that?”

Keaton had wondered the sa, he’d finally asked the ades women—Rubi When Crazy stopped to talk to the bartender, Keaton told Caed to pull off some sort of confidence that she says sends a fuck-you attitude Says I intimidate people who don’t know me”

“That’s very true”