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His hands were in the front pockets of his jeans and
his black T-shirt with the Tiny’s logo in the upper left hand side stretched
across his flat, hard chest. The corner of his mouth was tilted in a smile. He
was good-looking, very good-looking
honestly. His blond hair was a little shaggy, brushing the tops of his ears but
not overgrown like he needed a haircut. His eyes, though, his eyes were a whole
other story. They were so dark they looked like onyx. They seemed to penetrate
the very recesses of her soul. He was big and tall, not as muscular as Abe, but
toned like a swimmer would be. Dammit, why did she have to compare him, and
every other guy, to Abe?
    “What’s
up, Hunter?”
    He
looked at his watch. “You get off in an hour, right?”
    Well,
shit, she had a feeling she was going to be asked to stay over. Not that she
didn’t need the money, but she had a date with a bottle of cheap wine, Johnny
Depp, and a pint of ice cream.
      When Abe had asked if she wanted to hang out
tonight, she had declined. He wasn’t stupid and would know she was avoiding
him, but he was just smart enough not to pry. Oh, he had tried to get her to
talk about what her deal was two weeks ago, was actually still trying to get
her to talk, but she kept brushing it off with an excuse about being on her
period and moody. Of course those had been all lies. Keeping her distance
seemed like the right thing to do with her emotions still rampant.
    “Yeah.”
She dried her hands off on an already damp rag.
    “Can
I speak with you in the back?”
    Shit. Had she done
something wrong? Hunter never wanted to talk to the help unless something was
wrong. Thinking back, she tried to recall if her till had been correct the
times she closed. Abe hadn’t gotten in a fight since that drunken night, so it
wasn’t that Hunter meant to tell her that Abe had to cut the shit.
    “Yeah,
sure.” She told the other bartender she’d be right back and followed Hunter to
his office. She glanced over her shoulder and saw Abe watching her over the rim
of his bottle. All she could see were his eyes beneath the bill of his cap, but
they were smoldering. Furrowing her brow, she turned back around and went into
Hunter’s office. He shut the door behind her and gestured to her to have a
seat.
    ****
    Abe
watched Sophia disappear with Hunter. God, she was so damn beautiful. It was
more than just physical, though. She was just as gorgeous on the inside as she
was on the outside. Since that strange morning two weeks ago he hadn’t felt
right. There was something different with her, but every time he asked her, she
changed the subject and got antsy. He told himself if she had been hurt he
would know right off the bat and that their relationship would warrant her to
tell him. He had told her he would start being a better person, and he was
making true on that. All he wanted to do was spend all his free time with her,
but recently she seemed to pull away from him, emotionally and physically.
Thoughts of him holding her, her small frame curled into his body, like she knew
that was where she was meant to be, undid him every time. A part of Abe hoped
she would realize there was so much more to them than just being friends.
    He
took another long pull from his beer and turned back to the men at his table.
Red was watching him with a knowing look. At least his boss didn’t feel the
need to call him out on his clear infatuation with Sophia.
    Abe
wasn’t good for her anyway, not with the life he had led. Since his parents’
deaths, he’d jumped from one woman to another. Maybe he was trying to fill a
void? Maybe things would have gone down a different road if he had just come
clean and confessed how he really felt for her? No one on the planet could give
him what he needed like Sophia could. Her gentle nature had soothed him on some
of his worst nights, but there were also parts of him he had never told her
about. She didn’t know about his nightmares that were hindered when he