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.He followed her down the hall.“I didn’t mean to cause problems.”When they got to Redfoot’s room, she reached to push the door open.He grabbed her arm.“Knock first.”She rolled her eyes.“What’s he going to do? Come answer it?”“Uh, it just seems like a good idea,” he replied, giving a knock.“Come in,” Redfoot called.Jose and Maria walked in.Redfoot nodded at them.Jose nodded back.Silence followed.“You look like day-old crap,” Redfoot finally said.“So do you,” Jose answered.“I just love the way you two show your affection.Men.” Maria gave Jose a shove.“Give your father a hug.”Jose did as Maria said.The old man’s arms reached up and awkwardly squeezed him.“I didn’t know you were coming down,” Redfoot said.“When I heard about the accident, I was worried.”“If you lived here,” Redfoot said, “you wouldn’t worry so much.”Well, hell.Jose thought catching his old man screwing his neighbor would have at least bought him a few minutes’ reprieve.Obviously not.“Have they said when you’re getting out?” Maria asked.“Doc just left.I got my walking papers.He said I was fit as a fiddle.Up for anything.”“I could have told him that,” Jose said.Maria gave him a strange look before returning to Redfoot.“Did he restrict you from any activities?”“It’s too late if he did,” Jose muttered.When Maria turned and stared, he shrugged.“I’m just saying he looks as if he could…hit one out of the ballpark.”“You just said he looks like crap.”Jose glanced out the window.“Yeah, well, that’s after he told me I look like crap.”“I wasn’t ‘hitting one out of the ballpark,’” Redfoot spoke up.“I was stuck.”Jose choked.Maria’s gaze shot back and forth between the two of them.“Stuck where?”“I’ve never heard of anyone getting stuck,” Jose said with difficulty.“What are you talking about?” Maria asked.Redfoot slapped his hand on the mattress.“Would someone get me some pants so I don’t have to show my ass as I walk the hell out of here?”Jose snapped.“You didn’t worry about showing it a few minutes ago.”CHAPTER TWENTY-ONESky had gotten Shala’s images copied to a flash drive and then got her settled at Lucas’s place with his laptop to start combing through her images.He was confident that she was safe.Not that he hadn’t called to check on her four times.“What? You afraid I’m going to make a play for her?” Lucas had joked.Sky hadn’t considered the possibility until Lucas mentioned it.Then he found himself feeling territorial.That was new for him.Sure, no man wanted a guy trying to steal his woman, but jealousy? He didn’t do that.Not that he was even doing it now.It was just that he hadn’t gotten started with Shala yet, and it would be easy for some other guy to step in and put an end to his start before he got to the finish.The finish? What was that? His thoughts ricocheted around in his head.We don’t need you breaking her heart.The mayor’s warning rang in his ears.Sky didn’t go around breaking women’s hearts.Most of them listened to him in the beginning.Most of them knew from the get-go that he wasn’t long-term.He and the ladies enjoyed each other’s company, and when the fun was over, one of them walked away.The fact that he usually walked first didn’t mean anything.You afraid I’m going to make a play for her? He dialed Lucas again.“Hey,” he said when his friend picked up.“Yeah?” Lucas said.Sky heard laughter in the background.“What are you guys doing?”“Playing Scrabble.”“You finally got someone to play Scrabble with you?” Before Lucas sobered up, every time he got drunk he’d begged Sky to play.The man loved word games.“I have to tell you, your woman cheats.”Your woman.Sky’s territorial feelings relaxed.“How does she cheat?” Sky figured he needed to know this information for future reference, but he wished like hell it wasn’t coming secondhand.He wanted to be discovering all these little things about her himself.“She’s trying to convince me that stanky is a word.I told her that word is what’s stanky.”“Which confirms it’s a word,” Shala called out in the background.She laughed again, and Sky remembered how she looked while doing it
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