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I nod. “Got it. Where are we taking her?”

Blaze glances down at his paper again. “Says here she’s got a sister in Tennessee that’ll be coming down the day after to pick them up. We’ll check them into one of the nicer hotels downtown under one of our names and they should be safe.”

“Sounds good, Boss,” Smith calls out and several of the guys nod in agreement.

“Anything else?” Blaze asks, looking around the room and after no one says anything, he nods. “See y’all later then.”

He stands and leaves the room, the rest of us trickling out after him and I grab a stool at the bar and order a beer.

“Chance,” someone says from my right and I peek over, trying to keep the smile off my face. Knew he’d come around eventually.

“Storm.”

He rubs the back of his neck and glances down. “Listen, about the other day…”

“It’s forgotten.”

He looks up and nods before slapping me on the back. “Thanks, dude.”

Laughing, I slide my unopened beer across the bar to him as I chuckle. “Have a beer with me.”

He slides onto the stool next to me and I look around the room at everyone laughing and talking.

“About Carly. If you want to date her, I’m not going to stop you. You both are adults; I’m sure you can handle it,” Storm says and I sigh.

“Thanks, man, but even without your approval, there was no way I was gonna walk away.”