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“Really? That’s so unlike you.”

“Why?”

“Because typically you don’t give a shit about being trusted around women. Especially the women we’ve associated with. You take what you want, give as good as you get, and leave the women you fuck smiling and satisfied. The important part being that you eventually leave them. The word relationship is a new one in your vocabulary. Why is this woman different? Was it because of the kiss?”

“Maybe. The kiss was unbelievable. But I don’t honestly know what it is. I doubt she’s ever heard of our lifestyle, but every time I think about it, I want her even more.” He rolled his eyes up and made a face like he was either already drunk or totally infatuated with this woman named Abigail.

All of a sudden he stared hard at Cooper, as if the answer to the ages had just dropped into his head. “You know what? You should kiss her, too.” He turned his direct focus to Cooper for the first time since entering. “Fuck. I’d love to watch the two of you together. Then I could join in. Then we could start all over and do it again. And again. Fuck.” Zane shook his head back and forth. “What is wrong with me?”

Cooper smiled. “Nothing is wrong with you. And quite frankly, I’d be delighted to participate, but she’s in jail now, right?”

Zane nodded, and the dispirited look returned. “Duke had an arrest warrant for her. But they found her because of the car she was driving. Actually, it was reported entering the Old West Town parking lot by a state trooper. Duke found her when we were in the sheriff’s office. He took her to the Enclave Sheriff’s Station for tonight. Tomorrow, she’s being transferred back to Miser for arraignment.” He was bent out of shape over this girl. Cooper was oddly touched. He’d never seen Zane this spun up about a woman he’d only just met.

“I’m sure you haven’t seen the last of her, Zane.”

“I don’t know about that. If she wasn’t angry enough before, now she’ll be furious. Duke told me to come to the station if I wanted to talk. But he only said that because he knows that normally I won’t darken the threshold of his doorstep with even the edge of my shadow.”

On the fateful night they’d met and once they’d been released, Zane had boasted he’d never go to a police station ever again for any reason. To Cooper’s knowledge, he never had.

And Cooper was one of the few people who knew why. Duke Stanton was another man who knew why Zane refused to go into “real” police stations. The irony of him being the lead deputy at the Old West Town wasn’t lost on anyone who knew him, but it added to his overall boyish charm.

“So you’d be willing to go talk to Duke about this girl, even though she wants to have you arrested and put in jail, but you refuse to go to the sheriff’s office because of your past boasting?”

“It’s great to have a friend that understands me so well. Therefore, you’d be willing to go in my place, right?”

“No.”

“Come on.”

“No.”

“You don’t have as good a reason not to go as I do.”

“That’s debatable. We were in the same jail cell all those years ago. Only I’m more careful about the words coming out of my mouth that might bite me in the ass at a later date.” Cooper also did not want to go see Duke at the police station.

Zane continued as if Cooper hadn’t spoken a word. “The thing is, you have unique skills. Not only can you bail her out of jail, you could also be her lawyer and, as a bonus, find out why she wants me arrested.”

“I’m not a lawyer anymore.”

“Only because you pretend not to be. You’re still licensed.”

“Doesn’t matter.”

“Please, Cooper. I need for you to go help her. I can’t get into see her even if I did gather the stomach to go inside the sheriff’s station by myself. Besides, even if I got in, I can’t advise her as to lawyerly things, but you can.” The three shots of whiskey was likely making Zane sound so annoyingly beseeching. That was something else he rarely did, except when his tongue was loose with alcohol and the booze was doing his talking for him.

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