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I would have been embarrassed by the compliment. I was, actually, but the way Holly turned to look at her and the expression of pure jealousy made me smile. Good. She needed to know what that shit felt like. Thalia may or may not have been jealous of Holly dancing with Winston since she thought they were just buds, but I was jealous of Holly dancing with Winston because I knew better. Hell, I was jealous of Holly dancing with Thalia because I knew she liked women, too.

I wasn't the only one feeling that sting, though. I smiled and said, "Found the cause of the fire."

Autumn looked behind herself at the building as she and Winston walked toward us. I laughed and said, "You, girl. Damn. Every time the lights got lower, you got brighter, and you hit that glow and boom, sound the alarm."

She shook her head, sort of rolled her eyes and said, "Shut up."

I meant it. Autumn may never look at me as a person of sexual interest but it was probably those glow-in-the-dark booty shorts that didn't cover all that booty that got it too hot in there. Holly asked, "You okay?"

Autumn nodded. If she was a third wheel in a trio of lovers, she was a fifth wheel in this weird-ass combo we had now. I patted the seat next to me and she smiled and moved over and took it. I looked at Winston getting the superhero version of my exit with these ladies explained by his date and Autumn nudged me in the side with her elbow and said, "Look at you, Big Guy. You want a cape for your birthday?"

I put my hand on her shoulder and pushed her. She cracked up laughing and then winced. I asked, "What?"

"I think I just got a splinter in my ass." We all roared with laughter, but she was serious.

This is how I had one of the best nights of my life because I got to make all sorts of people jealous as I pulled out a multi-purpose pocket knife with tiny tweezers and told Holly to use the pen I gave her earlier to hold onto because it doubled as a flashlight. As Autumn went over my lap further than might be necessary so her ass was well in the air, she said, "You're like Batman." Then she said, "Ouch."

Holly said, "Sorry. I was trying to get closer."

It was a tiny, little sliver, but I got it and then for no other reason than because she was there, I popped her on the ass and said, "Good as new."

She laughed as she got up, but Holly was eyeing me like I was in trouble.

Winston said as he heard the sirens, "Ready to head out?"

Thalia nodded. She came over to me and hugged me. Oh, that was not smart. My redhead was about to explode. I could see the twitch in her jealous eye. Thalia said, "Thank you."

"Anytime." I was so in trouble, and I did not even care why. In fact, I asked, "Autumn, you have a ride, or do you need one?"

"I'm good, Big Guy. I'll see you guys tomorrow?" She looked at me, Winston, Holly. "Lunch?"

Holly was clenching her jaw, Winston had his complication next to him, looking up at him as if she also wanted an invite, so I said, "I'll text you. Not sure what is on the agenda just yet."

That stung. I could see it as she nodded and said, "Yeah. Of course. I'll be beat anyway. Sleeping in till noon at least."

She did a slight wave, and I watched her perfect ass walk away. Winston snickered and said, "Dude."

I shrugged. "Impossible to ignore it."

"Try!" Holly shouted and stomped off.

Thalia winced and looked up at Winston and said, "Thank you for not looking at her ass, too."

He'd seen way more than Autumn's ass. Still, he was all stoic as he said, "I respect women. I would never just outright ogle them."

I got up, nodded, pointed at him, and said, "You're a dick."

Then I headed after my date. Holly was leaning against the passenger side of my vehicle. I tilted my head, smiled. She scowled at me, glared. I didn't know why, but that made it better somehow. She didn't know why either because she asked, "Why are you so happy? You...you..."

I really smiled then, almost laughed. "I what, Babe? I looked at Autumn's ass? If I'm not mistaken, and I doubt he would lie about it, you've had your fingers inside of her, right?"

She bristled, frowned. "That's different."

I closed the distance between us and sort of caged her there as I said, "Very different. I only looked. You touched. You touched enough you wanted to touch some more. I have to share you all fucking year, Holly. I'll look all I want."

She looked up at me said, "I'm jealous."

"Me, too." I shrugged.

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