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“You know how it goes. What you want you can’t always have.”
“I think I know what that means and yep, agree. Sooooo, how long you here for?”
“Till the hurricane passes.”
She sighed. “It’s gonna be some kinda mess,” she sang, openly baiting her.
“Well, they seem to have their ducks in a row with all that.”
“We always have outside volunteers for things like that,” she said, side-eyeing her. “Patches will surely need an extra pair of hands that aren’t…trying to get in his pants.”
Oh mercy. Juliette laughed at her.
“The look on your face.”
“What look!”
“You want to get in his pants,” she boldly said, bringing a wave of heat to her cheeks but she couldn’t make her mouth deny it.
“Who wouldn’t, he’s drop dead gorgeous.”
“I knowwww!” she said, like it tormented her.
“What about you? You sound like you might should sign up yourself.”
This got a big laugh. “Girl, these are my brothers.”
“Even the big giant one I see you eye-ballin' every five seconds?”
She didn’t bother to hide her longing in the sigh she gave. “Yes. Even him,” she said sadly. “He’s the one that taught me how to fight.”
“So why can’t you get with him? You obviously want to.”
“I don’t know,” she lamented, sounding ready to be talked into it. “Just…kinda weird, I guess.” She turned to her. “So, you gonna stay and help Patches? He’ll need it with those women,” she muttered.
What was that tone? “I ain’t gonna lie, not sure I can stand watching him date another woman.”
“Well, honestly, the women he picked?” She shook her head. “One of them works at the hospital. I do not like her. Hell, I don’t like any of them, not for him. All of ‘em are hairy boars. I’m sure you have a Texas equivalent.”
“Maybe heifers?”
She giggled. “I like that term.”
“And I like yours.”
“You could just simply be there in the way,” she suggested. “An obstruction like. A log blocking the path, not intentionally but just…doing what logs do, they don’t mean no harm.”
“And when he walks over said log to get to his courting?”
“Well, you gotta be a bigger log than that,” she cried, making Tegan laugh. “Work with me here!”
“Why?” she cried. “The man wants to marry a woman of the swamp, if anything I’ll help make sure he does it right. He seems like he could use all the help he can get in that department.”
She gasped. “That’s it! You can use that angle.”
“I don’t want to angle on him,” she cried.
“You lie! You so want to angle all over him!”
