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"Hey, he's not yours," the brunette shot back.
"Ladies!" I begged. "I thought we were playing darts. In case you two missed it, I'm not a piece of meat."
"Oh yeah, you are!" And then a pair of arms wrapped around my waist from behind me.
Strong ones. Masculine ones. It took me a second to place the voice, but I turned to see Jorge grinning at me. "You shit," I told him.
From the other side, Isaac passed me a beer. It was a Bud lime, so I had a good guess where it had come from: Cody. This was her drink, and I was pretty sure it was the bullfighters' way of reminding me that they knew. Oh, they wouldn't say a damned thing, but they had clearly been informed of this shit I'd gotten myself into.
"You two playing darts?" I asked.
The redhead immediately smiled at Isaac, clearly starting to realize she was getting the brushoff. The brunette, however, just looked Jorge over and rolled her eyes. Well, considering he was married, that worked out, but it didn't impress me a whole lot.
"Pool," Jorge told me. "Leave the ladies to do their thing, Ty."
I turned back to find a waitress. Catching her eye, I made a circle of the women who'd been hovering around me since I'd arrived, then mouthed, "One more."
When the waitress nodded, I leaned in to the brunette. "I got drinks on the way. Excuse me for a sec?"
"Sure, hun," she almost purred back.
With that handled, I let Isaac and Jorge haul me away. Thankfully, they found the quietest corner possible and actually started a game. Having no real interest in playing, I set my beer on the table in the corner and claimed the stool beside it. Isaac said something to Jorge, then came over to take the one across from me.
"What are you doing?" he asked.
Shoving my face into my hands, I rubbed at both eyes. "No fucking idea," I admitted.
"The girl you want is over at the bar," he added.
"With her boyfriend," I reminded him. "Oh, and her mentor. Yeah, that works out easily."
"And her friend should be with her," he said.
I scoffed at that, then picked up my beer again. If only it was that easy. Unfortunately, I didn't know how to just be Cody's friend. Not in public, not in private, not for real or for make-believe. This? Having an entire herd of women trying to claw each other's eyes out to get my attention? Yeah, that was what I knew how to manage.
And it made me a piece of shit.
"You know," I said, "I had a damned good night. I'm sitting in first place right now. I hit ninety on a mediocre bull. I should be on top of the world, and instead I'm in the corner with the bullfighters."
"Because we suck, right?" Isaac taunted.
I waved him down. "I was thinking I did. Shit, I'm glad you two came over when you did. Those girls..." I looked up in time to see Austin Chambers step in beside that lusty brunette. All I could do was sigh.
"Missing the single life already?" Isaac asked.
"No," I assured him, lifting my hand to get the attention of a waitress. "Just trying to figure shit out."
This time, it was a man who came over to check on our drinks. He was young and looked both intimidated and awestruck. "Can I help you, sir?"
"Three shots of whiskey," I told him.
"Coming up," he promised.
"Jorge?" I asked. "Whiskey?"
"Sure!" the guy replied.
So I lifted a brow at Isaac, who simply shook his head. "Driving," he told me.
