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Chapter One
Four flirtatious fools Three tipsy blondes Two drunken sailors If she looked in the bar’s back rooe in a pear tree roosting on the broken neon Botton
“Twoice into a pint glass for Drunken Sailor Number One’s water If a road trip to Sin City to play thewas considered a vacation Behind her, the front door to the bar swung open, and Natalie glanced over her shoulder
She let out a low, frustrated growl It was as if the universe had sensed that her Monday afternoon shift needed an extra so to drive her bat-shit crazy and sent her five brown-haired, blue-eyed men led by US Navy SEAL Jack Barnes—Chief Barnes to his teanature hand-over-your-panties smile to Natalie
Another wo for the SEAL’s potent coive-irl
Natalie eyed the pack “Join a new team, Jack?”
The leader of the group shook his head, locks of straight brown hair falling across his forehead “Thankfully, no,” he said, reaching up to brush the stray hair from his face The sleeve of his T-shirthis toned, oh-so i When it ca No touching No wanting what she couldn’t have
“Miss Natalie Lewis,” the SEAL continued “Meet my brothers—”
“Big brothers,” thehis thumbs into his belt beside the metal buckle shaped like the state of Texas Thebelly “Just because you’re a SEAL doesn’t mean I can’t still take you down, kid”
Not a chance
She ant blowhard
“Colton,” Jack said, pointing to Mr Belt Buckle “Andrew, Charles, and Patrick Not that you need to re out toestured to the pack behind hiuys from the team are on their way Mind if we stake out the corner tables?”
“All yours,” she said “What can I get for you?”
“The usual for me,” Jack said
Speaking for the pack, Colton ordered four lite beers on draft, adding a wink to the end of his request Natalie stared blankly at Mr Belt Buckle She never flirted with custoravation of telling a sailor to take a hike at the end of the night if he got the wrong impression
When it came to her love life, she called the shots And she never followed the relationship path That road led to a dead end labeled hurt and rejection Bouncing between foster hoer, she’d had her fill of both, thank you very much
She was done with people walking into her life, telling her hoas and hoould be, then abandoning her without any concern for the dae they’d left in their wake The foster faly stripped away her right to make decisions about her life And then, when they’d found her wanting, they’d returned her to social services
All of the foster fa similar when the social worker had coer sister
Not e’re looking for in a daughter