Page 9 of Clap Back (Carter Brothers)

And since I was there, I might as well use the facilities.

When we walked in, Atlas was there, heading toward the back room. I stopped at the counter and smiled at the haggard looking old lady.

“Hey, good morning.” I smiled, putting on my best nice face. “Where is your restroom?”

She pointed in the same direction the two men had disappeared.

Apparently, it just so happened that both the restroom and the fish bait were in the same large room at this particular establishment.

I walked around the corner and stared at the two men who were waiting beside a curtained off area toward the corner of the room. There were feet facing outward from behind the curtain. And in the middle of the large room was a massive black container filled with water.

And bait fish.

I walked to the line and stood behind the tallest guy I’d ever seen before in my life.

He had to be at least seven feet tall, if not more.

Pepper, who fell into place behind me, gave me wide eyes as she mouthed, ‘holy shit!’

I agreed.

I came up to the middle of the man’s spine.

At five-foot-six, I didn’t think that I was small, per se.

But wow, compared to the man in front of me, I was.

A toilet flushed, and the line moved forward.

I glanced beside me when a large, muscular body appeared in my peripheral vision.

Auden came up with a net in one hand, and a bucket in the other.

He leaned both of his arms on the side of the water trough, then glanced over at me with a sparkle in his eyes.

“I bet fifty bucks you won’t touch it.” Auden’s eyes gleamed, jerking his head toward the fish in his net.

I rolled my eyes. “You think that just because I am a girly girl, I won’t touch a fish?”

“I know you won’t,” he taunted me.

He was right.

I hated fish.

Well, I didn’t so much hate them as I hated how they felt.

The line moved again, and Pepper side-stepped me to take my spot in line.

I allowed this because my heart was beating a mile a minute at the nearness of the hottest man alive.

“Okay, so I don’t like fish.” I scrunched up my nose.

“Are you going to put that fish in the bucket and get some more, or do you need me to do it?” Atlas asked as he came up on my other side.

I’d never been a huge fan of why choose in the romance world.

I could never see how a man could share the love of his wife with another man.

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