Page 62 of Forbidden Harmony

“Seriously? When?”

“Last week after ball one night. Look, I’mnever gonna be friends with the guy or anything, but we’re not mortal enemies.It’ll be fine.”

“Okay,” she said.

He glanced over at her. “Why are you so dressedup? You out trolling for a man now that you and Harrison are kaput?”

She wrinkled her nose at him. “No, and I’mnot dressed up.”

“You look like you’ve made more of aneffort than usual. Your face isn’t quite as hideous as normal.”

“Shut up, gator breath.”

“Hey, I can’t help it if I got all the looksin the family,” Daniel said.

Addison rolled her eyes and stared out thewindow as Daniel hit a button on the steering wheel and rock music blasted outof the speakers.

She had made more of an effort than usualfor the barbeque and she knew exactly why she had.

Preacher.

Which was stupid because after yesterday afternoon,it was more than apparent that he was not going to be offering any more sexlessons. God, why had she let him do so much stuff to her? She was supposedto be learning how to be sexy and how to make sure the guy was having a greattime.

Instead, she’d sat on Preacher’s face, had astupidly intense orgasm, and then had another damn orgasm not fifteen minuteslater while she rode him like a horse. She honestly couldn’t remember ifPreacher had even climaxed.

Maybe he hadn’t. Maybe that’s why he’d seemedso meh about her performance afterward. She sighed and tugged at thefriendship bracelets around her wrist as Daniel pulled onto Kira’s street. IfPreacher gave her another chance, she would make darn sure she made it allabout him and didn’t get distracted by his mouth and hands and his ability to makeher come until her brain nearly exploded.

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Preacher hated that fucking gamer dude.Hated him. How the fuck Connor, who seemed like a decent guy, could be bestfriends with the prick, he’d never know.

His hand clenched around the beer bottleand for the first time in his life, he wished he did play baseball. Then maybehe could launch the bottle across the yard and knock some sense into the fuckingdouchebag of a gamer.

“You’re gonna shatter that beer bottle.”Gideon settled into the lawn chair beside his and stretched his long legs out.Tank had followed him over and he crowded up against Preacher, sniffing at hisface and pressing his big head against Preacher’s chest until Preacher gave inand scratched the top of Tank’s head. “What’s got you so pissed?”

“I’m not pissed. Congratulations on the engagement.”He held up the beer bottle and they clinked them together.

“Thanks.” Gideon stared across the yard atGrace who was talking to Kira and some other chick Preacher didn’t know. Therock on her hand gleamed in the sun and Gideon laughed when Kira grabbed Grace’shand and admired the ring again.

“Who’s the chick with Grace and Kira?”Preacher said.

“Rayna. She runs the animal rescue andworks for Sneaky Leaks Plumbing. She and Grace became friends while we werevolunteering for the cancer fundraiser that Wanda organized.”

Wanda was a dispatcher at the sheriff’s departmentand while Preacher barely knew her, he knew that she meant a great deal to Gideon.“How’s she doing?”

“Okay. She’s back to work now. It’s beenrough on her since Murray died, but the fundraiser auction and dinner wentreally well, and they raised a lot of money. That seemed to help. They had a PowerPointtribute thing for Murray at the dinner. There wasn’t a dry eye in the house after.Has the person who won the bid on your tattoo at the auction contacted you yet?”

“Nah.” Preacher’s gaze drifted back toLucas. He and Addison were by the folding table that the food was set out on.He was standing way too close to Addison and hot jealousy flowed like lava intoPreacher’s gut when Lucas tugged on a lock of Addison’s hair.

“Asshole,” he muttered.

Gideon laughed. “He’s actually a niceguy. I had a beer with him and Connor last week.”

“You didn’t think he was so great when hewas hitting on your woman,” Preacher said.

“And now you have a problem with him becausehe’s hitting on your woman,” Gideon said.

“She’s not my woman.”

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