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Casey reaches for the last shot glass on the table, but I snatch it away before she can get it, and toss it back myself.

“Hey, that was mine.”

“I said you are done,” I bark. When she flinches, I close my eyes and remind myself to calm the hell down.

“Come on. Don’t be a wet blanket on her party, bigbrother.” Ashleigh looks at me over her glass, grinning wide.

Where the hell did these women come from? They couldn’t be more different from Casey if they tried.

I won’t admit it out loud, but it’s exactly what she needs. It’s what she’s always needed.

“Right?” Lily leans around Casey to look at her co-instigator. “I mean, our little Casey even asked Jagger for sex lessons when she never said the word before.”

My head snaps to Jagger who is choking again, this time on his drink, turning curious shades of red and purple. “The fuck?” hewheezes as he glares at the girls.

I’m certain my face is a similar color because it feels like I’m having an aneurysm.

“Why won’t you teach me sex, Jagger?” Casey pouts.

And that’s it. I am done. “Get your things, Casey. We are leaving.”

“No,” she shakes her head with her lips pressed together. “I’m going to stay, thank you.”

“Sunflower, I will crawl over this booth and carry you the fuck out.”

“Jesus, that’s hot.” Ashleigh leans over Casey to Lily. “That was hot, right?”

“Definitely hot.”

Casey shakes her head again, but she stands in the seat, attempting to balance the back of the seats. A look from me to Jagger has him sliding from the booth. Before Casey can turn around—or break her neck—I grab her waist, tossing her over my shoulder.

She squirms in my arms until I slap her ass. Hard. She yelps but gets deathly still. “Y-you spanked me.”

“And I’ll do it again if you don’t get still.” She weighs nothing, but with those long arms and legs, someone will get hurt if she doesn’t stop flailing.

With her over my shoulder, I march us through the crowd and out the door. My car is already at the entrance as Will leans against it. His brow lifts when he spots Casey over my shoulder. “Is this your way of getting me away from GenSec?” He refers to the security company he’s technically employed by—co-owned by none other than Henry Weston, Casey’s honorary uncle and second dad. I offered him a shit ton of money to leave them twoyears ago, but the asshole seems to take loyalty seriously. Good for me, terrible for his bank account, but I solved the dilemma by getting Henry and his partner to assign Will exclusively to me.

“Your job is fine.” I set Casey to her feet. She sticks her tongue out at me, and fuck, it’s hard not to laugh. I miss this side of her, and, according to Jagger, it’s been a long time since she was like this. “Be a good girl and get in the car.”

“Where are we going?”

“I’m taking you home, Sunflower.”

Her nose scrunches. “But you don’t know where I live.” She pauses for a minute, her eyes losing focus, then she giggles. “I don’t remember either.”

I shake my head, reach by her, and open the car door. “Get in the car, Sunflower.”

She huffs and climbs in.

God, I hope the damn child locks are on.

Not wanting to risk it, I head around the backside of the car to the other side as Will crosses the front.

It takes less than thirty seconds to get into the car. And Casey’s already sleeping against the door.

Will catches my eye in the mirror. “Do you know what you’re doing?”

I grin. “Maybe it’s a good thing you didn’t take me up on my offer and stayed with GenSec. I might need someone who can’t read my mind.”

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