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“To see me?”
“Figured since you weren’t texting me back...” He let that linger.
“I didn’t trust myself to respond,” I admitted, not asking the biggest question of all. We stared at each other. Surely, he knew what I really wanted to know.
“I canceled,” he said finally, my heart soaring at the words. “Actually, I should say, rescheduled.”
Soar. Crash. Burn.
“Until?”
“Dave couldn’t get me in until Friday. I figured we’d have a chance to talk again before that.”
“So you rescheduled?” That meant he still had hope for the sale.
“I did.”
“Which puts us right back to square one.”
“Nat—”
“Round of shots,” Nate called, not asking but lining the bar with shot glasses. Just what I needed. I generally did not do well with shots, but it seemed like there wasn’t much of a choice.
“Further, faster, harder. Cheers,” Nate said, mostly to Jax and Mason.
“Cheers,” the others said, everyone drinking, even Zoe. Although the guys had more of a clue, obviously. I looked at Nate.
“Part of the Ranger creed,” he said as Nate and Mason continued to talk, and Zoe served another customer. “I accept the fact that as a Ranger my country expects me to move further, faster, and fight harder than any other soldier.”
“How does Nate know the Ranger creed?”
“Good question. A better one,” he asked, still not sitting down but standing next to my bar stool, “is when we can talk again?”
“We’re talking now.”
“You know what I mean.”
Honestly, I didn’t want to talk to Jax. I wanted to go home with him. Have him inside me. I wanted to kiss him so fucking badly it was almost physically painful.
“Keep looking at me like that, and we’ll be doing a hell of a lot more than talking.”
I almost said...promise?
“I feel like I said everything there was to say yesterday.”
He looked at me for so long, I wondered if he was trying to memorize every feature. “Everything?”
“The important things.”
“We didn’t talk about us.”
“Because the land question is still up in the air.”
“In other words, if I buy it, there is no us?”
“You’d really go back on your word?” I asked, Nate’s assurance he wouldn’t still ringing in my ears.
“I haven’t given up trying to convince you,” he admitted.
