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I did those things
    I haven’t, however, had sex with any of them. I could never go that far. It was hard enough on my conscience to do everything but sex. Sex with any other woman, when I knew in my heart that Georgia was mine and I was hers, went against everything I believed in.
    “Yeah, dead fucking serious,” I answered instantly.
    He sighed. “You and Roberts got them before I even saw them. How’s a man supposed to find a woman that’s worth something if y’all move in before I even see them?”
    I grinned. “Maybe if you’d start looking for quality instead of quantity.”
    He flipped me off. “Why is she so dressed up to pick up a fridge?”
    “I think she had a meeting today with her new boss,” I said, watching as she pulled out into traffic.
    I laughed when black smoke started pouring out of the tail pipes.
    “That’s not very eco-friendly,” he observed dryly. “You should’ve gotten a Dodge.”
    I shrugged. “It came down to the two, but this one was about three grand cheaper.”
    “Yeah, but I’ll always rather be cummin than strokin,’” Bennett said bawdily, referring to the names of the Ford and Dodge engines.
    I looked him dead in the eye. “I’d rather be stroked than rammed.”
    “Alright, boys. Let’s keep it classy and stop talking about which diesel engine we bought,” Reese reprimanded, coming up beside us.
    Bennett winked at Reese. “So tell me, Reese’s Pieces, would you rather be strokin’…”
    “Do not finish that sentence,” Luke’s deadly serious voice lasered out like a whip as he walked up to his wife.
    It, of course, didn’t have the intended effect.
    Bennett still finished his sentence. “…or cummin?”
    Luke growled and I stepped out of the way, taking Reese’s arm as I went.
    Reese didn’t object, going with me while keeping a close eye on her husband.
    “Lucas Roberts, you leave that poor boy alone. He was only playing,” Reese snapped when Luke made to step in Bennett’s direction.
    Luke stopped, but his glare said it all. ‘ You’re going to get it.’
    Bennett’s grin said, ‘You can try, old man.’
    Luke nodded, accepting the challenge, neither of them saying a word.
    “Who was the chick?” Luke asked as he wrapped a beefy arm around Reese’s shoulder.
    Reese leaned into him and smiled as she looked at me.
    I didn’t smile back, and she scowled.
    Bennett answered Luke’s question for me.
    “That’s Diablo’s new woman,” Bennett teased.
    I hated when he called me Diablo. I hated when anyone , beside Georgia, called me Diablo.
    One time my sister calls me that in front of Luke, and now the whole fucking world knows.
    That had been a special name given to me by Georgia.
    “Who’s Diablo?” Reese asked in confusion.
    I sighed.
    “This is Diablo,” Luke said, pointing in my direction. “Although, he doesn’t like to be called that.”
    “Why do you pester him when he looks so scary?” Reese whispered to her husband.
    I snorted and Reese flushed. “Sorry,” she muttered.
    I waved it off. I got the whole ‘you’re scary’ thing a lot.
    Especially by women.
    It wasn’t something I could help, though. It was just who I was. I didn’t smile because I didn’t want to. And people got kind of freaked out when my lack of facial expression finally dawned on them.
    It was who I was made to be, though.
    The Navy SEALS had trained us, and it was just something I continued doing out of habit, even though I’d been out for years.
    “So when’s the Kumbaya this week, and where?” Bennett asked.
    “We had it at my place last week. It’s one of y’all’s turns,” Luke said, leaning against the brick of the building.
    “We can have it at mine,” I said. “Y’all just better not fucking drip on any of my furniture. It’s new.”
    Bennett grinned. “That wasn’t me, it was Michael. And Downy.”
    “It wasn’t me, boy,” Downy said, walking up and joining the group.
    I’d seen him walking up, but Bennett had had his