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shot, pool shark.”
    “Hey, give me a break.”  Elena pouted.
    Alex chuckled and leaned closer to her.  “I’m not much better.  We’re in trouble.”
    Both girls laughed, but Jake shook his head.  He knew damned well that Alex was one of the best pool players in Rockport Grove.
    They continued to play, at first laughing and exchanging teasing banter among the four of them.   Jake found the whole situation entertaining.  Like Alex, he had considerable skills at playing pool, most of them honed at Fort Dix or on other army bases he’d stayed at between his tours of duty.  The girls, on the other hand, seemed to be holding cue sticks for the first times in their lives.  They weren’t even the slightest challenge. 
    When the waitress delivered their drinks and reminded them the place was closing, they laughingly toasted her as a buzzkill and continued to circle around the table, trying to outshoot each other. Eventually, though, Jake centered his attention on Staci, just as Alex focused on Elena.
    “So what exactly are you looking for, Jake?” Staci asked in a breathless little voice, as they watched Alex take a shot.
    “Looking for?”  He glanced into her limpid blue eyes and saw the invitation there.  His dick hardened painfully.  All of the pent-up desire he’d been feeling for Sophia was still sizzling through him like electricity that needed an outlet, and suddenly Staci became that outlet.
    “In a girlfriend.”
    He smiled.  “I don’t have a type.  I want mutual attraction, the kind that makes us both want to rip at each other’s clothes and satisfy each other in any and every way possible.”
    She sucked in a little breath.  “Me too.  What do you like?”
    He gave her a confused look, but he was smiling, too.
    “Sexually,” she clarified.
    His smile widened.  “My sex drive revs in the red.  I like it frequently.”
    She giggled.  “Me too.”
    They paused in the conversation to take shots at the balls, but neither of them sank anything, and Jake didn’t really care, either.  He shot a glance toward Alex and saw that his friend was looking at the dark-haired girl with unconcealed lust.
    “This game is over,” he announced. 
    Alex nodded and grabbed his drink, as well as Elena’s.  He took Elena’s hand and they wandered toward a discreet corner in the back of the bar. 
    Jake watched as Alex leaned in towards Elena and began kissing her—slowly at first, but then with increasing hunger.  He put his pool cue down.  Then he took Staci’s cue from her and put it down, too.  He grabbed her hand and pulled her into the hallway by the restrooms.  From that vantage point, he could still see Luke cleaning up behind the bar.
    He leaned closer to Staci, then blinked once to clear an unexpected vision of Sophia.  “I like a girl who is confident, yet submissive,” he murmured softly against Staci’s ear.  “She knows when to make her moves, but she’s also excited and receptive to see and feel everything I offer when I take control.  Because I will take control.”
    She sighed, then pouted at him, her lips begging for a kiss.  He felt her hands playing with the waistband on his jeans.  Suddenly, the button at his waistband popped open.  He considered kissing her, but ended up just brushing his lips against hers. 
    Her hand slipped into his jeans, beneath his boxers.  She wrapped her palm around his cock and squeezed. His cock jumped with excitement.  His heart began to pound in his chest.
    “I also like worshipping a woman’s body,” He told her, as she began jerking him off, the motion making him groan with pleasure.  “I like satisfying her, I like it when she sucks my cock, and I like eating pussy.”  He reached forward, slipped his hand beneath the fabric of her gaping neckline and found a mound of soft, warm flesh.  He popped her breast out of her bra and lightly thumbed her nipple.
    She moaned, then said, “I like sucking cock, so we’re a good