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a brow, looking more like his usual self than he had all day.  “Maybe I’d better take a second look at her.  I haven’t seen you this determined in a long time.”
    “Look is all you can do.  She’s mine,” Jared muttered.  There was one negative to having an identical twin.  If a woman was attracted to one then odds were she’d be equally attracted to the other.  It always left a little doubt.
    They’d lost their premium seat at the bar, much to Jared’s frustration and had to settle for a table across the room, which put a kink in his brow and had him grumbling at James over it.
    “If you remember, the reason we’re here has nothing to do with picking up chicks.  We’re supposed to be scouting out McKenna’s crew.”
    “I said I was getting her number.  I didn’t say I was...have you even looked at her,” Jared glared at James.  “She’s not that type.”
    James spewed his beer mid-sip.  “You haven’t even spoken to her yet and you already know what type she is?  Come on, what’s gotten into you?  Do you hear yourself?”
    Jared opened his mouth, then shut it.  There wasn’t anything he could say.  There wasn’t any rationale or reason to the vibe he got from her.  It bothered him that James couldn’t see it.  Alan Jackson was crooning over the sound system about being in love with a woman whose name he didn’t even know.  
    “I will warn you that you aren’t the only guy in the room focused on her,” James added.
    “No duh.  There’re ten staring at her play pool.”
    “Not them.  That guy back there.”
    Glancing over his shoulder, Jared’s hackles rose.  A man in the back corner was staring daggers at the woman.  It was more than obvious that he had a bone of ill content to pick with her.
    “He’s looking like possession is the law and that he has every right to possess her,” James said.  “I don’t need any beam-me-up-Scotty’s premonition to predict that.  Something bad is about to happen.”
    The guy downed his drink and staggered to his feet.  Jared braced himself and turned his gaze on the woman.  He had to know what this guy meant to her and he had his answer the moment she caught sight of the guy heading her way.  Fear and anger.  She was afraid of the man approaching, but not too afraid to turn her back on him.
    Jared watched as the woman tossed the cue onto the pool table and pointed her finger at the men around her, clearly accusing them of something.  They all stood, shaking their heads in denial.  Two of them moved toward the approaching man, who promptly shoved them aside.
    Jared stood and James grabbed his arm.  “This isn’t your business.  Men get shot for sticking their nose where it doesn’t belong.  Sit down.  She’s not alone.”
    Two more men split from the group and went to head the guy off.  They were close enough for Jared to hear them talk.
    “Go home, Collin,” the larger man said.  “You weren’t invited and Rocky doesn’t want you here.”
    “Stay out of it, Mack.  This is between me and her.”
    “Afraid not.”  The man named Mack moved to block the guy and that’s when the fight broke out.  The guy threw a punch, Mack ducked, and the punch caught a biker upside his tattooed head.  Chaos spread like wildfire.
    “Shit.” James grabbed Jared’s arm again.  “Let’s get out of here.”
    Jared pulled free.  “Not yet.”
     Cut off by the fray, he saw the woman backing into a corner and headed her way.  People shoved and hollered.  Beer bottles flew, along with bar stools.  Women yelled and men shouted.   He knew she was tall but hadn’t quite realized how tall until he got closer.  Six foot at least.  She had her gaze focused on one man.  The man who’d started the fight.  The man who still looked bent on getting to her, but was happy to knock a few others out on the way.
    “Watch out!” Jared dove her way.  Wrapping his arms around her, he brought her crashing down with his best