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him.
    “I’m sorry I didn’t take better care of Brian last night,” he said.
    “He told me what happened and I don’t blame you. He’s the idiot who got involved.” Myrna picked up Jessica’s picture and examined it. “She’s stunning, Sed. Is this Jessica?”
    She glanced up at him and he nodded.
    “How are you doing?” she asked.
    She handed the picture to him and he slid it into his pocket with the crummy engagement ring Jessica had flung at him one devastating afternoon two years before.
    “Me?” He shrugged. “By the time I got out there, everyone was fleeing the scene. I didn’t even get to throw a punch. I just grabbed Trey off the sidewalk, stuffed him in the car with Brian, and we took off.”
    “I meant how are you doing after seeing Jessica?”
    His heart stuttered every time her name was mentioned. This time was no exception. He shrugged. “It’s no big deal. She still hates me. I still hate her.”
    Myrna ducked her head, but not before he saw her knowing grin. “I see. So you aren’t going to go back to see her?”
    “Why would I?”
    Myrna shrugged. “Because you’re a glutton for punishment. And… you still love her.”
    “No, I—”
    “Has she always been an exotic dancer?”
    “What?”
    “Well, I assumed since you went ballistic when you saw her stripping—”
    “I didn’t go ballistic. I lost my cool.” He pinched his thumb and forefinger together. “A little.”
    “Uh huh. But you reacted. So was it because you didn’t expect to see her, or because you didn’t expect to see her dancing nude for strangers?”
    Sed chuckled. Dr. Myrna Evans, human sexuality professor, always tried to get in everyone’s psychology. “That’s the last place on Earth I’d ever expect to see Jessica. She’s the independent feminist type. The way you are, I guess you’d say. So yeah, I was stunned. That’s why I pulled her off the stage. Not because I actually cared that she was shaking her tits at dozens of sleazy jackasses.”
    His beer can crinkled in his fist.
    “There’s nothing wrong with having these feelings, Sed.”
    “You sound like a shrink.”
    She cringed. “I thought it might help to talk about it.”
    “No, it doesn’t help. I was finally over her and then… this.”
    “You’re over her?” She laughed at him. “I don’t think so, Sed. Who do you think you’re talking to here?”
    A busybody who is too smart for her own good. But he couldn’t say that aloud so he changed the subject. “You’re still marrying Brian tomorrow, aren’t you?”
    Her brow furrowed. “Of course, why wouldn’t I?”
    “You were pissed when you found out he’d been fighting.”
    “Just because you’re mad at someone doesn’t mean you stop loving them.”
    Sed nodded. “I guess.” He reached across the table and squeezed her hand. “Myr, I’m glad Brian found you. You’re exactly what he needs, but if he ever mistreats you, he’ll be answering to me.”
    “And me!” Eric called from his bunk.
    “No fucking privacy around here,” Sed grumbled.
    “If you want to have one last legal affair before you’re permanently saddled with Master Sinclair, there’s room in my bunk,” Eric called.
    “Do you want me to hit him for you, Myr?” Sed stood up from the table.
    “I got it,” Trey said. He leaned off the top bunk and there was a loud thunk in the bunk beneath.
    “Ow!” Eric yelled.
    Myrna climbed from the bench and gave Sed a warm hug. “Good night, Sed.”
    He hugged her back. It felt wonderful to hold a woman without any sexual expectations.
    She released him and returned to the bedroom.
    Myrna was a good woman. Sed envied Brian.
    It used to be the other way around.
    Back before Jessica hated him.
    Maybe he should go see her.
    Nah. She’d probably kick him in the nuts.

Chapter 9
    How was it possible for two people to look that happy getting married by an Elvis impersonator in a drive-through? Brian had pulled into the first chapel they’d found. There