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backed off. “I’m sorry, baby.
I just want you all the time. I forget where we are. And when you throw
yourself at me…”
    “The only thing I tried to throw at you was a present, which
you didn’t even both to look at.”
    Tony quickly patted down his pockets. “I just…here it is.
What is it?” He opened up the little box and his mouth dropped in surprise.
    It was a ring he’d stopped to admire when they were walking
back to her apartment last week. In a pawn shop window, just calling out to
him. A silver serpent design, with black onyx eyes.
    He smiled his thanks then used the excuse to playfully grab
her butt again and pull her against him. “I can’t believe you did this for me,”
he whispered.
    Tony noticed in his peripheral vision a couple of cars at
the other end of the alley, doors opening and slamming. But he was making one
last play for Erika, pulling her close and biting her ear, something she could
never resist. He felt her respond, in spite of pushing him away.
    “Stop that until we get home,” she giggled. “Try it on.” He
kept looking at her as he slipped the ring on his finger. “It’s perfect,” he
said, finally admiring it.

Chapter 10
    Angie pretended to look interested in a fuchsia bandana
while she waited inside a Southwestern boutique. She despised the store, with
all its citified cowgirl outfits, but it had an unobstructed view of Exchange,
and she knew the salespeople wouldn’t interrupt her as long as they saw her
browsing.
    She wanted a drink so bad her throat ached. But she didn’t
dare find a bar quite yet. She checked her cell just in case. No messages, no
texts. Of course, they weren’t supposed to contact one another no matter what.
But surely if it’d gone bad, he’d get in touch somehow. Now she wished they’d
gotten a pair of throwaway cells. It seemed so practical in retrospect.
    “Isn’t that cute as all get out?” The saleswoman’s voice
startled her. “We got in a bunch of those in the most darling colors. I love
the neon green myself.”
    Angie stifled the urge to tell her what she thought. “I’ve
never seen anything like it,” she finally smiled, which was true.Where
she came from anybody wearing a bandana other than red or blue was considered a
greenhorn.
    The saleslady glanced at the wall clock, and Angie realized
why she’d come over to her. It was a few minutes after six, closing time. Angie
put the bandana back on the counter.
    “I’ll have to think about it,” she said, heading to the
door.
    The evening sun glossed red over the buildings as she
stepped out the door. She remembered someplace where she could get a drink and
still see the street.

Chapter 11
    With the new snake ring on his finger, Tony’s mood had
improved considerably, even if Erika had been a bitch about his advances.When
she got horny later on, he’d give her a hard time and make her beg for it.
    At the moment, Erika was staring down the alley with a frown
on her face.
    “What?” he asked, looking at the same place, where only a
few minutes before he’d noticed an SUV’s doors opening and snapping shut. But
now there was only a fancy Mustang, sitting there empty with the driver’s door
open. And the motor was still running.
    “That looks like Buck Dearmore’s car,” Erika said as she
walked toward it.
    “Buck Dearmore? What the fuck kinda name is that?”
    “Famous O.U. quarterback? Where’ve you been?”
    Tony smirked. “In the slammer, remember? How you know it’s
his?”
    “The license plate,,” Erika said, pointing out the custom QTRBACK tag. “Half the bank eats at the O.K.. They practically bow when he
comes in.” She didn’t add that it gave her a thrill to wait on him, and that
his eyes had a way of making you flush.
    When they reached the Mustang, Tony leaned in, checking out
the fancy leather interior. “He’s a showy fucker. Look at this shit.”
    “You’re just eat up with envy,” Erika said.
    “Dumb, too, leaving it running.” Tony