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    Evan was about to ignore the vile comment, when Hannes followed up his words with a dirty gesture. Within a second, he grabbed the guy by the throat and menaced him, "Don't you dare talk like that about her!"
    Hannes responded with an attitude, "Who are you trying to impress with this attack, Armstrong?"
    Evan glared at him, increasing the pressure of his hand against Hannes’ throat. That damn Austrian knew how to push all of his buttons. Evan saw through the taunting, but there wasn’t much he could do about it. Not in his red rage. This had always been his worst character trait, whenever someone pushed the right buttons, he lost control and went off like a rocket. He couldn’t stop, if his life depended on it.
    Hannes huffed, "I bet you can't win in an honest fight."

Chapter 11
     
    Evan opened his mouth to agree, before reason could hold him back. And a few seconds later, he was in the midst of a fistfight. Most of the others guys in the bar formed a circle around the duo, applauding and heating up the mood.
    He had one goal: to punch the stupid grin out of Hannes’ face. He'd been a pain in the butt before Evan had lost the bet against him earlier this week, and he’d turned into a pain extraordinaire ever since.
    Both of them were fighting hard, determined to show once and for all who was the champion. He was completely absorbed in his fighting, when Heidi's high-pitched voice pulled him out of his rage. "Stop it. You fools! You’ll get kicked off of your teams!"
    Reason began to set in and the two men separated themselves, stopping the fight mere seconds before one of the FIS officials entered the room. Everyone quickly attended to their own business, covering up the traces of the fight as they returned to their own booths and tables.
    Evan was sporting a cut lip, and from the way his body felt, he’d be nursing bruised ribs for days to come. In a big gulp he downed another beer and the rage slowly cleared itself from his mind. Seeing Heidi standing a few feet away, just staring at him in disbelief, he walked over and joined her. "Thanks, Heidi. You saved my ass."
    She rolled her eyes, "You and your temper. One day it is going to destroy you."
    That was one of the reasons Heidi had broken up with him. Apart from his unwillingness to commit to a serious relationship, she’d been nagging him about him getting into trouble with his red-heated temper. And his constant chase after the next challenge.
    The accurate memory of the hurt in Charlene's eyes when she found out about his bet to lay her, and again when she’d talked about her late friend and his betting cut into his stomach like a knife. He promised himself not to hurt her again. Ever. He’d change. Just how?
    The one person who came to his mind was his brother Dean. Since he was a young kid, he’d always looked up to Dean who was seven years old that he was. In a crazy family of seven kids, Dean had been the most serious of them. A quiet observer who never talked before he thought. Never getting into fights and more than once pouring oil on troubled water with his accurate perception of the happenings. He was exactly the opposite of Evan.
    Dean surely could offer him some advice. Evan looked at his watch. It was still early enough to call his brother, who usually got up before the crack of down.
    He dialed the number and then waited while it connected.
    „Hello?”
    "Hi Dean."
    "Evan? Is that you? Did mom already tell you?"
    "Tell me what?"
    "Melissa is pregnant." The pride in his brother’s voice was unmistakable.
    "Wow, you guys don't waste time. You're not even married yet."
    Dean laughed, "Since when are you so conservative?"
    "Not me. But didn’t you say you wanted to get married in summer?"
    "We still do. Melissa will be seven months pregnant by then. We didn't want the age difference between Happy and her sibling to be too big."
    Evan loved his brother and he was happy for him. Dean had met Melissa last summer and the whole Armstrong