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he kidding? Antonio was every girl’s wet dream and there was no way he didn’t know it. Hell, Ash was a guy and he knew it. Fucker.
         Ash had never been jealous. What the hell was wrong with him?
         “Ash, are you ok?” Leanne asked him. “You’re growling I think.”
         Ash made a show of clearing his throat. “No, sorry, I just had something in my throat.”
         “Now, what have I told you about things in your throat,” Antonio said with a wag of his brow. “Deep throating will do that to you.”
         Leanne and Elizabeth both spit their drinks through their noses at the same time and burst out laughing. “I didn’t know you swung that way, Big Brother,” Leanne snorted.
         Antonio opened his mouth and starting singing “All Night Long” by Lionel Richie. He even started shifting his hips in the chair in a weird kind of butt dance.
         Ash knew it. He was going to kill Antonio before it was done and over with. But not quickly. No, he was going to find a way to make him suffer. He was going to cut out his vocal cords first. Then he was going to cut off that hair. Man needed a haircut anyway. Then, he was going to peel the fucker’s skin right off his body.
         “I’m sorry,” Antonio offered. “I think I offended him. He looks like he is planning my slow, painful death.”
         “You have no idea,” Ash grumbled.
         “Ok, ok,” Antonio backed off. “I was just kidding with ya, no need to get your panties in a twist.”
          “I like him,” Leanne offered. “He’s fun. It’s about time you started hanging out with fun people.”
         “It’s not by choice,” Ash mumbled.
         “We’re partners on a new project,” Antonio told the women. “We’re building a new construction down south and trying to get it up and running as smoothly as possible.” He kept talking and Ash nodded in the appropriate places. Ash had always told his sister that he was into architecture, so the lie that was really not so much of a lie falling from the angel’s lips, was very believable. “Anyway, he wanted to see you so we made the trip here just for that. Lucky we got hungry the same time you did.”
         “Yeah, lucky,” Ash agreed.
         “Well, can you be here for the wedding?” Leanne asked. “I want you to give me away.”
         Ash felt his heart fill with love for his sister. She was happy. Safe. All the things he was wanted for her. Everything was worth it. “Of course I will,” he said, taking her hand in his own and giving it a squeeze.
         “Thank you,” she said. “I was worried before that you wouldn’t approve, but after James and Elizabeth here patched you up, I just knew you would have a change of heart.”
         “Patched me up?” Ash asked with a raised brow.
         “Yeah, silly. When you were shot. Elizabeth saved your butt, remember?”
         Ash looked at Elizabeth. You will not die. The words rang in his head like something he should remember. But he didn’t. “I’m sorry,” he said, “I don’t remember much about that time frame. Guess getting shot will do that to you.”
         “Yeah, it sure will,” Elizabeth agreed. “Don’t feel bad, I have a hard time remembering things that happened while under the influence of adrenaline.”
         What she wasn’t telling them was, even though she knew she had operated on him, she couldn’t remember any of the details. She had written meticulous notes in his chart, which was how she remembered as much as she did, which wasn’t much. In her notes, she wrote that she had held Ash’s heart in her hands. How could she not remember that? She had convinced herself that it was the adrenaline and that the depression she was suffering from was causing lapses in her memory.
         “Of course, you wouldn’t remember much,” Leanne reminded Ash, “You were heavily drugged, and you left the hospital AMA!