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feeling he wasn't right for Erin . Maybe it was because he didn't want him to be. No. He shook his head. He knew people well and he felt a connection to this woman that didn't allow for a margin of error.
    "Yo, Erin , I see someone I know back there. I'll only be a few minutes," her boyfriend said, slapping her on the back.
    Yo? What was he? Some kind of leftover hippie or yuppie or whatever? Mitch left her sitting there alone without even ordering her a drink first. She deserved someone with better manners. Derek leaned his elbows on the bar in front of her. "What can I get you?"
    She jumped as if he'd startled her. Yet she knew he was there. So something else was jangling her nerves. Excitement? Anticipation?
    "Did I scare you by coming so close?" he asked, grinning.
    "Something of the sort. My…uh…friend wants a Budweiser. I'd like…" She smiled. "Sex on the Beach."
    "So would I, sweetheart," he said, chuckling. "How can that bozo just waltz off and leave a beautiful woman like you?"
    Derek moved away to get a glass off the shelving behind him.
    "I don't mind," she said, making no objection to his disrespectful reference to her date. "I can take care of myself."
    What is that supposed to mean?
    She wasn't wearing a wedding ring and she called Mitch her 'friend'. So she was single and Derek was too. The problem was that his freedom would be short-lived.
    Her boyfriend returned before he got her drink made. Since he'd so rudely left, he could have stayed away long enough for them to get acquainted.
    She was sporting one helluva big diamond on her right hand. Perhaps she'd been engaged or married before.
    "How about turning the TV onto a ballgame, buddy?" Mitch, looking up at the darkened screen, asked Derek.
    "Customers here don't like TV while they're eating," he said. "Especially sports. That television is mostly for the help to watch when business is slow, and that doesn't happen often."
    "Besides, that's why you brought me here," Erin told Mitch. "So we could have a quiet dinner."
    "She isn't too fond of Reagan's," Mitch said, nodding his head towards Erin while fondling her leg.
    So, that's the kind of guy he is. A sports nut. And a groper. Derek wished he could deck the guy so he'd be forced to unhand the lovely lady. "I'm not familiar with the place," Derek said. If Erin didn't like sports bars, he wanted her to know she wasn't alone.
    Mitch, apparently displeased with him, swivelled his stool sideways so he faced Erin with his back turned to Derek, but Derek listened in on their conversation as much as he could. At first, Mitch did most of the talking, and Derek wondered if she was quiet because she knew he was eavesdropping. Or was she, he hoped, so aware of him sexually that she was too shaken?
    After her second Sex on the Beach, she became more animated and soon she'd warmed up to her date so much that Derek suspected she was trying to seduce Mitch. Not that it would be difficult. Any man who wouldn't fuck Erin at every opportunity would have to be crazy or dead. So why was she trying that hard?
    If Derek could foil her plan to screw Mitch, he would. He didn't like the guy. It was hate from first sight.
    A booth opened up and Derek handed him their tab to take with them. Mitch slapped down some money for a tip, picked up his and her drinks and hurried off to grab the available table before someone else did.
    He'd left Erin behind, leaving her to fend for herself. But smiling at Derek, she slipped a light blue card under the dollar bills before following Mitch.
    He picked it up and read…
    Wives-R-Us
    Household Executives
    Dinner Parties Are Our Specialty
    Ambiance, Organisation, Home Decoration
    Three Charming Ex-Wives With Experience
    Leanne Andrews, Margo Hunter and Erin Fox
    The address and telephone number for the business were printed on the back. Interesting. She was right. She could take care of herself. He smiled.
    Ex-wives. She had been married before. He hadn't but…
    Derek read the card again. Open