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realized that life was not like her fairytales.
    And heroes don’t really exist. With that, Laurie clicked off her Kindle and crawled into bed, falling asleep and dreaming of a handsome prince with dark hair riding up to sweep her off her feet.
    *
    Rob was at Smokey’s, a local bar owned by Wendy and Bill Evans, family friends for as long as he could remember. He was meeting Tom and Jake, his two closest friends from childhood. As he entered the bar, he saw Bill behind the bar keeping an eye on his beautiful wife, making sure that none of the newer customers were giving her looks. Bill was a huge mountain of a man with a dark scruffy beard, still protective of his knockout wife and had been for the twenty years that they had been married. Giving Bill a nod, he headed back to the pool tables to find his friends. Jake and Tom were detectives, partners in the Fairfield Police Department, and the three of them had been friends since growing up on the same street as children.
    Rob was aware of the looks from the women in the bar as he made his way to his friends. They had all played high school and college football together, and he knew women liked the way they looked. His Celtic looks with his black hair and blue eyes never failed to impress. Smirking, he realized how easy it was to get a woman in this town. Well, at least a woman for a quick fuck. But one to spend time with… he hadn’t found that yet.
    His mind wandered back to the beauty at the grocery store. He sure would have liked to have had a chance to get her number. She looked sweet. Maybe she would have been worth knowing and not just screwing. Maybe… hell, where are these thoughts coming from?
    “Hey man, you’re late. Jake here is kickin’ my ass, and I need your sorry ass in here so I can look good,” Tom called out.
    Jake had been staring at him. “What the hell were you thinkin’ of as you were walkin’ over here? You looked like you were thinkin’ of a sweet piece.” Jake was an intuitive detective, and Rob felt himself redden under Jake’s perusal.
    Rob laughed, knowing he couldn’t hide something from these two. “Just a gorgeous piece of ass I saw at the store earlier. Didn’t get her name or number though, so I guess I’m out of luck!”
    “Carol called earlier and said her new roommate moved in. Said she was super sweet and pretty as well,” Tom said. Tom had been dating a gorgeous nurse at the hospital for a couple of months and Rob knew that a new roommate was coming into town.
    “Oh no,” Rob answered emphatically. “No datin’ Carol’s roommate!” When Jake and Tom looked at him in confusion, he continued. “Look, you and Carol are startin’ something and you are already pussy whipped. Carol’s a sweetheart and would have stars in her eyes about me and her roommate. Then when I pull one of my typical fuck-and-runs, Carol’ll hate me, then you’ll hate me…. damn, that is too fuckin’ complicated.”
    “Fuck and run?” Jake shook his head. “Man, I’m stuck between Tom, the reformed ‘friends with benefits man’ and you who admittedly defines his sex life as ‘fuck and run’.”
    The friends laughed and ordered another round of beers, continuing the banter as they spent their evening at the pool tables. By the end of the evening, a few heavily painted women in tight clothing had made their way over to the men. Jake, never interested in a local hookup, quickly divested himself of the busty blonde that tried to attach herself to him. Tom, who just a few months ago would have already picked out his flavor of the night, was also having to forcefully push away one of the scantily clad women trying to lean her large, fake tits on his arm.
    Rob just laughed at his friends. Grabbing the cute redhead pressing her leg against his crotch, he headed out of the bar. Thoughts of the sweet-looking brunette from the grocery store flitted through his mind, but he pushed them back, deciding that a night of mindless sex would be