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this to the desk clerk.” He pulled a set of keys from his pocket. “Give the clerk my car keys. Gareth and I rode together. We can’t leave without them.” He glanced at Zech and Derek. “If you take their keys, as well, you’ll know we are stuck in this town with you.”
    “Wait. You said that you have hotel rooms here.” Jessi took the license and the keys from the man. “You four don’t live here?”
    “No.” He grinned. “We came here because we heard that they celebrate Halloween for the entire month here and—“ he reached up to touch his face, “as you can see, we have costumes of a sort.” He glanced at Zach and Derek with a wave. “We didn’t expect these two to follow us. We fully expected it to be just the two of us.”
    Zach and Derek both dug out their licenses. “Please, go to our rooms with us, and on the way in, you can give the keys and our licenses to the clerk and ensure your safety.”
    “Nothing could ensure our safety as much as just telling you all goodbye, right now.”
    “True,” Gareth agreed with a nod. “But it won’t change your life forever, either.” He glanced at his friend. “Mac and I can change your life in ways that you can’t possibly imagine. We only need you to give us a chance.” He handed her his driver’s license and she stood between them, wanting to believe that they could help her shed her old reputation and tell her how to change her life. Did they have some sort of job in mind? She didn’t really need to work anymore, but keeping busy was always a good thing.
    “Why can’t you tell us out here?”
    “It might come down to showing you, and we’d have to to that in our room. We can’t show you what we would need to show you here.”
    “Oh.” She supposed that made sense. They wouldn’t carry their things with them everywhere. “I don’t know what you could possibly have in your room that could convince either me, or Kelly, that you’ll change our lives for the better just by being there with you.”
    “For that,” Mac said with a grin. “You’ll have to trust us.”
    “The problem is, I’m not sure I can do that.”
    “Then, at least trust the desk clerk at the hotel enough to find out.” Zach moved closer and stared down at Kelly.
    His gaze was filled with something Jessi could have sworn was impossible. There was no way she saw a glimmer of love there. Kelly had just met the man.
    “There’s one other thing you should know before we get there,” Derek added as he laced his fingers with Kelly’s. She was about to capitulate. Jessi could see it in her eyes.
    “What’s that?” Jessi asked with trepidation. Something strange was happening here, and it wasn’t that, for some reason, these four men found her and Kelly hot. It was something else.
    “You’ll have to split up. Each of you will have to go to a different room with us.” He lifted his hand when she would have protested. “For one thing, there aren’t enough seats in one room to accommodate us all. For another, this is a decision that you must make on your own with no coercion. We promise not to coerce you. You must each promise not to make the attempt to convince each other one way or the other.”
    “I’m game,” Kelly said and then turned to Jessi. “Look, Jess, I haven’t had the life you’ve had. You’ve seen what it’s like away from home. I haven’t. I’m almost forty.”
    They both nervously glanced at the guys, as though revealing her age would suddenly turn them off. None of them batted an eye.
    “I don’t have the experience living away from Langston that you have. I need to take chances. Otherwise, I might miss out on something wonderful.”
    “I’ve felt that way all of my life, Kel,” Jessi replied as she stared at her friend. “Every time I moved to a new town, I felt as though that was the town that would change my life. That something—someone was just around the corner waiting for me to make the right decision and things would