You wouldn’t want me doing that in your car.”“You are a romantic, aren’t you?” she giggled. We stopped at her front steps and she went up on... so she looked me straight in the eye. “I had a wonderful time today, Jacob. Kiss me?” Well, hell yes.We didn’t let it ramp up too much. I wasn’t going to try and feel her up on the front steps. It was sweet, though, and as I walked away from her door, I actually felt like the fifteen-year-old that I now was.The five of us had decided to still get together. After they ate, they had a quick match of rock, paper, scissors to decide who got the single room across from mine on the third floor. Finn won. Nova and Goose would share the empty second floor bedroom. They picked up their bags and headed upstairs to crash for a few hours. None of them had slept all night and by the time breakfast was over, they were clearly dragging.It was funny how similar they all were. The hockey coach was pretty strict with his players so they all had short hair and were. She let me. I was gradually easing into things. Then I had my devious idea of how to accelerate her attraction to me. I went up to the hottest random girl I could find and started hitting on her in sight of Megan. I did exactly the same thing I’d done with Megan, because they were both wearing necklaces. I scooped her necklace into my hand and told it was pretty, asked her about it while looking into her eyes. Guess what? It did work on Megan. She was mortified and confused but also. Now ... just so there won’t be any misunderstanding later, there won’t be any whiskey on this place, no time, EVER! All of you heard what Dad said about respecting the women of Crow Ridge, that goes for ALL the women and girls too that you’ll meet while you’re working for this outfit.“This money is just a drop in the bucket of what you’ll make working for us, if you keep your nose clean and work hard. You slack off or lay up lazy and you’re gone. You work hard and pull your load, and you’ll all.