8:23 P.M.
“He’s a crazy bastard,” Auggie told Jax about Marc Dunning. “He shows up here at my apartment, brings me an expensive bottle of wine, tells me to sit, and he apologizes to me for being an asshole in our relationship.”
“You didn’t see it coming, did you?” Jax asked.
The two men were seated at a four-person table at Smattering Dazzle. Cosmopolitans were half-off, and they were each on their second one. Disco music filled the bar area, which comprised of KC and the Sunshine Band, Gloria Gaynor, and The Village People. Rock-hard boys were dancing with older men. A bunch of Swedes were tonguing each other in a corner. Two hairy-chested cowboys wearing Stetsons and boots were chest to chest on the dance floor, boogieing the evening away.
“Marc blew me away. It’s not in his characte
