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Booze & Cigars
Several hours and a s**t-ton of alcohol later, Brady Maxwell was hammered. It was easily the drunkest Clay had ever seen his brother. Not that he had seen Brady get drunk all that often, but Chris had seen him drink all through college, and even he swore, he had never seen Brady like this. Claimed he’d never gotten this wasted at school. Clay thought that just meant Brady had been way too uptight in college.
They’d lit cigars at some point, and the air was still perfumed with the scent. Brady’s was half-discarded in an ashtray they’d found in their father’s office. Clay had felt like a proper gentleman, smoking his cigar with the guys, but the very idea of it made him laugh.
“I just…I just love her,” Brady slurred. He smiled dopily before taking another shot on the ta
