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He studied her face for a few minutes and then smiled. “Okay then. Cash it is. Do you have an id?”
She handed over her driver’s license and he got her a room. She paid for a week.
“Do you know of anyone who might be hiring?”
“Drive down the street and take a left at the stop sigh. Go two blocks and on the right is The Howlers’ Bar and Grill. Tell the owner, Sean, that Benny sent you.”
“Thank you.”
Oliva took her bags into the hotel room and looked around. It was old, but very clean. She sat down on the bed and looked around her. She should have been celebrating right now. Instead, she was terrified, in a state she had never been in, not knowing the fate of her future.
“Deep breath. I’ll get through this. It is something new. You didn’t want to be his mate, anyway,” Olivia told herself.
After washing her face and changing her clothes, she headed toward Howlers’.
Sean was bartending. He was tall, thin, with bright red hair and emerald-green eyes. Olivia thought that he looked like he had just stepped off the pages of an Irish magazine.
“My name is Olivia. Benny said that you might be able to help me. I need a job. I’m willing to do anything,” she said, hating the fact that she sounded so desperate.
“Have you ever waited tables before or bartended?” he asked, looking her up and down appraisingly.
“No, but I’m a quick learner,” she said.
He sucked his front teeth as he studied her. Finally, he nodded. “When can you start?”
“Right now,” she said. “Just tell me what to do.”
“I’ll pay you under the table for now, until we can determine whether you’re going to work out. There is no sense in filling out all the paperwork if it turns out that you aren’t a fit here,” he said. “You came at a good time, because my last waitress just left.”
“Sounds good,” she replied.
Besides, I don’t even know how long I’ll be staying. I have to stay one step ahead of Declan. He doesn’t like to lose, and I don’t think that he’s going to give up.
“Where are you from?” he asked.
“Up north,” she replied. “It was time for a change in scenery.”
That’s not a lie, she told herself.
Sean looked her up and down again, as though he was wondering whether her vague answers meant that she was going to be more trouble than she was worth.
However, he either really needed the help or he trusted Benny’s judgement. He said, “Follow me. I’ll get you a chart of the tables, a menu, and show you how to run the register.”
It felt as though a ton of bricks had fallen off her shoulders. She would have a way to save up money before she moved on to her next stop, wherever that might be.
