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Innocence wants more from you than a simple fuck here and there.
Innocence gets their heart broken.
So, yeah, that’s why I steer clear of innocent blondes.
Although, Sierra isn’t exactly innocent anymore.
I’ve done a decent job of controlling myself until I see a guy take hold of her elbow. Sierra jerks away, and he grabs her again—this time with a creepy-ass smirk.
All I see is red as I drop the glass in my hand and charge over to them. I’m at her side in seconds, and I reach across the bar to shove him away.
“What the fuck, dude?” the guy yells, catching his balance.
I point to him. “Keep your filthy-ass hands off my employees.”
He gets closer, and the booze on his breath reeks. “Dude, I was only talking to her.”
I don’t have time for this bullshit. “You order your drinks from me the rest of the night, do you hear me?”
The scrawny guy perks up his chest—an attempt to look intimidating, but it does the opposite. “How do you know she doesn’t want me to touch her? She’s been teasing me all night.”
Sierra rolls her eyes, not bothering to look my way, and grabs the guy another beer. “Here.” She hands it to him. “I’ll add it to your tab.”
“Thanks, gorgeous.” He winks at her and turns his attention to me. He tips his glass my way, swings around, and walks away.
Sierra smacks her arm into my stomach to block me from jumping across the bar and kicking his ass.
Her eyes are narrowed when she looks at me. “This is your bar, Maliki. You can’t pull that with customers.”
“I can if they’re making you uncomfortable,” I grind out.
“I can handle my own.” She blows out a noisy breath and crosses her arms.
“Doesn’t mean you have to or will under my watch.”
“Oh, really?” Anger burns across her face, which confuses the fuck out of me. “Maybe you shouldn’t be hanging out with a woman you’ve hooked up withon my watch.” She scoffs. “Literally.”
“What?”
She makes a sweeping gesture toward the woman parked in the corner on my side of the bar.
Oh fuck.
“I recognize her,” she hisses. “She might not be moaning your name while you’re banging her on your desk, but I saw her. That’s the woman you were screwing the night I came over.”
Oh, so she wants to talk about that night.
I’ve been dying to do this.
This is the wrong place, wrong time, but here goes.
“Why did you come here that night?” My tone is even, and I lower my arm to stop her from ducking underneath it and scurrying away. “We hadn’t talked in fuck knows how long. In fact, it was the night beforeyour wedding.”
She clenches her slender jaw, and a blush rises up her cheeks. “It doesn’t matter.”
“If it doesn’t matter, then why don’t you tell me?”
“We have a crowd of people waiting. I have men to flirt with.” Her lips curl. “And you have a woman you’ve fucked to serve.” She smacks my shoulder. “Gotta run, boss.”
