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“Naw, I’m good,” Jack said.
“I’ll get it for you. What do you want?” I asked the blond – partially to let me break away and avoid being alone with Jack, since I didn’t entirely trust myself with him.
The blond glanced over at me. “I’ll go to the bar,” he said dismissively.
Okay, now I was getting annoyed. “It’s my job. What do you want?”
“To go to the bar,” he said as he brushed past me.
I turned and watched him walk away. “Wow. What a charmer.”
Jack laughed. “Kade’s just a man of few words.”
“And none of them even remotely polite.”
“Look at you. I never figured you for Miss Manners.”
Now I scowled at Jack. “You’re not doing real well on Round Two, bub.”
He grinned. “That’s okay. Nothing really good happens till Round Three, anyway.”
I was about to come back with a quip about how nothing was going to happen at all when Lou walked up.
“Are you poaching my staff again?” he asked Jack in mock exasperation.
“What can I say? You hire outstanding talent.”
“Yeah, she just never seems to work when you’re around.”
“I am a hell of a distraction…”
“Ain’t that the truth.”
“I do still have an hour till closing,” I said apologetically. “I probably should get back to work.”
Jack looked at me with a smile and a raised eyebrow; Lou looked at me like I was a dumbass.
My boss shook his head. “First thing you need to do, darlin’, is learn when I’m fuckin’ jokin’.”
“And how do I learn that?”
“Stick around till I’m not joking. Then you’ll be able to tell the fuckin’ difference. Go on, get out of here.”
He walked off, leaving me alone with Jack and an uncomfortable silence.
“Well? You coming or not?” he asked.
My heart was beating hard in my chest.
“Just let me close out my tabs,” I said, and turned back to the bar.
23
We walked out to the parking lot.
There was his bike…
…which would lead to a ride to his house…
