Page 4 of Sassy Pants

When I found that out I told myself I was done. I stopped reading his letters. Refused his calls.

My stomach drops to my feet. So many emotions are swirling through my veins. All the things we left unsaid.

I look back at Jesse and freeze. There’s a woman seated with him now. Staring isn’t polite, but I hope she’s not his girlfriend with how he came on to me not even two minutes ago. I won’t be surprised if they are together though.

“Better make that two of those,” I tell Antonio and wait for him to get the other.

The last thing I want is to go back to that table, but I don’t have much of a choice. The heat of Antonio’s gaze centers on me as I go to deliver the drinks. Its worse than I thought. Jesse is here with Donna Jansen. The girl who made my high school days a living hell. She tormented me. Called me the beauty queen of the trailer park.

“Here you are. You two ready to order?”

“Gianna, is that you?” Donna puts on a smile that drips with pure malice. I don’t know what I ever did to make her hate me so much but seeing her here with Jesse maybe I answered my own question. She’s still got the same over processed bottle blonde hair, fake red fingernails, and an orange tan she sported in high school. Some things never change.

They place their order, and I avoid Jesse’s gaze.

When they need a refill on their drinks, I beg Antonio to get it.

Like a chicken shit I hide in the back cashing my tips out for the night. As soon as he’s finished with his meal, I’m getting the heck outta here.

Sensing my anxiety Antonio takes pity on me. “I’ll finish your table. No one else is coming in tonight. Get on home.”

“Thanks.” I stuff my tips in my purse and discard my apron. “You’re the best.” I give him a peck on the cheek and a quick squeeze before rushing out the back door to avoid seeing Jesse and that bitch again.

All I want is to put as much distance between us as possible. I never should have returned to Drag Creek.

Stupid Noah.

Stupid Jesse.

Men are shit.

Heavy wet snow continues to pour down forcing me to turn my high beams on. I can’t judge where I’m going. I think I missed my turn. My wipers are no deterrent for the icy sheets coming down.

Only an idiot would be caught driving in this weather, and that idiot is me. I’d rather take my chances out here than go back there. I step on the gas, needing to put as much distance between me and Jesse as possible.

What an asshole seriously. He was on a date or they could be married for all I know and while she was in the bathroom, he was hitting on me. I’m so done with men. Every single last one of them.

My breath catches in my throat the next seconds happening at warp speed. Something flashes across the road, and I jerk the wheel to swerve out of the way. I hit the brakes as something large rolls up onto the hood and the windshield cracks. My car slides across the roadway. I pump the brakes to no avail coming to a dead stop in a ditch as the airbag deploys a minute too late. Unhooking my seatbelt, I then open the door unable to view anything but the blackness of the night. Reaching to the console I grab my cell phone and start to dial Jelissa, but she’s home with the baby. There’s no way I’m calling her to come pick me up. It’s not as if she can do anything for me but listen to me whine. I would call my father, but I know better than to count on him for anything.

I don’t know why I ever came back to this shithole town.

The screen lights up, my battery is at fifteen percent. Not to mention my signal is weak.Shit. With a sigh, I dial my brother.

Chapter 3

Stud

“Fuck, Maxi. Get on them knees for me, sweetheart.” I unzip my jeans, and no sooner than Maxi gets them thick lips wrapped around the head of me my fucking cordless phone starts blowing up.

Shit. “Hold that thought, darlin’.” I grab the phone off the table and answer without screening the call because my ass is on duty. “Black Rebel Towing. What can I do ye for?”

“Stud, that you?”

“The one and only.”

“Hey, man. It’s Chaser. I know it’s late, but my sister ran her car in the ditch a few miles south of Lick Branch.”

“She hurt?”

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