Page 20 of Clashing
Avoiding him distracted me, and I didn’t notice Green Eyes approach until he braced on the counter with a show-stopping smile. “Hey, Scarlett, I was hoping to get something a little extra.”
I leaned over the bar, pushing my tits together. “What can I get you, Green Eyes?”
Again, his eyes dropped to my breasts. Good.
“I don’t know, beautiful. What do you suggest?”
“I’m a whiskey girl, myself. I could bring you a shot of my favorite,” I offered, brushing absolutely nothing off his shoulder. “I don’t know, though. You’ve been drinking beer all night. Sure you can handle it?”
“Oh, beautiful, I can handle anything you throw at me.” He grinned before lifting his eyes to mine. “Question is, can you handle me?”
He walked away, and I arched a brow.Intriguing.Maybe he was more interesting than I gave him credit for. Once I dropped off my other customer’s check, I poured Green Eyes a shot of whiskey and delivered it with the pitcher of beer. I made a point to brush up against him as I dropped off the drinks.
“Well?” I gestured to the whiskey.
He flashed me a smirk, and instead of taking it like a shot, sipped on it with a straight face. “It’s good. What else you got that’s good, Scarlett?”
“Plenty of things. You just tell me what I can do for you, handsome.” I squeezed his bicep and turned to walk away. His hand closed around mine before I made it to the bar.
Green Eyes tugged me to him and set his hands on my hips. “There’s a lot of things you can do for me, beautiful. Do you get a break soon?”
Oh, a quickie.I could live with that. It might ease the tension for the rest of the night. But we were busy, and I wasn’t handling as many customers as Tammy.
“Sorry, handsome.” I crawled my fingers up his chest. “No break tonight. But if you were inclined to stay until closing, well,” I kissed his cheek, then walked away, “that’s another story.”
While I served other customers, I glanced his way. Every time, he was watching me.Yeah,he’ll stay all night for me.
Time crawled, and the crowd finally dwindled. I’d had to pee for almost an hour. After informing Tammy, I rushed to the bathroom in the hallway. On my way back, a pair of arms wrapped around me.
“Hey, beautiful,” Green Eyes cooed. “They can live without you for ten minutes, can’t they?”
I turned in his arms, and he pressed me against the wall. My arms snaked around his neck, and his hands slid to my ass, pulling me against his crotch.
I shouldn’t have compared but . . . His hands had nothing on Ryker’s. Neither did his erection.
Dammit. Stop thinking about Ryker.I shut my eyes as Green Eyes’s lips landed on my neck. He left one hand on my ass and brought the other up, grazing my breast. My suggestion to move somewhere more private never happened because his touch disappeared.
My eyes opened in time to see Ryker throw him against the opposite wall, yanking him up by his collar so high the man’s feet kicked in the air.
I smacked his arm. “Ryker!” I might as well have done nothing. He didn’t budge.
“You and your friends get the fuck out. Don’t touch her again,” he snapped, pulling the guy away from the wall and shoving him back into it.
“Ryker, what the hell? He wasn’t assaulting me. I encouraged him!”
“Scarlett.” His low tone almost made me shiver. “Go to the front.”
“No, leave him alone!” I insisted, trying to pry Ryker’s hands off the poor guy.
Ryker ignored me, turning his glower to Green Eyes, who was stunned to silence. “I’m going to put you down. You’re going to walk out there, leave cash on the table, get your buddies, and get the fuck out. If I see you here again, if I see youlookat her again, I’ll beat the shit out of you. Got it?”
Green Eyes lifted his arms in surrender. “Got it, man. She’s yours.”
Ryker dropped him, and he stumbled to gain his footing, then scrambled out of the hallway. Anger surged through me, and I smacked Ryker’s arm hard enough he turned to glare at me.
“What the fuck is wrong with you!” I shoved him. “Why did you do that?”
A muscle in his jaw pulsed. “Careful, sugar.”
