Bruised by Stacy Gail

Author:Stacy Gail [Gail, Stacy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: billionaire hero, alpha male, Contemporary romance, cowboy romance, Protective hero, sassy heroine
Publisher: Stacy Gail
Published: 2019-05-23T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

“You know what’s crazy?” Manny slid one clean shot glass after another onto the shelf behind the bar. It was a slow night, with only a couple customers scattered throughout The Dive. “Free jazz. No tempo, no form. It shouldn’t even be called jazz. It should be called noise. Then it wouldn’t be so confusing, because people would know it’s not actually jazz.”

“You’re in rare form tonight, Manny.” Imogene Flores sat perched at the end of the bar as usual, watching him with a smile. “What’s got you so lively?”

“It’s almost midnight on a quiet Thursday night, and so far we haven’t been hit with the Brody plague,” Manny announced, then nodded his farewell to the school principal, who threw down a couple bills on the bar before heading for the exit. “If they’re gonna show, they’ve usually done it by now. Since they’re weird aggie types, they’re probably all snug in their golden emperor beds with their silk sheets tucked nice and cozy around them, dreaming of dollars on the hoof while the little people toil away, doing all the work.”

“I’m one of those little people, and I’m paid a damn fine salary.” Dallas threw an irritated glance over her shoulder while she played Lady Antebellum’s “Need You Now” on the old upright, the lyrics of soul-deep longing echoing in her head. And I don’t know how I can do without... “The Brodys aren’t that bad, Manny. You should get to know them, find out who they are. All anyone in town knows is their name and their net worth, but no one really sees them as just people.”

“I know they grab whatever they want,” Manny said, looking aggrieved. “You’re living proof of that. Or have you forgotten how you came to be in Bitterthorn?”

Dallas sighed. She was going to rue the day she’d ever told him that story, she just knew it. “I was coming here anyway.”

“Doesn’t matter. Though it does show what a good person you are.”

“If I’m such a good person, maybe you should believe me when I tell you that they’re nice people. Though you’ll probably have the same reaction that Killian had when I told him that you were a nice person and he should give you a chance,” she added dryly, making sure he saw her spectacular eye-roll before she turned back to the piano. Let him chew on that for a while.

“Wait just a damn minute.” Manny’s voice sizzled with indignant outrage. “Killian Brody doesn’t think I’m a nice person?”

“Why would he think you’re nice? You bitch at him every time he walks through the door.”

“Because he breaks shit and tosses my customers into the parking lot.”

“He pays for the shit he breaks, and my ass hasn’t been pinched since he threw that last guy out, so basically he saved you from the trouble of me quitting on you.”

“Doesn’t think I’m nice.” Out of the corner of her eye, Dallas saw him stare at Imogene, bug-eyed. “Can you believe that motherfucker

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