Fight Dirty (Blood, Sweat & Kisses Book 1) by Cassie Mint

Author:Cassie Mint [Mint, Cassie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Black Cherry Publishing
Published: 2023-02-23T00:00:00+00:00

Seven

Casey

Saturday nights in the Blue Flamingo are always a little wild. It’s the weekend, and all the men in expensive suits and well-heeled ladies are blowing off steam. The air’s different too, hot and muggy from all the extra bodies in the room, shimmering with tension.

These people want to drink, fight and screw. In that order.

Even the snobby folks turn to animals on the weekend, designer wristwatches be damned.

The boss gives us livelier music on Saturdays—songs with a heavy beat and a faster tempo. I dance a little as I sing, shimmying my shoulders, the beads on my flapper dress sparkling in the lights.

Someone wolf whistles. The conversation is loud, punctuated by bursts of laughter.

I gulp down half a glass of water between songs, blinking in the blinding lights.

This time last week, I shook like a leaf in a gale all through my Saturday set, but tonight, I’m calm. Jax is out there. I’m fine.

He’s been glued to my side for the last five days, only leaving to grab a few changes of clothes and to check in on The Corner. He’s got some guy called Dawson running the place while he’s gone, and though I said he didn’t need to put his whole life on hold for me, Jax just gave me this look.

“You’re more important, Casey,” he grumbled, scowling like he was mad about it. Or maybe just mad that I didn’t get it yet. “I’m not going anywhere until you’re safe.”

So. Yeah. I’ve got my own knight in faded jeans. He’s wearing a black Henley tonight, tattoos wrapping around his corded forearms, and though I’m so grateful for Jax’s protection… I’m dying here.

Every time he so much as glances in my direction, my belly twists and heat pools between my legs. Whenever his deep voice rumbles an instruction, my nipples bead and my cheeks flush. And that kiss.

I can’t stop thinking about it.

Lord, I’m such a weenie. Whenever we’re home alone at my place, bedding down for the night, all I want to do is crawl on top of the mattress and beg him to mount me like a wild animal. Instead, I’ve been stress baking cupcakes with pink and blue frosting, and spending way too long out on the fire escape, cooling my face in the breeze.

“Casey, ladies and gentlemen!” one of the musicians calls into his mic, and I wave before scurrying off the stage at the end of my set. The sound of the next act being introduced follows me all the way into the backstage area of the club, where the lights are dim and the sounds of the crowd are muffled.

I can hear my own breathing again. My heels click against the floor.

The ladies’ dressing room is empty. Jackets hang on pegs around the walls, and pairs of sneakers have been shoved beneath the benches.

Jax is here, I remind myself as shivers race across my skin. He won’t let anything bad happen to me.

He’s probably hunkered on a stool by the bar, nursing a bubbly water and glaring at the nearest suit with pure disdain.

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