Witness Protection by Morgan Paris

Author:Morgan, Paris
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: anonymous
Published: 2021-07-17T16:00:00+00:00

I spent two hours watching her and sipping on a beer. From all appearances, she loved her job. There was some harmless flirting with the guys and gals around her, but she turned down any offers to dance from most of the patrons with a smile.

It was impressive how she changed hats from being the bartender to waitress as she worked the room to keep everyone happy.

Scanning the room as I watched the bartender, I met Stephanie’s gaze by accident. The sneer that crossed her face as she noticed where my gaze had been on the bartender was filled with anger.

Realizing that now might be a good time to escape to the restroom, I motioned I’d be back and tipped my stool so no one would take my spot.

There wasn’t a good reason to avoid my friends and Stephanie, it was just that I didn’t really want any drama.

Nearing midnight when I returned after waiting as long as I could or rather hiding as long as I could, I came out to find the pool table empty and my friends are gone.

“Did you want another beer?” Her voice at my elbow saved me from searching the room to find her.

“Yeah, thanks.” I wasn’t sure how to get things going that wasn’t a complete come on.

“What’s your name, ma’am?” As far as conversation starters went it wasn’t the worse that I’d ever come up with.

“Allie.” She smiled, “Oh, the girl you were with earlier said to give you a message if you ever came out from hiding in the restroom.”

“She hopes you find the right type of girl to take care of you. God knows it’s going to take a tough one to knock you off that horse you rode in on.” She delivered the message with a straight face.

“Oh, God. I feel so bad.” I swiped a hand over my face in regret. “It’s not like we dated. She wanted to, but I couldn’t get her to understand that wasn’t what I wanted.”

It was important to me that Allie didn’t think I was sleeping with one girl and then dumping her for the next one a kind of guy.

“Hmm,” Allie mumbled non-committally as if it was the same old thing she’d heard before.

“We had nothing in common, but for some reason, she thought we would be a good match. I’ve been trying to let her down gently for weeks and finally decided that it was time to honest even if that hurt her feelings. I was horrible, wasn’t I?”

“Way to, Justin. Put another girl down so that this one won’t think you’re a jerk.” I wanted to slap myself for being so stupid.

“Don’t feel too bad, she needs to take that stick out of her butt if she wants to catch a guy. It’s not like you can force someone to like you. It’s either there or it’s not.” She shrugged, “Here’s that beer. It’s on me this time.”

Money in hand she rang it up and paid for it before moving onto another customer.

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