Investment In Lust by Rebecca Joanne

Author:Rebecca Joanne [Joanne, Rebecca]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Rebecca J. Books
Published: 2018-06-09T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

Philomena

I stood at the front door, looking over the very place that had started all of this. It seemed like only yesterday I was dancing seductively to whatever tune was thumping out of the speakers. The cracked window had been repaired and the floors were newly waxed, bringing out the luster of the dark hardwood.

Galway Bay.

The name at the top of Liam’s contact list was Rachel. The head bartender and manager for the place. He had given me a window of opportunity to speak to her in private without his knowledge by mentioning he had a prior engagement that couldn’t be rescheduled. And I figured if I was going to learn as much about Liam Walsh as I needed in order to step up my game, his heart and soul was a good place to start.

I could smell stale beer when I opened the door. They weren’t open, but there was one regular patron sitting there, nursing a long neck bottle and staring at the way that a woman was bent over the bar. I had a feeling she already knew she had unwanted attention.

“I’ll be right with you,” she said. “We’re not open, but I’m sure you can twist my arm for a drink.”

She was a breath of fresh air, and she didn’t mind titillating her audience with flashes of skin. I could hear the pride in her voice she had for the place, and already she had me on her side. I took a few tentative steps towards the bar before I stopped, taking in my surroundings.

I was standing in the exact location where Liam and I had that crowd cheering us on.

I tensed as music filled my ears. The bar came alive before my very eyes as I stood there with the memory of Liam’s hand between my thighs. He was no Fred Astaire that night, but he had moves that would make Mick Jagger proud.

“Can I help you?”

Her voice ripped me from my trance before my eyes fell to her shirt. ‘Rachel’ was stitched in terrible stitching along her breast, automatically drawing my eye to the curves this woman donned. I recognized women like her instantly. Women who didn’t worry about flaunting what they had to make a living. Kindred spirits, her and I.

“I’ll have whatever you have on tap along with some advice of the lovelorn variety. I could use a sympathetic ear to lean on,” I said.

“Then belly-up and talk to your local therapist about your problems,” she said.

Liam’s photograph was over the bar, and he was wearing a Boston Bruins ball cap and leather jacket signed by the entire team. Something else the two of us had in common. Hockey was my sport of choice. There was nothing like a majestic scene of burly men ice skating in wearing tight pants and slamming into one another.

“So? Tell me your troubles,” Rachel said as she sat a pint down in front of me.

“I’m getting to know this guy, and he’s hard to read. Closed off.

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