Mickey Chambers Shakes It Up by Charish Reid

Author:Charish Reid
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2023-03-30T14:55:25+00:00

17

“You’re late,” Diego said from behind the bar.

Mickey stopped herself from rolling her eyes as she breezed past him, heading straight for the time clock. “I wanted to enter grades before coming in,” she called over her shoulder.

“Grades are up?” he shouted in a nervous voice.

She grinned as she punched in and tied her apron around her waist. “Yup.”

When she reappeared, Diego furiously wiped an already-clean bar with a white rag, determined not to meet her gaze. Even after yesterday’s lovely birthday celebration, and last night’s easygoing shift, it appeared that Diego was back on defense, looking gruff as ever. It didn’t matter, though. Mickey was happy to come to work all the same. Even if she still had a couple more weeks to prove she wouldn’t quit, yesterday’s birthday party helped her feel at home with the bar family.

“You gonna check your grade?” she asked coolly.

His shoulders tensed mid-wipe before slouching. He hung his head and let out a sigh. “Do I want to?”

Mickey opened her mouth to speak but was interrupted by Ollie, who rushed through the front door. “I know I’m late,” she said, half running to the time clock. “I had a thing.”

When Ollie disappeared in the back, Irene rushed in behind her. “Sorry I’m late, Boss!” she called, cutting the same rapid trail as Ollie had.

“Seems like all the women of this bar are losing all sense of time,” Diego barked to the kitchen.

“I had a thing!” Irene shouted back.

She and Diego caught each other’s curious gazes. She could tell he wanted to know more about the two women but wouldn’t speak on it. Mickey filed it away for another day. Right now, her student needed another pep talk about his studies. “You should check your grade,” she said, standing beside him. “It’s your first grade in how many years?”

He furrowed his heavy brow. “That’s why I’m not in a hurry,” he replied in his customary stiff tone. “I just have a feeling I fucked it up.”

“You won’t know until you find out,” she said, bumping his shoulder. “Until then, you’ll just stress yourself out, wondering if you’ve got the chops.”

Something flickered in his eyes before they softened. He scoffed before resting his elbows on the bar. “You think I got chops?”

He had what it took to finish her class and go on to the next. Diego Acosta was a solid writer. She wanted him to work on a few things, but he already had insight and eloquence. “Let’s just say, I wish you expressed yourself verbally as well as you do when you write.”

He raised a brow. “Yeah?”

Mickey nodded.

Diego finally pulled his phone from his back pocket and visited the grade portal for her class. While he did that, Mickey worked on serving one of their customers, a woman in her forties, who sat at a two-top with her laptop.

“Can I get another Bud Light. My tab is Keller,” she said, brushing her blond curls from her face. She placed her empty bottle on the bar before them.

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