Imperatrix

chapter 42

After a lot of begging, and convincing, and cajoling, and even hot steamy sex in the shower, Jack finally agreed to go on a date with Harry. It wasn’t exactly a date, she just agreed to meet him somewhere. She was that hard to convince. But she seemed to agree easily with anything he said when he was deep inside her and her brain was fuddled. Of course Harry used that to his advantage.

She had chosen the place to meet him. A dingy looking bar he wouldn’t have glanced at twice in passing. He awkwardly sat on a stool at the counter and looked around. It looked like the bar from Rango, and the people in it looked even worse. They all looked like they should be cuffed and taken straight to the station with no bail.

“Whisky please,” he said as he pulled out some bills from his wallet.

He sighed and stared at the whisky the bartender set in front of him. What if the glass wasn’t clean? He looked closer and blinked twice. Was that an ant floating in it? No, there was nothing. He was just seeing things and being paranoid. He glanced up to see the big burly bartender regarding him with a menacing eye.

Harry forced a smile and took the glass.

“Whatcha doin here boy? You are too finely dressed to be in a place like this,” the man said wiping the counter with a once white but now brown napkin.

“I’m, uh, waiting for my girlfriend,” he said swirling the liquor around in the glass.

Liar! A voice said in the back of his head. Anna wasn’t his girlfriend yet. He didn’t know what they were. He hadn’t asked and she hadn’t brought it up. They were just going on.

“In a place like this?” the bartender asked with a frown.

My thoughts exactly.

“She’s a bit… odd,” Harry spoke slowly.

“Is your girlfriend Molly?” he asked with raised brows.

“Who is Molly?” Harry looked confused.

“I’m Molly, darling,” a buxom woman suddenly appeared by his side, pressing her enormous breasts into his arm, “I heard my name. You called hun?”

Oh God, please back off!

Harry stiffened as he hurriedly pulled his arm away.

“Sorry, but I don’t know you.”

“Come on, I’ll let you pay me five dollars for five minutes.”

She licked her lips and he half gagged. Molly ran a finger down her neck down to her cleavage in an attempt to be enticing but he just felt irritated, honestly.

“No thank you,” he said staring into his cup like it was the most interesting thing on the planet.

But Molly didn’t seem to get the hint as she kept pressing herself closer and closer and he kept shifting away so he was now using half of his butt to sit. Any moment now and he would fall off.

Anna, where are you? He thought desperately as he tried to gently free his arm from Molly’s grip. She was half standing, half sitting on the stool with him.

“Here, take ten dollars and leave me alone. Maybe you can start a business with that,” he said kindly as he counted out the change from his wallet and stretched it out to her. Molly scoffed and took the money when suddenly her hair was yanked back harshly.

“Back off skank, he is mine,” a voice whispered furiously. Jack tugged on the blond locks until the woman had gotten off the stool, only then did she let go. Then she snatched the money out of her hands. “Now scram!”