Intoxicated || An Eminem Fanfiction

Chapter 5

Leila POV

"So what's the play tonight? Are you going the old school flirt across the bar, bat your eyelashes"

I touched up my lipstick in the review mirror.

"Yeah, he's a tough case so I'm gonna have to go all-in" I sighed out of frustration" Okay so there is a great corner where you will get all angles"

He was proving to be one of the hardest cases I've ever been hired to work on, he was great at covering his tracks but I just had a feeling something was off.

"Right, hopefully, tonight we'll get what we want"

I checked my blonde wig in the mirror.

"Are you ready?"

"As I'll ever be," Marc said getting out of the car and walking ahead of me, so we didn't enter together, and taking his spot by the bar on the other side to start with surveillance.

I take a seat at the other end of the bar, where I'm in Jakes's view, and wait, ordering a drink for myself.

"You would have to be the only woman that looks confident drinking alone" I hear Marc mumble through my earpiece "That's possibly one of the most dangerous things about you, yet concerning"

I send him a glare across the bar for cc'ing the smile down, taking a sip of my drink.

Asshole.

I look up and meet Jakes's gaze and send him a seductive smile and wink at him.

He just nods back politely and instantly looks away, looking in Marc's direction and then back down, calling the bartender over.

No lingering gaze.

That's an unusual reaction.

I look at Marc and we exchange confused glances.

I get up and move closer, taking a seat next to Jake, sitting so that all my best assets are in view, crossing my legs toward him, so that my legs were on show.

"Hi, I couldn't help but notice you are alone, mind if I join you?"

Jake turns to me and looks at me, he looks slightly... uninterested "Sure, it's a free country"

This is going to take longer than we initially thought, he's one tough act.

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A bunch of small talk later, and that's exactly all it was, small talk.

He didn't get handsy.

Or flirty.

I had begun to think we had gotten everything wrong.

"I'm going to the bathroom" I hear Marc announce "Use the safe phrase if you need me"

Marc got up and left the bar and walked in the direction of the restrooms.

"Excuse me," Jake said not long after and headed towards the restroom also.

"Uh Hi" I hear Marc's voice continue as I hear another male voice though the piece "Just was waiting on some friends, but they had to raincheck as they got stuck at work"

"Would you like to join me for a drink?" I hear the second male voice say, who I now recognize as Jake's "I would appreciate it, I would much prefer your company over that woman that's joined me, I find you much more attractive, if it's not too bold of me to say"