Unfinished Business

Chapter Eighteen

So I guess I lied and won't be updating on Friday. I'm having a big family thing going on, so now is the only time I can update. Its crazy how its almost the end of the month... dang! Well here's the next chapter!

The evening when on pretty well. It was a fairly busy night, especially since it was a Sunday. I was having fun talking to the people who were drinking. I had a few businessmen look at me funny like they knew me from somewhere. I smiled at them and lied through my teeth when they asked if I was a Masters.

“I’m probably not who you think I am. I’m just a lowly barista trying to make a living. I can’t see myself working in a business. Also, I make that girl look like a child.”

They let it go and I just had to laugh. Dom also had to bite back his laugh whenever someone asked me. It was fun to be someone I’m not. When asked my name, I used ‘Jade’ as an answer.

I’ve had a few guys flirt with me and ask for my number. From the corner of my eye, I saw Joey with an angry look on his face. Whenever he was about to walk up to the bar to tell of the guys, Dom comes swooping in and starts off with his act.

“These men bothering you, babe?” Dom stands next to me, taller and has that possessive look in his features. He stares them down, looking at them like he could kill them with his look.

It’s so hard to keep a straight face when he acts like that. Keeping up with the charade, I look up at him and put my hand on his chest as if to calm him down. “No, babe, I’ve got everything handled here. If anything does happen, I’ll tell you,” I smile, trying to hold back my laugh.

Dom grunts and leans down to kiss my cheek, then turn back to serve his next customer. I see the guys look sheepish and now held back. I turn back to them and serve them their drinks. The flirting stops and they’d continue with a friendly conversation.

When I would serve the women, I could see that they would eye my partner in crime. It made me laugh inside. Sorry for them that he doesn’t roll that way. When Dom would get hit on, it was a funny sight. He’d play along with some, but when the girls get too annoying for him, he’d look to me for help.

I’d walk up to him, stand on my tiptoes and give him a peck on the cheek. The flirting girls would give me the stink eye, trying to tell me to leave him alone.

“Babe, you got a tip earlier. Maybe you could use it to treat me to dinner tomorrow.” I wink up at him as he holds back his laugh.

“Sure, babe, whatever you want,” he says.

When it slows down, we laugh out butts off. We were having way too much fun with this.

“I think you two are having way too much fun. Work shouldn’t be this entertaining,” Joey comes up to us, voicing out loud my thoughts.

“Oh lighten up, Joseph. Things are working out well. I keep the guys away from her while she helps me fend off the annoying women who want to get me into their beds,” Dom chuckles. I start laughing again while Joey shakes his head and checks his watch.