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paper, and she smiled her appreciation. “Thanks, handsome.” She ruffled his hair, and then came back over to me.
    “So, are you from here?” I asked, curious.
    “Oh, yeah. I’m a lifer. Born and raised and will probably never leave.”
    “You love it that much?”
    Tara laughed, and it was vibrant like her. “Oh, God no. It’s just every time I’ve tried to get the hell out of here, something prevented it from happening. It’s like a black hole, always sucking me back in,” she chided
    “You’re still young,” I said, guessing she was my age if not a year or two older. “You still have time.”
    “It’s a nice thought, but why think about it, you know? You can’t change the past or predict the future. But what you can do is live in the now. Ain’t that right, Dec?”
    Declan stopped putting fries in the fryer and nodded. “You know it.”
    “And right now, I have tips to make.” She reached into her bra, and adjusted her cleavage so they were center of attention. She then cupped them, and gave them a good push up. “Girls, let’s make momma some money tonight.”
    I was about to ask her if Jaxon ever gave her shit for her attire when the devil himself walked in.
    Jaxon stopped in front of us, and crossed his arms. “I’m not paying you to chitchat.”
    Tara tilted her head. “Someone woke up on the wrong side of the bed today.”
    Jealousy twisted into a curious ball in my mind. What did Tara know about Jaxon’s bed? Any guy would be crazy not to want her, and she seemed like the type of girl who got what she wanted. Did she ever want Jaxon?
    “He’s been like this all night,” Declan said from behind the grill.
    “Let me guess,” Tara said, tapping her lips. “Gary broke something? He gave away free drinks to a cute girl?”
    “No! For once, Gary didn’t do anything. I’m just...” Jaxon ran his hands through his hair then looked up almost pleading with Tara in a single glance. “Can you please just get to work?”
    “Well, when you put it like that.” She swiped up her bill book, and strutted something fierce out the door.
    I envied her confidence.
    “That goes for you too,” Jaxon said. “This isn’t going to work if I have to keep telling you what to do.”
    Thinking of my earlier plan, and how I wanted to turn the tables, I took a page from Tara, and strutted over to where he stood. I leaned against him—stealing his infamous move—pressing my tits against his side, and whispered against his ear. “I thought you liked to tell me what to do. Or is that only in the bedroom?”
    I pulled back, and locked eyes with him for the briefest of seconds, just enough to see the desire flash through his alluring dark irises then I walked away. My only hope was that I left him rock hard and wanting just like all those times he left me soaking wet and needy.

Chapter 5
    Monday night was my first night off since I started working at Baile’s. I lounged on the couch with Dee as we watched some awful reality TV show that we got sucked into five episodes ago. It was Housewives of… something
    “Do you think her husband’s cheating on her?” Dee asked as she took a sip from her wine glass.
    “Why wouldn’t he be? She’s horrible, and clearly only with him for the money!” I exclaimed.
    Dee rolled her eyes, and gave my shoulder a playful shove. “You’re such a romantic.”
    “What can I say, I’ve been tainted.”
    “But you’re working with Jax now. How’s that going?” Dee lifted her perfectly waxed eyebrow, and gave me the look that said she wanted every little detail.
    “It’s going,” I said, and took a gulp from my glass. I let the wine do its job and calm me down before I said too much. I never told Dee about me and Jaxon’s last time together. It was her wedding night after all, and then she was on her honeymoon. By the time she got back, I didn’t want to cry about it anymore, so I let it go. Moved on. Until I walked into his bar.
    “That’s all? I find that