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didn’t think he’d meant for it to fall off the other side of the table, but when no one stopped it, it slid off the edge and smashed on the ground. For a second, all four boys, and Kelly, looked at it in surprise, as if there was something surprising about a sliding mug falling to the ground, and then the boys, simultaneously, started laughing.
    “I guess you’ll have to bend over and clean that up,” one of them said.
    “Good thing you’re wearing a skirt.”
    “Shame it isn’t a little shorter.”
    Elle turned to Grace. Gracie looked back and sighed. “I can’t turn them away. I need the business.”
    “Are they always like this?”
    “Ever since Kelly broke up with the tall one there, Phil, the ring leader, a little while back.”
    “He’s being awful to her,” Elle said.
    “They’re a bunch of spoiled little shits,” Gracie said. “That one on the end, his father’s the mayor, the one who broke the mug, Phil, is the son of the sheriff, the other two’s dads are bigwigs too. The county judge, and the district attorney.”
    Elle nodded. “I see,” she said, and grabbed a mop and broom to help Kelly.
    When the boys saw her approach, they didn’t hold back. They threw everything they had at her.
    “Oh, Kelly, baby, who’s your new friend?”
    “Your new lover,” another added.
    “You two a couple of lesbians?”
    “Dykes,” another corrected.
    “Wouldn’t stop me from stuffing them,” the first added.
    Elle tried not to let her temper get the better of her. Grace had said she needed their business, even if they were abusive pricks, and Elle had no intention of letting Grace down. Not on her first day on the job.
    As she bent over to pick up the pieces of broken glass, she felt a cold hand on her ass. She swung around to face the culprit.
    “What the fuck?” she demanded.
    The boy held up his hands in mock apology. “Whoa there, we’ve got a live one here, fellas.”
    Elle wanted to slap him in the face but she restrained herself. She swallowed her anger and helped Kelly finish the cleanup, then she went back to the counter to help get rollups and menus. It was Kelly’s table but she wasn’t going to abandon her new friend to them. If she helped Kelly, the job would be done twice as fast, with less opportunity for humiliating either of them. Kelly noticed, and touched Elle on the shoulder when they brought the order back to Grace.
    “Thanks, Elle.”
    Elle looked her in the eye. “You’ve got my back, I’ve got yours.”

Chapter 6
    Elle
    T HE FOUR BOYS DIDN’T SHUT up until their mouths were full. It was a relief to Elle when they finally brought out the orders and the boys could divert their attention to their food instead of to the waitresses.
    “Ketchup,” one of the boys demanded through a mouthful of hamburger.
    “Certainly,” Elle said, keeping a fake smile on her face as she went to get it.
    As she returned, a new customer arrived. Kelly made a face. It had already been a long shift and the two girls still had a few more hours of dinner to get through before they could flip the sign and knock off for the night. Elle knew that every new customer was going to get that same grimace from Kelly and she considered sending her friend home and trying to take the dinner rush on her own. She had no doubt it had been a while since Kelly’s last night off, but she wasn’t sure she could handle the whole dinner on her own. They only had the five customers right now, but it might get a lot busier later.
    She looked outside and already could see traffic picking up on the street as people clocked off work. It would be dark in half an hour too.
    “Sit anywhere you like,” she said to the new customer, and then, looking up, got a proper look at him for the first time.
    He was the exact opposite of the four boys she and Kelly had been dealing with for the last half hour. He was tall and broad, with dark stubble and a mess of hair. He seemed about thirty, and while the four at the