#Chapter 18 – Bartending for you
Abby
Karl hands me a glass of water, and I take a few small sips.
I’m still a little drunk, but I feel better now that I’m away from the bar. Thank G od Karl was able to
teleport us out of there, even if it made me throw up the minute we appeared on his front lawn. Another
blessing, in retrospect, considering I feel a lot less dizzy than I did before.
“Why were you there by yourself?” Karl asks, sinking into the chair across from me.
He sounds a little mad, but I know his anger isn’t directed at me. Not completely, at least. I’m surprised
he didn’t tear that guy’s head off. If he had, I don’t think I would have felt the need to stop him. Just the
memory of those possessive hands on me makes me shudder.
I’m draped across Karl’s leather couch, my clutch abandoned on the floor beside me, and my heels
toppled over nearby. There are a few bruises on my wrist from where that guy grabbed me, and Karl’s
eyes keep lingering there, his gaze darkening.
“Leah was with me,” I say.
“I didn’t see her.”
I shrug and place my glass on the ground. “She went off with some guy.”
“Good friend.”
“I told her it was okay,” I admit. She offered to stay with me, but I didn’t want to hold her back from
having fun. It was s tupid, but I thought I’d be alright by myself.
He shakes his head, his jaw clenched. “I’ve never seen you that drunk.”
“I don’t usually get that drunk.” And I’m not too interested in getting that drunk again. Feeling dizzy and
slightly nauseous is never fun. Neither is throwing up on your ex-husbands perfectly manicured lawn
while he holds your hair.
I decide to change the subject before he decides to scold me. “Why were you hanging around there?”
“For fun, I guess.” He doesn’t sound convinced. I wonder if someone else dragged him there. His
cousin maybe.
seem like less of a workaholic than you used to be. I could never get you to
were married.”
a new restaurant, but he
the time to do something
of some sort of
precarious position back then,” he says.
things now than I used
prefer to be working?”
seems to weigh what he wants
for the Alpha party,”
more work
everything. I know that now.” Something vulnerable comes
me, more open than he has in a while. I’ve gone over the last months of
a million times in my head, and a part of
to myself at the time. He stopped being
“Do you?”
He looks down at his lap. “You’re just as important to me.”
on his
wants to believe him, but I don’t know how
with your employees. I wanted to
he did. I’d be more surprised if he didn’t butt into my
ask, resigned. There’s no point in passing
get involved.
buying reviews on social media. I also
a direct copy of
information to sink in. My
myself, but tears
to do,” I admit, my voice a little shaky. He doesn’t
I need to say. “I have no employees. I can’t open my restaurant with
all the cooking, someone has to man the front desk and wait tables and
weeks to hire and
of my hand. “It just–” I take a deep breath. “It
me. I don’t want to lose my
cry harder. It feels
Karl sits down. He puts
to be okay,” he says in a low voice. “You’ll figure it out, and
if you’ll let me.”
I nod, sniffling.
you a drink,” he
wipe off my cheeks and
to the bar cart in the corner and gets out the shaker. A moment later, he
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