to.”
I chuckled. “Nobody tells me what to do. I do what I want. I helped you because I wanted to, not because I wanted your permission or your thanks. Good thing, I guess, since I didn’t get either. I didn’t do it to be a good guy either.” I leaned down, closing the gap between our faces. Her eyes went wide under dark eyebrows. “I’m not a good guy. But I guess you knew that already.”
She breathed hard, heavy, through slightly parted lips. Thick, full lips. The kind a man wants to suck on until a woman cries out for more. The kind I imagined being sweet and soft and juicy. I licked my own lips just looking at her.
“Get away from me,” she whispered. She didn’t sound like she meant it, though, and she didn’t make a move. Her eyes were on my mouth, too. She watched me closely, gasping a little with every breath.
I needed to do it. I couldn’t help but take her by her tiny waist and pull her closer to me as my mouth met hers. I had to taste her. I had to know if she was as good as she looked. The first instant when our mouths met was electric. My cock sprang to life, aching for more of her.
I parted her lips with my tongue, and she sighed and melted against me as I explored the inside of her mouth. She was so sweet, and warm, and alive in my arms. Her hands found my shoulders. She gripped me hard, moaning a little in the back of her throat. I thrusted my hips toward her, rubbing my erect cock against her hip, and she moaned louder.
Then she gasped, pushing me away with more force than I thought a little thing like her would have. “What’s wrong with you?” she asked. From the way she breathed, I would have thought she’d just run a marathon. Her tits rose and fell as she panted for air. Her eyes were bright, her cheeks flushed. Her mouth was a little swollen from the rough way I had kissed her.
She sneered, wiping the back of her mouth with her hand. “Go to hell,” she spat.
I couldn’t explain why I felt disappointed. Something inside me went sour. I could only smile a little at her choice of words. “I’m already there,” I said, shrugging before I turned to leave the kitchen. The cook looked at me with wide eyes. He was still scared from that asshole being there. He had a right to be scared. I had a feeling, if Kara was telling the truth, that he could be a lot of trouble for all of us.
“There you are!” Chase saw me as I walked out of the kitchen. “I told you to go after her, not to do it right there in the kitchen. You couldn’t have waited a little bit?”
I looked around the table. Chase was the only person left. “Where did everybody go?”
“The already had their dessert. The other waitress, the cute little MILF-y thing, she brought out pie and cake. You were gone for a long time, brother.” He finally noticed the look on my face, and his smile disappeared. “What’s wrong? What happened back there?”
I wanted to brush it off, wanted to ignore her warnings. I couldn’t, though. “I think it was trouble,” I said.
Chapter Five
Kara
Darlene tried to get me to go home after the incident with Eric, but I wouldn’t leave. I couldn’t do without the tips, even though the Blood Bandits had left over a hundred dollars.
“You take half,” I urged her. “You delivered the dessert and cleaned up the plates and stuff.”
“You couldn’t help that,” she insisted, pushing the money toward me. “Please. Take it. You need it, honey. Stop being proud for a little while, okay?”
I couldn’t keep offering to give it to her, so I pocketed it with the promise to myself that I would do something nice for her at some point. She deserved it for being such a good friend.
The ironic part was it was such a quiet night I could’ve left without much of a dent to my take for the night. I only served a half dozen more tables, though I at least had the chance to sit and rest in between