Total pages in book: 68
Estimated words: 66642 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 333(@200wpm)___ 267(@250wpm)___ 222(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 66642 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 333(@200wpm)___ 267(@250wpm)___ 222(@300wpm)
Rachel was Greer’s sister, which had him wondering if she was working there by chance today, or was she working today because Greer asked her?
He had spent the day on pins and needles, waiting for what the dark star had warned them about to unfold.
“What’s wrong with you today?” Sophie asked, coming up to him. “You’ve been acting weird all day.”
“Have I? I guess my mind has been elsewhere.”
Giving her sensuous smile, he laughed when she gave him an angry glare back.
“Can you get your mind out of the gutter long enough for a refill?”
“I think you might want to do that yourself.”
Sophie turned in the direction of the customer. When her eyes came back to him, he gave her an innocent look.
“I’ll get it,” she said, lips pursed.
“I thought you might. She’s drinking sweet tea.”
“Of course she is.”
It was everything he could do to keep a straight face as Sophie went to the drink station. He loved seeing the spark of jealousy in her each time she saw Chasity.
She had nothing to be jealous about. That man-eating bitch was one of the few single women he hadn’t hooked up with. There was something manipulative about Chasity he couldn’t put his finger on, and he didn’t want to.
Jody watched as Sophie took Chasity her drink. After a few short words that he couldn’t hear, Sophie pivoted and came back with a furious expression on her face.
“Your ex wants your opinion on what she should order.”
“I don’t have any exes. I had hookups.”
His clarifying the situation only made Sophie angrier.
“Just go give her your opinion on what to order. Suggest something she can choke on.”
Inwardly, he was still laughing when he approached Chasity’s table.
“What can I get for you?”
“I was beginning to wonder if you were ignoring me.”
“There aren’t many men who could ignore you.”
“Then why haven’t you taken me up on any of my invitations to come over for dinner?”
“Chasity, when I had hookups in the past, I was very careful about the women I was with. There’s one type of woman who wasn’t worth the price to fuck.”
“What type of woman is that?” Her flirtatious attitude turned chilly.
“A bitch like you. A frostbitten dick isn’t worth the price of fucking you.”
“I’ll take the ticket, and I’ll take my business to King’s.” He wrote out her ticket, and she snatched it out of his hand.
“Personally, I’d go home and cook if I were you. King’s wife won’t be as polite as Sophie.”
The way she looked at him gave him the chills.
Sophie was waiting for Chasity at the register.
Admiring that Sophie was polite to the woman, Jody wrapped his arms around her waist.
“I’m impressed.”
“By what?”
“Your restraint.”
Noticing that Lily and Rachel had checked out while he was talking with Chasity, he took the opportunity to walk to the front of the restaurant and lock the door.
“We have forty-five minutes before I close.” Indignantly, she started busing where Lily and Rachel had been sitting.
“By the time we get everything ready for tomorrow, it will be.”
She didn’t argue.
Pitching in together, they unloaded the dishes that Ginny had put in the dishwasher before she had left for the day, loaded the remaining dirty dishes, mopped, and swept. Sophie was clearing the register when the phone rang.
Jody went to lock the back door while Sophie answered the phone. He came back as Sophie slammed the phone down. His eyebrows rose at the furious way she had ended the call.
“Who was that?”
Sophie looked at him with hurt and anger. “Chasity. She told me she’s pregnant.”
“Why did she call you to tell you she’s pregnant?”
“She thought I should know what kind of person you are. She said when she tried to tell you she was pregnant, you were nasty to her.”
“Was she inferring I was the father?”
“She didn’t infer anything. She came out and said so.”
“Chasity is lying.”
“I have no doubt she is.”
Relief flooded him that she believed him … until he saw her expression was still upset.
“You’re angry at me because she lied about me?”
“I’m angry because I have suckered myself into thinking we could have a future together. First Baylin, and now Chastity. How many women’s anger am I going to be the brunt of because you couldn’t keep your dick in your pants?”
Her gradually escalating voice had him wincing.
“Do you mind lowering your voice? I don’t want Greer coming over here. He’ll make us heat up the grill again. Let’s go home. We can talk about it—” He had to break off what he was saying when the phone rang again.
“If that’s Chastity, let me talk to her,” he growled as she answered the phone.
Jody could tell it wasn’t Chasity when Sophie began talking in a tearful voice.
“I’ll be there in fifteen minutes. Just wait,” she said, hanging the phone up.
“Who was that?”
“My parents.”
Reaching under the counter, she pulled her purse out.