I grinned, “Rocks, two fingers please.”
The man at his side chuckled, “Names, Wolf. Darlin’, if I wasn’t already hooked on someone else, I’d give you a run for your money.”
I giggled, “Hey, Wolf. And if I weren’t a respectable woman, I’d take you from her.”
He winked.
Merlin slid my drink in front of me. I lifted it, tilted it to the two men, and then I drank it down.
Then I set the glass back on top of the bar and asked, “Another?”
When Merlin didn’t respond for a beat, I looked up at him.
A slow beaming smile spread across his face, then he shared, “Little lady, if I had been with anyone else other than my woman over the past thirty years, I could have sworn you were mine.”
Something deep inside of me warmed at his words.
But what I missed was Merlin telling Wolf something. Because Wolf took one look at me and left from behind the bar. But he was back in less than a few minutes.
Once he made my drink, he set it in front of me and shared, “For being cool as shit, that’s on the house.”
I nodded my head in thanks.
But... I missed something.
That was the man who had a deadly glint in his eyes, who had grey hair and the most mesmerizing sea green eyes I had ever seen, see something inside of me. And that man headed toward one direction in the clubhouse.
Me.
He poured me another round, and I threw it back.
And then... with my third round, I did what I always did.
I savored it.
That first sip was like finding the first drop of water in a desert.
And as the whiskey flowed down the back of my throat, burning as it went down, I thought about my life.
What life?I internally scoffed.
How sad was that?
I was officially twenty-four years old, never had a boyfriend.
Sure, I went out on dates.
Dates that my parents set up for me.
But a date was a date... wasn’t it?
Just then, I felt the hairs on the back of my neck stand up.
Normally, I wouldn’t have turned my head to look, but well... see, I had been sipping on my drink this whole time.
And Jack Daniel’s was the best whiskey to give you liquid courage.
Therefore, I turned my head.
