Page 38 of Holiday Friend Zones
“What’s that?”I brush my thumb along her bottom lip.
“I have the day off tomorrow.”
“Thank fuck.”
I give her another easy kiss and pull back because the last thing I need is to be popping a boner while I’m working.I’d never hear the end of it from the guys around me.
“I’m glad the conversation went well.”
She picks at the label on her beer bottle.“Me too.Because as much as I like you, Chase, she’s my best friend.I don’t know what I would do if I didn’t have her in my life.”
“I’m glad we don’t have to worry about that.She’s too important to both of us to screw that up.”
“Max can’t lose Uncle Chase.Not when that bag of dicks of a father is walking out.”
“Can I punch him?”I ask.“Seriously.What an ass.”
“Get in line.Uncle Chase and Aunt Rylee are going to be spending a lot of time with Max,” Rylee says.
“You got that right.”
The two of us have always been Uncle Chase and Aunt Rylee, but hearing it together?It sounds pretty damn good.Hell, we just started this thing and I’m already thinking about forever.
One of the people riding the bull comes over to order a drink and I make it, showing off a bit for the woman sitting close by.I don’t miss the way her eyes stay locked on me the entire time.
By the time I’m handing the drink off and going back to her, she’s grinning like a fool.
“Are you just going to sit here and stare at me all night?”
“Do you have a problem with that?”
I flex my biceps under my T-shirt.“Apparently I need to put on a show for you then.”
She groans before taking a long swig of her beer.“Then you are going to have one horny woman waiting for you when you get done tonight.”
I snort.“You’re going to have to cool it for a while.We cannot keep having sex at the bar because you can’t wait.”
“You say that like it’s a bad thing.”
Fuck, now I really am going to get a boner.Hell, I’m going to think about what the two of us did here last night every time I come into the bar.
Leaning across the bar, my words ghost her lips.“I promise, I’ll make it worth the wait, Honey.”
“You better, Cowboy.”
It’s definitely going to be worth the wait.Because I’d wait forever if it meant I got Rylee Clarke.
ChapterEight
CHASE - NINE MONTHS LATER
Why is it that every time Rylee comes to the bar, I get nervous?I shouldn’t be.Things have been even better than ever these last couple of months with her.If we’re not working, we’re spending all of our free time together.
It’s pretty damn perfect.
I know she’s going to say yes to my question, but it still makes me anxious.
I closed the bar early tonight and sent everyone home.I don’t want anyone else around for this.
