Page 6 of Suck This

Surely one would remember those brown eyes in that beautiful face.

“What else can I help you with?” the waitress asked as she placed the drinks down on the table.

I handed Abraham his, followed by Keisha’s.

Mine, I took as well.

Acadia’s, however, I handed back.

“Please ask the bartender to come here,” I ordered. “Place this on the bar next to the trash bin. Also, go see the general manager.”

The waitress frowned but ultimately did as I said without complaint.

Which was her only saving grace.

Render, please make sure the waitress that’s on her way to you is fired for doing something disgusting with a customer’s drink. Make sure she gets scrubbed, too.

Render’s ‘yes, sir,’ floated through the air to me, and I nodded once before returning to the conversation that was happening around me.

“What was wrong with it?” Acadia asked softly. “She spit in it, didn’t she?”

Worse… though I wouldn’t be telling her that.

“The glass was dirty,” I murmured.

It wasn’t a complete lie.

The glass had been dirty.

However, the vamp behind the bar had had a hand in the dirty glass, too.

Which was why the second the vamp, a young one named Luther, came close enough to the table, I grabbed him by the throat, pulled him down to me in a move so fast it would’ve been a blur to the human eyes around me, and hissed at the stupid man.

“That was your last and final straw,” I growled. “You will leave my bar. Then get in your stupid little car and leave my goddamn city. You will never return, because if you do, I’ll make sure you never see the night again. Do. You. Understand?”

Luther nodded, and I could smell his fear.

“Good.” I thrust him backward, which pushed him into the tables about twenty feet away.

“Render.”

I looked to the man weaving his way through the tables, anger still pounding in my veins.

“Yes, sir.”

Render picked up Luther by the shirt collar and started to drag him outside, all the while things went on as normal around me.

The club was used to my temper.

The woman at my side, however, was not.

She was scared.

I could tell that the minute I’d done it.

However, it wouldn’t do to have a vampire under me to disrespect me so publicly. I had to let any of the people paying attention know that I wasn’t a pushover.

Damn far from it.

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