Page 11 of Daddy's Little Foreigner

“A water,” he replied. “Please.”

She placed a cold water bottle in front of him and briefly looked him in the eyes.

“Thank you, Little one,” he said.

Her cheeks turned pink, and she walked away. Ah, he loved the way her cheeks reacted whenever he called her Little one or any endearing name.

He wondered what her other cheeks would look like pink, or even a nice rosy red. To know that he was the one to make them that way.

“So, is everything okay with the new bartender?” Leo asked.

Jaxson looked at him confused. What would be wrong with Sofia?

“Yes, why?” he asked.

Did Leo know something that Jaxson didn't know about Sofia? Was she a danger to the club and him?

He put that question away from his mind. Sofia couldn’t be a bad person. She didn’t have a mean bone in her body. Jaxson had a gut feeling about her, even though he didn’t know her very well or for that long.

“Well, you’ve been looking at her and talking to her a lot more,” he replied. “I wasn’t sure if the rest of us also needed to watch her and make sure she didn’t do anything.”

Jaxson shook his head. “No. I don’t talk to her a lot.”

Leo raised his eyebrow at him. Why was he doing that?

“You’re normally never down here unless you absolutely need to be. Then after you hired the new bartender, you’ve been down here a lot.”

“She has a name,” Jaxson said through clenched teeth. Leo kept calling her the new bartender and he didn’t like it, at all. Yes, she was new, but she had a name.

A beautiful name.

He chuckled. “Want to tell me what her name is?”

Jaxson wanted to keep it to himself, but he knew Leo was going to find out, anyway. He could just look in the system and figure out who the new hire was. Any of the owners could.

“Sofia is her name,” Jaxson finally said. “And I haven’t been down here a lot.”

“Don’t lie to yourself. We all hate it and you know it,” he replied.

Jaxson let out a sigh and looked over at Sofia. Hehadbeen coming down more frequently since she started working here. He couldn’t help it. There was something about her that was calling out to him, and he wanted to figure it out.

He needed to figure it out.

“Fine,” he said, looking at Leo. “I have been. But don’t come at me for that when you and Oliver have been glued to your phone for the past month.”

Leo chuckled. “Noticed that, have you?”

“You bet I have. You two are hardly on your phone and all of the sudden you can’t go without it. But, tell us when you want.”

“So, why are you around her more? Are you interested in her?”

“There’s something about her, but I’m also worried about her.”

Both of them looked at Sofia and Jaxson realized she was looking over at Charlotte and Janie. The longing look in her eyes as she watched them play together.

“Why?” Leo asked. “You’ve never been this worried about any of our other employees.”

“She just moved here a couple months ago. She doesn’t know anyone, and I want her to feel welcome. I want her to know that she has people in her corner, and people who want to be friends with her,” Jaxson replied.

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