straight cut jeans. The muscles in his broad chest can be clearly seen through the material, he’s not as stocky as Jace and he has more of a lean body but nevertheless he has muscles in all the right places.
He has beautiful green eyes similar to Caleb’s but lighter. He has brown curly hair and is definitely a “pretty boy”, Jesse reminds me a lot of Caleb and the clean cut good looking boy he was. I quickly shut all thoughts of Caleb down and look back up at Jesse who’s smiling at me now, he must have caught me staring. I hand him the glass trays and walk past him with my head down trying to hide my rosy cheeks, I hold the door open for him to walk through.
He chuckles as he passes by and I follow him into the bar, I notice Anna has opened the bar and a couple of people are already seated by the bar and a few of the tables.
“So aren’t you going to introduce me to the new girl ?” Jesse says completely ignoring me speaking to Anna as she pours drinks and places them on a tray for him.
“Jesse , this is my daughter Harley.” Anna says proudly, I can tell she loves calling me her daughter and it makes me happy, I watch as his eyes widen with realization.
“You ’re Harley? Thee Harley?” he says pointing to the pink Harley model mounted on the wall holding my name.
“Yes , I’m thee Harley.” I say mimicking his awe filled expression.
“ Wow, so good to finally meet you babe. I’m Jesse and it looks like your daddy is going to be using that baseball bat tonight.” He says pointing to the bat mounted under the bar.
“F uck, going to have a hard time keeping these horny college boys away from you. “ Jesse says as he takes the tray from Anna and walks away.
The night has been going smoothly so far and I’ve already caught the hang of things, a few guys also flirted with me and luckily all of them have kept their hands to themselves. I’ve noticed both Jesse and Anna have been keeping a protective eye on me and apart from all the flirting that’s been coming my way from drunk college guys ,I’ve been having a great night so far.
“Harley?” I jump at the sound of Jace’s voice in my ear, I turn to see him checking me out with wide eyes.
“Hey! Haven’t seen you all day.” I wait for him to respond but he continues to stare from my toes to my eyes, looking at me as if he’s filled with surprise.
“Jace! Stop that…” I playfully push his arm and he chuckles and puts his heavy arm over my shoulder protectively.
“ You boys all finished with that meeting?” I ask him removing myself from his arm before walking back to the bar with empty glasses. He follows me making sure to keep his eyes on me.
“What are you wearing? Annalie did this to you right?” he ignores my questions and walks up to me, takes the tray from my hands, places it on the bar nearby then corners me up against the wall with both of his hands on either side of my head.
“W…what are you doing? What’s wrong with the way I’m dressed? Is it too skanky?” I say tugging my shorts lower as my lack of confidence rises.
“No baby you look sexy as fuck, any of the se guys given you trouble or tried anything with you?” he says looking me over and biting his lip making me tremble beneath his lust filled stare. He knows what he’s doing to me, this is probably how he gets the girls to bed…not that he has to try hard.
“No Jace and I can handle it myself if I need to. Move… I need to get back to work.” I say shoving past him, as I walk passed him he grabs me around my waist and brings me up against his chest as his arms wrap around my stomach.
He whispers in my ear, “If any of these guys give you shit, find me babe and I’ll deal with them.” He kisses my cheek and let’s go. I don’t say anything and turn to walk away but he grabs my wrist and pulls me against him again.
“Did you hear me Harley? Answer me…” he says through grated teeth.
“Yes Jace , I heard you, can I go back to
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