Jack & Coke (The Uncertain Saints Book 2) by Lani Lynn Vale Read Free Book Online

“Normally just after lunchtime. Around two or so. I’m guessing he comes straight from his weekly golf game because it’s not often that I don’t see him decked out in his golfing attire.”
    “That tomorrow?” He asked me.
    I nodded. “It’s a first come, first serve system. We don’t make appointments, so I just assume he’s coming. But he hasn’t missed one in three months.”
    Mig smiled. “Well, then I guess I’ll see you at lunch tomorrow.”

Chapter 6
    I hate being sexy, but I’m a bearded man. I can’t help it.
    -Mig to Annie
    Mig
    “This better not get me into trouble,” she muttered to the man currently sitting on the counter in front of me.
    Griffin shrugged, and the other man occupying her barber chair spun around for the fourth time.
    Ridley stopped to study himself in the mirror.
    “Do you think I could use a cut?” He asked the group as a whole, fingering his shaggy hair.
    Nobody said anything.
    Ridley was what you would call ‘sensitive’ about his hair.
    Although it wasn’t overly styled, his blonde hair always fell a certain way.
    It never went over an inch and a half in length, and rarely ever did I see it a mess.
    We all secretly thought he had some kind of issue with his hair.
    Some sort of fetish having to do with his locks, but none of us ever asked.
    We were all in the front of Annie’s store, Uncertain Salon and Massage .
    Griffin was sitting next to his wife on top of the counter next to the register.
    Ridley occupied the lone barber chair, and I was sitting next to Annie on the couch.
    We weren’t touching, but we were close.
    I was, however, very aware of her body.
    Aware of how her body heat, however slight it was, felt like it was burning me.
    I wanted to run my hand up the side slit of her skirt to see what kind of panties she had on underneath the frilly, gauzy slip of fabric.
    She was wearing a hot pink halter top that barely confined her beautiful breasts, and to top it all off, she was shoeless.
    Her toes were painted a hot pink, and I wanted nothing more than to lick her from the tips of those toes all the way up to her lips.
    My hand came down on the chair between us touching the toes in question.
    She didn’t move, and neither did I.
    Although the touch was innocent, I wondered if she could feel the promise.
    It may only be her feet right now, but after I was officially divorced, which hopefully would only take a couple more days since it paid to know people in high places, she would be mine.
    It may make me sound like a complete jack wad, but I couldn’t help it.
    I’d wanted Annie since she’d moved in next to me. And now that I’d finally allowed myself to complete the final papers for filing an annulment between Jennifer and me, I knew things were about to change between us.
    When my parents had divorced, I’d made a promise to myself, that if a child was ever involved, I would go out of my way to make things work between the mother and me.
    I would never put my child in the middle.
    And over the last six months, I’d tried.
    Oh, how I’d tried.
    But this was no way to live.
    This would never work for us.
    Jennifer had wronged me greatly, and I’d allowed it.
    There was no way I could build a relationship with her after what she did to me
    Annie had helped me see that just by asking a few innocent questions.
    Questions that my club brothers asked me on a daily basis.
    But finally listening to it from someone who was in my life but who hadn’t been around during that time had been an eye-opening experience had definitely hammered home how stupid I was being.
    And I was about to be free for the first time in long months.
    “This isn’t going to get you in trouble, Annie,” I said with patience. “It’s not like I’m going to talk to him while he’s getting a massage.”
    I was lying.
    That was what I was planning to do.
    She didn’t need to know that, though.
    Being naked made a person feel a certain vulnerability, and I wanted to get this over