Zeke (The Powers That Be, Book 2) by Harper Bentley Read Free Book Online

good look at
him, I had to do a double take because he looked a lot like
Zeke.
    “What’s up,
little brother?” Zeke asked.
    Another
brother? Dang. I looked up at Zeke and he grinned down at me.
    “Scarlett,
this is my brother Gable. Gable, Scarlett.”
    Gable held his
hand out to me across the counter. When I took his, he leaned down
and kissed the top of mine.
    “Watch it,”
Zeke warned which made Gable chuckle as he let my hand go and stood
straight. Zeke looked around. “Scout working tonight?”
    “Nah, but
she’ll be in to pick up her check in a bit. I think she’s just
using that as an excuse to come see me, though, because I could
just bring it to her after I get off work. Guess she can’t stay
away too long ‘cause I’m irresistible, you know.” Gable grinned,
and, damn, these Powers guys were just something else. I hadn’t
gotten a good look at Ryker, but I’m sure he had a panty-melting
grin too.
    “Irresistible
in the way shit’s irresistible to flies, maybe,” Zeke muttered.
    “Fuck off,”
Gable said back, but he was smirking and when I looked at Zeke, I
saw that he was too. God, guys were so weird. Gable set some
coasters in front of us and looked at Zeke raising an eyebrow. “The
usual?” At Zeke’s nod he looked at me.
    “Big Sky Moo…”
I started.
    “Big Sky Moose
Drool? Hell yeah, Scarlett!” Gable said with a grin and a nod. Then
looking at his brother he said, “This one…” he nodded toward me,
“she’s a fucking keeper.” He raised his eyebrows at Zeke in an “I’m
serious” way then turned to get our beers.
    And of course
my face was now burning hot with embarrassment.
    “Well, you’ve
got his approval… which isn’t all that hard to do,” Zeke muttered
with a chuckle as he flipped his coaster over in his hands a couple
times.
    Now wait a
minute. Was that an insult to me or his brother? Since I couldn’t
tell, and I felt the comment was kind of mean to either of us, I
blurted, “Oh, well, since he approves of me, I guess that gives me
an option of which brother I’ll be leaving with then.”
    Oops. Had I
just said that? But what he’d said was a tad shitty.
    But it clearly
didn’t faze him. He gave me his half-grin and asked, “Yeah? You in
for a threesome?”
    And I froze.
Oh, no. He had to be kidding. Please let him be kidding. I frowned
and pushed away from the bar, standing. “I, uh…” I needed to leave.
No way in the actual fuck was I going through this shit again. No
fucking way. God, men were dicks. I knew I was probably
overreacting, but that stuff tended to stick with you if you’d had
it happen three damned times . When I glanced at him I saw
the concern on his face at my response, so I checked my anger and
taking a deep breath asked where the restroom was. He pointed to
the right, and grabbing my purse, I left him sitting there probably
completely confused.
    I calmed
myself as I walked, telling myself he was probably kidding, but,
really how did I know for sure? I also chastised myself for
agreeing to this in the first place. Stupid. Once inside the
bathroom, I pulled my phone out and called Jayla.
    “How’s it
going?” she answered excitedly.
    “I can’t do
this, Jay.”
    “Do what,
Scar?” I now heard the disappointment in her voice.
    I knew this
was stupid, knew Zeke had hopefully been teasing, but, God, what
he’d said had caught me off guard. “I’m a mess. I don’t know how to
do this shit anymore.”
    She chuckled
and I think I heard relief in her voice when she spoke. “You’re
fine. It’s a date. That’s it. Just a silly little date.” God, she
was right. I was making this into something way bigger. “Look,” she
continued, “he’s not gonna propose. You’re having a drink. What’s
the big deal?”
    “You’re
right.” I sighed knowing I needed to get over myself. “It’s just
that his brother works here and Zeke said something about a
threesome with him, teasing about it, I’m sure, but I guess it was
a