Widowed a Year, I Masked Up and Took Both of His Brothers novel · Chapter 8 of 24
Chapter 8: Last Call at the Heron
Vince locked the front door of the Blue Heron and turned the sign to CLOSED.
By the time he turned around, I had pulled my dress over my head.
"Well," he said. "That's one way to start a shift."
The club was dark except for the work light over the bar.
Frenchmen Street thumped through the walls, a dozen bands playing at once, and none of it could get in.
There was a small stage with an upright piano and a row of leather booths.
A long mahogany bar ran down one wall, with a mirror behind it.
Tommy took the corner booth without being asked.
He sat down with a glass of bourbon and his back to the wall and watched me.
"You're not joining?" I said.
"Not yet."
"Why not?"
"Because tonight is Vince's," Tommy said. "I want to watch him have you."
My knees went weak.
Vince crossed the floor to me in three strides and lifted me by the waist.
He sat me on the bar top, on the cold wood, in nothing but my underwear.
"Sixty-four bottles on that wall," he said, kissing along my collarbone. "I've counted every one while I thought about this."
"Vince."
"Hold on a second. I want to tell you things."
He undid my bra and dropped it behind the bar.
He looked at me for a long moment, his green eyes dark and soft.
"You are the funniest, kindest, bravest woman I know," he said.
His thumb moved on my knee.
"You sat with my mother through her last winter and never made her feel like a patient."
He shook his head, smiling.
"And you're so beautiful I forget what I'm saying."
My eyes stung.
"You're doing fine," I whispered.
"I'm not. But I'm about to do better."
He eased my underwear down my legs and tossed it over his shoulder.
Then he spread my knees with his hands, one whole and one crooked.
He went down on his knees in front of the bar.
"Lie back, sweetheart."
I lay back on the mahogany, with the cold wood under my shoulders and the work light shining on the ceiling.
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