Catching her eye, I said, “We won’t be accepting these. But thank you.”
The waitress nodded, then mumbled, “I had someone like him, I wouldn’t be accepting these either.”
We all watched as the waitress carried the tray of drinks back to their table and shook her head. They all just shrugged, then one of them looked around the bar and pointed to another table.
She carried the tray to the table, and apparently, they hadn’t noticed what we had because they accepted the shots.
Shaking my head, I focused back on my friends.
“Garrick is stuck at the garage; told him I’d pick y’all up,” Dominik said.
Then he looked at Talia and waited.
When she didn’t say anything, I caught Dominik smirking.
“Not going to talk to me, Sparkles?” Dominik asked as he leaned against our table, his forearms bracing his weight.
Talia’s middle finger came up and flipped him off.
He chuckled, “Damn, sorry, hadn’t had my fill of alcohol yet to even think about something like that with you.”
Talia’s cheeks were getting redder and redder every second.
I knew she was about to blow, so to help my friend, I looked at Dominik and said, “So, who are you working on that Corvette for?”
I had seen it in bay five when I was there getting my oil changed.
Dominik owned DG Auto and Body alongside Garrick.
Normally, they didn’t do simple services like oil changes for newer model cars. They specialized in classic rides.
If you were anybody other than a small circle of people, you took your vehicle to Sawyer’s Garage in the next county over.
Sawyers was started by a gentleman named David Sawyer. It had since changed hands but not too far down the line.
His granddaughter, Briar, had taken half ownership alongside Drake Caine.
The two of them had bickered like an old married couple, and according to Briar, he had almost messed up in winning her back.
But now, fifteen years later, they were happily in love with two of the cutest kids to ever walk this planet.
Everly leaned into my side and whispered, “Is there something going on between them?”
I leaned into her and whispered, “They’ve been like this since I’ve known Talia. She gives him shit; he returns it.”
She nodded, “He’s unavailable then.”
I shook my head, “Not as far as I know.”
She smiled a small smile, “I consider you one of my closest friends. So that extends to Talia and even Lila. She obviously likes him, and he’s trying to poke at her. Makes him off limits.”
I smiled, “You're good people, Everly.”
She grinned then, “Just like a certain underwater welder, too.”
I narrowed my eyes at her, playfully, of course, “Nope.”
“Uh-huh,” she shrugged with a smile.
