Hardin's POV:
"You okay?" Tessa asks for the third time. Instead of excitement to see me here, she has a worried expression across her face.
"Yeah, I am." Grabbing by her waist, I pull her to stand in between my legs. "Now stop asking. I'm totally fine." I pat my fist on that area where she hit me hard, accidentally.
"Do you go to a gym?" Why she's asking me this question now?
"Yes, regularly. But why did you ask?" I say. Is she wants to see my muscled up body right now? Naughty girl-
"Because I thought you'd be tough and rough by doing gym, but you're not I guess. One hit by my elbow and you were winning like baby who hit himself purposely," she teases.
"I am a tough and rough guy but your force was enough for anyone to bring them on their knees." I squeeze her both female biceps. "How did you became this physically strong? Were you gymming too that you didn't told me about?" I chuckle and she rolls her eyes.
"So, guys what are you gonna drink?" The bartender asks the four of us. "Nora?"
How did he know her name? Do they comes here more often? Do Tess comes with them too?
"Sex on the beach for me," Landon's fiancee tells him. "It's been years I didn't have one."
"I'll have long Island iced tea," Landon says to him.
"And you two?" the barkeep asks Tessa and me now. After couple of minutes staring at the menus, Tessa finally orders. I don't ever desire to drink any type of alcohol fused drink, so I choose a alcohol-free mocktail.
"Let's take our drinks and sit down." Sara tells us and everyone nods. I'm the only one who is sitting between the four of us, so I didn't do anything. Thinking Tessa must be tired by standing so I nod too. Taking our drinks we all follow Sara, I take Tessa's hand in mine as we pass through the herd of peoples. Walking away from the bar where Stacy is leading us to the rows of table for us to sit. The area become darker and darker as we're moving farther and it's hard to walk with wearing this sunglasses and pass the crowd.
Why this place is so fucking crowded? I told Landon clearly to chose the least one instead he chooses the most packed one in the whole fucking city.
Finally we find some empty seats but only two person to sit on the couch. Great. "Why did you picked this crowded joint?" I ask Landon. "There aren't enough seats for us to fucking sit."
"Nora chose it because she's familiar with this one more than any other place." Of course that annoying woman did only to annoy me more, for sure. "And other pub is even more crowded on friday night, so chill," he defend her.
"We should just sit already. Or this couch soon will be occupied too," his girl huffs. She pulls Landon to sit down on the other end of couch so she could sit on his lap.
Scoffing I also sit down on the other end and pull Tessa's arm for her to sit on my lap. Putting our drinks on the table, I adjust myself on the hard couch to make us comfortable.
"What are you doing in here, in New York?" Tessa finally asks, which I was waiting for.
"I'm here, to meet you of course." I tell the truth, there's no other business for me to attend, only her. "You're not happy than I'm here?"
"Of course, I am thrilled actually," she gives me a kiss on my cheeks. "But, Why?" She raises her eye brow.
"Because I've missed you and I was worried about you." I respond.
"Worried about me? Why?" She wraps my sweatshirt's string around her small fingers.
"Because few days ago your work place was set on a fire and some asshole pickpocket almost stole your bag, so I am here to see if you are really okay or not, or that you weren't lying so I don't have to worked up only thinking about you here," I bring her hands in mine and gently run my fingers over her knuckles.
"I'm perfectly fine though," she smiles. "And I've enough strength to beat up anyone if they're doing anything wrong with me." She bumps her elbow on my stomach."The same way I did to you maybe even more forcefully." She tells me, confidence in her tone no smudge of unsurety.
"That's good to know," I tell to my Warrier Queen.
"When did you got here? And how did you know I'd be here, in a pub?" She questions. She always asks so many questions and I love to answer them.
"I've landed in afternoon. And I know you're here because Landon texted me," I look at him, but he's busy with his fiancee.
"And he knows you're in New York how?"
"Because I told him and planned this surprise for you." Well my surprise turned out pretty good. I had thought one of her bestfriends will blurt out and fuck up this shit.
"Oh. That's why they both were being wired and pushy towards me to come with them. Now I get it," she shakes her up and down. "Quite a charming planner you are. Where are you staying?"
"At Hotel." For you and me. "We should drink our cocktails now or they'll get warm." She nods and leans forward to grab the drinks.
She hands me mine and I take a sip. "What's this called?" She taps her finger nail on my glass.
"It's called Virgin Mojito," I take another sip of my cold minty mocktail.
"What's the difference between the simple Mojito and the Virgin Mojito?" She asks.
"The difference is that the Virgin one hasn't fucked any other one and if he did, then he'll become simple Mojito," I tease and she scrunches her nose.
"You're disguising," she tells and I laugh. "But I really wants to know."
"Okay, so Virgin one doesn't have any type of alcohol in it only have lemon juice, mint leaves, ice and club soda and also some other thing that I don't remember yet. And whereas the simple Mojito does have rum or gin in it." I gave her my cocktail knowledge. "Wanna try?"
"Nope, I'm fine with mine." She shrugs.
"What's that?" I point at her milky white cocktail with a black straw and two maraschino cherry as a garnishing.
"I think it's called Piña colada. I don't know why I got it. I was caught off guard by seeing you here that I ordered this one because of it had the curvy fancy looking glass I guess," she glides her index finger on the curvy body of the glass.
"You got more curves than this," I put my other hand around her waist.
"You want some?" Flushing she asks.
"Your sexy curves?"
"No, this drink. You wanna try?" She bring her glass right in front of me.
"Sure," she faces the straw towards my mouth for me take a draw.
"How is it?" She asks when I gulp down the thick mixture.
"It's good actually." It's tropical treat and tastes like pineapple and coconut, almost the texture like a smoothie. "But, not for me." I can taste the rum on my tongue and down my throat.
She nods and takes a draw from the straw. Picking one of the cherry by its stem from her drink, she brings and stops in front of her mouth and peek out her tongue.
What she gonna do?
She laps her tongue around the red and round cherry, licking off the collected white drink around it, then put it inside her mouth.
I thought she's going to eat it but she proves me wrong by sucking seductively, pulling in and out of her mouth. I can't help but imagining her full lips around my balls, sucking and licking. Fuck.
"What are you doing?" I asks putting down my glass on the table.
"What? Eating cherry?" she answers innocently.
"You know what are you doing?" I adjust her body and put her on my groin.
"I don't know what are you talking about, I'm just drinking and eating," she finally puts the cherry inside her mouth and plucks the steam out before chewing it.
"Sure." I mumble and she turns her attention to the girl singing on the stage. No one is listening to her and her band, they should just sit down and have drinks.
Suddenly I felt someone's and with someone I mean one of the love birds beside me, bumps their shoes on my shin. What the fuck? And now Landon's fiancee is kissing him, they're doing a full on makeout session.
Come one guys. Get a goddamn room. Great, now she's grinding on his lap.
I'd shout at them, but I'm distracted by Tessa grinding on my lap. Fuck.
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