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“I usually only drink wine.”
“No wine here, baby girl. Teagan, a Mule please.”
“A Mule?” Fallon asked as the bartender nodded and went to work on her drink.
“Yup, good stuff. Tequila, ginger ale and lime juice. Drink of champions.”
“So I guess you’re not one since you’re drinking a beer?”
They both looked down at the beer he held in his hand; he then chuckled before looking back up at her. “This is my warm up drink.”
“Oh is that right?”
“Sure is, try it,” he said as the bartender laid the drink in front of her. She picked it up and took a sip.
It was fantastic. Fallon couldn’t even taste the tequila.
“It’s good, no bite at all,” she said with a nod.
“No bite now, but tomorrow, you’ll be singing a different tune if you have too many.”
Fallon laughed as he chuckled along with her. “I’m Lucas, by the way.”
Lucas held out his hand, and Fallon took it. He had huge hands, they swallowed hers and people said she had big hands. “Fallon.”
“Fallon? Interesting.”
“Thanks,” she said with a grin.
“You live around here?”
Fallon looked up and her eyes were drawn to his again. Before when she was across the bar, she couldn’t see how gray they were. Now that she was closer, she could see his eyes were like smoke or maybe a dark rain cloud. They were so captivating, hypnotic even.
“I do. I’m a sophomore at Stanford,” she said, while still being dazed by his eyes.
“Oh really, a smarty pants then?” he asked with a lazy smile.
She giggled, “Something like that.”
“Wait! If you are a sophomore, you’re what? You’re not 21.”
Shit on a shingle.
“Um, well,” Fallon sputtered as she looked towards Allison for help, but Allison was giggling and flirting with a guy who had come over to the table. When she looked back up at Lucas, he was leaned in close, a naughty grin on his lips.
“Oh, someone has a fake ID huh?” he whispered as Fallon turned deep red.
“Are you going to tell on me?”
The words flew from her mouth before she could stop them and she wished they hadn’t when she saw the devilish grin that crossed his face. God, she sounded so damn young!
Seductress? YEAH RIGHT!
“I don’t know. What do I get if I don’t?”
Fallon weighed his statement for a moment, before looking up at him. She had nothing to offer him but money, and by the way he was dressed, she was sure he had enough of his own. If he thought she was gonna give him sex, he might as well go on and turn her in! So she blinked twice at him before saying, “Um, what do you want?”