Free Help Wanted by Marie Rochelle

she waited for the woman to come to them. Keira didn’t have to wait too long, because a second or two later a statuesque red-head with huge robin’s egg blue eyes wearing a black waitress uniform stopped at their table.
     

 
    Chapter Thirteen
    “Where have you been keeping that gorgeous body of yours? You know that my day hasn’t been made until I’ve seen you.”
    Jim looked at Keira and then back at the overly friendly waitress. “I’ve been busy with the motorcycle shop I bought. I haven’t had the time to come here until now,” he answered.
    Keira didn’t know what to say about what was going on in front of her. The waitress was flirting with Jim like she wasn’t even at the same booth as him let alone in the same building. If this was a real date she wouldn’t stand for getting disrespected like this.
    Hell, wait a second! She wasn’t going to let it happen even if she wasn’t on a real date with Jim. She was with him right at this moment and this chick shouldn’t treat her like she was invisible.
    “Excuse, me, miss.,” Keira interrupted. “Do you mind taking our order instead of gushing over Jim? Yes, he’s a nice looking man, but I came here to eat not to see you come on to him.”
    “I’m sorry. I didn’t realize you were so hungry for something to eat,” the waitress exclaimed giving her a hateful look.
    “Bambi, be nice. Keira wasn’t being nasty to you,” Jim chastised.
    Bambi…Jim had to be kidding. No one named their child after a Disney cartoon deer. It had to be a nickname, but she was going to keep her opinion to herself.
    Blue eyes flashed with anger as Bambi glared at her. Keira was dying for her to say something so she would be able to respond. Bambi had already pissed her off and she was ready to give her a piece of her mind.
    “Jim, would you and your date like to order now? Or are the two of you still looking over the menus?”
    “We’re ready,” Jim answered. “We both want a plate of hot wings and a pitcher of beer.”
    “Thanks.” Bambi wrote down the order without even glancing in her direction. “I’ll be back in a minute or two with your food.” Spinning away from the booth, Bambi left without even giving her another look.
    “Did I step on her territory or something?” Keira asked as soon as the waitress was out of hearing range.
    “No, Bambi isn’t anyone important to me,” Jim replied. “She’s just a waitress I talk to when I come here.”
    Leaning across the table, Keira got closer to Jim enjoying the hint of cologne as it filled her nose. “I think she wants to be more than your friend. Hell, I’d even go so far to say that she’s jealous that I’m having hot wings and beer with you tonight. She doesn’t understand there isn’t anything going on between us.”
    “Don’t pay any attention to Bambi.  She gets off on pushing people’s buttons, but she is a lot of hot air and nothing will come of it. However, I want to know why you think that we wouldn’t be on a real date with each other?”
    Keira let several thoughts run through her mind. She wondered if Jim was pulling her leg. He couldn’t be serious. They were barely out of the enemies’ level when it came to the two of them. How in the world would he think they could ever go out on a real date? It just wasn’t a possibility in her book. Jim scared her. He was the type of man she stayed away from because he could make her tell him all of her secrets.
    “We aren’t two people who would ever hook up with each other. You have this hint of wildness in your personality that I usually avoid in guys. I try to get involved with men who are more like me.”
    “I think you are a very self-assured woman, so you are bound to clash with any man who isn’t as set in their ways as you are.”
    “I’m not set in my ways,” Keira snapped insulted that Jim could read her so well. “I know how to do stuff in the heat of the moment.”
    “Sometimes I hop on my bike and go for a ride at two