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thought of the possibility of hearing him laugh made her smile.  Oh, what a sight that would be!  I bet he has a deep and beautiful laugh.
    Mackenzie returned her attentions to her job.  She grabbed a heavy rack of empty and dirty glasses and carried them out to the small kitchen behind the bar.  Alex followed her with a rack of his own.  Heaving them to the table she turned towards him.
    “What are you smirking at?” he asked.
    “Oh nothing,” she hummed, turning away.
    She left Alex in the kitchen stacking the dishwasher and returned to her post behind the bar.  The blond flirty man from earlier was waiting on her.  With a smile still playing on her lips it brightened when he gave her a flashy one back.  Even though the smile she held was not intended for him, and he didn’t need encouraging, she couldn’t help but feel pleased that a man was attracted to her and even more pleased that she knew he was watching this exchange.  She wondered if perhaps he felt even a smidgen of the jealousy she did when he made a play for the women he took home.  Probably not, but it’s nice to imagine anyway.
    “So,” the blond man started, leaning on his arms against the bar, his eyes dropped lower, “Mackenzie,” he said reading her name tag.  Looking back to her eyes he continued, “When does your shift end?”
    “Oh, not for hours yet,” she replied, turning up the flirty voice and smile for his benefit and not the man in front of her.  She wanted the blond man to leave, she didn’t want to encourage him but at the same time she couldn’t stop herself from attempting to rile the man in the corner up.  The man that was watching her every move tonight.
    “Well, my friend and I are leaving now, but we will still be in the city for a few more hours.  What time can I pick you up?”
    Mackenzie came to her senses at his words, she blinked rapidly in his direction.  She hadn’t agreed to anything.  How dare he!
    “You can’t.  I don’t think your wife would like that.  Do you?” she snapped, her eyes blazing.
    “What she doesn’t know won’t hurt her,” he replied smugly.  He tossed some cash on top of the bar and when Mackenzie went to grab it he took hold of her hand.  She gasped at the unexpected contact.  He slid his business card into her palm.  “Call me later,” he said with a wink, letting her hand go.
    “Not likely,” she mumbled under her breath when he walked away.  She tossed the card in the bin and started counting the cash to put it in the till.  There was a one hundred dollar tip.  It made her feel ill, like he was expecting something from her for the payment.  She placed it in the tip jar to be divided between her and Alex at home time.  She knew Alex would be pleased at such a high amount.  She was about to tell Alex about it as he came from the kitchen behind her, but her eyes were again drawn to a set of dark ones.  This time they were closer to her than they had been before.  She gasped at his nearness, he was standing directly in front of her, with only the bar separating them.  She hadn’t even realised he’d left his chair.
    H e never leaves his chair.

Chapter Two
     
     
    “Can I help you sir?” Alex asked coming to Mackenzie’s side.
    “No you can’t.   But she can.”  His deep voice sent a thrill through Mackenzie.  She hadn’t heard it nearly often enough.  It was sexy, the timbre just perfect to get her aroused.  “I’d like to borrow your colleague for a moment,” he said in a voice that commanded attention, his eyes trained on hers.  “Come sit with me.”  It wasn’t a question.  It sent a tremble through Mackenzie’s body.
    “It’s relatively quiet, I don’t suppose that will be a problem,” Alex replied to the man looking to Mackenzie, he watched her swallow, her eyes remained on the man in front of them.  “Mackenzie?” he questioned her.
    “Hmm?”  She turned to Alex who nodded his head at her.  “Right.  Okay.