Chapter 18: "You're his sister-in-law."

“Excuse me?”

The bartender dude gives me a look, trailing his eyes slowly from my waist before stopping at my face with a hard, unwelcoming expression.

His reply is cold and frigid, “I said no drinks for you here. If you want to get drunk, go somewhere else.”

A dull flame of self-righteous anger lights up in my chest because that’s not even what I’m here for! How dare he assume I'm here to drink?

“Do you even know who I am? Why the hell would you think I'm here to drink?”

The bartender chuckles and the side of his lips go up in a smile that has no humor showing on his face,

“Maybe it’s because the last time you were here you were rude and you got so drunk I had to call the owner of the bar on you.”

My retort hangs in my throat because he’s right about that, but still.

“I am a woman who knows how to handle herself, it was your choice to call him, not mine. I still had time left, you could have just sold me the drinks y’know.”

He nods to that, the sides of his mouth curving downwards