Coco Reynolds was finally finishing her first shift at The Last Stop diner in a tiny little town called River's Bend. Her feet were killing her. The owner had been nice enough to hire her right off the street, even without any previous experience.
One of the other waitresses had been especially unfriendly to her, being less than helpful in regards to teaching the new girl the ropes. Coco was instantly suspicious when the bitchy woman told her to take table four, which she knew was in the other woman's area of the diner. But, being the newest employee, she couldn't say no.
The occupants of table four were a group of bikers. One was an older man with silver hair and a long scraggly looking beard. His deeply tanned face and wrinkles told her that he had probably been riding a bike since he was in his younger days. The other three men were considerably younger, and one in particular almost had Coco drooling on the spot.
He caught her staring at him and gave her a knowing grin. Clearly, the blonde haired Adonis in a black leather vest knew how good looking he was. His striking blue eyes and five o'clock shadow made him look more like a model than a badass. She returned his smile and took out her note pad to write down their order. The other men at the table laughed openly at their friend's obvious effect on her.
"What can I get you?" She asked them.
The gorgeous biker who had caught her eye boldly reached out and ran his fingers over the name tag she was wearing, purposely grazing her breast. She gasped in surprise and took a step back. The other men at the table were practically licking their lips as they leered at her and enjoyed her discomfort. But Coco had been raised her whole life around these kinds of men.
She quickly composed herself and glared at the man who had dared to touch her inappropriately. She might have been the new girl on the job, but she wasn't a doormat. Her lack of fear or embarrassment only encouraged the bikers, and she knew from experience that the only way to deal with men like them was to stand her ground and not let them see how much they intimidated her.
"I like your name." The blonde one said with a mischievous grin. "It's sexy." He added.
"Thank you." She answered politely. "Do you know what you want?" Well, shit. As soon as the words left her mouth, she wished she could take them back. The man's wicked grin told her that he knew exactly what he wanted, and it wasn't anything that was on the menu.
Coco couldn't help but laugh at his lust filled expression. The man wasn't even trying to hide his interest in her. Neither were his friends, and more than one of them were staring at her like they would eat her instead of food if they could. The waitress who had insisted she take the table was standing ten feet away, snickering at her.
"I want
you
, in my bed." The blonde answered her. She expected his sexually loaded answer, but when he reached out to touch her again...she had finally had enough. Coco grabbed his hand and placed it on the table. He put his other hand on top of hers, caging her hand between both of his. She rolled her eyes and tried to pull her hand away, but he wasn't letting go.
"Could you please just order? This is my first day here. You don't want to get me fired, do you?" She said seriously.
The man released her then and ordered a burger and a milkshake. The other men ordered too, and Coco was grateful that the blonde man wasn't going to keep messing with her. She glared at the waitress who had sent her to them, and the woman sneered at her. When Coco was on her way back to the table with their food, the other waitress purposely bumped into her...causing her to drop the handsome biker's food right in his lap.
"What the fuck?!" He yelled, but he had seen that it wasn't Coco's fault. The other men at the table roared with laughter at their friend's predicament. Coco heard the other waitress laughing at her as she apologized and tried to clean up the mess.
The manager came over to the table then and scowled at her. He had given the young woman a chance when she came in looking for a job because he felt sorry for her. She couldn't have been older than 23, and he knew that she'd be hard pressed to get a job in the small town. Someone had to give the poor girl a chance. But he was regretting that decision now.
"I'm sorry, sir." He said to the biker who was now covered in food. "She's new."
The waitress who had caused the whole mess in the first place had the nerve to come over to the table. The woman had been an employee of the diner for several years, and she was also the owner's cousin. She knew that she could pretty much behave any way she wanted to without getting fired, and she proceeded to taunt Coco.
"What's the matter, honey? You can't put one foot in front of the other?" She teased.
Coco had only just gotten into town that very day. She had walked into the diner and asked if they were hiring. She had blown through most of her money, and she wasn't due to start her next job for another week, so she figured she'd make a few bucks in between gigs while she was traveling. Coco knew that she should have just kept her cool.
But her temper wouldn't be denied, and she shocked them all when she turned around and punched the other waitress in the face hard enough to send the woman flying into the table behind them. The owner rushed over to his cousin to help her, apologizing to the patrons whose meal was now in ruins.
Coco didn't bother waiting for her new boss to fire her. She stormed into the break room and took off her uniform. She was about to put her own clothes back on when the blonde biker stormed in. She yelped in surprise and glared at the man.
He was raking her nearly naked body with hungry eyes. At 5 foot 7, Coco had tan skin from being half Mexican, and long wavy brown hair. Her most striking feature was the green eyes that she got from her Irish mother. She wasn't a stunning beauty, but she was pretty.
The biker's eyes were taking in her full breasts and toned body. Coco had been told a hundred times that she could have been a model, but she had no interest in putting herself on display like that. Besides, she liked eating too much to sign up for a life that would revolve around her staying as thin as possible.
Ignoring the biker who was fucking her with his eyes, Coco put her jeans and t-shirt back on before pulling on her boots. She grabbed her back pack and tried to push past the man who hadn't moved an inch or said a word since he had barged in on her. When he grabbed her by the shoulders and crashed his mouth onto hers, she was too stunned to do anything but stand there and let him kiss her.
It never even occurred to Coco to fight the man off. When he thrust his tongue into her mouth, she opened to him and melted into his embrace. He was taller than her, and his growing erection was poking her in the stomach by the time he let her up for air. Coco staggered when he let her go, drawing much needed air into her lungs.
When he smiled down at her and grabbed her hand, she finally came to her senses and started resisting him. "Hey! I don't even know your name." She said breathlessly. When he half dragged her out of the break room and through the diner to where his friends were waiting, she really started to panic.
There was no way she was going to leave with them. But one look at the other people in the diner told her that she wasn't going to get any help. The owner was clearly angry at her for hitting his cousin, and the other patrons were going out of their way not to look in her direction at all. They must have been afraid of what the bikers would do if they intervened.
"I'm Tank." The blonde man said when they got outside the diner. He quickly introduced the other men to Coco, but knowing their names didn't make her feel any better. She was still going to scream bloody murder if they tried to take her with them.
When the four men got onto their motorcycles, Coco began to think that they might leave her alone when Tank didn't immediately try to get her onto the bike with him. He must have realized that he wouldn't be able to force her to cooperate on a motorcycle.
"Where do you live?" He asked her. "I'll give you a ride home."
Shit. That was a question that she didn't have an answer for. She looked up and down the street, hoping that there was a hotel somewhere within walking distance. Coco knew she must have looked like a deer caught in headlights, standing there looking scared and clutching her back pack like a crazy homeless woman.
"Don't you have any place to stay?" Tank asked her, his expression softening.
"I only just got into town this morning. Is there a hotel here?" She asked him.
"There's a bed and breakfast inn. But they're booked solid for the town's annual festival." Tank said with a wicked smile. He had gone back to seduction mode in the blink of an eye.
Fuck. Coco hadn't bothered to call ahead. She never dreamed that the only place to stay in a town the size of Mayberry wouldn't have any vacancies. All she needed was a room to crash in until the next renaissance faire that she was going to be working at. Working in the diner would have given her some extra spending money, since she sucked at budgeting.
Tank could practically see the wheels turning in the woman's head, and he knew he'd be able to get her to go with him...
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