By now, RoryLynn was on the other side of Tashia picking lemon slices out of her friend’s hair as Lori and Harriet looked on in stunned silence.
Logan closed his eyes briefly. What the fuck was up with Cassandra? He opened them and ignored his girlfriend, who was yelling something over his shoulder at Tashia. “Excuse me, ladies, I’ll be back in a minute.”
Logan frog-marched Cassandra across the bar and bundled her out the back, and into a corridor. “What the hell did you do that for?”
Cassandra crossed her arms over her chest. “To remind that bitch I’m your girlfriend. That slut…”
“Seriously, Cassandra? This is my fucking livelihood here. We’ve been over this before. I am a bartender, women flirt with me. All. The. Fucking. Time! Get over it. It doesn’t mean a damn thing, and I don’t take it seriously. Neither do they, and neither should you.”
“It looked like you were enjoying it to me.”
Logan went to open his mouth and then closed it again. It wasn’t worth arguing with Cassandra when she got in this mood. He shook his head and turned to go back to the bar, but before he reached the door, Logan decided he couldn’t do this any longer.
He looked over his shoulder at her. “You know what, Cassandra, I’ve had enough of your drama. You don’t need to worry about me flirting any longer, because we are through.”
“Lo?”
He cringed at the abuse of his name. “And that’s another thing, my name is Lo-gan. I hate that you try to shorten it. Go home. We’re done.”
This time, Logan did walk away. He had nothing more to say to that woman. As he entered the bar area and went back to the women’s table to do damage control, he wondered why he hadn’t finished things between them weeks ago.
At the table, Tashia was standing up while her friends mopped her down with the bar towels Andy had brought. Andy hovered on the outside of the circle of friends, unsure how to deal with the situation.
Katie glared at Logan as he arrived. “You need to keep her on a leash. Your girlfriend is a menace.”
“Not my girlfriend. Well, not anymore.”
Harriet put her hand to his arm. “Oh, Logan, I’m sorry…”
He shook his head. “Don’t be. Truth be told, I should have ended things weeks ago.”
“Tashia, why don’t you come upstairs. I’ll lend you something to wear. You can’t sit around soaking wet,” Harriet suggested.
Tashia shrugged. “Not sure I’m in the mood to stay after that.”
Logan put his arm around her. “There’s free drinks until closing time.”
Katie grinned up at him. “For all of us?”
Logan took a deep breath. Fucking Cassandra was going to bankrupt him. “Yeah, for all of you.”
Harriet
Sunday Morning…
Harriet was the last to arrive at the brunch place. Her four girlfriends were already sipping coffee when she got there. “Sorry, I’m late. I had to get Logan to drop me off, my battery was dead.”
“Ooh, is Logan here?” Tashia looked across the restaurant searching for him.
“No. He has to open the bar in an hour.”
Tashia shrugged. “Damn, there goes my fun.”
“You know, you shouldn’t tease him so much. Didn’t you learn anything from his girlfriend dousing you in cocktails?” Katie rolled her eyes at her friend.
“He knows I don’t mean it. Besides, Logan is not my type.” Tashia handed Harriet the menu. “Hurry up and choose, I’m starving.”
Harriet quickly glanced over it. “Mmm, I’ll have the huevos rancheros.” She handed the menu to the waitress. “And coffee, please.”
Lori giggled. “See, I told you we should have ordered for her. You always choose that here.”
Harriet smiled back at her friend. “But I always like to look, you never know, I may not have been in the mood for it today.”
After the food arrived, Harriet noticed an exchange of looks between RoryLynn and Tashia. She frowned at them. “Okay, what’s going on?”
Lori gulped back a piece of waffle. “Um, well, we’ve been thinking…”
“Thinking? Now why don’t I like the sound of that?” Harriet looked around the table, and her girlfriends put down their cutlery in unison.
RoryLynn cleared her throat. “We think you need to find a new man.”
Harriet groaned. “I don’t know, I’m not sure I’m ready. It’s only been a couple of weeks.”
Katie clasped Harriet’s hand. “It’s almost a month, girlfriend. You have to wash that man out of your hair.”
Harriet tugged her hand back and looked up at Tashia. “Please back me up, and tell them I don’t need this.”
Tashia shook her head. “Sorry, sweetie, but I agree. It’s our solemn duty to make sure you don’t turn into an old maid.”
Now, Harriet loved that her friends cared, but… “Why me? Lori isn’t dating anyone, so why don’t you help her?”
“Um, actually, me and Mark got back together.”
“You did? When did that happen?” Harriet’s heart sank as she realized she was the only one in their group without a man. Now, they’d be like a dog with a bone. She was doomed.
Lori blushed. “After Logan’s girlfriend threw the cocktail over Tashia, I got a little tipsy after all those free drinks Logan gave us, and I might have texted him…”
“And Mark might have turned up at her apartment at two in the morning!” RoryLynn good-naturedly elbowed Harriet in the ribs.
“Oh, Lori, that’s fantastic. So, you guys are dating again?”
“I think so, for now. We’re taking it one day at a time.”
Harriet wanted to ask Lori more, but Katie jumped in. “Oh, no, you don’t. Don’t try to change the subject, we have decided to help you find the man of your dreams.”
“You have? Um, no offense, but unless one of you has a kind, considerate, non-cheating, handsome guy you have been hiding from me, I’m not
