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“There you are again.”
She turned and held back her sigh. For over a month now, the server would come and talk to her while he dropped off orders. Flirt with her was more like it.
“I’m here,” she said.
“You look nice.”
“Thanks,” she said. Lilian never addressed him by his name though she knew it. It was even on his nametag.
It was rude, but she didn’t want to give any indication that she was interested.
Connor was his name. He’d asked her out twice, and twice she’d said no. But he’d kept up the flirting even after she’d shown up with the ring on. His eyes had landed on it, but he never asked another question about it.
“I should get to work,” Connor said.
“Yeah, you should,” another man said. His name was Rod. He was a dick.
He was always talking down to the employees while he got his skinny latte.
The first time she’d heard that order she wanted to laugh but didn’t. That wouldn’t be nice.
He also had asked her out. Three times. She told him no. Every. Single. Time.
It drove her insane that she appeared to be fresh blood in the ocean around a pool of sharks when she’d first walked in the door of the cafe months ago.
By now, most of the men who came here knew she was a regular and when she showed up they circled her like flies on melted ice cream.
She turned back to her phone and hoped Rod would go to another seat. He didn’t.
He came and sat across from her. “Is there something you want?” she asked.
Lilian didn’t want to come off as a bitch, but she could handle herself. She had spent so much of her life trying to blend in and not be noticed.
She wasn’t sure why it wasn’t working here.
“I’m curious why you never talk about your fiancé,” Rod said.
“I don’t normally talk to anyone while I’m here,” she said. “I’m just getting coffee for work and then getting on with my day.”
“I’ve asked about you, Lilian Baker.”
Her face color drained a bit. “Who have you asked and why?” She never gave her last name here. Only her first. Rod was not a coworker, only someone she saw here at the cafe.
“Just trying to find out more about you. I’ve heard your name given when you’ve come in here. Your work badge was exposed out of your purse one day.”
She’d have to be more careful. Her sister would throw a fit if she knew that.
“That’s a little intrusive,” she said, angling her head. She was a bit more sarcastic than she wanted to be, but it was hard not to put her foot down.
He laughed at her. Like he thought she was flirting with him. As if she’d beflatteredhe’d done what he had.
“Nah,” Rod said. “Just letting you know. You know what I think?”
“I’m sure you’re going to tell me,” she said, putting her phone down.
He smirked. “I think that ring is fake. I think either your fiancé is trying to pull one over on you...or you don’t have a fiancé at all. You’re too young to have a ring that big. Unless of course you’re dating an older man.”
She shouldn’t have bought this ring, but it looked pretty online and as real as she could get. It was two carats. It was just a single stone and it looked fine to her. It’s not like she wore it anywhere other than in this coffee shop and to work.
