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CHAPTER 9

Just wing it Life Eyeliner Everything

-Trinket to Cannel

CANNEL

I held on to him like he was my lifeline

Together, we rode through the alot to the steak house, parked, and headed inside

My eyes went to the name on the top of the doors Tiddies

My lips turned up in a smile, and I was just about to ask about the na were people that were trying to get into the restaurant And there had to be at least fifty of them

I hadn’t seen a line like that outside of a popular club since I was nineteen

Just as we hit the front door, I looked down to see his hand clenched tight, and had a feeling I knehy that was

Reaching forward tentatively, I curled er ones, and waited

He cohtme know instantly that I was correct in my assumptions

He wanted to touch me but wouldn’t without my permission first

Smile firmly planted on ht out of Gunslinger

“Wow,” I said as I took a look around at all the rough attributes “This place looks legit”

“That’s because it is legit,” Will inforotten some major overhauls, of course, but otherwise, has kept a lot of the original attributes It was once boasted that it was the biggest, best saloon in Texas”

I looked at him curiously “How do you know this?”

His lips twitched “I have a childhood friend Her father is the one that owns it Her name is Salem She doesn’t live here anymore, but her father still runs this place Told us all about it ere young kids”

He waved at the hostess and said, “Two”

She nodded her head, ignored the line of customers that were practically wrapped around the corner of the building, and took us to our seats

I raised a brow at him the moment she sat us in one of the best seats in the house

“How nice,” I teased

He winked “I really like this place, or I would’ve suggested soet into places like this It ot back here, and I’ve been craving the chocolate cake”

My brows rose to practically my hairline

“You? Cake?” I teased, allowingover him