Beast's Heart

Chapter 8

Brooklyn, New York A week earlier

Nelly:" s**t .. s**t .. s**t I'm late, JAAACK Let's go buddy, boss will kill me"

Nelly Quickly locked her apartment door and raced down the stairs with Jack hot on her heels, finally she made it to the bar.

Timothy:" Hey .. Hey .. Hey why are you running like that? Is someone chasing you?"

Timothy quickly grabbed his shotgun and rushed to the front door but he stopped in his tracks when he heard Nelly's angelic laugh that never failed to make his heart beat so fast and forget to breathe, he turned back to her and automatically hugged the shotgun as if he was hugging Nelly not a deadly weapon that could sent him to the next life.

Garry came out of the kitchen with a big knife as soon as he heard Timothy shouting earlier, now he's looking at a laughing Nelly and Timothy who looked like he's seconds away from making out with the shotgun he's hugging, Garry put the knife down and went to Nelly hugging her.

Garry:"Hey there sweetheart you scared us why did you barge in like that?"

Nelly:" Sorry Gar, sorry boss, I overslept so I came running as I didn't want to be late"

Garry:"It's ok Angel go change your clothes and get ready for your shift"

Nelly laughed again and went to the locker room to get changed, after she left Garry turned back to a dreaming Timothy who was still holding the shotgun in his embrace, he laughed and went to him and pushed the shotgun away.

Garry:"Ok put the poor gun down before you shoot your own head off"

Timothy woke up from his dream world, his face was flushed as Garry caught him day dreaming about Nelly, he, ran back behind the bar avoiding eye contact with Garry and acting as if he was busy wiping the already clean glass".

Garry walked back to the kitchen laughing with Jack following him to get his treat, Garry took out a big bone that will defiantly keep him quite busy for long time, as soon as Jack saw the bone his eyes sparkled and tail started wagging so fast and he was running around himself in circles, Garry laughed at the excited puppy and gave him his bone then walked back in the kitchen.

Nelly changed into her work clothes, put her notepad and pen in her apron pocket and went out of the locker room not long after people started filling the bar and she knew it was going to be another long night.

Every night the bar was full because they don't only serve drinks but Garry was the best Chef and people loved his food, before the war he was working in a fancy restaurant where a meal could cost hundreds of dollars, after the war no one spends that much on food anymore and if a restaurant like that opened again it would get robbed daily and the rich people would get kidnapped, All the rich people now live in their heavily guarded mansions and never go out without a small army of bodyguards keeping them safe.

Later in the night a group of men entered the bar, they looked like trouble they wore long coats with hoodies covering half their faces, they were scanning the place as if looking for something then they went to the last booth and sat there, Nelly looked back at Timothy behind the bar, he nodded at her assuringly and made sure to keep his shotgun loaded and ready for any trouble.

Nelly gathered her courage and went to them to get their orders.

Nelly:"Good evening gentlemen can I get your orders"

One of them who sat beside the wall took off his hoodie, leaned back and checked Nelly out he ran his eyes all over her body, she felt very uncomfortable with his looks, she cleared her throat and glared at him, he smirked at her feistiness "we'll take a round of beers for now darling". Nelly nodded at him and left quickly to get their beers she could still feel the creepy guy's eyes on her back, she fought back a disgusted shiver and walked back to the bar.

Timothy:"Everything alright"

Nelly:" Yeah all ok they are creepy though let's keep an eye on them I hope they drink their beers and get the hell out"

Nelly got the beers and placed them on the table, she forced a small smile and asked the creepy guy if they wanted anything else, he was checking her out again with his disgusting creepy looks then told her that would be all. She quickly went to another customer who was calling her.

Few minutes later a muscular, tall guy walked in the bar, he looked around then sat in a booth a bit close to the creepy men, as soon as he sat he waived to Nelly to come get his order, Nelly noticed him and immediately went to take his order.

When Nelly got closer to him she could clearly see the very handsome man, he was obviously tall with bulging muscles, but with a cute handsome face, fair skin, dreamy blue eyes, sharp nose and jaw line, when she reached him he smiled at her and she almost fainted and though "Oh my god how could someone be so handsome, his smile brightened the whole place" she noticed that she haven't said anything and was eye f*cking his hot guy, she blushed, put a strand of hair behind her ear and cleared her throat.

Nelly:"Good Evening Sir, can I take your order?"

The hot guy continued smiling at her then nodded

Mike: "Actually I'm hungry and heard you guys serve the best burgers so I'll get one of those and a beer please beautiful"

Nelly blushed even more after he called her beautiful and held back from fanning her flushed self with the notepad, she quickly wrote down his order and ran back to the kitchen to give the burger order to Garry.

Mike followed her with his eyes till she disappeared in the back then someone in the both beside him told him loudly "That's a fine piece of a*s am I right hahahaha", Mike clenched his fists under the table and glared at the rude guy and chose to ignore him, the guy didn't like that Mike ignored him and was disrespecting him in front of everyone, he got up, went to Mike's booth and shouted loudly "Hey pretty boy I'm talking to you", Mike again ignored him which angered the guy even more, he reached out to hold Mike from his collar, Mike held his hand and as soon as he touched his hand he got in the guy's head and he knew that he was one of the resistance recruiting scouts but not the one in charge, Mike twisted the guy's arm behind his back and forced the guy's face on the table and sneered at him "Don't touch me!".

The man in charge was very impressed with Mike's strength and skills, he immediately knew that they had to recruit him he would be a great asset to them.

He got up from the booth and went to Mike and placed his hand on Mike's shoulder to calm him down "Hey easy there big guy, I'm sorry for my friend there could you let him go before you break his arm". Mike figured the one trying to calm him down must be the one in charge, he let the other guy go and continued glaring him till he went back to his booth. The other guy patted Mike on his back laughing and asked "Can I join you?" Mike nodded at him and sat back down. The guy sat down and offered Mike a handshake.

Jason:"I'm Jason, what's your name?"

Mike smirked before taking his hand and though "Gotcha", he took his hand.

Mike:"Sammy"