His Unexpected Queen

Chapter 6

Landrey's POV

Oh, that man just pisses me off and makes me want him all at the same time. He was confusing and infuriating and hot as hell. Maybe I need to sleep with him and get him out of my system. Maybe then he wouldn’t turn me on and piss me off and scare me just a little at the same time.

I felt guilty about the way I had ignored him at the bar and didn't refill his drink like I should have until I saw him trying to get it from Tabitha. That pissed me off even more. I didn't like that they were talking at all. I wasn't sure if it was because I just didn't like her or if it was because it was him.

I marched off to work after I handed him the money and of course he made it into something but I ignored him and went to work and of course he shows up here later looking for Ellie. I'm not sure what he wanted to talk to her about but my job could be in jeopardy if he tells her how I treated him at the bar but damn it if he wasn't asking for it.

He spent an hour in her office and I was a nervous wreck waiting for him to leave and when he finally did, he just gave me that damn smirk and walked out of the gym. I tried to keep busy and not run in there to ask what he wanted and it was killing me. I cleaned so much waiting for her to come out and when she finally did, she just waved at me and told me to have a great day. That didn't tell me anything about what went on in there.

The rest of the week he came to the gym when I was working and was sure to give me that damn smirk of his that made my knees weak and my insides Jello and my blood boil all at once. By the time Thursday rolled around I had to work at the bar. I never worked Thursdays just Friday and Saturday but because of taking Saturday off I had to switch someone and that's what I got.

The bar was slower than normal and it was a nice break from being here with Tabitha. I guess Thursdays were her normal day off and man, were things different. It was like the air was lighter here and the people were more fun. The night went by quickly and before I knew it, it was Friday morning and I was dragging ass at the gym. This is why I only worked weekends and now I had to work at the bar tonight.

I had managed to yawn my way through most of the day and avoided Reign when he came to work out and now, I was sitting at the front counter with my head in my hands and my eyes keep closing on their own. I couldn't stay awake.

"Up late last night?" I heard a voice waking me up and when I jerked my head up, I was face to face with Reign.

"You have something," he said pointing to his mouth and I quickly wiped my mouth thinking I had been drooling but he started laughing and it was something that I had never heard and holy s**t was it gorgeous. Could a laugh be gorgeous?

"Do you need something?" I snapped at him.

"I noticed you were super tired so I brought you this," he said holding up a large cup of coffee, "I didn't know how you take it so it's just black and I have this," putting down sugar packets and some creamer.

"I actually prefer it black, thank you," I told him and there was that damn smirk again.

He walked out of the gym without another word and I sat there sipping the hot coffee and it was delicious. It was just enough to keep me going until I got off work where I took a little nap and then headed to the bar. I was still dragging but not nearly as bad. I had to be up and at Ellie's at ten am but I was hoping that I would get a chance at a nap in the afternoon sometime tomorrow.

It was the usual Friday night and busy and I found myself looking for Reign as the night went on but he hadn't shown up. I don't know why I thought he would but it was wishful thinking on my part. I was in my own head when I was shoved from behind and about fell over. I turned to see Tabitha walking the other way and laughing. I took a deep breath and went back to my tables.

It was still crowded when the last call came and I was trying to get all my drinks out when some girl ran up to me. She looked frantic.

"Please, do you work here?" she rushed out.

"Yes."

"There's a girl in the bathroom and I think she needs help." she said and I took off running to the bathroom and soon as I pushed the door open it was slammed shut and Tabitha was standing there.

"Leave him the f**k alone," she yelled at me.

"Who? Reign?"

"Yes, he's f*****g mine."

"Weird because he didn't tell me that last night or this morning," I told her and smirked at her. I hadn't stood up to her before and honestly it felt good. I didn't tell her that we didn't spend the night together but I did allude to it.

She grabbed both my arms and slammed me against the door digging her fingers into my upper arms.

"This is your one warning. Stay the f**k away," she said before letting go of my arms and grabbing my hair and pushing me to the ground. She stormed out of the bathroom and I got up off the floor and washed my hands and looked at myself in the mirror and saw the red finger prints on my arm and I knew it was going to leave bruises. I would just have to put a little make up over them to cover them.

I walked out of the bathroom and the bar was clearing out and Tabitha was in her section cleaning up. I ignored her and went to clean my section and worked on getting out of there as fast as possible. I usually hung around and helped the kitchen and bar cleanup for the extra hours but not tonight. I ordered my ride and waited inside until they pulled up.

When I woke up the next morning my body was a little sore from last night and I had some deep purple bruises on my arms. They were going to be hard to hide from everyone so I did the only thing I could think of for now and put on a long sleeve. I quickly packed everything I needed and left myself enough time to grab a banana and head to Ellie's house.

When I got there, I went and knocked on her door and a dog started barking and I heard her yell at it calling it pancake. I had to laugh and thought her daughter had to have named it. She opened the door with a big smile on her face.

"Girl, why are you wearing long sleeves? It's supposed to be hot out today."

"I know but I get cold easily." I told her. It was a total lie but I didn't know what else to say.

She pulled me inside and she had her bags backed and our dresses hanging by the door. "I just need to take my bag and our dresses to the car and we can go. Preslee and Weslee went with their dad this morning. Something about kids' breakfast," she said as she grabbed everything and we headed to the garage. When she opened the door, I had to become incredibly jealous. Her car was amazing looking. I don't know what it was but it was so pretty.

We made small talk the entire way to the hotel. It was over an hour away and I knew the area a little bit. I grew up several hours away from here and been in the area a few times but that was about it.

When we pulled up to the hotel it was just as nice as their other hotel if not nicer. The valet was already out here and someone came out and took all of our stuff up to our rooms and they went and parked her car.

"Let's go check out the gym." she said excitedly.

When we walked in it was identical to the other gym. Even the colors were the same and the set up was too. This would be easy. I loved that she kept things the same. After she double checked everything we went to the front desk and got our keys.

"Here is for your room. If you want to stay the night you can, or nap or do whatever. We are all staying the night and I will take you back in the morning." she said.

We went up to our rooms and then back down and walked around the rest of the hotel. It was beautiful but I expected nothing else. We ran into the rest of the girls and decided that we were going to hit the pool before the kids got tired. After we all got changed into our bathing suits we met in the hallway. The last time we went swimming it was at Berkley's house and I had borrowed one of Ellie's bikinis and it showed the scar on my stomach that I hated but no one said a word but this time I bought a suit to bring with me that covered it. It was yellow and dipped low and tied around my neck and was backless.

"Let's do this," Amaya said.

"I thought the kids were coming with us?" I asked confused because none of them had their kids.

"Oh, they are but the guys have them still. We have a little more time until they meet us down there." Berkley said.

We walked through the hotel and all of the workers that were their kind of gave us the stink eye. I'm sure they hated us right now and I knew that feeling. I had always been on the working side of things and haven't enjoyed life like this in a long time.

When we got out to where the pool was, I was shocked by everything. They had a huge pool that you could just walk into, no steps or anything. It just gradually got deeper, it had a huge rock water fountain in the middle and then they had a kid's pool with this huge bucket that got filled up and then tipped over and splashed everywhere. There were also lounge chairs and cabanas and a restaurant and then another pool that was just a regular pool. I just couldn't get over how big it was.

"I want to say let's enjoy the hot tub but it's too warm already for me," Ellie said.

"Let's get a drink and lounge in the pool," Amaya said and they all agreed. Ellie went to the restaurant and pulled a key card out of her purse she brought with her and opened it up and went inside and came back out a minute later with a soda, a bottle of wine and a couple of beers. She handed the soda to Berkley and then offered the rest to us.

"I will pass on the wine, I can't drink that anymore," Amaya said and grabbed a beer from her.

"Landrey, what would you like?"

"I would love a glass of wine," I told her, and she smiled at me, "me too. One too many glasses for the light weight over there and she won't drink the stuff." she said pointing at Amaya.