Chapter Twenty #2
Cali loves being a nurse and she’s extremely passionate about helping those in their greatest time of need.
She worked her ass off in school while pregnant and then having a newborn son to become a nurse.
No one has worked harder than her. For Darren’s parents to have taken that away from her means they’re really my enemies now.
I know they have issues with all of us and think we’re not good enough for Darren, but this takes their petty bullshit behavior to another level completely.
Getting up from my seat, I make my way to the office where I know Simon will be working on paperwork as usual. Knocking on the door, I wait for him to call out before entering the small room.
“What’s going on, Reckless?” Simon greets me with a smile on his face.
“You got a new employee. Her name is Cali. I want her to be the one to have our table whenever we come in here and she’s workin’.
No one else can wait on us when we’re here,” I tell him, knowing he’ll fulfill my order because he respects us.
“Cali is associated with the club so I expect her to be treated with respect and not bullied by the other women who work here.”
“Of course, Reckless. I’ll make sure everyone knows she’s your waitress and no one else can work your table when she’s here,” Simon says, getting up from his seat and following me out of the office.
I take my seat again and watch as Simon moves from one waitress to the next.
He has a conversation with all of them and I already know which ones will try to give Cali a hard time.
These women fight over us when we come in for a meal.
Knowing Cali will be our permanent waitress is putting a target on her back, but it’s one of the ways I can help her without making it obvious.
“What did you do?” Link asks me, his voice full of laughter because he already knows my answer.
“Cali’s our only waitress when she’s workin’. I don’t want anyone else takin’ care of us,” I answer him honestly as everyone at the table starts laughing.
“I’m guessing this is because of you, Caleb,” Cali says, walking up to our table and stopping right next to me. “You didn’t need to do this.”
“Yeah, I did. You’re part of the club and we’ll always take care of you, Reina.
Besides, I’m tired of all these women tryin’ to get with us when all we want is to sit here and relax with a good meal.
You’ll do your job and won’t try to fuck with us.
I mean, you can stand here the entire time and we won’t say a word about it because you’re one of us.
No one else here is,” I tell her, my voice gentle as I notice a few glares being thrown our way.
“You know you just painted a target on my back, right?” she questions me, no anger in her voice that’s laced with amusement.
“You tryin’ to say you can’t handle these women, Cali?” Manic asks her, looking around the room.
“I can handle them, that’s not even a question.
I’ve been trained to deal with bitches like them.
Tank and everyone else in the club made sure I can take care of myself in almost every single situation.
Thank you, Caleb, for doing this for me,” Cali says, her cheeks and neck turning a shade of pink as the guys avert their eyes because she’s embarrassed and they won’t call attention to it.
“Don’t gotta thank me, Reina,” I tell her, reaching out and gripping her hand for just a second before I release her again.
“What can I get you guys? Luca, it’s good to see you out with everyone,” Cali says, making sure to include our young Prospect as usual making him blush in response. Again, we don’t call attention to it because Luca needs this.
We all order our meals and Cali leaves to turn our ticket in.
While waiting for our food, Cali delivers our drinks before moving through the rest of her tables.
Everyone loves her as they smile and laugh at her from the second she steps up to the table until she leaves them.
Cali will always thrive no matter what her job is.
She makes everyone feel as if they’re her only focus and for the few minutes of each interaction between them, each customer is all she sees.
Every other waitress in this place could take lessons from her and they’d actually make the tips I know Caliana will make.
She’s gonna make this diner busy as hell and Simon and Veronica are gonna make more money than ever before.
Cali delivers our meals the second they’re ready and makes sure we don’t want or need anything else.
Her tables clear out and are immediately filled by new customers while other sections of the diner remain empty.
The only other one to get full tables is the young waitress Luca can’t take his eyes off of.
Cali has noticed it more than once and I know without a doubt she’s going to play matchmaker.
It doesn’t take a genius to know Cali wants Luca to live his best life and that includes finding the love of his life.
My girl will make this young man happy one way or another.
When we leave the diner, every man at the table leaves a huge tip for Cali.
It’s way more than what we’d leave anyone else.
Cali is gonna give us all shit for it, but we won’t take the money back from her.
She deserves every single penny of the money we gave her and no one will tell us otherwise.
To make sure I don’t get in trouble with her, I head to the clubhouse long enough to grab my costume for the haunted house before heading over there to go over everything.
I want to make sure it’s all still in perfect order for tonight’s crowd to walk through.