The Bartender’s Countdown by Piper Lennox

If there’s one indisputable truth in this world, it’s that men like Bram Galloway are pure trouble.
And if there’s one indisputable tragedy…it’s that they’re impossible to resist.
When I greet my new employees, I don’t expect the arrogant bartender in a hoodie and sunglasses to be the same guy I fooled around with a few weeks ago. Guess I’m just lucky, that way.
Bram is everything I can’t stand in a person: big ego, trite lines, smart mouth. Firing him is long overdue.
Too bad I can’t. Not without looking petty, at least.
We may have only met once, but I know he loves bets. So I make him one. If he can get himself together and stay that way for thirty days…I’ll keep him.
I’m quick to elaborate: keep him on the staff.
But the closer we get to Day 30…I’m not so sure that’s what I meant.
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At my best friend’s wedding, Kennedy Flynn shot me down. Brutally.
Then, almost instantly, she changed her mind—so she’s got a lot of nerve acting like I’m the only one dying for another long night in a dark room. Especially after the night I gave her.
I don’t care that she’s my boss. I don’t care that she hates me.
I want her.
And before this countdown even ends—I’m going to get her.