eyed the six-inch shot and smilingly
asked, "Want to concede the game?"
Shaking his head, Cade said, "Nope. Work for it, lady."
With a chuckle, Mandi popped the eight into the pocket. The two guys who'd
been watching from a nearby table had come to stand by Cade.
"Man, she flat kicked your ass," said one of them.
"I think she got lucky on the fourteen," said the other guy.
"Yeah?" asked Cade. "Put your quarters up. You just volunteered to be her
next victim."
The guy nodded and reached in his pocket, then fed the table as the other
guy introduced himself as Mike and the other guy as Stan, then put his name on
the chalkboard for the next game.
"Hey, there's three of us here, dude," confided Mike. "One of us has to beat
her."
Glancing at Mandi, Cade chuckled and said, "Yeah, right."
Cade put his name on the board, as well, and sat down with his beer. He
enjoyed watching women shoot pool, especially women in short skirts, and Mandi
had magnificent legs.
Midway through her game against Stan, Mandi leaned over the table for a
shot, lifting one leg slightly off the floor as she stretched. She seemed to
take longer than usual about it.
The shot hadn't seemed that difficult, even with the need to stretch for it.
Cade glanced from her legs to the table to try to see why she was taking so long
just as Mandi turned to look grinningly back at him.
His gaze shifted from the table to her face. Her expression seemed to change
to one of surprise for a moment, then she turned back around and popped the ball
into the pocket.
'Ha,' thought Cade. 'She thought she'd catch me eyeballing her legs.' With a
grinning mental shrug as he sipped his beer he added, 'She damned near did,
too.'
Mandi gave him an odd, studying glance as she rounded the table to take her
next shot. Cade deliberately pretended to find something interesting about his
beer and held it up to look at the way the light filtered through it.
Mike muttered something as Mandi sank the eight, then he sighed and said,
"Oh, well. It was worth the money to watch her do that, I guess."
Stan laughed and got up to take his turn. During the game Mandi chanced to
be standing directly in front of Cade as she leaned across the table to aim,
shifting her hips as she moved slightly to her right.
Oh, hell, yeah, Cade looked. As Mandi leaned forward, her skirt rode up a
bit and tightened delightfully aro