Reluctantly His

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With a swipe of the towel, Nika Ryder wiped the wet mark off the top of the bar.

That done, she moved down to the customer who stood on the other side.

"And what can I get you to drink, Mike?" she asked the man, one of her few regulars.

"A dark ale would go down good right about now, love."

Nika smiled. "One pint of dark ale coming up."

She walked over to the tap and pulled a pint of draft. After she placed it in front of Mike and took his money, Nika put it in the register behind her. She gazed about the open room and sighed. She'd hoped the pub would have been a lot busier than this tonight.

The pub, The Old Sow, was Nika's, and her only source of income. When she had immigrated to the UK from Sacramento, California just a little over nine months ago, she hadn't expected to find herself the sole proprietor of a pub in Norwich. No, the whole owning a pub had been her then boyfriend's idea. She'd met David in California.

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