"Why? Do you require something?" she asked the man.

"Why? Do you require something?" she asked the man.

"The one with you is drunk; we're about to close, but he still won't leave," said the man, who she acknowledged as a bartender.

"I'm not with him; I came here by myself," Zaneska explained.

"But  he said the two of you are together," the man explained.

Shit! That man made her a babysitter. She would not have gone if she had known the two of them would meet. But it would be painful to hear if she didn't help him, and she remembered Zander assisting her when she was in danger...