Bartending was not the way Athelstan (or his parents, as they continually reminded him) had imagined he’d be using his hard-earned college degree, but the economy being what it is, he was rather grateful simply to have a decent job. Which is not to say that the job didn’t come with some perks. Mind you, if someone had told him back at the somewhat improvised job interview that one of those perks would involve occasionally spending his breaks being dragged into the backroom by the owner’s giant, leatherclad biker bouncer of a brother, he’d probably have wondered exactly what the person doing the telling was on…