“No, they don’t. Here.” He opens up a cabinet I have never noticed before. It is full of club clothes.
“Have you done this…before?” I suddenly feel cheap, used even.
“Well, you know that I have,” he teases. “With you a few weeks back. I know I didn’t imagine what happened that night. I still have the picture to prove it.”
“No, I mean here, have you fucked someone else here, before, in this room?” Steam is about ready to blow from my ears.
“What gave you that idea?” he scoffs at me as if he’s the one offended.
“Never mind.” I shake my head. I should have known better, but I allowed myself to get caught up in the moment. I was caught up in Tyler’s attention.
Luckily, I find a bustier similar to the one that I was wearing. My hose on the other hand are a complete loss though. I glance at myself in the mirror.
“Hell, I look rode hard and put out to dry.” I try to wipe the smeared lipstick from the edge of my mouth.
Approaching me from behind, Tyler tilts my head at an angle, kissing me with ownership. “We’ll continue this later,” he promises and warns, all in the same sentence.
I’ve really fucked up now. I played with fire, and now I am going to get burned.
Chapter Seven
“You slut, where in the hell have you been? You smell like sex! You bitch, you’re not walking away from this conversation, this time.” Erin is up in my face wanting to know all the dirty details.
“Yes,” I hiss at her. “Now hush, before someone hears you!”
“Girl, everyone, and I mean everyone here knows that you two have it bad for each other. In fact, some of the dancers were betting how long it would take.”
“Shut up. Nooo they weren’t. You lie.” I look at her, horrified.
“Gotcha.” She winks walking back to her tables.
The rest of the night I feel paranoid like everyone is staring at me. I just know that I am going to be fired. It really sucks, because the money I can make here is great. I don’t know what I am doing with Tyler. I like him a lot, but I can’t give him all of me. Not to mention he doesn’t know the situation with Brian. Hell, Brian doesn’t even know.
The way Tyler makes me feel scares me, I never even felt this way with Brian. It was a different longing, he was familiar and Tyler is new and exciting—dangerous even.
Thankfully, our indiscretion at work isn’t spoken of. Either no one knows or they don’t care. Well, other than Erin. I just want to get out of these clothes and to take a long, steaming bubble bath.
Making it home, I walk in to find Jace and Faye asleep together in the recliner. There is a note from Caroline that she fed Jace dinner and bathed him. She is so good to me. I pick Jace up, careful not to wake him and get him tucked into his bed. I try gently to wake Faye and she doesn’t respond. A hard lump forms in my throat. I shake her shoulder with a little more force.
“What, what is it,” she mumbles. The cancer has
taken such a toll on her, in body and mind.
Letting out a sigh of relief, I tell her, “Just thought you might want to go get in your bed is all.”
“No, now I am awake, how was work?” She stretches wiping her eyes with a yawn.
“Good.” I blush thinking back to Tyler and all the ways he touched me.
“What’s that grin about?” She perks her wrinkled brows up at me.
“Nothing, it was a really great night.” I can’t stop smiling.
“Your father called me earlier.”
“You talked to Jim?”
“Yeah Aria, just because we got divorced don’t mean we don’t talk. We were talking about my final arrangements. Now I know you don’t like to talk about it, but is important, so your dad is helping me get some things in order for when the time comes. I don’t want anything falling on Bender’s shoulders, he has enough chaos in his life.”