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Chapter One
Mia
Okay….
I’m ready.
Ready to go in.
I pull in a deep breath, hold on to it, and allow the thought to sink in.
I actually brought myself here and decided I’m going in.
That must mean I’m serious. I’m going to do it.
The interview.
I’m going to do the interview.
Scratch that… I don’t actually have an interview yet. But I hope to get one. And, to get one I have to actually go inside the building and make the enquiry.
The building I’ve been standing outside for the last… what?
I glance at my watch and see it’s been a whole hour.
Geez…what the hell must I have looked like just standing outside here?
Was I that nervous?
God… of course I am.
It’s not every day you think: hey I know what I’ll do, I’ll go work in a sex club owned by mobsters.
That’s what The Dark Odyssey is.
Great idea and exactly where I’d hoped to be after investing in my legal career at Harvard.
All those long years of study. Right from high school, then on to college and grad school. This is where it got me.
I’m twenty-six years old. I thought I had a bright future as a lawyer, except this is where I am after all the hard work I put myself through.
I thought I at least be a junior associate at some prestigious firm now.
But no…
That never happened. I saw eighteen months of my internship at Silvermans in LA before the shit hit the fan.
None of my goals, aspirations or dreams followed through.
Nearly though… I was almost there then disaster struck and led me here.
My nerves tingle and my body shivers in response.
Get it together girl. Dad needs me. He needs me and so does Beth.
Knowing I was standing outside the entrance to The Dark Odyssey would probably push Dad further into that early grave that keeps threatening to take him— if he knew what this club was—but I’m here.
Here because Chloe, my very adventurous best friend who had a flair for the risqué, told me about a potential waitressing job and said it paid very, very well. Heaps more than the recent nothing I had after using all my savings to help Dad manage the situation of shit Carter had dragged us all into.
