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She straightens up and shakes her head. “I can’t. I have to work for you.”
I tense up but I know now’s not the time to be a control freak. I need her to tell me what’s going on with her.
“No you don’t.”
“I do Nick.” She rises to her feet and I almost allow myself to get suckered into her body but I tamp down my emotions and focus.
She steps out of the bath, grabs the towel and wraps it around herself.
I put out the cigar and do the same, following her into the bedroom and grabbing her arm before she can get to the clothes she was about to put on.
It’s time to talk.
“I could put a million dollars in your account now,” I blurt and her eyes flash with indignation.
“No.”
“Wow. Not many chicks would turn away a million dollars.” I had a point in the comment and she just proved me right. “Why are you?”
“I can’t take it.”
“How comes, you clearly came to me desperate. You went to a place you would never go to. A sex club. A fucking sex club. Mia you’re off the charts intelligent and you come to my sex club to apply for a waitressing job. Now I offer you a million dollars and you won’t take it. Why the fuck not?”
“Because I love you.” She cries and brings her hands up to her cheeks the instant the words fly from her lips.
I’m not shocked to hear it. Not as shocked as she is that she said it.
I felt it.
I felt the start of it weeks ago and I felt the fruition days ago when love came to claim me. She tries to break free of my grasp but I pull her to me.
“I love you too,” I say and it’s then she stops wriggling and gazes at me stunned. “I love you too Mia.”
Those aren’t words I say all the time. I’ve said them one time only to a woman who wasn’t my mother.
“You …do?”
“Yes. I love you too and I want you to be mine. Not some damn contract where I pay you. I don’t want to feel like I’m paying you to be with me.” That’s what this will be if we continue as we are. That is what it will become, but the fucking poor sap that I am will take it if that’s what I have from her.
“You’re not… It’s not that at all Nick. I am yours and I don’t want to feel like you’re paying me to be with you either. I just …need the money.”
“Yeah, I figured. So here’s the question I should have asked you weeks ago.” I stare at her and show her I’m serious as fuck and I want an answer. “Are you in trouble Mia? You must be.”
“I’m not anymore.”
“But the worry can’t be over if you’re saying you need the money. Let me pay it for you and you can forget the problems.”
She’s shaking her head even before I finish. “I can’t. You mustn’t. You mustn’t. It’s not fair.”
“Is it your dad? Is he in debt.”
“No, it’s complicated Nick. Please let’s just leave it here.”
The fear I see in her eyes now snaps my attention right up and I start thinking all sorts of shit.
“Do you owe money?” I prod.
“Nick please…”
