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Xeno gives me a curt nod. “Agreed.”
“OhMyFuckingGodThisPlaceIsUnreal,” Clancy blurts out from beside me, running her words together in her excitement as she pulls my attention away from Xeno and starts pointing at the stage. The curtains have been pulled back to reveal a stunning grand piano, the smooth dark wood glinting in the overhead lights. The club is large enough to house a couple dozen tables and a large dance floor, but the decor is stylish and the lighting soft, giving the impression of a much more intimate space.
I smile. “It’s pretty impressive, isn’t it?”
“Urgh, it’s surreal. So,thisis how the other half live, is it?”
Laughing, I nod. “I guess it is.” Little does she know that theother halfshe’s referring to includes Xeno and the rest of the Breakers who own this place.
“You look gorgeous by the way, and totally fit in.”
“Thanks! Idofeel sexy.” Clancy grins, then leans in close. “River actually said he’d rather spend the night fucking me in this dress than come to the club. So, I know I must look good.”
“I’m not surprised.”
“That’s not quite what I said…” River pipes up. “I said that I’d really love to fuck you all night long in that dress.”
“They’ll be plenty of time to fuck all day tomorrow,” Clancy counters, biting on her crimson lip seductively. The colour matches perfectly with her slinky, low cut, dress. The second I saw it; I knew she’d look killer in it. Paired with a pair of strappy black heels and her shapely dancers’ legs, she looks hot. The flickering candlelight at the tables and subdued lighting throughout the club picks up the golden lights in her red hair perfectly. River really is a very lucky guy, and by the appreciative looks she keeps getting from other patrons, I’m not the only one who thinks that.
“I’m happy to be here. It’s a pretty cool place…” River’s voice trails off as his attention is drawn to someone on the other side of the club. “Is thatStormzy?” he asks, his eyebrows lifting in surprise. For someone who isn’t usually impressed by famous people, he’s looking pretty starstruck right about now.
“Yep. Stormzy and Adele are good friends. They’re regulars here. It wasn’t long ago when they performed together on the stage,” Xeno says like he knows them both intimately. Perhaps he does.
“Sir, your drinks,” the waiter says, interrupting the questions that I just know Clancy is desperate to ask, given the wide-eyed look on her face. Xeno nods his thanks to the waiter who places the
a bottle of Cognac on the table with four crystal cut glasses then takes the champagne cooler and glasses from a fellow waiter and adds those to the table too.
“Champagne or Cognac,” Xeno asks us.
“Champagne for me and River, please,” Clancy replies, taking the glass from the waiter when he hands it to her.
“And for Madam?” the waiter asks.
“Champagne too, please.”
Once the waiter has poured me a glass and Xeno a double shot of Cognac, he leaves us to enjoy our drinks.
River takes a sip of his champagne, watching Stormzy greet some friends a few tables over. “I got to admit, I love his music.”
“Youlove Stormzy?” Xeno asks, looking at River above the rim of his glass.
“What, because I happen to be a ballet dancer, I can’t enjoy Grime music?”
“He’s got a point,” I say.
“You don’t seem the type, that’s all… I don’t give a shit either way,” Xeno shrugs, taking another sip of his Cognac and focusing on the stage.
“Well, I’m glad we gotthatcleared up,” River mutters.
Clancy pulls a face and fidgets nervously in her seat next to me. This is the first time outside of the studio that our respective boyfriends have socialised. Neither one of us wants it to go tits up.
Xeno glances at River, lowering his glass to the table. “That was rude. I apologise. I’m not a cunt, at least not all the time.”
“Just a cunt in rehearsals, to people you don’t like, and when deciding who should or shouldn’t like Grime music, then?” River counters with a smirk.
Xeno doesn’t respond immediately, and for a minute I think he’s going to pull a gun and point it at River’s head. He doesn’t, thankfully. Instead, he chuckles. “That’s about right.”
River shrugs. “Hey, at least you’re man enough to admit it.”
