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Neon Nights wasloud and crowded by the time we walked in. Eliza was still behind the bar, but from the smile and wave when she saw us, it wasn’t for long. Loki was a few steps away from her, talking to his beta, and when he saw us, he waved us over.
“I’m glad you girls came back. I just wanted to let you know that we’ve upped security since the last time,” he promised, giving Sienna a pointed look. “I’m sorry that happened in our place.”
“Not your fault,” Sienna reassured him. “No incidents since?”
“Nope,” the beta, Bane, answered. “We posted someone at the bar and have a few doing rounds. Everything has been normal.”
“Well, good, then we can relax,” she said before heading for Eliza to order drinks.
“Thanks for keeping us safe. We appreciate you,” I told them with a smile. His shoulders dropped like he was almost relieved that we weren’t cursing this place and refusing to come back.
“Always,” he promised. “Valentina is on the dance floor if you’re looking for her, by the way.” Glancing over, I saw the silver-haired goddess dancing with a group of men—nearly our age by the looks of it—hanging on every move she made like they couldn’t get enough.
“That woman is goals,” I said as I walked away to join my girls. Sienna handed me a shot when I walked up, and we all clinked ours, including Eliza, and swallowed them down.
“I swear the alcohol here is magic,” Teagan joked. “Goes down a bit too easily.”
“Valentina is out there. Who wants to go dance?” I asked as I gestured at the crowd. Sienna held up her hands and parked her ass in a chair, but Teagan grabbed my hand and dragged me out to the dance floor.
Just as we were getting close, the flash of a camera blinded me. Teagan huffed and shoved the kid away.
“Fuck off. What the hell?” she growled.
“Maybe a blog fan?” I mused, blinking to clear the awful light away.Hopefully, they didn’t get a good picture of me since I was facing away from Teagan.
“I’ve had some ask for pictures because of my blog, but never like that. Maybe he just thought we were hot? Bad move, kid.”
“Who knows. Alcohol makes people weird,” I said, brushing it off.
The moment Valentina spotted us, she shoved off her horde of men and snatched our arms, pulling us in.
“Dance with me!” she ordered as the song switched over to some kind of techno remix that had the crowd going wild. We joined right in, getting lost in the buzz of alcohol and the beat of the music.
By the time we needed a break, we’d danced through several songs. Eliza and Sienna were waiting back at the bar with water and shots for all three of us. I chugged half a bottle of water before I even considered taking another shot.
“I need some fresh air,” I gasped. “Eliza, do you have a back entrance for staff? I don’t want to get stuck in the crowd out front.”
“Yeah, come this way,” she said as she walked off. I followed on the other side of the bar until she was able to duck under the partition and join me. “It’s better than the front.”
“Whoa, where are you two off to?” someone asked. I was about to tell him off when I saw the leather jacket that marked him as one of the Reapers.
“Fresh air,” Eliza answered shyly. Oh…interesting.
“I’ll join you, ladies. We don’t want anyone getting harmed, and you four are on our priority list.”
My chest clenched at that. I didn’t know this man, but the entire MC was here for us, and that was so reassuring. I was used to relying on me and my girls, and now we had an MC and the mafia behind us. God, Alexandria was a wild, wonderful place.
He escorted us out back then waited, standing guard. I grabbed my hair, holding it off my neck to try to cool down. The heat from the alcohol and dancing was getting to me.
“I’m glad we came here,” I said suddenly.
“Me too,” Eliza said. She grinned at me, a twinkle in her eyes that set me off. Before long, we were both laughing hysterically, leaning on each other to stay upright, and every time we looked at each other, we were set off again.
An alarm on my phone went off when we finally calmed down a few minutes later, and I pulled it out, groaning when I saw my reminder that I had to go back home since I had work tomorrow. Sutton had switched my shifts around, but he’d been unable to find coverage for tomorrow with such short notice.
“I gotta call it a night.” I hugged Eliza tight. “Go have some fun, Eliza. You deserve it.”
“Can you walk her back to the building?” Eliza asked the beta standing with us.
