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“Why not?” She caps her mascara and puts her hand on her hip, eyes on me.
“You know why not.”
“Excuses. He’s clearly into you. You won’t date anyone! Allen, Micheal, Jason, Kevin, Peter, Paul, I can bring Jesus down here and you’d find something wrong with him. Youalwaysfind a fault, with every one of them.
“This time…super valid.”
“What’s the worst that can happen?”
“Um…he finds out what I do, shuts down the club, we all end up in jail, and my brothers are in foster care.”
“Date him!”
I shake my head. Of course, I would like to date Noah but how could I with what I do? Nice guys like him don’t want girls like me. This job is my sacrifice for dating. “The only thing I have a date with is to pay the stack of bills in my drawers. So let’s hurry up and get ready. You can help me decide between these two dresses, black and sexy or green and vibrant?”
“Why bother? You already know black and sexy does it every time. I mean, look at us…”
“On this, I’m going to agree with you. Black and sexy it is.”
“You should always agree with me. It’s the smart thing to do.” She smiles. “I heard that guy Thom was asking about you. Apparently, you turned him out good. Did you take my advice and give a little extra to get a little extra?”
“No, I did not. I have my limits and it stops at the hand. Let me have your mascara, I can’t find mine.”
She hands it to me. “Whatever you did sure left a mark on him. He’s been asking Celeste if there’s any way he can get your number. He even booked a next appointment for you and said he would pay double for more time but only for you.”
“All I did was the usual and we talked. He mostly talked and I listened. He was nice enough. Not like most of the sleazy guys who have their hands all over us all night.”
“If amateur therapy hour is his kink, work it. Maybe he’ll come into town more. Make you his regular girl. You might get a sugar daddy and you won’t need to go back to the club. Solve your money problems.”
“I don’t want to be anyone’s regular. I just want to do what I got to do, get my money, and go home.” And forget I do anything in there until the next time. “That’s not the way I want to leave the club. I want to leave because I made it happen. Not because some man pays me to be his mistress. Besides he’s married. It’s bad enough I’m doing what I’m doing with him. Half the time I’m trying not to think about their regular lives, like if they have a wife or kids, but sometimes it’s unavoidable and those are the times I feel even shittier.”
“Fuck that. You’re not the one screwing their wives and families over. They're not even getting their dicks wet in any of your good places because you are too classy for that. I, on the other hand…give me a chance at a sugar daddy.”
“Then you can have Thom. How about I talk you up to him and you can crash through his life like a wrecking ball,” I smile teasingly.
“Aw, thanks. But I’m not anyone’s sloppy seconds. At least not for anyone at that club. But I would definitely take hot cop off your hands.”
“You can’t have him,” I say, a bit of a snap in my voice.
“A little edge in your voice for someone who doesn’t want him. If your voice was sharper you’d cut me.”
“I don’t say I didn’t want him. I said I couldn’t date him because of what we do and my chaotic messed up life.”
“Get over that shit. He doesn’t have to know what you do when he’s not with you. He’s not asking for a commitment or marriage. Just have a little fun with him. It’s been a while. You need it. Let him shake the coconuts and drink a little of the milk.”
“You did not say that.” I chuckle.
“I did.” She laughs with me and yells, “Date him!”
Ten
NOAH
“You could have told me no over the phone. Instead, you make me waste my time coming over here to say no to my face. I expect this from Dad but not from you.”
“You wouldn’t have asked Dad,” I say, walking back to my garage to pick up my electric saw and toolbox to put in the back of my truck, where Holden is standing. “And I didn’t say no.”
“I’ve been standing here for fifteen minutes and you haven’t reached back and brushed the dust off your wallet.”
