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“Wyatt?” Chet barked. I blinked as I realized that his brother was there as well in an equally ridiculous get-up. “Go to the back and get Arya’s things. I’m taking her to the truck.”
“Okay. Hey, Arya,” he said with a smile.
“Hi, Wyatt,” I said sheepishly.
“What a night, eh?”
“You can say that again.” My entire body was hot with embarrassment. “You can put me down now, Chet.”
“I don’t think so,” he said, shaking his head. “Come on.” He carried me all the way through the bar and only let me down when we got outside.
“I cannot believe you just did that,” I snapped.
“You cannot believe I just saved you from a bunch of dirty old men?”
“I didn’t need you to save me!”
“What were you going to do next, Arya? Tell me that.”
“What do you mean?” I said.
“They were begging you to take off your bikini top. A man jumped up to help you. What were you going to do next?”
“I….” I paused “Fine, I was out of my element and I wasn’t sure what I was going to do, but you shouldn’t have come. You can’t fight all my battles for me.”
“You want to bet?” He raised an eyebrow at me.
“What’s that supposed to mean?”
“It means that if you make stupid decisions, I will be here for you.”
“If I make stupid decisions—What stupid decisions did I make?”
“You took a job here, for one.”
“I thought I was going to be a bartender.”
“But you are not. You’re a stripper.”
“When you found out you were a stripper, why didn’t you leave? Did you want to be a stripper? Did you want to give dirty men lap dances? Did you want to feel weird men underneath you growing hard trying to grab at your pussy and…”
“Chet! You don’t have to say that!”
“I don’t have to say what?” You didn’t think every single man in there wasn’t thinking about how they could finger you and maybe pay you big bucks?
“No, I wasn’t thinking about that. They told me I could make $500 in…” I sighed, “Now I know why I was going to make so much money.”
“Arya, I’m not trying to prevent you from earning money and making a life for you and Eloise. I am trying to protect you from signing up for stupid,” he glared at me “and yes, I said stupid jobs that will put you at risk”
“I can take care of myself. I’ve been doing it my whole life.”
“I know you’ve been doing it your whole life, Arya, but maybe I want to help take care of you too.”
“Why? Why do you want to take care of me?”
“Maybe because I like you, you stupid woman.”
“Okay, well you like me, but I need more than like to pay the bills, okay? I have to provide for me and Eloise—”
