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I took the rose with a smile and winked at the woman. She was new, but not what I was looking for tonight. I headed for the bar, ignoring the soft but thumping bass of the music that filled the place. There were no dividing walls on this floor, it was an open place with two bars, one on each end, a dance floor in the middle, and a seating area where you could relax with drinks and food by the tall windows that overlooked the city outside. It was raining so there wasn’t much of a view, but I could see the shimmer of lights through the streams of raindrops.
“Mason, you made it,” Ginger called when she spotted me, her eyes lit up with delight. Her pale skin, translucent even under the dim light in the club, shone like a pearl, pure and unblemished. The paleness of her skin, mixed with the alluring peridot green of her eyes gave her an air of otherworldliness that most found hard to look away from.
She had on some kind of sexy top that looked like a black scarf tied intricately around her breasts and neck, but it did amazing things for said breasts. She’d paired it with a long black skirt that reached the floor. She looked stunning, but she always did. I leaned over to kiss her cheek and caught a hint of her perfumed coppery hair as I did. She always smelled nice.
Ginger had been serving men, in one fashion or another, for a very long time, she was an expert at presenting a seductive, delightful appearance in all ways. Despite her, shall we say,experience, she was down to earth, always ready for a laugh, and a very good friend. But always and only a friend.
“You’re looking well, Ginger,” I whispered in her ear before I pulled back and gestured to the barman for a drink. He was the usual barkeeper, so I didn’t have to tell him what I wanted, he already knew.
A glass of top shelf scotch slid to my elbow as Ginger smiled up at me, her green eyes dancing with delight. “How was your trip?”
“Nothing new, honey. Nothing new at all,” I sighed, letting her know I really didn’t want to talk about the trip or the man that had betrayed me by working with the Russian law enforcement while I was away. It wasn’t worth thinking about.
“Well, I think we can find something to keep you entertained tonight. One way or another.” Ginger’s voice promised.
I knew she meant it, and she could be right, but that pair of blue eyes popped into my head again. Not what I was looking for, I reminded myself as I looked around the room filled with men and women.
You could tell clients from staff by the red roses they held or kept near them. So far, I hadn’t seen anything that would bring me to lift my rose off the bar, not even the dancer currently working her way up the pole at the back of the club. I’d keep waiting. Maybe someone here could help me get those blue eyes off my mind and out of my system.
