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Rolling the window down, I heard him let out a whistle. “Someone looks like a pretty picture. Ready to go have some fun?”
Hesitation rippled through me and I surveyed the parking lot. “Let’s do it.”
The pulse of music greeted me the second Sheamus and I entered the club. It wasn’t what I was expecting but then again, as long as I’d been in Atlanta, I’d avoided the club scene. On the first floor Kashin, was the restaurant. There were plenty of people eating sushi and sitting at elegant dining tables.
Following behind Sheamus we moved to the second floor and into a section where the beautiful female horse trainer Violet and Penny were sitting. The lights were going wild and flashing while the clubbers danced hard grinding against each other to the music’s dark beat. I took in all the details of my fellow employees coming to the conclusion I’d picked the right outfit. Violet was dressed in a bright pink halter top body con dress, while Penny the strawberry blond had gone for a spaghetti strap tank and jeans.
Excitedly they waved me over and I turned to look for Sheamus who was already dancing with a stranger. He was so into the moment with the other man he’d forgotten about me.
Approaching the other women, I felt timid. “Hi.”
Both immediately started beaming at me and patted the seat in between the two of them for me to sit down.
“We love your top,” Penny offered first.
Violet nodded. “Girl, we’ve been talking about you all week. I would die for your curls.”
Warmth bloomed over my face. “Thank you. I don’t get out of the house much.”
Both women looked at each other. “We’ve seen your house. We’d never leave it either if we were you.”
Nervously I touched my hair. “It’s a lovely home. But it’s not really mine, perse.”
Another look passed between the women before Penny offered to get us Dirty Mojitos. We watched as she went off moving in and around couples, Violet leaned over.
“So did you think Sheamus was gay?”
I grinned and shook my head and then started looking for our boss. “I thought he was as straight as an arrow.”
“Same, girl. Same.” Violet had piercing gray eyes that seemed to glow under the lights in the club, giving her a minx-like appearance. Out of the two women, I could tell she was the most mischievous. “When I first started, I was like head over heels for him and then found out he was having an affair with Juan Carlos.”
“Whose that?” I asked.
“Oh, he left about a year ago. Penny took his place. It was a huge mess.”
Violet was spilling all the tea by the time Penny returned with our drinks. We sat around chatting for another twenty minutes before Sheamus finally stopped dancing and came to sit down with us.
“Oh, my Lord,” he grinned. “The boys are out in the ATL tonight.”
Penny laughed. “I see you, Boss. Who you taking home tonight?”
Sheamus's eyes began to roam all over the room, a smirk fixed upon his face. He slowly turned back to us. “God, there’s so many to choose from. It’s even some trade in here.”
Confusion clouded my face and I hollered over the music. “What’s trade?”
Violet bumped me with her shoulder, laughing. “How long have you been in Atlanta, babe?”
“Not long enough,” I bit at my lip wondering what else I had missed out on in the city while hiding away.
Sheamus leaned forward and snagged Violet’s drink. “It’s the boys that pretend to be masculine, but they really want what I got.”
On that note, I picked up the Dirty Mojito and began to suck the drink down. We sat and talked for a long while before a woman walked over. Sheamus stood and gave her a polite and friendly hug. She was a tall Asian woman with black lipstick coating her lips, and she appeared pale. Part of me wondered if she were some sort of vampire come to life. She even seemed to smell like death, her floral fragrance reminded me of death.
Momma’s room the night I left…
Her eyes landed on us, me in particular. Under her gaze, my skin began to feel as if it were crawling. The inside of my mouth went dry and I nearly dry heaved.
“Everyone, you know Mrs. Nakamura…her kids do lessons with us!”
