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She wouldn’t lose it here. She wouldn’t lose it here.
Several minutes passed, but the pain was still an ache deep inside her. She was being ridiculous.
Regent wasn’t hers. He hadn’t betrayed her. Sure, she had this stupid childhood crush on him.
But that’s all it was. Stupid.
And it wasn’t like he even knew about her feelings. Thank God. Because that would be more than a bit embarrassing.
So there was that to be grateful for.
Right.
So why didn’t that make her feel any better?
A knock on the door made her startle. “Yes?”
Moving to the mirror, she checked that her mask and hair were in place.
“Yo, it’s me. You okay? Keegan said you seemed upset.”
Jilly rushed to the door to open it. Sasha eyed her with concern. “What’s wrong?”
She didn’t see Sasha that often when they were working. In fact, she thought that Sasha deliberately tried to stay away from her. Perhaps she thought she might slip up and call her Jilly or something.
But Keegan had seen them talking a couple of times, so he probably thought she was closer to Sasha than anyone else here.
Which was definitely true.
The other girls didn’t like her that much. And while some of the bartenders and other bouncers were nice to her, she wasn’t friends with them.
“You’ll never guess who was just here,” she said.
“Who?”
Sasha glanced around as though expecting someone to be in the room.
Jilly almost burst out his name but realized she couldn’t.
“My landlord. Well, he’s sort of like a family friend. But that part doesn’t matter. I know him! And he was here!”
“Wow. And he hasn’t been here before?”
“No. I didn’t think he’d be into . . .”
“A place like this? Why? Because it’s so cheap and nasty and sleazy?”
Jilly frowned. Why would she say that? “No, of course that’s not what I meant.”
Sasha waved her hand in the air with a sigh. “Don’t listen to me. My mom has been on my case to get a different job. She’s being relentless.”
“I’m so sorry. I still haven’t even told my mom. Honestly, I haven’t told anyone.”
“Including this family friend/landlord?”
“Yeah, including him.”
“I wouldn’t worry, I doubt he’d recognize you. Where was he sitting?”
