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“Mr. Gaster where to next?”
I came up for air long enough to tell Pete where we were headed.
“Café De Paris.” I rolled up the partition.
I pulled Lydia onto my lap, my fingers pushed up her dress massaging her ass. “Tell me what’s on your mind.”
“Hayden, you aren’t going to like it.”
“I’m listening.”
“You can’t ask me to stop stripping right now. I need to pay off my father’s debt myself. I also need to make enough money to put away for him. That is why I planned to strip for two more years.”
“Lydia!”
“I understand we are together now, I will have to stop sooner than later. There is no way you will make it the two years. Give me until the end of the summer.”
“Fuck, Lydia! You are really trying to fucking kill me.” Do you have any idea where I go in my head...”? I pointed at my head. “…When I watch you strip. Do you know what I have done to the men who take it too far?”
“Damn it, Hayden! You should have never come back into the club.”
CHAPTER THIRTY
HAYDEN
“Lydia, you are addicted to stripping. You’ve been stripping for four years. You don’t know how to stop.”
“Oh, so I’m supposed to apologize for making a good living. You are only mad because I’m stripping. If I was a criminal defense attorney defending guilty people you wouldn’t give a shit. Fucking rich people! You are only happy with the shady shit you all do. Don’t fucking judge me! Maybe you are right. I’m addicted to providing a good living for me and my family!”
“Baby, I’m asking you to be my family and let me take care of you.”
“Fuck, Hayden. You are going to push me away. I want to be everything you want, but I don’t think I can.”
“Lydia, you act like I’m trying to change who you are. I want you to be the woman you were supposed to be. The woman who was supposed to go to school on a full scholarship and focus on school. I bet your parents were going to take care of you through college.”
She fucking lost it. Her hands flew against my chest as the tears poured down her face. I let her fight the demons from within. They haunted her. The loss of her mother detoured her life. I know she doesn’t want to strip, but in her mind, she has to hold her family together in this manner. I grabbed her wrists. “I’m sorry you lost your mother and this wasn’t supposed to be your life.”
“My parents were scholars and I was their intelligent daughter who was supposed to be stress free and happy.”
The car came to a stop. I reached over grabbing tissues to wipe her face.
“I hate when you cry. You are so wounded. I don’t know if your heart will ever heal. I’m in love with you Lydia. Let me into your heart all the way.” Tell me you will marry me.”
She shook her head no.
“We are here Mr. Gaster.”
“Just a moment, Pete.”
I was going against everything I believed in for this woman. “I’m marrying you no matter what.” I waved my finger toward her as our eyes locked.
“Lydia the stripping stops at the end of summer. I will not tell anyone we are married until you stop stripping. If I announce our marriage beforehand the media and my family will make our life a living hell. Only our small circle of friends will know we are married.”
Her eyes dropped. My index finger slipped under her chin pulling her eyes up to meet mine again. “I won’t give up on you, Lydia.”
“Why? Hayden, you should marry a woman on your social level an heiress, or some rich girl with the same goals as you.”
“Lydia, why do you think you aren’t the woman for me? Is it because you are a stripper? You, use that shit as a crutch. You are intelligent. Give yourself more credit. You deserve the best.”
She stared at me for moment. “I never saw myself getting married this early in my life. But I only want to be with you. My heart would be ripped apart if you were with another woman. I don’t know why I push you away.”
She stared at me a moment longer. Yes, I will marry you.”
My head moved up pulling her lips into mine then to the side sucking her lips like she was my favorite candy. Fuck, what am I saying, she is.
