Justice Falling (Falling #3)(42)
I untangled the strings of the bikini triangle-style bra. Only this wasn’t your average triangle top bikini. Usually fabric covered the breast completely. This one did the exact opposite, encasing my full D-cup with half-inch satin strings that met at each point on the triangle and spider-webbed out into a perfect circle where my nipple could fit through. It drove the men absolutely wild , ensuring me a G-string full of stellar tips. Tonight the pick-me up to my confidence was warranted. I needed someone to want me. Even if it wasn’t the man I wanted.
“Damn, you’re going to rake in the cash tonight.” Jin eyed the matching string bikini bottoms, garters, and fishnets. I grinned, more for her benefit then mine. It was all about playing up the dark side of erotic dancing this evening. Fit my mood perfectly.
Tonight, I’d be Mistress Black, smacking my own ass with a riding crop, making sure it turned nice and red before I turned it on a couple audience members. I always knew which ones were into the kink. The second my whip made an appearance their eyes would smolder. They were the heavy hitters, rich as could be, willing to pay a nice chunk for me to give them a couple solid swats from my crop. Half of them would try to disrobe so I could spank their bare fannies, even though it was forbidden. Employees were the only people permitted to take their clothes off. Gems was a gentlemen’s club, not a brothel or a whore house. The owners made their money off the illusion of sex not the real deal.
My cell phone rang as I applied a thick layer of candy apple red, long-lasting lipstick.
“Aren’t you going to answer that?” Jin asked looking at the screen.
“Nope. It’s probably Oliver again.” I rolled my eyes. “Aspen or Hank has a big mouth. Ever since the phone call at the office the other day, he’s been all over me wanting the “deets” as he calls it.”
“Then why does it say Nate Walker is calling?” Jin grinned and answered. My mouth went dry and I lost all ability to breathe. He finally called. A new fear splintered out my limbs like a windshield did upon taking on damage.
“Hey, Nate. Yeah she’s here. How are you?” What game was my friend playing? I held out my hand to take the phone, wiggling my fingers to hurry her. She shooed me away.
“Right now she’s getting ready for work.” Her eyes took in my barely dressed form. “Yeah, she works at the same club I work for. I’ve served a drink or two in my day…well, uh, it was nice chatting with you.” I could tell that Nate’s questioning took on a subject she wasn’t prepared to answer. Mainly what we did at this “club”. “Time to get the boys. Be good to our girl.” She held out the phone and winked at me.
“It’s Nate.” She smiled wide.
“I gathered that.” I held the phone to my chest. “You are so dead,” I whispered.
“Not the first time you’ve said that, won’t be the last.” She flipped her shiny hair over her shoulder and left the room closing the door behind her. I took a deep breath then held the phone to my ear, needing to hear his voice but dreading what he had to say.
“Hey,” I spoke quietly.
“Good evening, Precious.” His use of the much loved endearment had my heart thudding in my chest. “I told you I’d call.”
“So you did.” I tried not to sound weak but my voice shook.
“I missed you.” His voice was smooth as silk and just as soft. I closed my eyes and took a breath, not capable of uttering a word. “I’ve had some time to think.” He took a long breath. “Think about us. And you know what I’ve decided?”
Everything that could be depended on this decision. “Tell me,” I whispered not trusting my voice. I held my hand to my heart. It thumped so loudly in my chest I worried he might be able to hear it.
“That you’re the most beautiful woman I’ve ever known.” I choked on the emotion his words hammered through my consciousness. He heard my reaction. “That I want to know you better. Every part of you. Including your wants, dreams, desires.” His tone took on that gravelly sound that shot a bolt of pleasure between my thighs.
“I want to know and be a part of everything in your life, Camille, get to know Jin, and, most importantly, Tanner.” That was it. I couldn’t stop them. The tears poured down my cheeks ruining my makeup. I didn’t care. He wanted to know Tanner. “How does that sound, Precious.”
“Sounds…like a d-d-dream come t-true,” I stuttered through my tears.
“Don’t cry love, I’m not there to kiss away your tears.”
“I wish you were,” I said without thinking.
“I can be there in fifteen minutes--”
I cut him off. “You can’t. I have to work tonight.”
A long drawn out inhale and exhale was the only sound I could hear through the line. “Then I’ll come to the club where you work.”
A cold sweat broke across my skin. Nate at Gems was not an option. “No! You can’t!” I said too forcefully. An Alpha like Nate didn’t take too kindly to orders or boundaries for that matter. If his track record was anything to go by, if it involved me, he’d push his way in regardless of being invited. It’s what made that place in me thrum and go molten all over.
“And why not?” His voice had a scary edge. One I hadn’t heard before.