Total pages in book: 155
Estimated words: 147128 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 736(@200wpm)___ 589(@250wpm)___ 490(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 147128 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 736(@200wpm)___ 589(@250wpm)___ 490(@300wpm)
I opened my mouth and closed it.
Charlie laughed. Then as if we had done it a million times before, she grabbed my hand and started dragging me behind her. We were walking through the gyrating bodies when she looked over her shoulder, the smile still going strong on her face, and I realized I would have to try harder to stay away from her. If I was going to stay away.
We made it to the back of the club where a narrow hallway greeted us. The music wasn’t as loud as it had been on the dance floor so it was easier to hear her when she spoke.
‘Apparently he was heading to one of the private rooms. How do you want to do this?’
I lifted an eyebrow. ‘You plan on telling me who it is we’re looking for exactly before we discuss how we’re going to do this?’
‘Oh, sorry. Do you know Hugo Oak?’
‘No. Who is he?’
‘Twenty-one years old. One of the members of the music group everyone is talking about? The Oaks? Three brothers.’
‘I have no idea who you’re talking about.’
‘Oh, William. You really need to stop working so hard. Come on, you’re not gonna recognize him anyway, it looks like.’ She went to grab my wrist, but I held onto her hand and wrapped mine around hers. She paused and glanced at our connection.
When we reached the first closed door, we realized we didn’t have any other option but to open it and check who was inside.
‘I’ve seen other people have sex. I watch porn too. This is not a problem,’ Charlie said to the door and just barged in. As she just stood there watching a group of people going at it very loudly, I had to be the one to pull her out.
‘Needless to say, watching porn and actually watching people have sex right in front of you are two very different things,’ I said, as she flushed crimson and purposely avoided my gaze after we walked away. She did try to let go of my hand, but for some reason I didn’t want to let go of her and held on and just moved to the next door down.
The client wasn’t behind the next five doors we checked, but plenty of other people were. Nothing I’d seen affected me as much as seeing Charlie get affected by it all. When we reached the sixth door, her pupils were dilated and her breathing was ragged. And it was taking her a little too long to close the doors we kept opening.
Her little hand was gripping mine with all her strength. I paused and ducked down to meet her gaze. Her big eyes met mine, and I watched as she studied my lips as her chest rose and fell faster.
I opened my mouth, but she got there before me.
‘Give me a break,’ she started a little breathless and looked away from me. ‘It’s been over five years for me, remember? No kissing, no sex? Obviously it’s gonna affect me. It’s live porn. And then you’re holding my hand and looking like you do…’
I tried, but I couldn’t hold back my smile. ‘Charlie, I was gonna ask you what he looked like. Google him and show me a photo. I don’t think you should look into any more doors.’
‘Oh.’ She took a deep breath and then let it out. ‘Ignore what I just said, okay?’
‘Okay, no I haven’t heard anything. Tell me what the client looks like.’
‘Blond.’ She looked at me again, taking me in. ‘His hair is similar to yours, but yours is better. His looks weird. Tall and thin, I think.’
‘You think?’
‘Well, he isn’t as big as you. Doesn’t have your shoulders. Doesn’t have your arms, you know. He looks more like a kid than a man. Don’t make me spell it out for you.’ She took out her phone and showed me his photo.
‘Spell out that you like my shoulders and my arms?’ I asked, my voice dropping lower.
A couple holding hands eyed us and stopped right next to Charlie. She took a step towards to me and wrapped her free hand around my forearm.
‘Want to play?’ the young, bald guy asked as the girl rested her head against his back and gave us a soft smile.
‘Thanks, but not tonight,’ I said and nodding to us, they moved down the hallway.
Charlie lightly hit my arm. ‘Not tonight? As in we’ll come and have sex with them tomorrow night?’
‘I thought you wanted to have fun and kiss someone,’ I replied distractedly as I checked lucky door number six. No blond guys. We moved down to another door.
‘Yes. You maybe. Not them.’
I stopped walking and Charlie walked straight into me.
‘Oomph.’
‘Me? What? Maybe?’
‘Just giving examples. I’d rather kiss you than a stranger, I guess.’
‘You guess?’
Forcing my gaze away from her eyes, her lips, her dress and everything that was Charlie, I tried door number seven and saw a blond guy kissing two women and getting undressed.