Page 23 of Taming Scarlet

“I’m getting my nails done at two.”

“Here or out somewhere?”

“Out. Then I’m going to dinner with Lilac Jones.”

“The influencer?” he asked, surprising me enough to glance up, seeing nothing but distaste on his handsome face.

“Yes.”

“Fine,” he said.

“Then I am going to the club tonight.”

“You’re shitting me,” he said.

“If you have a problem with the job, quit,” I offered.

“Being a brat isn’t going to work with me,” he told me, and somehow those words made my belly shiver.

“I’m offering you an out of a position you clearly don’t want. If you don’t like the clubs, this is not the job for you. And I have news for you,” I said, getting to my feet, purposely leaving my bottle of unopened water on the couch as I did so, “you are really going to disapprove of this club.”

It wasn’t that I made it a point to go to sex clubs.

In fact, I’d only ever been to one. I’d happened into it by mistake with a friend. And while we’d seen… some things, it hadn’t been anything crazy. We’d backed right out because, quite frankly, we’d been unprepared for it.

But that was kind of the point.

The novelty.

The story.

There was no shortage of sex clubs in the city. Some were kind of a free-for-all, letting in any Joe off the street.

I had no interest in a place anyone could go.

SVNT was an elite club.

The kind that vetted the people who wanted to attend.

For attractiveness.

For reputation.

For your ability to pay the hefty entrance fee.

I would not only have to pay for myself, Drea, and Di, but my bodyguard as well.

They wouldn’t have had a chance to vet him, but exceptions would be made.

No one turned me away.

First, because of my father and his wealth.

But also because of the publicity I brought with me. Good or bad, depending on my mood.

I said nothing else to the guard as I made my way to my room. And his pride seemed to prevent him from asking.

It made him moody and silent as he followed me around, though, always looming in the corner of a room, looking miserable and more than mildly threatening.

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