He exhales. “Now I think I’ll settle down. Get me a good woman and maybe have a kid or something.” He shrugs. “Who knows?”

“And you, Simon?” I ask.

“Ahh, I’ll look for something else to get into. I was born into this kind of life. I don’t know who I am without it.”

I nod, remembering what Danny told me while I was in jail. “Some of us don’t get to choose the life we live.”

“What about you, man? What’s your plan now?” Ben asks me.

My eyes dance around the loft bar area. The poker table, the couch, the bar. I look out the two-way mirror down at the club.

As disheartened as I am about losing this place, I now know the life I was living wasn’t full. It was incomplete in ways I didn’t understand at the time.

“Well, now, I guess I’ll go live.”

Chapter Fourteen

Bryce

I slide down the wall of the loft, staring at dust left on the floor before looking out the window wall. This is the last time I’ll see this view.

The sound of music starts, vibrating the floor beneath me.

“What the hell?” I stand up and quickly walk across the room into the bar loft. I look out at the club, seeing the dance floor lights on and on the floor is a woman dressed in red.

Heels that she can’t stand cover her feet, and she dances to In This Moment’s “Adrenalize”. It’s the same mix we danced to when I wanted her so fucking bad I could hardly stand it. How did she get this?

My cock twitches, and I move to the door so I can walk down. My eyes never leave her, though, as the song switches to Rob Zombie’s “Dragula”.

Holy fuck, this is hot.

I remember wishing she was naked and everyone would disappear.

All but one of those things are true right now.

She’s not naked.

But there’s not a single person around.

She sways her hips with her eyes closed. I stop and lean against the wall of the stairs, just like I did when she first stepped in here, in that dress.

Her eyes open like she knows I’m watching. I’m hard as fuck right now. I bite my lip and push off the wall. She stops dancing, but the music keeps up.

I hit the bottom, walking over to her quickly, and in one movement her feet leave the floor as I lift her. My lips crash to hers, my hand moving to the back of her head. I grab her hair as our tongues dance to the beat of the twisted hard metal.

Placing her down on the bar, I swipe at the beer bottles and liquor glasses. They hit the floor, shattering. I leave her lips, climbing on top of the bar. She spins and lies back. I pull my cock out and she leans up and takes me into her mouth.

Jesus Christ.

My head falls back.

My hand goes to her hair. I wrap it around my wrist and hold on. She sucks me as the electric guitar blasts through the club. The lights switch from red and blue, dancing all over the walls. Painting her with their colors.

I can’t fucking believe this.

She grabs my ass, taking me all the way, and I swear I’m about to come, but I want to do that somewhere else. I pull back instead, bending my knees. I lie down. “Take off your dress and come here,” I say, grabbing my cock. I think about the possibility of someone walking in. I know the loft door is locked. “Did you lock the doors?”

She nods after her dress hits the floor. I know no one has a key but Bones and he’s out of town. So, we’re good. I lick my lips as she climbs on top of me, naked just like I wanted.