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“I wish there was eyeball bleach,” I chimed in.
Lexi laughed, “Hey, I helped you that morning.”
“Don’t be holding out on us,” Trinity added, “spill it? What did you see?”
I shook my head. “It was gross.”
Lexi leaned in, “y’all Mel here goes to clean this room. There isn’t a do not disturb tag. She uses the master key to go in. Calls out ‘housekeeping’ and no reply. She gets in the room. No lie, had the beds stripped, went to the bathroom to get towels and found the man.”
I felt my cheeks flush.
“She embarrass easy?” Tamra asked.
“Who me?” I asked looking at my cousin who was nodding.
Tamra’s face softened. “Not a bad thing, Mel. Just you seem?—”
I cut her off, “Embarrassed, no. Guarded?”
She nodded. “It’s like you have to constantly look over your shoulder. You both do it. Whatever you’re runnin’ from it’s okay. You have support here with us. We all got skeletons in our closets.”
“I just don’t have a lot of experience.” I explained feeling like these women might misunderstand my hesitation in friendship. “I went in the bathroom and this man was passed out on the toilet. Naked. Just wearing cowboy boots.”
Lexi beamed, “motherfucker was hung.”
They all laughed and I gasped.
“Relax,” Lyric leaned in and whispered.
I couldn’t manage to do that. In fact, I sat stiff on the edge of the bench while they all chatted around me. Inevitably the conversation turned to the bikers.
“Hacksaw said he wanted to take me out, for real,” Lexi boasted changing the subject and I was grateful. “He’s gonna take me for a ride and to dinner.”
“I bet he’s gonna take you for a ride,” this remark was from Tamara.
“What’s it like?” Lyric asked and I swear I wanted to crawl right under the table. This wasn’t how things went where we were from.
While I had to admit I was curious, it didn’t mean I needed to share this with the others. There wasn’t a man that had come into the hotel to supervise, work security, or do maintenance that wasn’t hot in their own way. The eye candy definitely did not disappoint. I considered it a perk of the job, but I wasn’t about to tell the others.
“Hacksaw?” Lexi asked.
“Yeah or just all of it. Where we are from, men are in charge, sure. But the Kings seem to carry themselves differently.” Lyric explained and she was not wrong.
These men all carried this danger and edge to them that was both alluring and scary.
They all let out a small chuckle. “It’s the best you’ll ever have and the biggest heartbreak if you don’t keep your feelings out of it.”
“What does that mean?” I asked unable to stop the question from tumbling out.
“We’re not ol’ ladies. We aren’t gonna get that title or respect.”
“Well, none of you are old.” Lyric stated the obvious.
Tamra gave her shoulder a squeeze. “You are so sweet. Honey, old lady is a term of endearment. It means you’re claimed.”
“Claimed?”
Trinity beamed, “yeah, you belong to them. Property of a King.”
