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She frowned.

“What kind of favour?”

“Can you enter me into the system under an assumed name and get me a private session with Theia? I don’t want anyone to know I’m here.”

I don’t think Remi was expecting me to ask for that. She stared at me like I’d gone crazy. I had, but it was beside the point.

“You want me to… well, this… I had no idea you were into—”

I put my hand up.

“I’m not into anything, Remi. I don’t want any of the stuff the club offers. I only want to talk to her.”

She opened her mouth, closed it, and then frowned.

“You want totalkto her? You do realise this is a sex club, not a therapist’s office, right?”

This was probably the most embarrassing situation I’d ever been in. I wasn’t interested in doing anything sexual with Theia. I merely wanted to see her. I wanted something to take my mind off everything that had happened in the past twenty-four hours and the shitshow my life was turning into. It might be insane for me to want to see a sex worker, but whatever it was about Theia that intrigued me when I’d seen her last had led me here. I intended to find out why the fuck she had been my first thought when I’d asked myself who I wanted to be around.

“I’m aware of what happens here.”

“I’m just checking because, you know, I wasn’t expectingyouto turn up here asking for a session with one of the girls. Enzo has been banned from doing so since he works at the club, but Zayn never said anything about you.”

No fucking surprise Zayn had vetoed Enzo getting private sessions here.

“You can’t tell him about this.”

She crossed her arms over her chest.

“Let me get this straight. You want me to give you access to the club under a fake name so you can talk to Theia and not tell your brother anything about it?”

“Yes. I’ll pay for the session, obviously, and whatever the membership costs.”

“I never thought I’d see the dayyouaskedmefor a favour, but okay, I’ll do it.”

I thought for a second she might tell me no and dob me into Zayn, but no, Remi was going to do me a solid.

“Thank you.”

“Come on, we’ll go down to Zayn’s office since he isn’t here, and I’ll get you all set up.” She dropped her arms and shook her head. “You owe me for this, though.”

“Anything you want, I’ll do it.”

She started towards Zayn’s office. I followed along behind her.

“I’m not even going to pretend to understand why this is such a big deal for you and why it has to be Theia, but whatever.

“You can’t tell her it’s me either.”

She turned her head.

“Anything else his majesty wants me to do that’s completely fucking batshit crazy?”

“No, that’s it.”

She rolled her eyes and shoved open the doors towards the offices at the end of the corridor.

“I’m going to get in so much trouble with Zayn when he finds out about this,” she muttered.

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