Page 89 of A Ryan Recollection

I blow out a shaky breath. “As hot as that sounds, we only just got here and we can’t go to the room downstairs yet.”

“Fuck!” Conor grumbles.

“Shane has reserved us a booth anyway. Pretty sure he just watched us make you come on this dance floor and will be wanting to push some more boundaries tonight,” Mikey adds with a laugh.

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An hour later,Shane, Liam and I are making our way back to the booth after I wanted to see the displays in the other rooms. As we pass the stairs to the basement, I stop them.

“I need the powder room,” I say.

We just passed the customer restrooms and the line was enormous but there’s a staff bathroom downstairs that I could use.

“Shane Ryan?” a guy with gray hair wearing a red and black mask comes up beside us and says.

All of my husbands are wearing masks too but they are pretty recognizable anyway. Shane clearly knows this man and likes him because he smiles.

“Alfred,” he says as he shakes his hand.

“And Mikey?” the man I now know is Alfred says to Liam.

“Liam,” he corrects him.

“Sorry. You look even more alike with a mask on,” Alfred laughs.

“And this is my wife, Jessie,” Shane introduces me and I smile too. But now I am busting to pee.

“I need to use the ladies’ room,” I say, excusing myself.

Shane frowns at me.

“I’ll go with her,” Liam says and we both say goodbye to Alfred and make our way downstairs to the basement.

“I can go to the restroom alone, you know?” I say to Liam, reminded of a similar conversation I had with Shane a few evenings before.

“I know, but it’s more fun with me,” he says with a wink.

As we reach the bottom of the stairs, there is some kind of commotion going on in one of the rooms because a woman runs out crying and a half naked man comes running after her and bumps straight into Liam.

“What the fuck?” Liam snarls as he pushes the man off him.

“Cassidy!” he shouts after the fleeing woman.

“Did you do something to her?” Liam snarls.

“No,” the man scowls at him.

Oh my God, I’m going to pee.

The hallways starts to fill up with people who are either startled by what’s going on or simply on their way down here to use one of the rooms. There is usually a bouncer at the top of the stairs but I imagine he may have gone running after the crying woman. I hope she’s okay.

Damn. Now I really need to pee.

“Liam. I gotta go now. I’ll be right back,” I say as I head off to the bathroom.

“Jessie, wait.”

“I’ll be right back,” I call, turning the corner as I head to the staff restroom and straight into a bearded man in a Santa mask.

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