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"Yes"

"Did he pay you for it?"

Holly nodded

"How much?"

"Umm One hundred dollars"

"Are you serious?"

"Yeah I-I didn’t knohat to charge"

Ivy , since that’s quadruple the standard rate"

"Ivy!"

"Sorry Dollar signs blinded me for a second So what did you do after the lap dance ended?"

"Hid--I ht sht after you performed the lap dance?"

"Yes"

"Did he ask you for another lap dance?"

"Yes, but I refused, because I figured out the one I’d given him hadn’t been the norled with custo forlot when I went out the back door"

"Was that when he asked you to meet him off the premises?"

"Yes"

"At any tie for sexual favors?"

"No!"

"At any time besides the lap dance did he offer to pay you for sexual favors?"

Holly shook her head

"Any and all sexual contact, at every point, was coht fire when she reerly she’d let Nick tie her up Man That’d been hot as hell, her powerlessness and his deterhts, by showing a kinky side of herself she hadn’t realized she had

"Holly?" Ivy prompted

"Umm Consensual All six times"

"Six times?" Ivy repeated, her eyes ith surprise

Crap

"In one night?"

Holly notched her chin higher "Yes Six instances of sexual contact and that’s all I’" Ivy s to"

"Ivy!"

"What? It was funny"

"No, it wasn’t I can’t believe this is happening to me I never ever ever do stuff like this"

"I knoeets, which is why I thought this experience htened you up and you’d embrace--"

"--my seamier, nastier side?" Holly blurted "It’s just made me more paranoid Now he probably thinks I’m a slut You probably think I’ht stand, one time? Hardly"

Holly just stared at her

"Look I’ you in this position It’s those dans that cloud my vision I shouldn’t have asked you"

"Asked?"

"Okay, demanded, that you fill in as Mistress Christ could’ve been avoided--"

"But that’s the thing I don’t regret being with hihtful Sweet Funny Did I h to co I’m afraid of is he’ll be disappointed I’h Holly’s hed "This whole debacle is like some bad ot a better title," Ivy said, playing along "Arresting Behavior"

"Oles before she could finish the rest of the sentence

Stearolls arrived and they both dug in

Eventually Ivy said, "He’ll track you through Sugar Pluht"