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There’s no need forif I’ll be allowed back, so I decide to go ho-hot shower so that perhaps I can rid e and strip again toht

I hope

Chapter seven

CAIN

I gripwheel hite-knuckled force If I don’t slon, I’uardrail Acknowledging this, as pedal

She dances just like Penny did

The style, the grace, the class

With a mournful smile and her eyes closed Like she has a secret Like herherself anywhere but on that stage

It’s a thing of rare beauty, the way her body s the led or with her ass in the air like an everyday stripper

I was hard the second she stepped onto the stage I was thinking of ways to get her in a private room when her top finally came off

I’m no better than Rick Cassidy or any of those other vultures

Finally releasing the breath I’ator to the legal liirls getting high to loosen themselves up for lap dances and private shows I don’t take the girls for a test drive when I hire them, and I sure as hell don’t demand late-afternoon blow jobs The dancers don’t even turn irls who need a second chance Girls who need someone to protect them because no one ever has

The way I should have protected my sister

And Penny

But here’s a wo about how her brsts were too flawless to be natural and how he’d be finding out for hiht, I told hied a what-the-fuck-is-wrong-with-hiuess Ben clued in, because he asked as going on between Charlie and me I decided that I needed to leave before I made more of an ass ofshe’s doing that in nore indefinitely because, da her would be a bad idea

I acknowledge this even as I glance at the stack of papers sitting on er seat Charlie’s application, her identification, everything I need to forward toat it, at the photocopy of her face, reminds me of my present discomfort I adjust myself It’s a little after eleven o’clock Even with ht will be a fking long night

I hit the dial button located onwheel