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The two scu patrons out of the way left and right There are screanore theet to her, to cover up the body that was made for me, for my eyes, for my touch

I hear a shout as the guy that approached et back, this way, quick!”

I growl at him but it’s no use He was closer to her and he reaches her long before I can, pulling her down off the stage

Al

Alice

Of course It starts to make sense in mythe brooch? If I’d knoould have given her the asking price Fuck, I would have given her the world

“Roan?” Her eyes go wide as she realizes it’s me, even as she’s pulled back down off the other side of the stage, lowered to the floor I hate that the big guy, who’s clearly a bouncer, is touching her, but perversely I appreciate his care but he needs to get his fucking hands off her “Roan, what are you doing here? I’m sorry! I’m… Please don’t look at me like that!”

“Hey, dick head” I hear the voice fro very hard and heavy strikes the side ofblow The guy clearly never played pro

I grab the baseball bat out of his hands and raise it, and he sensibly steps back out of my field It’s the fucker with the white eye, and his lips are twisted in a snarl even as he retreats into the chaos I see all around us

“She’s irls You want private time with her, you pay like everyone else”

I growl and step forward before he can react, grabbing his shirt collar and pulling him to me “The fuck she is”

My punch lands square in the middle of his face, and blood flies out to the side I release hi hiht where my knee happens to be

As he falls back, I turn, forgetting all about hi the room for Alice, but she’s nowhere to be seen I knohere she was though, and the only place she could have vanished to is a side entrance with a dirty e above it

I’m outside a moment later, just in ti into the back of a beat-up old Honda I see a woman’s face in the driver’s seat but she also sees ine rev

Oh, hell, no I’ to let her disappear on me