When the Lights Go Out (Sample)

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They walked away hand in hand aware of how proud his mother looked and how relieved his father looked. If they only knew it was all a front. If they only knew that she was a stripper and that it was all a game of money. Nothing more, If they only knew that behind her happy smiles and joy filled laughs that there was someone in there that secretly wished that this was so much more.

Savvy looked up at Ty and and felt her knees go weak, he was looking at her strangely as if seeing her for the first time. Why, she thought looking away, did he have to be so fine. His eyes seemed to see right through her to her soul, so penetrating. He made her feel naked.

She looked at their linked hands and back at the family, figuring they were far away enough, she let go and felt herself returning. This was just an arrangement, nothing more, she needed to remember that and that meant knowing when to turn off the show.

"Your family are really nice, you all seem really close. It's nice to see people like that every once and a goo while." She said breaking the awkward silence.

"Yeah, their great. They all seem to like you. My mama always wanted a doctor in the family."

"Oh,"

"When this is over you can always keep in touch if you want, She really likes you."

"No, I think it would be better to just stay away. I'm thinking of relocating anyway, starting fresh, we should use that as the reason we break up."

"Yeah but that's not for a while,,,,"

"They don't have to know that, I start my clinicals real soon so...."

"Well here are the stables, We just a new house a couple of weeks ago, I'm still trying to break him in."

They walked inside and she was really surprised at how many horses were in there. They were all stallions from what she could tell. All different colors and sizes, and for a moment she was thrown in the pass to when she used to go to the stables with her father.

"Such beautiful animals, I really miss riding.

"Well take your pick and we'll give them a once around."

She walked down the lane until she saw a beautiful, all black stallion. It looked at her intensely and made her smile, "Is this one tamed?"

"Actually that's my horse, She's very well trained and yes you can ride her. Her name is Beauty."

"Like Black Beauty?" Savvy asked laughing.

"Hey, I liked the show." He said shrugging his big shoulders looking boyish.

"Come on.."

They roe in silence and had been riding foe a while when Savvy stopped to look at the sunset.

"What's up, are you tired already?"

"No way," She said smirking, "Just cant let myself let a sunset like that go to waste."

Tyron looked out over the horizon and had to agree. It had been a while since he noticed something so insignificant. He looked back at Savvy who was leaning on the horse, all of her attention on the sun. She really was beautiful and for a stripper, she had a wonderful personality.

"You know, you're nothing like what I expected."

She turned to him, her eyes suddenly cold, "Oh yeah, what did you expect some ill manner hooker hoe?"

"I didnt mean it like that savvy," he said coming towards her, still on the horse.

"You don't have to explain. I know how the world looks at stripper. Most people act like we're prostitutes or around the way girls," her eyes were glistening now and she hated her stupid emotions for showing.

"The women at that club are real women willing to do what they have to do to make it in this f****d up place called a world. They are mothers and daughters and sisters and most of them are working towards bettering themselves. Many of them if you saw them outside that place you wouldn't even know, because in the real world, they have homes and family and bills. Not everyone is born with a silver spoon in their mouth, sir."

Damn he had f****d up, she seemed to revert to calling him sir when she was pissed and so she was.

"Really Savvy, I don't look own on the profession." he lied. "I think it takes a lot of guts to do what you were doing."

"Don't lie to me, It really isn't necessary ," She started trotting her horse away from his, back towards the stable.

"Isn't that why you wanted me to do this? A fallen woman you said." She laughed bitterly and her trot turned into a full gallop back to where they had started.

As much as he hated to admit it she was right, he did look down on strippers. It was just that everyone she had seen had always tried to get in his pants, but he knew now that they weren't all like that. She had showed him that. And despite the whole agreement, he was starting to like her...for her.

When he made it to the stables, Beauty was back in her stall and Savvy was feeding her an apple.

"You like me don't you," she was saying to the horse, "That's the beauty of you Beauty, you see people as just people, weather they are dirty or clean, cute or ugly. You see their heart. I wish I could marry a horse or a dog."

She laughed a little when Beauty nuzzled her hand, "You guys are so faithful and trusting, not like mean old men, they suck and Mr. Sir can suck eggs and kick rocks."

"I've done both," he said startling her, "neither is much fun.

Savvy waited for him to put the horse he had rode away and then folded her arms across her chest, "Can we just go please? I'm really tired."

"And if I said no?"

Her eyes flashed with anger and he loved it, "Then I would leave anyway."

"How would you get home, you don't even know where you are?"

"Oh I'd find a way," she started to storm past in already dialing a number on her phone.

Not that easy, he thought as he grabbed her wrist and pulled her into his chest. she really was a little old bitty thing,, this close to him.

"But, honey. What would the folks think?"

"Who cares, since you don't I surely don't."

Ty just smiled, she really was a feisty chick, time for to let off some of that built up frustration. He pulled her closer and settled his hands on her hips as he backed her up against the nearest stall. He could tell by her eyes that alarm bells where going off loudly in that little head of hers, and if she was alarmed she had every right to be.

"WHAT ARE YOU DOING," she yelled flinching away.

"Why kissing you of course,"

And then he did, hard. He crushed his mouth to hers while wrapping one arm around her waist and the other around her hips. She struggled a little and even opened her mouth, probably to curse him out, but he took as a opportunity and dove inside. She immediately stilled, first stiffening up and then giving up with a sigh she became soft as cotton candy.

He tasted like the peach cobbler they had recently eaten for desert and it affected her as a drug dose. Her head started swimming as the kiss became soft and skilled. It was a seduction kiss and as much as she was fighting it, she was loosing badly. Her hands fisted at her sides and her toes curled. She felt hot all over and tingly. Oh god what was he doing, and when his tongue touched the top of her mouth she couldn't hold back the moan that escaped her throat or stop her hands from going around his neck. Her body seemed to have come to life all on its own.

Her body curved into his, wanting to get closer, needing to feel him against her. And she knew then and there that she was a goner, and ... that she had never, in her whole three relationships and all the dates she had been on, been kissed. This was truly her first kiss, knee jerking, toe curling kiss. And from a man who didn't even want her.

Suddenly feeling sad, she dropped her arm and pulled away.

"Damn woman," Ty said stepping back willingly. He was just as shocked, he had only been planning on playing with her a bit, not setting the stable on fire.

"Can we please leave?"

"Wait Savvy, I'm so sorry,"

She looked at him in disbelief.

"About what I said earlier, Not that kiss It was hot as hell."

"Well just don't try that again okay, keep your filthy paws to yourself."

Ty snorted, "Don't act like you didn't like it babe. I could had you naked in here if I had wanted to."

"Whatever, SIR. I'm not that kind of girl."

"Oh please, you're acting like an innocent little virgin, I know better. You kiss like a vixen. Don't play shy with me."

"JUST TAKE ME HOME BEFORE I SCREAM THE STABLE DOWN, YOU f*****g BASTARD. HOW DARE YOU, YOU DONT KNOW ME LIKE THAT, DONT PRESUME YOU DO."

Then she ran away, and he was left standing there feeling like an i***t and kicking his own ass for messing up again in less than an hour. He really was no good with women.

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