It was an unusually busy night for a Monday, which was good. Everyone would be able to make good tips. Not that the money mattered to me, especially now, but the rest of the staff needed them. It would give me a new reason to make sure I performed particularly well. Things wound down quickly. That always happened on busy nights. I was reasonably sure it was just because I"d been doing so many things and hadn"t had time to stop yet. The music for the last set of the night started to play over the sound system, but I didn"t turn to watch. It was only Mara. I didn"t want to watch that. I made my way over to where Theo was standing on the door. I liked leaving at this time as it meant I could say goodbye to him. Most of the patrons who were already in the Rose Lounge would be staying there

