Midnight Desire

Midnight troubles

Two

Anabel

I cleared my throat and looked away from him before I started blushing. I would hate to turn red here and have everyone see me look like a tomato. I would break my long-lasting record of being a professional and impassive record if I did that.

And for what? For a man I didn't know. He was just like the other clients, even though he had a gaze that threatened to pull me into the darkness with him.

I bowed one last time to the crowd and left the stage. Everything that had happened there after I was done dancing had been in a minute but with the way I was breathing hard, it felt like I had been climbing a mountain for the past seven hours.

I made my way to the dressing room and found Sean waiting for me at the door. I sighed, tired of this usual drama. Did we have to do this every night after my gig when he knew I would be tired?

"Sean, I'm not in the mood for this tonight. Please?" I begged, waving my hand at him as I tried to pass by him to the room.

The other girls were in different rooms dancing for the clients or serving drinks so I knew that no one would be coming or going into that room anytime soon.

I didn't have an excuse to get out of Sean's way. Unfortunately, he was also the manager of the club so I had to humor him even though I was bored with his nightly meetings.

"I also don't want to do this but you make me do this every night. You give me no choice as well. Aren't you tired of doing this, Anabel?"

I hissed silently at him. Gosh, he was annoying with his leery smiles and looks. He was one of the reasons I hated that I was working at a strip club.

"No, Sean. Aren't you tired of doing this every night?"

"Are you sure you want to do this with me?"

I chuckled. "Are we threatening each other now? You have seen that you can't cajole me and you think that I will be moved if you threaten me?"

He expelled a harsh breath. "Why would I threaten you?"

I nodded. "I'm glad that we have cleared that out of the way. I just wanted to remind you that you can't fire me if you have been thinking of doing that?"

He looked at me with a smirk on his face. "It seems someone is getting her ego growing."

I shrugged, not bothered by what he said. I wasn't going to be threatened into doing what I didn't want to do and made into being afraid when I didn't have to.

"She has the right to." I replied him."

He looked at me with his eyes wide in their sockets. "You do?"

I nodded. "Yes, I have the right to act like I'm a special employee in this club. You can't act like we all don't know that I'm the dancer who takes in the most profits. I'm an asset to the club and you can't sack me because of some personal differences.

I bet you would have a lot of explaining to the management and you don't want that."

He snorted. "I'm tired of your pride, Anabel."

I laughed. "What am I if not for my pride? A girl has got to take some pride in who and what she does."

I had heard a lot about Sean.

He had slept with almost all the ladies in the club and that disgusted me. I was a dancer and not a prostitute. I didn't know what made him think the ladies in the club were for his pleasure.

He might have had the opportunity of being in bed with the other ladies because they were afraid of him but I wasn't going to be like that.

I wasn't going to stoop myself that low and I wasn't going to let anyone treat me as a slut.

He realized that I couldn't be swayed by threats and lowered his voice, his tone gentle as he spoke. I snorted. Maybe that was how he had gotten the email other girls. They could have been weak to resist him but I wasn't. I wasn't reluctant to fight for my respect even if others thought I didn't have one because of the work I did.

It was also possible that the other ladies wanted him but there was nothing that I wanted in Sean. He wasn't the kind of guy that I was attracted to. Not one bit.

"Anabel, come on." He began. "Just one date. That is all I ask for. I don't bite."

I snorted. "But you would like to bite me afterwards."

His eyes sparkled as he understood what I meant and he grinned as he ran his eyes over my body. He was practically undressing me and I knew that.

I acted like I didn't know to show that I wasn't bothered and interested in him one bit.

"Of course, baby.

I would love to bite you in all the sweet places and make you moan all night."

I rolled my eyes.

I knew that was what he wanted and that was why I would never go out with him. He was going to move on to the next when he was done having what he wanted as if I was a trophy that he needed to have as an achievement.

"No, Sean. I'm never going out with you."

I heaved a sigh of relief as I saw the girls coming over and was glad that I would finally be able to escape.

He saw the girls coming over and hissed. "I will finally get to taste you, Anabel."

Ew. "You wish." I snorted and walked into the room, relieved that I would be finally get

to rest after the night's job.