Obscured by Tara Sue Me & Cat Waters

Author:Tara Sue Me & Cat Waters [Me, Tara Sue]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Prostitute, Dark, Clergy, Vegas
Publisher: After Six
Published: 2015-10-10T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

Whoever she is, she certainly isn’t expecting a woman to sit next to her. She’s been given a script and I’m nowhere in the act.

Too bad, I think toward the gentleman with her, but I keep my eyes away from him. She’s mine.

I’ve been an actress for ten years, I can play this part, too.

I sit down beside her, cross my left leg over my right, and rub my calf. “Whew. I should not have worn these shoes.”

Silence from the girl beside me. She probably thinks if she doesn’t say anything, I’ll go away faster. I plaster a smile on my face and look at her more fully. I was wrong earlier. She’s nowhere near seventeen. She’s fourteen, tops. Just the thought of what is planned for her makes me sick.

My left foot slides back to the floor and I try to make my smile warm and inviting. I don’t think I do a good job.

“Shopping?” I ask, trying again for a response.

Her lower lip trembles. “No.”

“Probably not here for the food.” In the corner of my eye, I keep the man in my sight. He’s taken a phone from his pocket and is texting someone.

“Not shopping. Not eating,” I say. “That leaves meeting someone. Am I right?”

The lower lip tremble stops and determined resolve somehow slips into its place. “What’s it to you?”

I shrug. Lean back into the bench. Make myself dissolve into nonchalant. “Just making conversation.”

She risks a glance at black jean guy and straightens her shoulders. “Yeah, well, make it somewhere else.”

“Just making conversation,” I repeat, turning to her. “And passing out advice.”

Her skin is smooth and flawless. There’s a wariness in her eyes, but no sign of bitterness and rejection. Not yet, anyway. Her body is lithe and long. She’s not yet grown into womanhood, but the blueprints are there. Under her adolescent skin, the woman she will become waits.

“I had to tell you,” I start. Hard to believe I’d ever been that young. I clench my fist. So many years wasted. “Needed to tell you. He’s not worth it.”

She blushes, and I know I’ve guessed correctly. “I don’t know what you’re talking about,” she says with a flip of her hair.

“He makes lots of promises. Tells you he loves you. That you have to prove your love.” I probably haven’t blushed in nine years. The life of a working girl sucks the blush right out of a person. It isn’t too late for her yet. “But he’s wrong. Love just is. It doesn’t make demands.”

She huffs, reaches down to her purse, pulls out a compact, and checks her lipstick.

“You see me as an obnoxious know-it-all,” I say. She acts like she isn’t listening, but I desperately hope some part of what I say sinks in. Would I have listened if someone had tried to give me advice ten years ago? I’m not sure. “And you’re right. I’m a know-it-all because I’ve been where you are right now, and I made the wrong choice. Listen to me when I tell you it won’t end with this one friend.

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