Club Prive: Taken Over, Volume 3 (Kindle Worlds Novella) by Ellie Danes

Author:Ellie Danes [Danes, Ellie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kindle Worlds
Published: 2018-04-17T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

Christine

The bun I had swept my hair into was too tight, but I forced myself to leave it alone. I wanted to draw as little attention to myself as possible. I shoved open the door of the bar and left the daylight behind. Inside the bar was dimly lit by small, porthole windows that were mostly covered by old neon signs. The jukebox had been unplugged, and the television turned up so the scattered regulars could finish watching some game.

I couldn't even look. I was too nervous. Then I spotted Dena.

She was sitting on the fifth bar stool, just as she told me she would. Her white-blond pixie hair was hidden under a bright red wig. It would have been laughable, except as I watched a middle-aged man claimed the stool next to her and offered her another drink.

I was supposed to head directly to the back of the bar but I paused as the man gave her a lurid look.

"Let me guess, you like sweet drinks, don't you, sugar? How about you let me buy you one?" He licked his lips.

"Maybe next time," the undercover DA said.

The man gave her a grin. "So there'll be a next time?"

"No." Dena was relieved to see me and immediately called the bartender to settle her bill.

I did as she had told me and headed back to the short hallway and the bathrooms. I jumped half a foot in the air when a thin man appeared from the shadows. He had been leaning on the wall where the old pay phone used to be, but now he pushed off and walked past me, still chatting away on his cell phone.

I took a deep breath and pushed open the door to the women's bathroom. Inside, I immediately gripped my purse strap. I did not want to touch anything in the vile bathroom. Green paint the color of fungus was covered in patches by a different shade that only partially covered the lewd graffiti underneath. Clearly the bar didn't get a lot of women, and Dena was right, it was the perfect place for an 'off the books' meeting. Trying to be brave, I peeked in the first stall, then had to smother a scream. Aaron had appeared behind me without a sound.

My mind screamed, I don't want to die in this disgusting bathroom.

"The DA will be here any second," I squeaked out instead.

Aaron nodded and didn't say a word. Though I could tell by his stiff movements, he felt the same way I did about the meeting space.

"Please tell me I am never going to have to have another meeting like this," Dena said as she swung into the bathroom. "It's going to take three scalding showers to get rid of this place."

Aaron's lips quirked up, a terrifying mimicry of a smile, and Dena stopped short.

"Dena, this is Aaron. He's the one I told you about," I said.

"Nice to meet you." Dena extended a hand and Aaron blinked at it before giving her a quick shake.

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