Oranges & Roses

Can't Escape Myself

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Chapter Eighteen

Rey surprisingly behaved himself for most of the night. It didn’t start getting hairy until around midnight when Marco decided to make his presence known. I was in the middle of serving a round of slippery nipples to a group of men whose sexuality I immediately questioned once they ordered them when Marco, Dom, and who I assumed was the guy who would be taking over Victor’s spot approached the table Rey usually sat at on Thursday nights and currently occupied. Rey didn’t look very surprised at their arrival and offered them the three other seats at the table. He was technically neutral in this whole dispute between Marco in my brother so him being friendly wasn’t exactly strange. In fact it was either going to go well or it would turn into a tension filled moment that could possibly lead to a bloodbath.

“Anything else?” I asked the group before me with a shaky smile on my face.

They just returned my smile and shook their heads, leaving me to move on to my other tables. It was all a string of beer, hard liquor, mixed cocktails, and requests for lap dances and private dances that filled the stretch of night before me. Since I was serving, I couldn’t do the whole lap dance/private dance thing thank god and I relayed the request to the bartender so he could dish out the requests. I was in the process of reloading my tray when Fortune stepped up next to me, her whole body turned to face me. This was not good since she never came to talk to me unless it was our turn in the back.

“Hey.”

“Hi. You need anything?”

She shook her head. “Nah. I just came over to warn you.”

“What happened now?” It was my turn to face her. “I swear if another girl got sick…”

“It’s nothing like that. But, ah, Marco just asked for three girls at his table.”

If I figured in the numbers and the way Fortune was blocking my view of the table Rey was sitting at…it wasn’t hard to figure out what was going on.

“You one of them?”

Fortune nodded. “Me, Scar, and Ebony.”

“Ok.” I nodded, pretending like it was ok but Fortune knew me better than that because her head tilted a little to the side. “It’s fine. I’ll be off the floor in ten minutes anyways and I won’t have to see it.”

“We all get that you have dibs…”

“I don’t.” I went back to putting drinks on the tray. “He’s just…someone my brother assigned me to. Feel free to do whatever you want.”

“Lucky.” Yeah she knew better than to use my actual name but she knew it wasn’t enough to get my attention as I continued to pile the drinks on the tray. “Hey, don’t be like that.”

“It’s just a job.” I finished putting the drinks on the tray and hoisted it up. “And he’s just a Tom. They all are. Everyone’s just doing what they’re told.”

Without another glance at Rey’s table, I delivered my drink orders and checked on the girls in the back. Everything was surprisingly running smoothly so far tonight with no slaps or pinches to the ass. I could almost pretend I was working in a normal bar. But that was before Chastity came rushing over looking very panicked.

“Lucky. I need your help. Now.”

“Why? What’s wrong?”

“It’s Naomi. Something’s wrong with her and she told me to come get you and no one else…”

Oh well…shit! Naomi was the only other Rose working at the club and the way my brother had everything set up, when a Rose was in trouble she called her Thorn or the head Rose.