1 - You’re Safe with Me
1 - YOU’RE SAFE WITH ME
CHELSEA
Part One
“ I want to be your Sugar Daddy. ”
“Kneel for me, good girl.”
My lips parted and the tray I was holding wobbled. “W-what?” I asked in a disbelieving voice.
I didn’t know what I had signed up for. Last week, I was drunk and sobbing to my best friend about how Caleb, a guy I used to have a crush on, was dating not one, but two people, and they were both extremely hot. It was a minor rebound crush because my previous relationship ended terribly. I was hollow and lying in bed with no motivation to get up when Maya had called me and asked me about my gaunt appearance.
I had graduated with a business major, but I was unemployed and my rent was due. I didn’t want to crawl back to my hometown, Coral Springs, and leave my life in Los Angels.
“What should I do?” I sobbed, clinging to my hello kitty plushie, making sure I didn’t leave any snot over it.
Maya rolled her eyes at me from the screen as I propped my ancient laptop on the single size bed. “Stop crying and apply for some jobs. What happened to that catering one?”
I sniffled, wiping my tears. “The boss was a pervert, and the pay wasn’t much, so I quit.” I didn’t tell her that the catering job as a server was for the parties filled with druggies and drunk rich kids whose parents were celebrities or directors.
“Babes, you’re in LA and you’re hot.” She fixed her glasses and gave me a look—the same determined look she gave me when we were in eighth grade and had to win a relay race, and she had after I passed the baton to her—to get my shit together. “Caleb was cute, no doubt about it, but you need to stop crying over boys when you have rich men hovering around you.”
I pouted, even though I knew she was right. “Do you think I can land a hot sugar daddy?” I joked, lying down on the pillow and sighing. It wasn’t about Caleb, it was about how every man I date turns out to be a weirdo.
“Hot and sugar daddy doesn’t belong in the same sentence,” she replied, her fingers typing furiously on her laptop. “I’ve to finish up this thesis, so I’ll call you later. Love you, bubble.”
“Love you more, button,” I said lovingly and ended the call. I stared at the dark black screen, wishing my best-friend was with me and giving me a hug. When did I grow up so much that we lived in different states, different time-zones where we had to schedule our calls?
I sighed, sitting up on the bed with my laptop. I searched for jobs that were now hiring and scrolled through a few listings, drinking straight from the cheap wine bottle. My eyes widened at one of them. It was a basic server job with three hundred dollars per hour. I could pay off the rent in three hours of work—I jumped at hearing the loud slam of the door. One of my roommates was a twenty something guy who was annoying and always slammed doors. Jerk .
Rolling my eyes, I looked back at the listing and slapped my forehead. I had accidentally sent them my resume without reading everything. Oh well . I couldn’t do anything about it.
And that’s how I ended up in a swanky strip club wearing nothing but a tiny black dress a week later. If I bent over just a little, I’d flash them my pussy, which was covered in a tiny thong. I had to skip my bra, since the dress was so tight it stuck to my skin.
I was serving cocktails to the second floor with a heady song playing in the background. It was not a cheap strip club. The patrons looked rich in their three-piece suits and fancy gowns. Most of them were old, but I had eyed two handsome men in the VIP booth.
Yes, VIP booths had their own selection of expensive strippers dancing for them, but surprisingly, they didn’t want anyone.
Maybe they were gay.
Unfortunately—or fortunately, since they were good looking—I had to serve them their drinks. I had already served them once with a smoked salmon appetizer. I was nervous about getting catcalled or groped, but they had just thanked me and went back to their conversation.
They were definitely weird and looked a little out of place with their sharp looks and disinterest in me.
Especially the man in thin black-framed glasses who didn’t glance once in my direction.
I balanced the sleek tray in my hands and wondered if I wasn’t his type? But I was good looking, with blow-dried blond hair and blue eyes.
Maybe he was gay or married—but why come to the strip club if you’re married?
Shaking off those thoughts, I went to their VIP booth, dark red velvet fabric surrounding the circular corner booth. Black suede couch with a table in the middle and a dancing pole in the center, which was empty. They must have paid extra to have a little chat without a stripper.
I gently served their drinks and a bottle of wine they had ordered and was about to leave when the man in thin framed glasses looked up from the file he was holding.
His veiny hands stopped going through the pages of the file, his expensive watch glinting with the fancy lighting.
And that’s when he asked me to kneel for him.
“I said,” he started, slowing his words as if he was talking to a child. “Kneel for me, darling.”
He was handsome. Dark, thick hair faded to the sides and fuller on top. He was in a dark blue three-piece suit and his full lips were distracting. Everything about him looked strong and chiseled. From the way he filled out his suit with broad shoulders and sharp jawline.
Except his lips… they looked soft and pliant.
I needed to get laid.
“Excuse me?” I asked, trying to sound professional and not wobble in my high heels.
A little frown appeared on his brows, as if he was annoyed by the back and forth. Well, I didn’t care. I was here to serve them, change out of the slutty uniform, and go back to the apartment I rented to binge watch romance anime.
“I’ll pay you double, and I’ve already talked to the manager,” he said, tilting his head as his dark eyes dropped to my legs. He nudged his glasses on the bridge of his nose and said, “Remove the heels and come here.”
I should have retorted something. But instead, something else came out of my mouth.
“Make it triple.” He raised his brow. His friend coughed, and I continued, keeping my eyes on him. His gaze was unnerving, as if he could see through my facade of trying to appear assertive. “I’m not cheap.”
If there was a balcony nearby, I wanted to dive off it head first for saying such a cringe thing to a man?—
“Of course you’re not, darling,” he purred, his smile making panties pool with arousal. “Come here, my expensive Princess .”
My cheeks heated at the nickname.
So did my pussy.
“Sean, stop teasing the poor girl,” his friend said, taking a sip of wine.
Sean kept his eyes on me, testing me and waiting for me to accept his proposal. Fuck it . I didn’t have anything to lose. I just had to kneel for him, get the money, and probably never see him again. He would turn into the weird-rich-guy-who-made-me-kneel and I would forget about him.
Swallowing my pride, I removed my heels, my stocking clad feet landing on the soft wooden floor. I bit back my groan of relief and went closer to the men, keeping the tray on the far side of the table.
My nerves clenched my stomach as he looked at the floor beside his feet, my cheeks and neck burning red.
“Wait.”
I stopped across from him. That close, I could get a hint of expensive but subtle cologne that made the situation a lot worse. Handsome man I could handle. But a handsome man who smelled so sexy? I was a puddle and my pronouns turned to I’m/soaked.
He folded his handkerchief vertically, neatly and kept it down beside him.
“Come.”
My feet moved, and I was kneeling on the padded handkerchief beside him before I could blink. I didn’t know why, but it felt nice. The gesture of him caring for my knees. The fabric underneath my knees felt like silk and I wondered what kind of job he had that he used silk handkerchiefs and booked a VIP booth at an expensive strip club without having any stripper dance for him or his friend.
I tensed when his fingers ran through my hair, my fingers fumbling on my lap. I was full of anxiety, my body frozen, wondering if he was going to ask me to give him a blow job or?—
“Relax, sweet girl,” he whispered to me, his voice barely audible through the sultry song, making me shiver at the closeness.
I hadn’t noticed that his thigh was right beside me, his dark leather shoes sparkling in the dim light.
I peered up at his face, his hand on my head, and found him staring down at me.
“I won’t do anything you don’t want. You’re just kneeling for me because you’re a good girl,” he said in his hypnotic voice. His large, warm hand ran through my hair, making my shoulders relax. If I wasn’t kneeling, I would’ve melted on the floor.
“You’re safe with me.”
It was strange.
But I believed him.