I bite my tongue so I won't say something I can't take back. I hate the thought of her with someone else. 'So why would you deep throat a lollipop?' You don't even put sugar in your coffee.' It means I need to try harder to avoid her. 'What about you? Really?' My eyes go to her strong shoulders. 'I've seen enough to know you don't eat candy.' 'And you eat candy?' She gives me a slow once-over. She raises a brow I think that's obvious. I cut off the question-what is your thing-before she can ask. 'Do guys arrange that for bachelor parties?' 'Yeah, stupid question.' She presses her lips together. 'The artist, the bondage theme, just enough embarrassment. 'Do you have specific instructions for the dancers?' But it's still strange having someone shoot me that look. 'And we can surprise them with an under the bed restraints kit?' 'You really see Ty skipping work for that?'

'A few thousand dollars? That's nothing to you.' 'So kind of you to volunteer my money,' I say. 'Do you think we should reserve the club?' Ian's girlfriend Eve worked as a cocktail waitress at a strip club when they met, but how does Sienna have that information? 'She knows some dancers.' 'She used to work at a club, didn't she?'

'Maybe we should ask Eve.' Her nose scrunches as she says Eve. But making it a group activity? That, I don't get. I understand the appeal of naked women grinding against poles, even if it's not my thing. 'Not here.' I have been dragged to some London clubs. 'Okay, like no one's ever taken you to a strip club.' Find someone, take her home, get a jump on hating myself and her. 'Like you've never taken a rich client to a strip club.' Only-'I don't know where you hire strippers. She knows exactly what she wants to do with this party.Īnd the coup d'état: A bondage themed burlesque routine slash strip tease, choreographed to an Amy Winehouse song. 'Because it's all you'll ever think about?'

Dirty Secret by Crystal Kaswell