Chapter 23
“Look, are you sure you want to do this?” I asked Tess as we sat outside the club in her car. I remembered the last time we'd been sat there together when I first went into the club - now it was Tess' turn, although the circumstances were markedly different.
Her demeanor and mood was also in stark contrast to how mine had been that night, her excitement palpable.
“Of course I want to do this!” she exclaimed as she opened the door and stepped out from behind the wheel. “I've wanted to do this since the first time I brought you here!”
We walked over towards the club, Mace standing guard outside as usual.
“Hey Alice,” he said as we approached. “Haven't seen you down here for a little while.”
“Been working private clients outside the club. Mace, this is Tess, I thought I'd just show her around. Is that all right?” I pouted my lips and flickered my eyelashes as I asked, subtly puffing out my chest and enhancing mycleavage. I knew now exactly how to use my sexuality to manipulate men.
“Err, I guess so. Yeah, sure, why not.”
I could see Tess staring at me in a semi state of wonder as we walked past him and down the steps towards the club.
“Damn Alice, you've evolved!”
“How'd you mean?” I asked, as if I didn't know what she was talking about.
“That guy, the way you were with him. I've never seen you act like that in all the years I've known you. It's good to see you finally using your gifts,” she said, eying up my breasts and laughing.
“Hey, shut up!” I said nudging her. “Mace is just a big sweetheart really, that's all.”
“Yeahhhh, sure, sweet for your tits.”
I slapped her on the arm as we reached the bottom of the steps, and stopped her short before she went head first into the main club. I instinctively glanced down the corridor to the managers room at the end, hoping to see Kyle sitting there behind his desk. The door was shut, as it always was.
“OK Tess, it's just through there. We'll have a drink and then leave. Deal?”
“Yeah, of course.”
“Deal?” I said again, more sternly this time.
“Jesus Alice, yes deal. We'll have a drink or two and then go.” She winked at me as she spoke.
I couldn't help but laugh at her. She was so flippant it was unreal.
I pushed the door open and led her to the bar, keeping my eyes on her as we went. They were wide, drinking it all in - the debauchery, the depravity of it all. I watched her as her eyes spread around the room, stopping on the women dancing nude on stage, wrapping themselves round poles. I'd grown used to it, but to her it was an entirely new experience.
“Come on Tess,” I said, pulling on her hand, “let's go to the bar.”
I dragged her towards it, her head still turned towards the scene behind us. From what she'd told me, or at least intimated, she'd been involved in orgies, so I didn't quite know why this was all so amazing.
Lexi was there, as she was most nights, looking cute as always. Her blonde hair was tied into a bun behind her head, her petite frame wrapped in the customary corset that most of the bar staff wore.
“Tess, meet Lexi.” I grabbed Tess' shoulder and forced her attention towards the bar. She eyed Lexi up with lustful eyes as she leaned in for a kiss. And she hasn't even had a drink yet.
“Hey, can we get a couple of glasses of wine babe,” I said to her, “I'm just showing Tess around. She's got some warped fascination with this place.”
“I can see that,” Lexi joked, seeing Tess' eyes once more divert to the girls behind me as she put two glasses to the bar.
Tess sucked her glass down in the blink of an eye. “This place Alice, it's amazing! It's just so, I don't know, so naughty, so wrong. All these guys looking at these beautiful women - it's so hot!”
I looked over at Lexi, a knowing nod between us. “First time in a strip club?” she whispered to me.
I nodded. “Doubt it will be the last,” I said lightly.
Tess turned back to us and ordered another glass of wine before turning straight back to the action. Her wide eyed amazement hadn't escaped the attentions of a couple of the strippers there, who came over to inquire.
“This a friend of yours Alice?” asked one. Her name was Tatiana - tattooed, slick black hair, fake tits, but not obviously so. I'd only spoken to her once, but during our short conversation I'd got the firm impression that shewas one of the girls who were jealous of my premium status down there.
I nodded. “Just showing her the place.”
Tatiana turned to Tess. “You look like you've never seen a naked woman before. You want a closer look?” She leaned in closer, heaving her ample bosom under Tess' nose.
Tess' eyes widened further, if that was possible, as she turned to me like a kid in a candy store. “Can I Alice, can I?”
Jesus Christ. The first time I'd been faced with a girl stripping for me I'd wanted to run a f*cking mile. Now here was Tess, begging to spend money on the privilege.
“It's not cheap babe. Do you have the money? What is it Tatiana ?”
She looked Tess up and down with a smirk on her face. “For a sexy girl like you, I'll give you a discount. Call it $75 for the dance.”
I shrugged my shoulders. “Up to you hun.”
Tess snatched quickly at her purse and pulled it from her bag. “Here you are - $75,” she said, passing the notes to Tatiana.”
“Well OK girl, let's go. Follow me.”
I couldn't help but snigger as Tess followed off behind her, the look of a kid at Christmas on her face.
“Wow,” Lexi said, drawing my attention back to her, “your friend is - how should I put this - keen!”
As I was about to reply the phone rang behind Lexi and she picked it up. Her expression soured suddenly as she listened to the person on the other end. She listened for a moment before taking the phone away from her ear and putting it down.
“The boss, he wants to see you.”