Keela laughed. “Are you drunk?”
I shook my head. “Nope. I mean, I was, but I’m soberin’ up now. I’m tired of dancin’ so I think I’m gonna go home. Me feet hurt.”
Keela laughed again. “Make sure Skull puts you in a taxi.”
I blinked. “I will, but first. Guess what?”
“What?”
“I said guess.”
Keela groaned. “Aliens have taken over Earth?”
“Close. Skull and I didn’t have sex.”
Keela choked on air.
“What?” she rasped. “Why not?”
I shrugged my shoulders. “We had a talk on the way to the club and it turns out he wants to settle down. He thinks he is gettin’ too old for one-night stands. He wants to find his main chick.”
“Wow.”
Yep. Wow.
“I know—it sucks for me though. I wanted sex tonight. I’m so disappointed.”
Keela snorted. “I’m sorry for your vagina’s loss.”
I dramatically sighed, “So am I. No one can turn her out like Skull can.”
Keela burst into laughter making me smile.
“I’m goin’ to go home. I’ll text you when I get there, okay?”
“Okay, I’m going back to bed. I’ll set me phone to vibrate and when I hear it vibrate from your text I’ll know you’re okay.”
I used my left hand to grab some toilet roll and wipe myself. I stood up, pulled up my underwear, and adjusted my dress. I turned and flushed the toilet and laughed when Keela cursed.
“I fuckin’ hate when you call me in the jacks!”
I snorted. “I know, sorry. Love you. Bye.”
I hung up giggling while Keela went on about how disgusting I was. I bent down and picked my clutch up off the floor, stood up straight, and adjusted my dress once more then dropped my phone into my bag. I exited the stall and went straight to the sinks where I washed my hands.
The bathroom was crowded, and I could hear multiple females talking and laughing. I was so tired that everything felt like it was far off in the distance instead of happening around me. I glanced left and right and looked at all the baby faces of the women in the bathroom and groaned.
Maybe I was getting too old for this shite.
I sighed to myself, gripped my clutch and walked out of the bathroom. Instead of looking up at where I was going, I looked down at the ground. As a result, I walked head first into another person and the force of the impact knocked me back onto my behind.
“What the fuck?” a female voice hollered. “Watch where you’re fuckin’ goin’!”
I groaned and rubbed my head. “Sorry.”
I pushed myself up to my feet and used my left hand to rub my behind to try to take the sting away. I yelped when I felt a sudden sharp pain spread out across my head. It took me a second to realise that someone had hold of my hair, and they were pulling at it.
Hell no.
I didn’t reach up for the person’s hair to pull back, no, I placed my hands on their hands and dug my nails into their flesh. Seconds later, the hands retreated from my head. I swung my head back, located the bitch who attacked me ,and charged.
I dived on the girl, fists flying and legs kicking. It was a blur of punches, slaps, and screeches. It felt like it lasted forever, but in reality, I was lifted off the girl ten or so seconds into the fight.
“That’s enough!” a familiar male’s voice bellowed into my ear.
A very familiar male’s voice.
Uh-oh.
“Sorry,” I squeaked and looked up to Skull’s blazing eyes.
“Aideen,” he sighed, his tone irritated as he set me down on the ground.
I instantly pointed at the girl across from us. “She hit me first. I was only defendin’ meself.”
Skull looked at the girl who was looking at me like she was going to rip me to shreds the second she got the opportunity.
“Is that true?” Skull asked the she-devil.
“She knocked me to the ground, that’s why I hit the fat bitch!”
Fat?
Oh, hell no.
I stepped forward. “Listen to me you STD-ridden little toothpick. Havin’ an arse and tits doesn’t make me fat, it makes me desirable, just ask your fella. He’s been starin’ at both since the moment I walked into you, which, by the way, I apologised for.”
The girl screamed and tried to come at me with outstretched hands, but Skull stood in front of me and kept the she-devil at bay. I made the situation worse by laughing at her.
“Damn it, Aideen,” Skull grunted then barked orders at the other bouncers before he turned, bent down and threw me over his shoulder and walked away from the pubescent teenager who was having the mother of all tantrums.
I didn’t struggle against Skull’s hold on me. I’d learned from previous experiences that beating on his back and spewing threats didn’t work on him. I relaxed as much as I could and simply enjoyed the ride. That was until he brought me somewhere I had never been in Darkness before. He brought me straight through a set of double doors and into a collection of long hallways with multiple rooms.
Where in the hell was I?