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Daniel – ever solicitous – slips off his jacket and sets it lightly around my shoulders.

I look up at Daniel with gratitude and see him looking down at me already, shaking his head. “I’m sorry, Fay,” he says as the cab pulls up, moving forward to open the door for me. “I can’t believe that just happened – you know I’d never –”

“It’s okay,” I say, cutting him off as I climb into the car and move over so that Daniel can get in too, though I know the appropriate thing to do would be to let him close my door and move around to the other side to climb in himself. I don’t care about what’s appropriate, though – I just want to get out of here. Fast.

Daniel slides in with me and I lean against him as soon as he pulls the door shut, wanting his steady presence and his warmth. He wraps an arm around me as he gives the driver orders, though the address he tells him is certainly not home.

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“Where are we going?” I ask, looking up at him.

“For a drink,” Daniel growls, glaring forward at nothing as the cab pulls away from the restaurant. “I need a drink.”

I nod and settle against him, realizing that I very, very much want that as well right now.

absolutely fucking

hesitate to follow

say, looking around at the dirty, apparently abandoned alley. “Are you sure this is…”

of the car as Daniel leans through the passenger window to hand the driver some cash. Then, once the driver pulls away again, Daniel walks to

door opens quickly to reveal a short woman dressed

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to her

she says, smiling up at him with a slow

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me with him by the hand. We walk about five feet forward, passing through a velvet curtain, and then my head is instantly on swivel as I gasp

other three walls. And then I gasp when I look up to take in the gigantic crystal chandelier hanging from the ceiling as well as a

pulls me over to the bar, where two seats seem to

mine.

in the velvet

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oil paintings on the wall that depict a

salacious situations.

doesn’t respond, though, and when I turn to figure out why I see the very handsome

bartender says, giving Daniel a slow and frankly intimate smile. “Welcome. What can we get for you

replies, sharp, and then turns

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