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A/N:I'm not english native speaker, so you might find some typos or grammar mistakes, I do apologize for that.
Evanas's POV
The weeks passed so fast, but those were difficult ones. It was hard for me to accept the truth about my father's death. It was so close to me, but my fear in facing the facts kept me away from my own story.
Yana returned a bit earlier than she planned. I knew that long trip wouldn't really work and her presence turned out to be very important for me to handle all that situation, especially because I got in the mood to open up with Chris since I felt really bad for his guilty conscience towards me. Yet, I had moments of huge doubts since it could just make things worse and I wouldn't forgive myself if Chris would dive deeper in his shadow. With that, I was in a position of eternal crossroads.
For an entire week, I have been trying to tell Chris about my former dirty way of life but something always interrupts us, especially his work. It keeps getting me pissed me, since it breaks my chain of courage to open up to him fully. I hope he can in the least understand my reasons…
TPOV
Another weekend arrived and Chris' boss asked him to take his son, Ian, whenever he wanted to and they end up going to Burlesque, the nightclub Evana worked. The man on his 30's was all about compliments for their star Scarlet. Apparently, he decided to go there in hope to meet her and play like in the old days.
The man was restless and looked around all the time as if he was looking for someone. Chris remained in silence at his side avoiding as much as he could not to look at the half-naked women dancing at specific mini stages.
"Oh there she is…" the man said pointing with his head to the bar area
"Who?" Chris asked looking at the direction
"Scarlet, the star of Burlesque!" the man said with a mischievous expression, "You know, it's a pity apparently she stopped attending clients in private, but I will definitely give it a try. Every time I think of her I remember of her touches. She really knows how to get a man crazy with her shows and especially in bed!" he said biting his lips
Chris didn't know to who to look at, but he was recalled by the name Scarlet. He continued listening to be sure the man was talking about the same person he remembered.
"Her flexibility is incredible, she was expensive, but she was worth every scent of investment!"
"What the hell are you talking about?" Chris snapped
"Scarlet, a prostitute that used to dance here… or should I say, former prostitute. After her 'retirement' she got working here as a dancer and stripper, but I heard she's not attending anyone anymore, but she still works here…" The man said pointing at the bar, "Look, that blonde one serving those drinks right now. So she bartends now…" He said with a mischievous face, "That woman is a real bitch in the bed! She fucks a lot and did everything a man could wish for. She had that innocent look, but she turned into a volcano when the clothes were off. I used to have a lot of fun with her and so did my dad and other men in town. She wasn't for any man because that woman loved to fuck and all the luxury the money could give, but then she stopped seeing clients and just served to a man named Stan… lucky bastard. He bought the best bitch!"
Chris was just distant hearing that. That man's words echoed so distant, but he couldn't stop listening to it. He remembered very well when Evana introduced herself as Scarlet when they first met and then that fatidic day when Stan did try to tell him the truth about her.
Chris had a mix of feelings and tried to keep his composure as much as he could, but his blood just boiled more and more. His boss watched her in delight and in some moments, he commented about some of their past experiences in private, but then he made a comment that she just served as an object and had no worth besides pleasing him and be thrown back in the trash and Chris used all of his strength not to beat the guy.
Yana finished her performance and was taking a break when she spotted Chris from afar recognizing the man by his side. She could read on Chris' face that didn't seem friendly at all, even less than the usual she was used to. Yana rushed to tell Evana.
"Eva, Chris is here!"
"Where?" the blonde asked with an innocent expression
"Don't look. He is with that sick "daddy's boy", Ian. The one that lives with his father at the border in a big mansion."
"What?!" Evana widened her eyes
"Don't freak! The guy is coming to get drinks, let's get out of here. Chris doesn't have a good face."
The women leftt the bar together in a hurry and went to the green room where only the employees could enter and stayed there for a while.
Chris' POV
"Want a drink? It's on me." Ian offered me when he returned from the bar
"I'm on duty." I replied staring at the cup in his hand trying to resist to the temptation
"One drink won't be a problem, come on." He insisted
I took a deep sigh and slightly reluctant I grabbed the cup staring at the liquid inside
"She ran away. I really wish I could follow those two." The man spoke with a disappointed tone, "When they are together they can blow any man's head and right now I wonder what Scarlet and Ditta are doing alone in their private room…" he added with a pervert tone
That man's presence and words was really annoying me to the core. All that came out of his mouth was just shit since we met. I was in the edge to blow up, but I knew I needed the money of that repulsive man. We drank shots after shots.
However, a part of me was really getting hurt and the more I listened to his repulsive comments, the more they opened a wound in me. I questioned my own value for a woman that was used to sell herself, that was paid to give pleasure to people, for a love that had a price.
Was her love all a lie and acts of entertainment towards me? That was something that woman really knew how to do, how to play. What I was living was really real or just a beautiful lie? That woman I fell in love so deeply was lying to me all the long. Not that I could judge her past choices, she wouldn't be the first hooker I got involved in my life, but back then I knew I was dealing with a hooker. This time I didn't. This time I was made a fool and now without a past I question how much of a lie I'm living and what else is she hiding from me.
"I'm going to entertain myself with someone else. Feel free if you want to get some fun too. I'll call you when I'm finished." I heard the man's distant voice since I was distant in myself. I watched Ian disappear among the crowd and saw Evana hadn't returned to the bar.
Evanas's POV
"I need to get back to work, but first I'm going to check on things and tell you." Yana told me before leaving the room
"Okay, I'm going to the bathroom."
"Alright, but don't get yourself hurt this time." She told me with a warning tone as we walked in the corridor
"I won't."
"I'll be right back." She said turning around
The dressing room was located in an opposite isolated single corridor that was divided by a mini hall that lead to the bathrooms as well.
I turned to my left and got a big scare when I almost bumped onto a tall and muscular man who was still in the middle of the way.
"Chris!" I said catching my breath
"Hiding from something?" he spoke with a serious tone
"It's my break; I'm going to the bathroom so I can go back to work."
"Can we go private?" he made a brief pause, "Scarlet, I'll pay for your absence."
"What tone is that Chris?" I said noticing the sarcasm in his voice, which got my attention. I had never heard him speaking to me like that and that just put me in alert.
"Shall we?" he said staring me at the eyes, causing me shivers of tension
I looked to the side when I saw Yana freezing after seeing Chris and I together. Chris turned to see her and with a very serious tone, "This is just between me and her."
Yana didn't feel threatened and her attitude just got me nervous, "Don't you even dare touching her, if you do that you can consider yourself a dead man!" she said with a defiant tone
"I'll pay for that." he said grabbing me by the arm, "Show me the way." He said to me
"It's okay, we are just going to…" I looked at Yana, but my heart accelerated when I saw her taking her personal device to call the security, "Bathroom hallway." She spoke staring Chris
Two of the securities that always stayed positioned near the bathroom hallway arrived first.
"Looking for trouble Stray Dog?" one of them said
"It's okay, everything is fine. She misunderstood him. We are just going to talk in one of the rooms upstairs." I said trying to ease things down
"Go with them and get more backup to stay in position while they talk." Yana said
I didn't like to be part of a commotion in my workplace once again, but I didn't oblige Chris' request, after all, talking to him would be safer there than anywhere else in case he lost his temper. At that point, I was scared of his reaction since I knew the time for the truth was coming. It didn't need to be a genius to know Ian had opened his mouth since he loved introducing hookers for his friends and that's how many of the girls got their extras and liked to keep him.
I led Chris to one of the single available bedrooms upstairs where people usually rent for sexual activities. That part of the building was used not only for the employees and their clients, but outsiders could rent it as well since there were rooms with different themes for each booking.
Special employees had their own single bedrooms where they attended their clients and I did have mine own until that night with Stan.
The bad memories ran in my head as I remembered how many times I climbed up those stairs for so many years, holding my tears to make fast money for my mother's treatment. I was just 20 years old when that routine of sins started when alone, I couldn't bank her long and expensive treatment. I was very expensive and there was no negotiation in my prices.
Now, here I was, five months after the last time I came here, but I'm still holding my tears, yet for a different reason. Now is the time of my ultimatum.
Chris and I entered in the room while 4 bodyguards stayed outside the room, but other securities were in position in case just the 4 of them couldn't handle Chris. He wasn't like Stan who just Nico could handle him.
The torturing silence before the war. My whole body was shaking, my mouth was dry and I could feel my heart jumping in my chest.
"How much is it?" I heard the single dry tone in Chris's voice as I turned to him and saw him checking his wallet
"It depends on how long we are going to stay here. Just the rent hour is 50."
"What about your price?"
"Just pay the rent…" I said looking down
Chris gasped, "Just the rent…" he repeated, "I owe you a lot of rents, right? Not to mention other taxes." he said not disguising his sarcasm
"You just have to pay this rent. The rooms of the house aren't free for anyone." I replied looking briefly at him
"What about the rent of your house? Your bedroom? Your gym? Your sex?"
"There's no price for that."
"You must have a price, Scarlet!"
"I don't!"
"How much do I owe you?" he said raising his voice
"You don't owe me anything!"
"Liar!"
"Why would I lie to you about that?"
"Because you have a price."
"I did! But I don't have anymore."
"Why not?"
"Because there's no price for love and salvation!"
"Love and salvation? A broken guy like me?"
"Yes, Chris! Yes! You saved me from myself and taught me to believe and have faith and hope when I thought there was no way out for me anymore. You showed me the light again. You made me happy again. You made me live again. You showed me I'm still worth of dignity and made me believe in a better future, that it's not too late to start over."
"Beautiful words, but is that how you reciprocate? By lying to me?"
"I didn't lie to you!"
"No? You made me be the clown of town, now I know why people looked at me like that and disliking me."
"They dislike you because of yourself when you do all that booze and get aggressive!"
"Still it doesn't delete the fact that You didn't tell me the real reason why people don't like you and what kind of person I was living with and living a lie!"
"Yes, I did omit my sinful and shameful past from you! If you think what we lived is a lie, I cannot really tell you otherwise."
"Why didn't you tell me?"
"I did try to tell you several times! Even more in the past week when you got so busy!"
"You had 5 months!"
"4 months! The first month doesn't count because we were just roommates!"
"Whatever, you had long enough!"
"Yes Chris I might have had enough time, I admit it…" I snapped in frustration, "Now you know I am a former prostitute!" I shouted, "It's up to you what you are going to do now." I said looking deep in his eyes
At that moment Chris's cell phone rang and as the usual, we couldn't finish important matters. Chris opened his wallet, took some money throwing it at my direction, and left the bedroom without saying a single word.
My body finally lost the strength to continue standing up and I fell sitting on the ground in shock. The bodyguards entered in the room for my aid, but all I could do was to continue staring at the cash spread on the floor. I was numb and too numb to cry, I couldn't hear anything they asked me, I couldn't reply to them and the only voice echoing in my mind was, "It's over…"
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Well, there it is, the truth is there. Honestly I let the characters act freely this time since I had no idea how the truth would be out haha. This time I can't say if that was good or not, I just let them act without my intervention. However, what is coming next I see as a good thing and I hope you guys can see that too.
This week was a full one for the story huh! 4 updates in a row, wow
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