“Don’t make me repeat myself. Get. The. Fuck. Out. And if you come back to Luminescence, I will have you arrested. In fact, if I see you anywhere near Moira again, I’ll make sure you see jail time.”
“What the fuck, Franco? Are you fucking her now? I mean, the only reason you’d be this mad is if you’re fucking her. Does Maeve know?”
I see Francesco nod and the next thing I know, Niccolò, Noah, Grady and Amante are at my side.
“Get Zachary out of here and make sure he’s banned from the property.AllLake Renegade properties,” Francesco says to them. They nod at him and start moving Zachary towards the front door. He’s making a pretty big scene and I can see that it’s affecting Callum. But he’s doing his best to finish his routine.
“Thank you,” I say as I hug Francesco.
“You know how this works, Moira. Next time, don’t even talk to him or anyone else who treats you like that. You find one of us, and we’ll take care of it. No one talks to our family like that. And I think you’re going to need a bodyguard until we know for sure that Zachary’s going to leave you alone.”
Noah comes back over to us to let Francesco know that they made sure Zachary left the property.
“Thanks. I need you to do me a favor for tonight. Stay with Moira. I don’t want her left alone for any reason. And tomorrow we’ll call the council to appoint someone be a permanent guard until this is over.”
“Got it. Are you staying with Callum?” Noah asks me.
“No. I have an apartment near Wildcat. I only stay here on club nights since it’s the weekend.”
“Okay. I’ll be staying with you at your apartment, then. And don’t worry, the couch is fine.”
I sigh. I know how bodyguards work in the family. I just never thought I’d need to have one.
“Thank you,” I say to both of them.
“And don’t worry, I’ll talk to Callum after the show tonight. Just for now, tell him things are fine. He has one more set, we need him to finish it. Then we’ll fill him in,” Francesco says to me.
“Okay.” I nod. “Thank you again. I don’t even know why Zachary would do this. It’s his fault that we broke up.”
“He was always a dick, I never liked him when he worked with us. And when he cheated on you, I was glad he was such an idiot and we got to get rid of him,” Francesco says as all my girls come over to us.
I explain everything that happened and how Noah will be my bodyguard.
“That fucking asshole. I didn’t even see him. I’m so sorry we weren’t here with you,” Luciana says as she hugs me.
“You have nothing to be sorry for. I never would’ve thought that he would come here and threaten me.”
“Well, he’ll never come near you again,” Quinn says as she hugs me too.
Callum
I finish my first set and rush straight over to where Moira is.
“What’s going on? Who was that?” I frown as I wrap my arms around her.
“We’ll talk about it after the show is over. Just know that we took care of it, and Moira’s okay,” Francesco says to him. “Also, Noah will be with Moira when you can’t.”
“That doesn’t sound like everything’s okay.”
“I promise, we’ll talk after the show.”
I know better than to keep arguing with Francesco. If he says that things are being taken care of, I have to trust him. Even though I want to protect my girl myself. I stay by Moira’s side while we wait for my next set to start. So far I haven’t had any issues with women at the shows. The guys said I’ve been lucky. Each of them has had issues before. There’s always customers that think because they’ve paid to be here, they have the right to do things to us. I’m not looking forward to dealing with stuff like that. Some of the guys still do private shows with full nudity. They have the craziest stories. Then there’s the dancers that don’t offer full nudity, yet the women still expect more. I haven’t done any private shows and I was told that I can say I only do group private shows and no full nudity. That way it’s not just methere alone and I don’t have to get naked. That made Moira feel better too.
The rest of the night went by fast and we’re finally back at the property. Francesco said he’s asked for a special meeting for the morning. So we’re supposed to meet everyone at ten a.m.
“What happened tonight?” I ask Moira as we get ready for bed.
“Remember I told you about the dancer I dated, Zachary?”
