“Excuse me?”
“You heard me.What the hell are you doing, dressing like that?”
When she put her hands on her hips, he struggled to keep his gaze on her face because the position lifted her tits just a little.
“Dressed likewhat, Axel?”she hissed.
“Like… like…that!”
“What?You mean like a woman who is comfortable with her body?Like adancer?It's ajob, for crying out loud.”
“Why can't you get a respectable job?”he countered and in his head he heard the robot from Lost in Space nearly shouting ‘Danger, Will Robinson’.
“Respectable?Wow.I'm so sure Tank wouldloveto know that you think Rose isn't respectable because she's been dancing here for several years.Or Chaos.I'm sure he'd love to know you think Indi isn’t respectable because she's the owner of a den of such inequity,” Sophia hissed.
“That-that's not what I meant!”he stuttered out.
“The hell it's not.You just didn't expect me to call you out on it.”She poked his chest with her index finger.“You're not my father, and you're sure as hell not my boyfriend.Even if youweremy boyfriend, you would have no say in where I worked or what I wore!”
Her finger jabbed into his chest repeatedly as she spoke, and damn if a pissed off Sophia wasn't sexy as fuck.
“Get over yourself, Axel,” she hissed and side stepped him to get to the dressing room.
Axel watched her go and willed his chub to go down so he didn't embarrass himself when he left.
Chapter Five
Sophia
Sophia stormed into the dressing room mad as a hornet and slammed her palms down on her dressing table to release some of her anger.
“Whoa.What's wrong, Soph?”Rose asked.
“Lennix ‘Axel’ fucking Rivers, that's what!”
“Uh oh.What did that bonehead do?”
“He had the audacity to think he could tell me how to dress or where to work,” Sophia replied.
“Oh boy.He really was a bonehead.Don't let it get to you, girl.Guys can be idiots, especially when they're fighting their attraction.”
Sophia turned and gave Rose what she was sure was a confused look.“Attraction?Axel is not attracted to me.”
“Girl, he totally is," Rose countered.“If you don't believe me, go ask Indi.She'll agree with me.”
Sophia huffed before she got dressed in her regular clothes.“Maybe I will,” she said as she passed Rose, who was changing for her last performance.
Out in the main area of the club, she made a beeline for Indi.“Hey, Indi.Can we talk?”
“Sure.What's up?Great first night, by the way.The audience loved it.”
“Thanks.Um, well, Rose said something that… let me back up a bit.Axel stopped me before I got to the dressing room and said some things, including basically trying to tell me where I can work or what I can wear.It pissed me off, and when I told Rose, she said it's because he's attracted to me but fighting it.”
“I know where this is going, and he definitely is attracted to you, Sophia.”
“He can't be.He's never shown any interest in me.Beyond being Sinner's daughter, he doesn't even know I exist.”
Indi scoffed.“He wouldn't have flipped out when he saw you on the stage if that was the case.”
