When we reached the door,hereached for the bronze handle.
“You don’t have to come in, Sebastian,” I said.
He shook his head.“You don’t understand what you’re getting into.”
Sebastianyanked the door open, and ascantily dressed womansashayedtowards the door. Her heavily made up eyes were cold as she assessed me, beforeturning her attention toSebastian.
“Hello sir,” she said with a strong Russian accent.“Wouldyou like me to send one of our women to welcome you?”
Sebastianignored the question.“Where will Selene be working?” he asked.
The womanpulled a cell phone out of her baby blue crop top and swipedacrossit with her long acrylic nails.
“Selene, this is your first time workinghere, right?”she asked, not looking up from her phone.
“Yes,” I replied.
“You need to do the examination before you get dressed,” she said.
“Examination?” I asked, completely confused. Was I expected to list what ingredients went into aNegroni? Or tell her what paired best with an Aperol Spritz?
“Dr. Fitzgerald’s waiting in there.” She jerked her head towards a door on her left. Well, that didn’t answer my question, but I didn’t like the direction it was going.
Sebastian’seyes were stormy, and hisarm musclestensed.
“You don’t have todothis, Selene. I can have Michael take you back to the house,” he said.
I turned my attention back to the woman.“What kind of examination?” I asked.
“We need to make sure none of the women working here have STDS,” she said.
My voice was a low growl, but internally my heart was beating out of my chest.“I must be in the wrong place. I’m not having sex with anyone.”
Sheshrugged.“Fine,you don’t have to. But it’srequired for you to get examined just in case.”
I thought back to Luca’s description of the job. Waitstaff my ass.
“If I decide to go along with this,which I probably won’t,what exactly am I expected to be doing?” I asked, crossing my arms. With every word out of this woman’s mouth, Sebastian’s offer sounded more and more tempting.
“You’ll be delivering drinks and food.”
“So I don’t have to have sex with anyone?” I asked, skeptical.
“No.Butthe men pay well, so you’ll probably end upparticipating.” It wasn’t worth fighting her on that last point, it was obvious she thought I was just making a fuss to save face.
“So even though I’m not having sex I still need an… examination?”
She rolled her eyes before nodding. Yeah, this was a woman who did not like having to repeat herself.
Itook in the woman’s six inch high heels and bare midriff. God,I was so tempted to take Sebastian up on his offer. I glanced back at Sebastian.
“I’m serious, Selene. You don’t have to do this if you don’t want to. You’ll make plenty of money if you just feed me information,” he said.
Asmuch as I wantedthat to be true, I couldn’tdepend on his generosity.The only person I could depend on was myself. I dug my nails into my palms.
“I won’t be having sex tonight. Is that going to be an issue?” I asked, attempting to detect any lies in the woman’s facial expression.
Her face twitched. “I really don’t care.”
