“For someone who finally got some last night, you seem very prickly,” Olivia commented as she sat on the island.
“I’m not prickly.”
“If I touched you, I’m pretty sure I would get stabbed,” Olivia joked, and Honey chucked a glare at her sister, who laughed and held her hands up in mock surrender.
“I’m joking,” Olivia said. “But I really don’t get why you would be upset right now. Was it bad?”
Honey sighed because she wished she could say that was the case, but there was no way she could ever lie about sex that good being bad. She still felt wet between her thighs and could remember how it felt when Nikos was deep inside her, whispering naughty words in her ear as he fucked her long and hard into her sheets, telling her that now when she slept there, she would only think of him, and she had a feeling that would be the case.
“That’s not it,” Honey murmured, and Olivia’s eyes widened before she laughed more.
“Wow. So he isn’t just a pretty face and can back up those words,” Olivia mused, shaking her head wryly. “Then that makes me even more confused about what the problem is.”
“It’s complicated, and it was just a drunken mistake. We’re not even in a relationship,” Honey explained.
“You could have fooled me,” Olivia said, and Honey looked at her sister, shocked. What had she done to make her think they were in a relationship when she had just started to admit that they were friends? “You guys are always spending time together. I wasn’t even surprised that he was here today. I was just surprised to see your clothes on the floor.”
“We don’t spend—”
“The entire ride here, all Kai talked about was Nikos and all the fun they were going to have when he came over as if it were a set-in-stone thing,” Olivia said. “He likes him a lot, and let’s be honest. Kai wasn’t always receptive to your other boyfriends.”
Honey pursed her lips, even though her sister was right. Kai hadn’t necessarily been close with her exes before, but he got along with Nikos very well. Though, she suspected that was because of how childlike Nikos could be around Kai. It allowed him to be comfortable with him.
“Nikos seems like a nice guy who is always here to help you. Honestly, he is like your superhero,” Olivia said, and Honey rolled her eyes. Superhero, her ass. Though, he had helped her out countless times before without expecting anything in turn. She couldn’t deny that.
“He’s fine, has money, and gets along with your son. It can’t get any better than that. So, what’s the problem, Hope?”
That was the thing. Olivia would never be able to understand her position because she didn’t know about everything happening at the club. She didn’t know that Nikos had practically fucked every dancer at the club, and now she had become another notch on his belt. She couldn’t admit it out loud, but it hurt her pride. Now, she felt no different than anyone else, and to be honest, that was a hard pill to swallow, remembering how she prided herself on being the only girl in the club besides Amber, who hadn’t done anything with Nikos.
On top of that, she couldn’t imagine herself with Nikos and didn’t even know what he wanted. For all she knew, he wanted the same kind of relationship he had with the other girls at the club— fuck buddies. And though sometimes she wished she had someone in her bed at night, and the sex had been good, she didn’t want to be Nikos’s fuck buddy. Just the idea of it put a bad taste in her mouth. And if Nikos wanted something more serious, she couldn’t imagine that either.
But the biggest problem she couldn’t explain to her sister was the devil hanging over her shoulder the moment she stepped into the Gentlemen’s Club— Antonis Tsagkarakis. It had beenmonths since he had gone into a coma, and at first, she had been very wary, feeling like he could pop over her shoulder at any instant. And slowly, as time passed with Nikos in charge and Antonis out of sight, her wariness ebbed away, but that didn’t mean it still wasn’t there, lingering in the back of her mind. Nikos was Antonis’s nephew, and for some reason, Antonis was fixated on her. If he ever woke up, she was positive he would show Nikos no mercy for what they had done tonight, and even worse, she feared what he might do to her. He was already insane enough to think he could possess her. That meant he was capable of anything.
The problem was that there were too many problems that she didn’t care for. Besides, she didn’t want to mess up the relationship she had with Nikos now over something fleeting like sexual attraction. She could admit that she was attracted to Nikos. Any woman who saw him would be. But she didn’t want to allow that attraction to be the reason why it was difficult to come to work or for it to change the good working relationship she had with him.
“There isn’t a problem. It was just a drunk night of sex. Nothing more and nothing less,” Honey said, shrugging as she dried her hands.
“We’ll see if you’ll be saying that when you see Nikos again tomorrow,” Olivia said knowingly, and Honey cut her sister a glare. She would say the same exact thing that she told Nikos today.
There won’t be a second time.
C H A P T E R
31
AFTER FINISHING HER LAST LAP DANCE OF THE NIGHT, Honey walked through the double doors to the back, stretching her arms that were sore from being on the pole all night. She was tired and ready to change her clothes, so she could pick up her pay and go. While walking down the hall, she noticed Allison heading in her direction.
“Tired?” Allison asked with a sympathetic look.
“Worn out,” Honey replied, sighing.
“I’m about to go pick up my pay. You coming?” Allison asked, and Honey thought about it for a second. Out of habit, she usually changed before she picked up her pay because it was easier to get out of the door. But that was before she haddrunken sex with Nikos two days ago and before he claimed they still needed to talk. Although she had already made it clear what her stance was on the situation, it would be easier to pick up her pay and go if someone else was there with her. She had a feeling if she went by herself, it wouldn’t be that easy to leave.
“Okay,” Honey said, and Allison smiled as they headed to Antonis’s office which had now become Nikos’s in his absence.
“I can’t wait to see Nikos,” Allison gushed as she fixed her hair, and though she no longer wore exotic clothing, she still looked very sexy, wearing a tight short pink dress with heels.
Honey arched a brow with curiosity and suspicion.
