Teased (The VIP Room, #1) (6 page)

He had no problem filling his bed each night
with a different woman, the tattoo shop and past pick-ups provided
a steady flow to satisfy the hunger that had gone unfed the three
years in prison. The only problem was he felt emptier and emptier
with each additional encounter. Something was wrong and Colton was
deathly afraid he knew what it was.

Placing an arm over his eyes, he tried to
shut out the image of Vida from that first day he had been released
from prison. He needed to get rid of her. Tomorrow night, instead
of dropping her off at the club, he planned to go inside and have a
talk with King. Vida had to go and King had to do something about
it, regardless of the situation with Digger.

Chapter 5

Vida stood nervously behind the curtain in
her red camisole and underwear. She only had the two outfits; one
red and one black. The other women raised scornful eyes when they
saw her dressed in the same outfit night after night, however she
refused to invest in new outfits with only two more nights to
go.

Hearing her queue, she went out on the stage
and began her standard set.

* * *

Colton stood in the shadows in the back of
the room as he watched Vida come onto the stage. Her perfectly
proportioned body was highlighted by the high cut of her underwear
and showed her legs to their best advantage. The tiny piece of red
material barely covered her pussy, while leaving her creamy ass
bare, the string disappearing between the luscious globes.

Colton battled his cock, trying to keep
himself from getting hard, but it was an impossible feat as Vida’s
next set began and she started removing her top. Her seductive
twisting was arousing; not only to him, but every man in the room.
She slowly unbuttoned the flimsy camisole that hid her breasts,
drawing out the tension in the men, denying them while at the same
time providing tantalizing glimpses. When she could delay it no
longer, the top was dropped, showing her full breasts in all their
glory. The pink tipped nipples were hard from the air conditioning
vent that was directed at her body, making her appear to want the
men’s lustful leers.

His hands clenched into fists as he heard
some of the men’s shouts, studying their faces so he could have a
word with them later. Then Vida’s music changed and she moved
towards the men in the front row

She allowed their greedy hands to shove
money into the thin string that barely held her thong on while she
squatted in front of their faces. He was sure several of the men
tugged on it harder than necessary, trying to break the tiny piece
of material. Rising, she danced away from the front of the stage
while the men begged her to come back. The music drew to an end,
reaching the point where she bent down towards the floor to pick up
her top, giving the men their money’s worth by showing them her ass
as she waved goodbye between her legs. Colton wanted to storm the
stage and smack her ass hard.

A moment later, Henry motioned Colton
forward, letting him know that King was finally ready to talk to
him. As he moved towards the dark booth, Colton was surprised the
light over it was turned off. Usually, when King was occupying the
booth, the light was on. Now it was shrouded in darkness, giving
complete privacy.

Colton took a seat across from him, watching
as King leaned back against the expensive leather of the booth.

“
Henry said you wanted to talk to
me?”

“
How much longer is this going to go
on, King? I have a life
—
”
Colton began.

King cut him off. “Which watching over Vida
hasn’t hindered in the least. You’ve had a different woman over
every night, and other than a few hours of watching her at your
shop and at night after she gets done here, you haven’t been
inconvenienced at all.”

Colton refused to feel guilty. “She’s
complaining to you that I have women over?”

King showed his dangerous smile. “You’ve
lived with her for two weeks and you don’t know her better than
that?” King shook his head. “You’re a dumb son of a bitch. Tessa
leads you around by the fucking nose and you believed every fucking
lie she told you. Vida wouldn’t open her mouth about you because
she wouldn’t want to jeopardize Sawyer’s life. You need to learn
the difference between an immoral bitch and a woman who’s like her
mother and has a heart of gold.”

Colton stiffened in his seat. “I don’t care
what kind of woman she is, I want her gone.”

King studied him. “Give me to the end of the
weekend and I will make other arrangements.”

Relief flooded through Colton, but before he
could stop himself, he asked, “What kind of arrangements?”

King shrugged. “One of Margie’s girls is
leaving. One of her customers wants her full-time, so Vida can have
her room and Margie can watch over her.

Anger flooded Colton. “Margie will fucking
put her to work.”

“
What do you care, Colton? At least
Margie will keep her safe and give her back when I get all this
shit cleaned up. If Digger gets her, she’ll either be dead or
disappear.”

Colton bit back his anger, smart enough to
know if he pissed King off, he wouldn’t leave the choice in his
hands. “I’ll let her stay. Just hurry it up, King.”

“
That was my intention all along.”
Satisfied, King motioned for the waitress to bring Colton a
drink.

The waitress put a beer down in front of
Colton, lingering by the table until King motioned her away. She
left after a last smoldering look at Colton.

“
Seems you have an admirer.” Colton
ignored him, watching Vida climb the steps to what Colton knew was
the room that King had set aside for the private
members.

“
How many does she have scheduled for
tonight?” Colton asked, nodding his head towards Vida.

“
She’s a popular little thing. She has
three scheduled and several more will purchase one when they see
her at work.”

Colton gave King a hard look before taking
his beer and getting up from the table, turning towards the
stairway.

“
There’s a fee to go upstairs,
Colton,” King reminded him, trying to hide his
amusement.

“
Add it to my tab,
asshole.”

* * *

Vida finished giving a dance to one of the
men who had become a regular and went to the bar for a drink of
water before going into the side room to give another dance. Each
dance lasted no more than ten minutes, but every time she felt as
if she needed to take a shower to clean herself.

Vida glanced at the door when she heard it
open, trying to hide the surprise on her face when Colton walked
into the room. He cast her a hard look before taking a seat on one
of the expensive couches. Finishing her water with trembling
fingers, she put down her bottle before placing a seductive look on
her face for her waiting customer. It was unnerving her that she
felt Colton’s dark eyes on her as she moved towards Briggs.

“
Hey sexy, you ready?” Vida
murmured.

His hot eyes ran over her body. Vida felt
her skin crawl as his disgusting gaze slid over her. Carefully
hiding her reaction, infusing fake warmness into her eyes, she held
out her hand playfully for him to take. Briggs took her hand,
rising to his feet and following her tamely into the private room
where she would perform the lap dance.

Vida playfully pushed Briggs down onto the
plush chair and backed away. The music started and Vida drew closer
to Briggs, straddling his chair, grinding her corset-covered
breasts against his chest. Twisting and turning her hips, she kept
a distance of mere centimeters between her mound and his
crotch.

Blushing in embarrassment, Vida fervently
hoped that Colton hadn’t turned so that he would be able to see
into the room. It was semi-private due to a window so the bouncer
would be able to watch and call a halt if one of the clients got
out of hand.

King also provided completely private rooms,
but Vida never went into those. It didn’t take a genius to realize
that more went on in there than lap dances. Usually the higher paid
dancer’s took advantage of those rooms.

The music sped up and Vida let her breasts
lean more heavily onto Briggs’s chest as she rubbed against him.
Vida noticed sweat break out across his brow. A self-satisfied
smile curled her lips and she let her bottom sink onto his lap,
grinding her ass across his thighs.

“
You’re making me hard as a rock.”
Briggs’s eyes stared lustfully into hers.

Vida swallowed down the bile in her throat
and started silently counting in her mind to distract herself.

“
Meet me after you get off tonight,”
he begged.

Vida shook her head, forcing herself to let
more of her weight grind down on Briggs at the same time that a
fake moan passed her lips. Taking a deep breath, she took her life
in her hands.

“
I don’t trust you, Briggs. You work
for Digger. I haven’t seen Sawyer since his man took her out for a
date.” Vida let her voice go breathy.

“
I didn’t have anything to do with
that, it was Rick. I’d take good care of you.” Briggs’s hands came
up to cup her ass. Vida paused.“You know you’re not allowed to
touch,” Vida scolded him.

Briggs immediately removed his hands and she
felt his cock grow thicker under her. She subtlety lifted her
weight off him, using the beat of the music. Vida was sickened when
she recognized that he had responded to the dominance in her
voice.

She let her weight fall back down for the
remaining minutes of the music. Briggs was grinding his teeth and
Vida felt a spurt of satisfaction she couldn’t repress. He wanted
her. She was determined to use whatever means she had to get Sawyer
back. The music ended and Vida pretended reluctance at getting off
his lap.

“
Come on, meet me tonight. Let’s get
into some trouble.” Briggs thought he was being cute with his pun
while Vida only thought he was pathetic.

Vida shook her head. “Maybe next time,
Briggs. I’ll have to think about it. Sawyer was my best friend and
I miss her. I don’t want to find myself in her shoes.” Vida tried
to appear frightened of him.

“
Trouble, you’re too fine. I’ll take
good care of you. I wouldn’t let Digger touch you; he listens to
me,” he boasted, taking her arm in a hard grip.

“
Really?” Pretending to think about it
for a minute, she again shook her head. “Let me think about it,
Briggs. I work next Friday. Will you come and see me
dance?”

Briggs didn’t try to hide his growing anger
and Vida could tell she had pushed far enough for the night. She
didn’t try to pull her arm out of his grasp.

“
Let me go,” Vida demanded, trying to
put just the right amount of dominance into her voice.

“
I’ll be here,” Briggs said,
reluctantly letting her arm go.

Blowing him a kiss, Vida slipped out of the
door and walked into a hard wall of flesh. She looked up in
surprise at the furious eyes staring down at her. Colton thrust her
robe into her hand before taking her arm and leading her from the
room. She almost fell trying to keep up with his angry strides.

“
I can’t leave, I have another
customer.”

“
You’re done for the night. I’m ready
to leave. I told Henry to tell King to find a replacement for the
end of your shift.” Taking her to the doorway of the dressing room,
he set her arm free.

“
Get changed,” he said
stonily.

Vida wanted to leave, so she decided not to
argue with him. She went into the dressing room and quickly changed
into jeans and a long sleeved t-shirt. Grabbing her jacket, she
headed back outside to a waiting Colton. He followed her outside
into the crisp air, which felt wonderful to Vida after the stuffy
confinement of the nightclub.

Handing her the helmet, Vida put it on and
then climbed on behind Colton. Expecting to go back to his
apartment, Vida was surprised when he pulled into a late night
waffle house.

“
I’m hungry; let’s get something to
eat,” Colton said, getting off the bike.

Vida was never hungry after working at the
club, but didn’t say anything, merely going in with him and
ordering a coffee when the waitress came.

“
Bring her a stack of pancakes and
some bacon,” Colton ordered.

“
But I’m not hungry,” Vida
protested.

“
You’ve lost a good five pounds since
you’ve been living with me. Your clothes are falling off of you.
You’re going to eat.” Colton motioned the curious waitress away
with a gesture of his hand after placing his own order.

Vida’s lips tightened. She had been well
aware of the weight she had lost, although she hadn’t thought
anyone else had noticed. She wasn’t happy Colton was the one who’d
paid that much attention. Hell, she thought he hadn’t even been
aware of what color her hair was the way he constantly ignored
her.

“
Now that my classes are over, my
weight will come back. I’ve been overworked.”

“
Shaking your ass all over that stage
and rubbing it against every man that has a hundred takes a lot of
energy,” Colton said snidely.

Vida stiffened in her chair. “Yes, well, I
don’t have much of a choice about that, do I?”

“
You have a fucking choice; you just
won’t make the right one. Shake this town off and leave. King will
eventually get Sawyer back.”

Vida stubbornly shook her head. She couldn’t
believe how he expected her to turn her back on Sawyer.

“
I saw the game you were playing with
Briggs. You’re going to get yourself in more trouble than you can
handle, Vida.”