her waist rolling to place her on top of him, keeping them connected. Falling on to his chest she closed her eyes in bliss. Why hadn’t she allowed this before? She thought as she closed her eyes and relaxed into him quickly falling asleep.
Chapter 6
When she got back to the bedsit the following morning Mrs Brown met h er at the door, a sad smile plastered on her face. “I really do hate to do this to you dear but there are rules.”
“It’s ok Mrs Brown I understand. It wasn’t fair of me to disappear for the past week and not let you know. And to be honest I think I really n eeded this push to find my own place.”
Mrs Brown led her through to the living room where she found her all her stuff neatly placed in boxes and her small suitcase of clothes already packed for her. She didn’t have a lot of stuff, when she was at her old j ob she had house shared with a few of the other girls. The place was already furnished so she had nothing big to take with her. Her whole life fit into one small suitcase and three boxes. She loaded them all into the car and gave Mrs Brown a little money for the trouble she had caused. She wasn’t sure what she was going to do now, she was effectively homeless and with Lochlann leaving she would no longer be able to stay at the club in his suite. It was time she talked to someone about this, but not him and certainly not Tristan; she didn’t want to owe him anything if he did help her out. No she would talk to the girls, see if any of them could at the very least offer her somewhere to kip for the night. A sofa would be better than sleeping in her car on the side of the road.
That was it. She was no longer working exclusively for Lochlann. She was happy to be back with the girls she had missed them, missed the gossip, the laughs that they had down in the dressing rooms every night. But it was so hard being away from Lochlann. It had only been an hour since he had walked her down from the suite to the dressing rooms downstairs, giving her a long passionate kiss up against the wall, making her weak at the knees before releasing her and allowing her to enter the room. She knew he would be watching, would be sat in his usual booth, his eyes glued on her as she danced. The room would be full of people tonight but even though there would be others she would be dancing for only him in her mind. He was all that mattered.
“Hey what you thinking about so hard?” Beth asked snapping her fingers in front of Ambers face.
“Oh sorry I was miles away.”
“Obviously.” Smiling knowingly, “he’s really got to you hasn’t he?”
“Yeah he has, I can’t get him out of my head.” He had taken over her life completely; she lived to please him, to be pleased by him. But now with her about to become homeless - well she was already homeless really, and all she could think about was him leaving and how much she wished he wasn’t.
“Beth, do you still h ave a spare room at your place or did you find a roommate?” Beth’s old roommate had moved out the other month suddenly leaving Beth having to work extra shifts and take every private dance offer made.
“No still haven’t found anyone and that bastard landlor d is upping the rent next month. I'm well and truly fucked.”
“Would I be able to stay at yours for a while? It’s just that I had to leave the bedsit and haven’t found anywhere else yet. I’ll help with the rent while I'm there of course.”
Beth flung her arms around her, squashing her in a fierce embrace. “Oh that would be fantastic chick, I’d love you to come and stay.”
“It will just be for a while I promise, I'm sure I’ll find something soon.”
“Don’t be silly, move in, be my roommate. It will be so much better to have you as a roommate than some stranger.” Beth’s eyes were sparkling with happiness at the mere idea of it, how could she say no and really did she even want to? Beth was one of her closest friends, they hadn’t known
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