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CHAPTER 05
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2025-01-13 07:43:29In a hurry, April approached the bar where her friend was serving the drinks. Adele worried at the mere instant she noticed that her friend was approaching in such a way. She didn’t look like the strong girl who was willing to face the whole world in order to get money for her son and make him live in the happiest way she can.
“What’s going on, April? Are you okay, darling?”
April sighed. She didn’t want to cry, she didn’t want to show her how fragile she was, she just wanted to face the world for her son as she’d always done. But if there was someone whom she couldn’t lie to, that was Adele.
“April, what’s going on?” Adele raised her voice a little.
April just shook her head.
“April, a bastard tried to do something to you?” Adele knew very well that if there was a way to mess up with her, it was by molesting her.
April shook her head again. “No, it’s nothing. It’s nothing, Adele.”
“Tell me what’s wrong and I swear I’lll kill that bastard who-”
“Adele!” A third voice shouted.
Adele rolled up her eyes and after sighed, she turned around. It was the manager who was calling her out.
“What now?”
“VIP zone requires your services. Three men want you to prepare the drinks.”
“I’m coming!”
“Now!”
Frustrated, Adele left the bar after giving her friend an apology look, and continued her way to the VIP zone. April noticed how Adele and the manager exchanged some words and then, both of them pointed at April. After that, Adele called April with a gesture. Innocently, April pointed at herself and Adele nodded.
“What?”
“Help me out.”
“Mmm?”
“I can’t take many bottles of liquor by myself. Help me out and I promise, you’re free to go. I know you don’t like the VIP zone.”
April hesitated a little. April didn’t like the VIP zone since the first and last time she was there, one of the clients tried to force her into something she didn’t want, arguing that all women who went there it was because they were prostitutes. Adele was good at preparing special drinks and she was also good at other things, and she also respected that her friend didn’t like those things.
“Let’s go, I won’t let anything happen to you.”
“Okay, but I’ll just leave the bottles and leave, okay?”
“Okay, let’s go.”
April and Adele took many liquor bottles and continued upstairs.
*****
Watching his bar working as the others did, Lucian felt satisfaction. With his legs elegantly crossed, a drink in his right hand and his amber eyes watching the women down assisting the clients, he couldn’t help but look for the woman who showed not to be like the others. It was like she was working there by force, strange forces that no one could see. He wanted to know her name, he wanted to know what the hell was she doing there, but… He shouldn’t care about her! She was a worker there, no one was forcing her to be there, at least not his people. She could leave whenever she wanted. It was stupid to get offended by her own work.
Lucian just shook his head and continued when suddenly, one of the bodyguards came into the room and notified two women who were there to serve them drinks.
“Oh! Let them in!” One of the elderly men said before Lucian could answer.
The door opened five seconds after the bodyguard left and there they were. Two women wearing black skirts that perfectly delineated their butts, both wore red heels. The first woman came in with a tray with three bottles of liquor and six shots while the woman behind her was carrying another tray with three bottles of wine.
What was his surprise when he saw that the woman behind was the same one he had been thinking about for the last 5 minutes! He couldn’t believe it. He couldn’t even process that information and see her with indifference after all the things that he’d been thinking about her. Once again she was there, like a woman who didn’t feel comfortable wearing that uniform. Lucian couldn’t stop looking at her until she was able to raise her head and find the same man that had found her on the ground. April started shaking again. Her legs were about to give up on her.
“Come on in, come on in, sweet dolls!” The man said.
Adele approached the table and placed the tray, April did the same without raising her head again. What she’d seen had been enough. She just wanted to get the hell out of there. But Adele started laughing with both men as Lucian kept staring at April. Uncomfortable, April put her hands together in front of her as ready to receive any order.
All Lucian could see in her was perfectionism as he wondered the reason why she acted like that if she herself had chosen such a job. Lucian drank from his glass of wine without looking away. She’d enchanted him.
“You darling!” One of the men called April out. “Come, come here!”
April looked at her friend and Adele immediately tried to protect her friend. “Mr., happens that she’s not here to do anything else. She just helped me to bring the bottles.”
“Oh, really? Well, I think I was clear enough when I said I wanted two women to…. you know, and suddenly you two appear. What do you want me to expect?”
“But-” Adele tried to say.
“You, pour me a vodka!” The other man said. Lucian never said anything, he just observed.
April rushed to follow his order, thinking that he’d let her go after that. While April was preparing the vodka. This time she didn't care how sharp her angle was as she bent to pour the drink, she only cared about getting out of there intact. And this was the opportunity the three men took to look into her cleavage. The difference between Lucian and the look of the other three men was too different, while the two elderly men were looking at her morbidly, Lucian looked at her as the most erotic dream he had ever had. She was… desirable. It was a lie that the small breast wasn’t erotic, because this time Lucian was experiencing something way different.
April realized how the three men looked at her and she raised instantly. She was more uncomfortable than ever.
“I like her for me!” The elderly pointed at April.
“Mr., she doesn’t do that kinda works,” Adele continued.
The men looked at each other not believing those words and then they laughed hard. Lucian looked at them and then looked at April, she was uncomfortable. Maybe she indeed didn’t like that job, but there was something that had pushed her to take it. We never know.
“Oh, come on! She’s here and there’s no turning back-”
“She has said that she doesn’t do that kind of work!” Finally Lucian raised his voice.
Everything was silent. The other two men stopped laughing and just looked at Lucian. He was no longer the respectful man who appeared to do business. Suddenly, he seemed to be defending that woman. But why?
“You two can go,” Lucian ordered.
“But-” Adele tried to say.
“Go!” Lucian shouted.
April and Adele ran out of the VIP room. Now it was going to be time to deal with both men who were looking at him in a prejudiced manner. Lucian, as the Son of Hades he was, was ready to fight them until they could get into their heads that not all women who worked there could be forced to do what they wanted. But the stranger part was, why did he keep defending that woman? Who was she for him? Come on! She was no one!
“Oh, I understand, that’s your girl, right?”
He sighed in frustration.
The man laughed again. “You should’ve said it earlier. I’m sorry, I’m sorry, Son of Hades!”
There was no reason to fight them. In the end, she was nothing more than a worker there. Lucian got up from his seat and walked towards the door, erasing the smiles of the men.
“Hey, Son of Hades! Are we not going to talk about business? Come on! You shouldn’t act like that. I’m not gonna touch your girl, I swear!”
Lucian just looked at them before leaving and said, “I’m not sure if I want to cooperate with you. Have a good night.” Then, he left.
When the manager saw Lucian leaving, he got worried and ran up to him. “Mr. Sadharthe, is everything okay?”
“Need the sexiest woman you have hired. Tell her I’ll be waiting for her at my hotel. Tonight!” Then, Lucian left, leaving the manager speechless. Not that he had been surprised by the request, for he knew that Lucian, the Son of Hades, was well known for the women he had a good time with, but he was surprised because of his lack of words. He hadn’t said anything about the bar or what he thought about it. He just asked a woman for the night and nothing else.
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