Chapter 1

I step out of the uber adjusting my dress it’s way shorter than anything I would pick but my best friend Jess insisted. A breeze blew by it was the end of summer so there was a chill in the air I wasn’t allowed a jacket either Because it ruined the look. I’m not too sure what look jess was going for aside from overexposed. My dress was a slick black and it hugged every curve of my body it had a v-neck and tiny straps I felt like it made my already broad shoulders look bigger but jess told me that with a dress like this no one would be looking at my shoulders. I kept my hair down to try and cover them. 

 Clubbing, I so rarely went clubbing but seeing as I’m trying to get over a nasty breakup I let jess drag me here. Jess was the only friend I have outside of work we grew up together and she helped me feel safe after my break up with Jett.

 Jett was the most awful type of boyfriend, I honestly don’t know what I ever saw in him. I had never heard about this club before probably because it looks way too expensive for me the building was built out of fine bricks painted white it had large gaping frosted windows where you could see the steam of light inside the club. for the area of town it was it looked clean and well maintained. I looked up at the glowing neon sign.

CHANGE

the club was called change I had no idea why but as I looked around and saw the line of girls wearing fewer clothes than I was I knew we were never going to get in. but jess adjusted her dark brown almost black hair and strode for the bouncer. Jess had the confidence I aspire to have. She was wearing a tiny red dress Determination was written all over her face she was going to give this a good try.

 As a skull wind blew I took in my surroundings the city I lived in. Carsadona my city was number one in crime and shootings across the country probably because I had never seen a good cop in my life. I had only ever called the cops once in my life and let’s just say that it didn’t turn out to do well.  Carsadona however is my home I grew up here. I have never known anything different. I know my city is flawed but I love it there are some amazing people here other than just criminals. Truthfully I was surprised I didn’t hear gunshots I guess tonight was a quiet one.

As that thought passed through my brain I see 2 tall crazy-built men wearing all black with visible guns around their waist I got ready to run but then a man about my age walked around the corner. He wore black shining shoes fitted with black pants and a white button-up shirt tucked into the pants that had a silver detailed belt the button shirt he wore had the top 3 buttons undone revealing hard-shaped muscles on his chest. He was wearing a black blazer undone and he went to fix the Rolex watch on his wrist. That watch was probably worth 2 years of my rent. As I shifted my gaze up to his face his jaw looked chiseled and tight his face was the fiercest yet the most gorgeous thing I had ever seen his green-blue eyes stood out compared to his night-black hair. Behind him one more huge man dressed in all black.  I realized just then just how tall he was. He would tower over me if it weren’t for the blistering heels I wore. I wanted another look at those eyes, but as I looked towards those eyes, they looked right back at me.  I madly darted my eyes away my cheeks heating as a dared a glance up I saw him laughing but still looking in my direction he was smiling I saw the hint of a dimple on his face.

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 I looked over to jess to see if she was seeing this man but she was standing in her arguing poster right in front of the bouncer. As I walked upright behind jess to tell her about this man.

 The beautiful man stalked toward the bouncer whispered something in his ear then winked at me. Now with the smirk on his face, I could see the full dimple. I hope the makeup jess caked on my face hid the obvious blush on my face. But even though he was beautiful I was not getting into a relationship any time soon. But there is no harm in letting a hot man flirt with you.

 Was there?

 As I reached jess the bouncer looked us up and down. As if to say are you two even old enough to be here? I know we didn’t look older than 20 but we were both 21 so yes we were quite old enough. But without saying anything the bouncer unlinked that black velvet rope to let me and jess walk right in. As I took my step into the door I gave one more glance at that bright Neon sign. Change. I didn’t get it but as I stepped in I did.

The floor was made from coins all different types of coins. Change like pocket change. The name still seemed strange but at least it now made scenes. The music in this club was almost defining; by the large dance floor, there were streams of every color of light. This club was packed on one side a dance floor full of sweaty people in their twenties violently dancing to the music, letting themselves get lost in every song’s beat. That’s why I was here to lose myself. The tall white walls helped those flashing lights reflect over to the other side of the club. But to the other side of the club, long curved sliver couches with middle-aged men sat there in suits with either a glass of champagne or a girl’s ass in their hands and a whole pile of young women around them pawing or touching then stroking both them and their egos. Urgh, that disgusted me but I tried not to focus on that the massive wooden bar separated the club in two and was unlike the rest of the club. The counter was made of a massive slab of maple wood the whole bar including the seat looked old. Where the rest of the club had a modern style it was kind of refreshing to see that bar dividing the people who just wanted to live and the dirtbags who had to pay attention to women.

There were only female bartenders all wearing an incredibly revealing uniforms. this bar was not made to entice a ton of female visitors but the line I saw outside was mostly female. Sometimes I feel like I don’t understand the world. I turned as jess grabbed my wrist and pulled me onto the dance floor.

 I was here to escape the reality of my real life even if just for a couple of hours I wasn’t the girl who had a boyfriend who beat her to a pulp most nights. Or the girl whose parents had done the same thing to her when she was just a child. Here none of my past trauma mattered I would hardly ever think about it, my parents or my boyfriend's, ex-boyfriend. It was no secret I had been hiding away in my apartment for the last month to be afraid to anywhere but work. 

stop. 

stop it.

 No, right now I was my 21-year-old self living my best life. So I joined jess on the dance floor. No, I wouldn’t overthink I do that way too often. So I let myself go let the music take me and let the lights blind me and for once I had real fun.

 I dance for I think an hour. L let myself go I probably looked like white gangly limbs wobbling around but I smiled and I was having fun but, I was so thirsty my mouth was like sandpaper so I finally stalked over to the bar a smile still on my face. I ordered a diet coke I had to work tomorrow morning so drinking was out of the question.

 I sat down at one of the old metal bar stools well I waited for my drink this club was huge and crazy fancy. How did we even get in here? Omg, that stranger he let us in and the second I walked into this club I forgot about that sinfully gorgeous man.

My drink came I drank half of it in a second where had that stranger gone I should at least thank him but as I took a glance across the club I couldn’t see him. My stomach dropped a little. I wanted to see that face those eyes again. As I was finishing my last scan for the stranger. A deep soul-shattering familiar voice hissed from beside me “looking for Someone”