Page 12 of Working Out West

Pushing everything aside, I grinned and shifted over to the window to look out. My eyes widened. “A casino?”

“Da.”

“We’re going into a casino for dinner?”

“Da.” He grinned.

“Well, I certainly didn’t expect that,” I told him when we pulled into the underground parking. We were lucky enough to get a spot right in front of the doors and one that would fit a limo…. Wait, how were we so lucky? I laughed at myself. Of course we were lucky. Adrik probably paid them to save a spot.

Our door opened, and I jumped since I was looking at Adrik. He was still grinning, and if I was right, I had a feeling I was missing something.

“Ready, sir?”

“Da,” Adrik answered and nodded at me.

I climbed out, and nerves rolled through to my stomach when I saw Death parked in a spot next to our car. He got out of his and shut the door just as Adrik stepped up behind me.

“Do you wish to follow or stay here?” Adrik asked. I thought he was asking me, but I saw his gaze on Death when I looked over my shoulder.

“I’ll follow.”

“Come then,” he ordered. His men, and somehow he’d gathered four more, spread out. Two went ahead. Another two stayed with us as we made our way in, and the last kept a distance behind us. Death followed a little closer than what they were.

Adrik and I walked side by side, but I stopped and took in the view when we entered.

“Holy shit,” I whispered. Lights and noise bombarded me. There were people everywhere, and even though it looked like this was the only floor, which was huge on its own, I’d seen from the outside it was at least twenty stories high.

My view caught on Adrik, who stood a couple of paces in front of me and looked back at me with a soft smile. One I hadn’t seen before. One that caused my dick to throb.

Fuck.

“Sorry,” I said, catching up to him. “Even when I turned legal and we weren’t far from all this, I never went to a casino.”

“Never?” he asked, surprise evident in his voice.

“Nyet,” I said, and grinned over at him as we walked.

His gaze was in front of us, but I didn’t miss his smile.

“I never felt the need to. Life kept me busy, and there was also me saving every penny I had for college, books, and rent.”

We stopped at a row of elevators. “Your parents, they helped?”

“In elementary and high school, yes. But not for college. It was lucky I got a scholarship, but they didn’t like I moved away from them, so they weren’t… um, forthcoming in helping when I could have gone to a community college where they were and lived at home.”

Goddamn it. I was sharing again. Telling him too much. I glanced behind me to see Death was closer, and his brows were pinched. He was also frowning.

Why could I hold myself, my real self, back with other clients but not with Adrik? There was something about him that made me want to share the real me.

The doors before us opened, and we stepped in with two guards and Death. Did I need to introduce Death to him? It felt weird he was there, but I didn’t know if Death would want me to share his name, his biker name, with them.

“It must have been hard,” Adrik said.

What was?

My dick?

I glanced down and noted I didn’t sport a hard-on, but there was a slight bulge.

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