Babes Stripping For Love

“Cassidy, Rocco told me to wanted to talk?” Gage opened the door for her after he kissed Bree and let her out of his office, her face looked so goddamn happy lately it was making Cassidy envy.

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“And who’s this?”

Rockford stood behind Rowan ready to escort the man out should his boss deny him from coming into his office.

“I’m Rowan Madden, a family friend, and I would like to discuss further her employment issue.” Rowan offered his hand and like a businessman meeting for the first time they shake hands and Gage turned to Cassidy silently asking if she was in trouble. The young college student shook her head, Gage nodded, walked inside his office, and dismissed Rockford.

“I would like to…”

“Cassidy would like to concentrate on her studies and end her work at the club,” Rowan cut her words and Cassidy rolled her eyes at the man. She slumped back to her seat and was too annoyed to fight the man, thinking she could always go behind his back later if she had the urge to dance again in the future.

“Cassidy, do you need to speak about this privately?”

“No, what he said.” She uttered sounding a bit defeated, “Look Gage, I appreciate the opportunity but I think it’s time for me to concentrate on my studies. I will be taking a break from dancing for a while,”

Cassidy was not done talking when Rowan interrupted. Again.

“You’re not taking a break, you’re quitting, this is your last day. I’ll pay for any penalties.” Rowan stated calmly as he looked at her boss with a lazy expression as if being there was boring for him and he needed to end the conversation because he had a more important place to be.

Gage’s eyes locked with Cassidy with a questioning look but she just smiled. She hated that Rowan stepped into her business. She had been fine all these years without his meddling, her parents were gone, her brothers were fine, she has friends and she was doing okay.

The sooner she’s out of Gage’s office the better, she thought. She just wanted this to be over with, she was getting more and more annoyed with Rowan. Doesn’t matter how good-looking he was, she was starting to hate him for trying to control her life.

Cassidy hated that she had kissed him back, at that moment she didn’t want anything more than to go home and shut the door in his face.

And that was exactly what she did when she arrived at her apartment. After the conversation at Gage’s office, she left the club with a bit of regret. She still didn’t understand how easy it was for Rowan to make her quit her job at Babes. She had friends there and she loved her time dancing there.

“Cassie, you’ve got to be kidding. Let me in.”

“No, I’m tired. I did what you wanted. You should go home.” She could hear him cursing from behind the door, but she stood her ground.

Rowan hated how the day was turning out, they had a nice lunch date. He kissed her, she liked it, he thought they would spend some more time together before he goes back to his empty house. He didn’t expect her to slam the door soon after they reached her apartment.

But he cursed and he cursed some more before he decided to let her cool down and he went back home. He paced around his home office, trying to let off some steam by working but his head was not in a place to concentrate.

Rowan had never met someone so difficult in his entire life before, but what he couldn’t fathom was the fact that she wiggle her beautiful self into his head and stayed there. His mind kept replaying how bad the day went, remembering that she did as she was told but then have a tantrum because she didn’t like being told to. She was acting as if she was still a kid, a bratty one. It was making Rowan wants to take her on his knees and spank her ass. Hard.

He shook his head and tried to clear his head. Cassie was one of Orson’s children, his best friend, he shouldn’t even be thinking about spanking her. Hell, he shouldn’t even kiss her. He was too old for her, with his greying hair he should be ashamed of himself for wanting the beautiful young woman.

It was early morning when he finally was able to sleep and his alarm clock woke him up a couple of hours afterward.

Rowan was not in a good mood when he arrived in the office that morning. His PA, Kaitlyn decided that it was a good thing to tell him so. “Did Heather decide to grace you with her presence again?”

“You’re saying it as if my ex-wife was a divine spirit, nope, she’s a freaking succubus who inhales my emotions and money for her sick and sinful pleasure,” I grunted but took the coffee she puts on my desk.

Kaitlyn laughed. She never did like Heather, Rowan knew that she was a good judge of character.

“Is Ferguson still on for this morning’s meeting?”

“Yes, ten thirty, you’ll be meeting him with Legal, then you have a whole day meeting with the senior teams.”

Rowan nodded knowing that he’d be meeting the Ferguson again after all these years. He knew the man hadn’t been good at his job and Ferguson was one of Orson’s loyal friends, he was capable and qualified, just not as driven. At least Ferguson was the kind of man who was loyal. He just needed directions, he was never good at taking initiative. His good friend Orson had taken him under his wing and made use of his fine lawyering skill by feeding him a to-do list.

While Rowan was busy with his business day, Cassidy was heading to campus and then meeting up with Dee at their usual coffee shop near Babes.

“So, you’re quitting Babes, spill.”

Cassidy rolled her eyes and choose to ignore Dee’s greeting and walk straight to the barista, ordering her coffee instead. She waited for her dose of caffeine and then goes to sit at the little table by the windows in front of her stripper bestie.

“Rocco is such a gossip,”

“Well, at least someone was telling me about it.” She looked pissed as she drank her coffee while she waited for Cassidy to talk.

“Rowan the silver fox wanted me to quit,” she shrugged as if it was not such a big deal, but Dee knew better.

“But you love to dance! you practically live at Babes. I’m starting not to like this Rowan the silver fox guy.”

Cassidy smirked at her last words before continuing, “I… I don’t know Dee, lately, he’s been getting into my head. And between my school and Rowan telling me stuff, I just feel like I need to cut down on my dancing. Let’s just see how it goes?”

Dee still looked at her with curiosity, she took another sip from her cup but say nothing more.

“Okay, at least tell me if he’s that good. The man looked so yumm,”

Cassidy finally laughed at her and told her that it was none of her business.

“Oh. My. Fucking. God! You haven’t screwed him, haven’t you? Damn… he must be that good.”

Cassidy giggled, the way that they kept on referring to Rowan as a silver fox was indicating his maturity level. Cassidy always like older men, though she never dated them. But if she were to date, Rowan the silver fox would be it.

She couldn’t help herself. Though on the inside she was secretly thinking that he would still see her as the bratty teen that she was years ago. Her insecurity level was through the roof when they had their lunch date.

Cassidy also thought that she might just miss her chance with Rowan when she slammed the door in front of his face afterward cause she knows that was not how successful the date went. He might think that she was such a hassle that he’d just given up on her. Hell, she’d find someone else if she was in his shoes.

There was a bit of regret inside of her, but she knows that there was nothing that she could do but toughen herself up. It was probably for the best she thought. Maybe this way she could focus on her education.