5 Nights (Sinful Delights Romance - Boxed Set) by Michelle Hughes

dancers as if they’d just appeared from nowhere.
    I’d already waitressed here though, so I didn’t think I really fit that image.  Waiting for the other women to dance, my nervousness continued to increase.  Sin never made it to the dressing room and I was a little disappointed. 
    Finally it was my big debut. I was so uneasy my legs were shaking.  Kera gave me some words of encouragement that I didn’t hear, and then led me to the door that opened up on the stage.  Taking a deep breath, I stepped through that door as my theme music began.
    The lights were dim, and smoke wafted over the black lacquered stage.  Making my way to the pole in the center, I raised my body up the cool steel with grace.  Lowering my upper body back, the spotlight landed on my form.
    The soft strains of the blues played hauntingly as I lifted my arms to grab the chrome.  Allowing my body to hug it like a lover, I slowly lowered to my feet.  I couldn’t see anyone.  The spotlight was too bright.  With practiced ease I moved through the motions.  Pretending I was holding an invisible lover in my arms, I gave my desire over to the phantom.
    The whistles from the audience barely registered in my mind as I continued to grind my hips with the savageness of the rhythm as the tempo of the song escalated.  It seemed natural to reach behind me and undo the strings of my bikini top.  Tossing it carelessly away, I never missed a beat.
    I was alone in my mind, performing a private dance for the one I craved. Pinching my nipples, I then allowed my hands to lift my breasts, offering them to invisible lips.  It was Sin, he filled my thoughts. I wanted his hands there taking the place of my own.
    Moving back to the steel hardness of the pole, I spread my thighs.  Wrapping one leg around it, I gyrated against it.  My lips parted and I cried out softly, enflamed at the desire that raged through my sex.   This was how Sin and I practiced.  I wanted him between my thighs, taking me further than the simply dance could ever lead.
    The lights dimmed again, and the whistles and applause brought me into reality again.  I made it through the entire routine without even trying.  I lowered to a crawl and picked up the obscene amount of money that was scattered over the stage.  That’s when my eyes finally landed on Sin.
    The look he gave me was so full of rage it make my breath catch.  I didn’t know why he was so angry, but there was no doubt it was directed my way.  Had I messed up the routine without knowing it?  Gathering the rest of the bills, I stood and gracefully made my way back to the dressing room.
    “Holy fucking shit that was incredible!” Kera wrapped me in a bear hug. 
    The earlier tension I felt faded a little.  “Did you really think so?”  I truly couldn’t remember any of it. 
    “Are you kidding me?  Every woman here is green with envy over how you worked that stage!” 
    I placed all the money on the dresser and gasped. “I can’t believe how much money these men throw at us.” Grinning, I knew that I wouldn’t be worrying about my cash flow for a few weeks.
    “They loved you babe.”  Kera was smiling from ear to ear and her happiness was contagious.  I was just glad to know I didn’t have to worry about bills for a while.
    “To my office, now!” Sin stormed into the dressing room, the look of fury on his face even darker than when I’d caught a glance of it earlier.
    Kera looked at him like he’d lost his mind, but I followed along timidly.  What was he so angry about I wondered?  Apparently the dance routine had went off without a hitch. I tried to keep up with his angry strides as we walked to his office.
    He slammed the door behind us when I entered and I heard the sound of it locking.  “Why are you so mad?”
    Whatever I’d done, I wasn’t clued in on.
    “You will not be on that fucking stage again dancing.  Do you understand me?”
    He hadn’t even given me time to get dressed again,