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ready.”
    “That’s not what I meant you have five minutes for.” He closed in and kissed me while his magic fingers walked me right over twice.
    I was clinging to him when he lifted up, “Okay babe. Get dressed.”
    I touched his soft lower lip. “You are a very strange man.”
    “I’ve been called worse.” He rolled onto his back. “Run woman, before I forget you’re not ready to be knocked up.”
    I escaped for a shower and clean clothes. I caught myself in the mirror and had to take a double take. To anyone else I probably looked the same. To me, I look different. Like a woman who knew a secret, and that secret is the way Joe plays my body like his own personal guitar. He strums and tweaks until I make sounds I’ve never heard, and felt things I never knew existed.
    He’s making eggs again. “I guess I should start moving stuff to the new house huh?”
    “I’ll have prospects to do it. I want you at the club with me today, and tomorrow is the run.” He handed me a plate.
    “Thanks. What do I do all day at the club? Besides try to bring some order to the girls.” I added remembering the girls.
    “You’ll figure it out. Somehow all the old ladies seem to have shit to do, hell if I know what.”
    I laughed, “I’m sure Salina will fill me in.”
    Salina helped me round up the girls in the clubhouse at noon. She sat back and let me take the reigns because she knew I might need the backup if they questioned my authority, but didn’t want to be involved. Not that I have any authority. I’m still not sure if Joe is a council member or if Slider lets him sit in on meetings because he’s his brother.
    “Okay ladies.” I handed out the list of requirements Salina and I had drawn up and copied in her office a little while ago. “If you want to work here I need these things done as soon as possible. Make sure you send me a good picture when you text the number I put on the paper. I will be calling the doctor’s office you get the clean bill of health from, so don’t try anything sneaky.
    “The rates are listed, and non negotiable without my say-so first. You don’t show up here and work unless I tell you, or you ask me first. If you end up with a regular I need to know that too. I’ll be taking five percent for now to put in a fund for emergencies. You’ll get to vote on what and when that money is used, but I’ll be holding onto it. Any questions so far?” I stopped and leaned on the bar.
    One pretty girl with red hair raised her hand, “Does this mean you’re our Madam?”
    I laughed, “I suppose it does. Listen, there’s another way you can make money if you’re interested. Have any of you ever done any film work?”
    Some shrugs, mostly no’s.
    “Okay, I’m not into kinky shit, but I think we can put together something tasteful. Get me your contact information, the clean bills of health, and we’ll go from there. Deal?”
    Surprisingly everyone agreed. A couple girls claimed to already have recent doctor’s notes and promised to bring them in tomorrow.
    We talked on a less formal level for a while and I almost felt the excitement in the room grow as the idea of building something together formed. It was funny how a little organization and hope of a better future lifted the weight in the room.
    Salina got a call and left with a wave. A lot of the other girls left to go get their affairs in order so they could start making money as soon as possible.
    I’m sitting at a table with Stacy and Ginger discussing the finer points of building a website, and how exactly we want it portrayed. They’re smart girls, with some pretty creative and tasteful ideas. I can see turning this over to them in a year or so if it takes off.
    I finally sat back after they left and looked around. “This place is a shit hole.”
    Salina walked back in at that moment, “No shit. I’ve been wanting to fix it up for years, but didn’t want to do it alone. Once in a while I have prospects clean it up, but