Master Dan by Natalie Dae Read Free Book Online

“Can’t you see? There’s no one keeping an eye on things these days. People are just…doing whatever they want. It isn’t comfortable anymore. I no longer like playing here. I set off earlier thinking I would—you know, play—but…”
    I turned back to look at him, reading his face as best I could. He frowned, glancing about, tucking his lower lip between his teeth. He was studying the people, I assumed, then he raised his eyes to the four corners of the room.
    “I see,” he said again. “I’ve seen for a while now. There are no cameras here. No staff keeping watch. It’s the same with other places. No policing, for want of a better word. No rules—and if there are any, they’re not being followed, as far as I can tell. It seems one can just walk in off the street and join in. No contracts—at least I didn’t have to sign one on my first visit. Did you?”
    “No. I should have asked for one, I know, but… Putting myself at risk…”
    “Indeed.”
    He studied my face, seeming to come to some kind of conclusion about me.
    I wanted to ask him what he’d seen.
    “What do you want from a place like this?” he asked.
    I sighed. What I wanted wasn’t here or anywhere else—except maybe him. The type of club I wanted to be a part of possibly didn’t exist. Or if it did, I hadn’t heard about it.
    I closed my eyes for a second, then, “I wish—”
    “There was a safer place to go?”
     
     
     
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