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their
brother?” she paced away, still holding Lance’s coat tight around
her.
    “ Face it, you guys. There
could be hundreds, thousands of people looking at our naked
pictures on the internet right now. What’s so wrong with me dancing
and getting paid for it so I can give the money to homeless
kids?”
    Drake stepped forward, draped the
blanket his driver had carried in and handed to him over May and
gave Lance his jacket back. He kissed May on the forehead. “There’s
nothing wrong with it, little sister.” He held up his hand at the
choking noise Lance made and continued. “Normally, there is nothing
wrong with it. But right now, there are a lot of things that could
go wrong.”
    He wrapped his arm around her and led
her from the stage. Drake looked at the club manager who stood
wringing his hands and stamping out little fires that kept
springing up all around them.
    “ What the—” The manager
frowned and stamped out another fire.
    “ I’m sure you will allow the
young lady out of her contract now that you know her life is in
jeopardy. Will you not?”
    The manager sneered. “I
offered her good money and she signed a legal and binding contract.
If she doesn’t dance, she owes me money.”
    “ How much?”
    One of the men with whom Tony had been
talking, stepped forward and raised a brow. “How much do you want
to let her out of this contract?”
    The manager sputtered. “I—I don’t know.
I never thought about it. Nobody wants out of their contracts. They
make damned good money here.”
    The man stepped closer, an obvious air
of menace about him. His brown gaze bored into the man. Death was
in those eyes as she watched him stare the man down. Tansy could
almost see the Earth opening up and swallowing the club owner as
this man, no, this dragon stared him down. “Say, for the sake of
argument,” he paused and turned toward May, “that this woman wants
out. How much?”
    The owner licked his lips, then looked
at them all before his gaze settled on Oscar in his uniform. Tansy
could almost see his brain working out how much money these men
had.
    “ I don’t know.” His eyes
narrowed as the rusty cogs in his brain obviously began to spin.
“I’ll have to think about it. I’ll lose business because of this.
I’ll have to figure out how much.”
    The unknown dragon grinned and pulled
out a checkbook. “To hell with that. I’ll give you
five-hundred-thousand dollars for this place right now.”
    “ Sold! But I’m not taking no
damned check.” The man sneered. “Do you think I just fell off the
turnip truck? You’ll get me the money before I sign
anything.”
    “ I’ll have your money before
you can get to your damned office to call your lawyer to draw up
the paperwork. Now go!”
    The manager scurried away and the
unknown dragon turned to Drake. “Five-hundred grand. Ha! Chump
change.” He shook his head. “I’ll get the money, sign the contract
and you can take your sister-in-law home.” He checked his watch. “I
have a business meeting in less than an hour. Can I talk with you
tomorrow? We’ll work out the details then.”
    Drake nodded. “Thanks, Damek. I owe you
one.”
    Damek smiled. “I leave for a business
trip to Canada in the morning. I’ll stop by next week to collect.
I’ll be there at ten on Tuesday. Be ready.”
    Tansy frowned at that. What in the
world was he talking about? She shook her head. Whatever it was, it
didn’t matter. They had found May and she was safe. Now they just
needed to get her dressed and back to the house.
     
    It took May almost an hour to get out
of her costume, pack it up and get out to the car. The limo
wouldn’t have been quite as packed on the way home as it had been
on the way out. Rose and Viktor left in his car and the car seemed
much less crowded without the large dragon in the back seat. Still,
like Viktor, Tony decided to call his own driver to take them back
to Drake’s house so they could have some privacy.
    “ Who was the man