His Streets, Not Mine PREVIEW
The hallway outside the hotel room was quiet except for the soft, steady knock.
Priest lay across the bed, one arm over his eyes, the empty glass from room service sitting on the nightstand. It had been one of those nights — too much whiskey, too many thoughts.
Knock. Knock.
He ignored it at first.
Knock… knock.
The knocking wasn’t aggressive. Just patient.
Priest groaned and swung his legs over the side of the bed, rubbing his face before walking to the door.
“Who is it?” he muttered.
No answer.
Just one more light knock.
He cracked the door open.
And there she stood.
Dahlia.
The hallway light framed her figure, a long trench coat wrapped around her body. The moment his eyes dropped, he saw the hint of black lace underneath — unmistakably Savage Fenty lingerie peeking through the slightly open coat.
Priest stared at her for a second, confused more than anything.
“Dahlia?” he said, his voice rough. “What are you doing here?”
She leaned casually against the doorframe like she had every right to be there.
“I knocked three times,” she said softly. “Thought you weren’t gonna answer.”
Priest ran a hand down his face, the alcohol still heavy in his system.
“How’d you even know where I was?”
Dahlia tilted her head, a slow smile forming.
“You run a whole club,” she said. “You think people don’t know where you disappear to?”
Her eyes moved past him into the dim hotel room.
“Can I come in?”
Priest hesitated.
Not because of the lingerie.
But because something about this didn’t feel spontaneous.
Dahlia wasn’t drunk.
Her hair was perfect.
Makeup untouched.
Like she had planned this.
“Why are you here, Dahlia?” he asked, leaning against the door.
She stepped closer.
Close enough that he could smell her perfume.
“Because,” she said quietly, “you’ve been avoiding me all night.”
Her fingers lightly touched the edge of the door.
“And because there’s something you should probably know… before you go back home to Peaches.”
Priest’s expression hardened instantly.
“What are you talking about?”
Dahlia slowly closed the trench coat around herself again.
And for the first time since she arrived—
Her smile disappeared.
“That man asking about you?” she said.
“He wasn’t asking about the club.”
The hallway suddenly felt colder.
“He was asking about your family.”












































