Chapter Five
DRAVEN
I scramble toward the other side of the hall so that it will look as if I am coming back from the restroom. Walking back toward the bar I am met with Bart’s sad, heavy eyes.
In an attempt to pretend I have no idea what is going on, I smile as brightly as my disappointed heart will allow. “What’s wrong boss?”
“Um, Draven – I have to-” he cuts off as someone approaches from behind me.
Gee lemme guess who it is. Eyeroll.
I could be deaf and blind, and I would still know who stood behind me. His heat is pressing against my back again and the hairs on my neck are standing at attention.
If I lean back, just a bit… my ass will push right against his…
No Draven no!
“Bartlett has to renovate the upstairs apartment – so you’ll have to stay somewhere else until it’s complete,” Domonic’s low voice interrupts.
What’s this now?
“Somewhere else?” My questioning eyes meet Bart’s and he shrugs. “Where else?”
Knowing what I do – which is that Domonic is lying – sparks an anger in me and I spin on him with a glare.
He is smirking, that sweet dimple winking enough to make my panties damp. “I can set you up in a place, a small condo at the top of the hill.”
“No thanks. I can’t afford it,” I say evenly, pushing my back against the counter to create distance between us. He is much too close. The mouthwatering smell of him is making me dizzy.
“You can afford it.” His jaw tightens and he glares down at me. “You won’t have to pay rent, because I own it.”
My eyes narrow and I tilt my head at him reproachfully.
I can’t let him know that I was listening to their conversation.
“I don’t want anything from you,” I growl.
He hisses, a muscle in his jaw ticking. Placing his hands on the bar on both sides of me, he cages me in yet again. Pushing in closer, so that we are a mere ifew inches away from each other, he replies, “Then you’ll stay with me. At my house.”
I hear Bart drop a glass behind the bar and curse.
I scoff, “With you? At your house?” Well if that didn’t spark a fit of giggles.”I’d rather sleep on the bar or at the train station,” I retort. “No thanks.”
ground although my instincts have me
with his closeness. The delicious pine scent of his aftershave filtering through my senses and causing me to tremble within. I can feel his arms closing in on each side of my frame. As if he is inching them closed around me, one tiny milimeter
open my mouth to speak, but the words catch in my throat as I feel the soft
God. What the fuck
Just until we can reinforce
back, he meets my eyes drectly, nodding at me while I stand there panting for
he smirks, crossing his arms
all that shit on purpose. He was just
knows! He must have seen me hiding back there. That’s why he
poking him in the chest sharply. “But I
the other side of
is necessary because I will be paying you
thick velvety voice sounds from Domonic’s side and I
arm. Now that I am face to face with her, she doesn’t look nearly as cute as I first thought. Her face is coated in an inch of make-up and her eyes are too close together, strangling the bridge of her pointy little nose. She does have nice tits though. The bitch. But
blue eyes find mine and she snarls,
She’s taller than me.
I can take
to Domonic. “Can you walk
“Skank?!” She fumes.
behind me, his laughter adding
Go and
Margo huh? Bleh. Boring,,,
sure to send me one more bitch face before her exit though and for
Cunt.
his temple. “As I was saying, you
“Well, then no deal. Because I like this
darkly. “Fine. You can keep the job, but just so you know, the condo is four miles up the hill. So, if you insist on keeping it, you will be
say, and its true, I do. “It’s great for my ass,” I supply. “Sounds
my hips. “You
can drive her home,” Bart
“There. You see?
nods, eyeing Bart as he turns to leave. “I’ll see
give me the key now? I’d
ignores me, chuckling as
crazy. I don’t even like this guy! He could be a serial
my mind, he says, “Don’t worry, kiddo. Domonic’s an asshole, yeah, but
“Says you.”
left on the road and the limited streetlighting only adds to the eerie atmosphere. The moon is only a quarter in and partially cloaked, so my view of the landscape
far do you
smiles teaasingly, “I only live a
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