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.”
have to force myself to stand my ground although my
tremble within. I can feel his arms closing in on each side of my frame. As if he is inching them closed around
mouth to speak, but the words catch in my throat as I feel the soft brush of his teeth
God. What the fuck
Just until we can reinforce the security in your
pulling back, he meets my eyes drectly, nodding at me while I stand there
him, and he smirks,
on purpose. He
He must have seen me hiding back there. That’s why he stopped
in the chest sharply. “But I
the other side of the counter. “That’s not necessary, because
laugh – this asshole really is something else. “It is necessary because I will be paying you back,”
velvety voice sounds from Domonic’s
as she places an artfully manicured hand on his 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
she snarls,
She’s taller than me.
I can
to Domonic. “Can you walk your skank back to your table
“Skank?!” She fumes.
behind me, his laughter adding
is none of your business. Go and
Margo huh? Bleh. Boring,,,
toward the door. She is sure to send
Cunt.
temple. “As I was saying,
propped one finger under my chin as if I were deep in thought. “Well, then no deal. Because I like this job and you aren’t
condo is four miles up the hill. So, if you insist on keeping it, you will be spending a good amount of
true, I do. “It’s great for my ass,” I
teeth. Eyes going heavy as they trace over my hips. “You
can drive her home,”
see?
turns to leave. “I’ll see you both
now? I’d hate to
me, chuckling
guy! He could be a serial killer for all I
he says, “Don’t worry, kiddo. Domonic’s
“Says you.”
morning. We get into his truck and head into the thick fog of the surrounding streets. There aren’t many cars left on the road and the limited streetlighting only adds
far do you live
“I only live a block
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