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.”

lips barely graze my cheek on their way to my ear. I have to force myself to stand my ground although my instincts have me reeling backward. His breath warms my neck, and I could

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

mouth to speak, but the words catch in my throat as I feel

What the

“Please. Just until we

back, he meets my eyes drectly, nodding at me while I stand there panting

and he

He did all that shit on purpose. He was just winding me

seen me hiding back there. That’s

out, poking him in the chest sharply. “But I get to keep

up and back toward where Bart stands on the other side of the

else. “It is necessary because I will be paying you

velvety voice sounds from

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

and she snarls, “I asked you a

She’s taller than me.

can

attention back to Domonic. “Can you walk your skank

“Skank?!” She fumes.

laughter adding another measure

of your business. Go and get in the car. We’re leaving.” Domonic says

Margo huh? Bleh. Boring,,,

spins around, making her way toward the door. She is sure to send

Cunt.

temple. “As I was saying, you won’t be needing this

deep in thought. “Well, then no deal. Because I like this job and you aren’t going

you know, the condo is four miles up the hill. So, if you insist on keeping it, you will be spending a good amount of

its true, I do. “It’s great for my ass,” I supply. “Sounds like

teeth. Eyes going heavy as they trace over my hips. “You aren’t going to

her

You see? Bart

Bart as he turns to leave. “I’ll see you both

key now? I’d hate to infringe on

me, chuckling as he

don’t even like this guy! He could be a serial killer for all

mind, he says, “Don’t worry, kiddo. Domonic’s an asshole, yeah, but he’s

“Says you.”

and head into the thick fog of the surrounding streets. There aren’t many cars left on the road and

far do you live from the

live a block

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