One step forward and I took one backward until I was against the wall.
He placed his hands either side of me and looked me over with that raw seduction. Evil seduction that reeked of greed and everything I never wanted.
“It doesn’t matter, Jia. It doesn’t matter one ounce of a fuck because I have you, doesn’t matter how I got you. I have you back and guess what?” He leaned in close to my ear and sickened me further when he blew out his hot breath over my neck and cupped my left breast. I grabbed his hand to stop him but he stopped me and held me still. “Jia, I simply can’t wait to fuck you again. Mark my word you’ll enjoy it. Just like you used to.”
He squeezed my breast and I couldn’t break free.
“Let go of me!”
“You would do well to start practicing enjoying me from now. Or else that asshole Xander will get the full report to the boss from me. I’ll let your father know how much his newest recruit is interfering with our upcomingunion. I may even get to enjoy the pleasure of killing him myself.”
That threat was enough to make me stop.
Xander again. There I was thinking about him, as if…
No matter what, I didn’t want him dead. I was the fool again.
“You are mine Jia, whether you want to be or not.” Armand hissed into my ear and I felt like dying.
He backed away, releasing me but with a sneer.
A sneer that promised me the doom I feared.
It definitely made me wish for death.
Chapter 5
Xander
The park Wesfound was approximately two miles from The Grand Marchesi.
It was small. More of a kids playground with a merry-go-round in the center. Opposite it was a chapel of love where people got hitched on a nightly basis.
The park was the area of our concern since the tunnels led right into the casino’s secret underground chamber.
Wes and I spent the last few nights doing the groundwork where we analyzed the surroundings and checked out the place.
Tonight was when we planned to go down into the tunnels and set up to break into the chamber.
That was just the first part of the said plan.
We’d only know what to do next once we got inside since there was no surveillance on the inside to hack into. Even in the normal part of Giovanni’s quarters in the casino he’d called the Castle there was no surveillance past a certain point. That was where he kept all his secrets and where I’d initially thought the blueprints were being held.
Tonight when we got down in the chamber it would be old school breaking and entering, then looking around. We’d also be putting our own surveillance down there because there was no way I’d leave it to instinct to venture into the unknown looking for the blueprints without some sort of back up.
Even if that was all we did tonight.
Getting to know Giovanni as I had over the last few weeks I knew right off the bat that it would be wishful thinking to hope we’d simply get into the chamber and find the prints just like that.
That of course was assuming we were right about them being there, which I truly hoped we were.
Providing we were, and we were able to at least locate the area or enclosure he was keeping them, then the next part of the plan would be the grab and go mission. An in and out onetime thing, balls to the wall mission that had to succeed.
Until I met Wes later, I was resuming my duties as a knight. I’d just finished my shift with Vinny in the Castle courtyard and was walking the casino floor to make sure all was in order.
The busyness of the place never ceased to amaze me, it was fucking busy all the damn time.
At least the continuous round of people flowing through stopped me from looking for Jia.
