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“No. No one. I haven’t had the time.”

I smile at that. It’s such a lame excuse. People can always make time to spend with each other. It’s based on whether you want to or not.

She shuffles and I see a bruise under her chin. I’m not sure how I didn’t notice before. It’s right there under her chin and it wasn’t there the other day. It looks like finger marks.

She flinches again when I take hold of her face but she doesn’t look away.

“Who did this?” I ask. I don’t know the specs but that mark came from someone squeezing her face.

I know I’m right when I shift her jaw, tilting it up and I see more finger marks right under her chin.

I know I’m absolutely right when a tear runs down her cheek and she tries to look away. I can be a sick fuck but I don’t do violence to women. Never.

“It’s nothing. It’s okay. I’m okay.”

She brings her hand up to wipe away the tears and blinks the rest away.

I get the impression the marks on her face are part and parcel of what brought her back to me. I haven’t even factored in yet how desperate she must be to come to me at this hour of the night, asking for a chance for a job.

I’m not the kind of guy to prod and poke around when someone doesn’t want to talk. I have my ways of finding info. I’ll have her followed tomorrow. Someone who can dig around a little. It would be so much better if she tells me though.

Just for a minute I want her to forget. I’m looking at her and it doesn’t take long for that pull of chemistry to rush back in on me. We had a minute, maybe two. Just long enough for her to talk to me.

Now I want her to forget.

“You need the money,” I state. It’s the obvious but I state it. Cut the shit, cut the beating around the bush.

“Yes. I need the money. I need an advance too of ten grand.”

A wayward tear runs down her cheek. I’m not sure if she realizes. She’s still just looking at me.

Jesus… ten grand. This doll must be in some kind of shit. I will most definitely have her checked out. That’s not exactly spare change.

“Is the job still available?” she asks weakly.

“Yes, it is.”

“Can I have it? I swear I won’t let you down. I work hard. I’ll do anything to show I can.”

“Anything?” I take off her glasses and set them on the shelf next to us.

She nods when I look back to her. “Anything.” She blinks then resumes her focus but she reaches up to her top to undo the first button and then the next.

She seems so childlike in the Hogwarts top. Innocent and willing to offer me her body for the job. She goes to undo the other buttons but I stop her.

“No, it doesn’t work like that. I won’t fuck you in exchange for a job. If I want a slut I can go downstairs, I can hit up the back streets. Or I can do nothing, I’m Nickoli Giordano. I don’t have to try...”

She looks thrown, trapped. “What do you want?”

I get close again. “You.”

“Me…”

I like the way she says that.

“Yes, Angel Doll. I want you. I want to own you.” I wanted her to want me too, and I already had that. It was time to test it out.

Her lips part again and my gaze drops there.

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