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Snatching her hand out of the air as she moved to touch my face, I stared her down over my glasses. She glared at me, and I could feel the anger pulsing within her. “What do yousee?”She pushed the words through clenched teeth.
“Anger,” I said.
Yanking herself out of my grip, she stepped away from me. “That’s right.”
She stomped out of the door like a teenager throwing a tantrum, and despite the conflicting emotions shifting through me, I couldn’t help but smirk. The image of her lying across my lap while I spanked the disobedience out of her made my cock swell.
I needed to throw myself back into my business.
Turning on my heel, I stormed through the back door into the office and locked it behind me. The entire club was rigged with cameras. Of course, everyone knew that, but I didn’t trust any of the people in this building, not fully. Not the men who worked for me, not the staff downstairs, none of the humans on the dance floor. Not a single one of them.
So, in addition to the system you could see was one you could not.
Flicking open my laptop, I logged into the secure system. The people who had set it up were no longer in the city—I paid them a handsome sum, and them disappearing was part of the deal. No leaks.
Scanning through the security footage, I sat for hours waiting for something that would prove who was betraying me. The bottle of vodka I had opened was half empty when I found it.
I don’t know how they got into the office and how they knew where to look for the information on my businesses.
But they would answer my questions themselves.
Got you.
CARA
“You know what? This isn’t going to fly.”
These were the words I muttered to no one in particular, and I guess I was trying to convince myself more than I realized. It sounded more convincing in my head, and as soon as I spoke the words out loud—even if I was only mumbling them to myself as I served—it became apparent I was well out of my depth.
But here’s the thing—I no longer cared.
Because I came to Urban to make some cash and start a new life, the details of which I was still figuring out, but I knew it was away fromhere.Then I saw Emrick, and I mean, I reallysawhim, and saw the pain in his eyes and knew it reflected my own. Except where I covered up mine with denial, he covered his with rage, taking it out on a world he felt had wronged him. Not to mention the anger he released on anyone who ended up underneath him in his bedroom.
My clit throbbed at the memory, and I chastised myself. That’s not what this was about.
This was about a man who had reached out to me to stop him from doing something he’d regret, something maybe he didn’t have it in him to do, and then pushed me away harder than he had the night we were together. I still hadn’t figured out what his problem was that night, which was something else I needed to take up with him.
So, enough of this second-guessing.
Because whatever it was that sparked between us, the electricity that shocked us both when we got too close was worth investigating. Then hekissedme likethat.
Maddie wasn’t here tonight to talk me out of it, not that she had successfully managed to talk me out of this any step along the way, but I was too agitated to deal with her tonight. She kept telling me the same things over and over again, things I already knew about how dangerous Emrick was, things I no longer cared about because even Maddie didn’t know whatIwas capable of.
Grabbing a tray, I loaded it up and stomped up the stairs. Reaching the top, I was hindered access by one of Emrick’s men. I didn’t know his name, but he looked as though he was a rat turned into human form with his long thin face and eyes that darted around the narrow staircase as though enemies were going to creep through the cracks in the walls.
“Drinks for Emrick,” I stated.
He eyed me, then raised a brow. “I see glasses, but I see no drinks.”
Somehow I managed to keep myself from cringing. “Look, he asked to see me, the drinks are a cover, and I fucked up, okay?” The curse sounded odd in my mouth, but if I wanted to act the part, I needed to pull it off. It may be strange, but swearing beyondhellwas something I rarely did, if ever, and I’m not even sure why.
Scratch that, I knowexactlywhy I didn’t like to swear.
Keep those dirty words out of your mouth, or I’ll show you what that mouth can do.
Shuddering, I pushed the memory of the sick voice from my mind. The guard must have seen my expression harden, and his other brow arched to match the first. All I could do was hope he had seen Emrick and me together or was one of the men in the room the night I slinked out.
Or maybe he was new and stupid.
