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Vaughn’s words knock around inside my head as he checks things over for tonight’s auction, eventually realizing that choice two is the better option here.
In hindsight, I’d known it before I’d come to him, but an objective opinion never hurt anyone.
He ushers me back the way we came, having shut off the underlighting, and I stop when he comes to the biometric scanner to allow us to leaveRavish.
“Thank you for this, Burton.”
He nods as the door beeps loudly, swinging toward us to showcase the darkened hallways ofRisque, and as I step past him, he cranes his neck with a frown.
“Sorry, what was that, DeMarco? I’m afraid I couldn’t hear it over the sound of how awesome I am.”
He grins as I roll my eyes.
Prick!
CHAPTER8
ALEX
Shit.Fuck. Wanker. Bollocks.
I’ve run out of expletives by the time my feet have easily found their way back to Molly Malones.
When I push open the heavy oak door, my eyes unerringly land on the vision behind the bar.
Reyna is holding a clipboard while she checks the inventory behind the bar on the opposite wall.
I stop dead in my tracks as the light from outside floods the dimly lit interior. It travels across the marble floor, streaking along the bar to illuminate her and draw her attention toward me.
Her face is brighter than the sunlight I’ve just left behind, and I feel a warmth in my chest as I bask in her attention.
“Alex.”
My name is a whisper on an exhalation, and my stomach dips when my cock stands to attention.
Down, boy. Rey is off-fucking-limits. We’re her shelter.
Much to my relief, the thought immediately deflates my swelling dick, and I stride closer as her smile grows ever brighter.
“You came back.”
I’m helpless to stop my mouth from drawing up like a bow as I reach the bar and take a stool. “I told you I would, didn’t I?”
Reyna blinks slowly before tipping her head to one side as her face scrunches up playfully. “I’d be in for a world of disappointment if I believed everything I was told. A promise is easily made and twice as easily broken.”
“I’m a man of my word, Rey. You don’t ever need to doubt that I mean what I say, and I say what I mean.”
She smiles, dropping her clipboard onto the bar as Darcy pokes her head out from the back.
“Oh, it’s just you, pretty boy.” Her eyes dart from me to Reyna with a smile. “I’ll be back here, lovely, if anyrealpatrons wander in.”
Reyna grins as she nods, turning back to face me when Darcy closes the door again. “Can I get you anything?”
“I’m here for you, Rey.”
Her eyes blow wide at that statement, and I rush to follow it up. “I need your help, to be precise. I have a…” I trail off, unsure of how to describe it, and suddenly wondering what the actual fuck got into me at the office to make this sound like a reasonable idea.
“You have a…?” Rey prompts, nodding her head encouragingly.
