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As she should be.
I couldn’t help but respect that even though this woman’s life could be in danger, and it was, she only showed bravery with the way she spoke to Torin and stared me down. It was something very few men in her position ever did. No matter though, I would be the only one in this room deciding if she walked away from this tonight. “What is your name?” I asked, watching her for any signs that she was lying to me. The first one came when she took too long to answer my simple question. My guess was that she was moving quickly through a rolodex of fake names in her mind.
“W-why should I tell you that?” she asked, crossing her arms over her chest defiantly.
Brave. Grown men didn’t stand up to me, so for this feisty little thing to do so, it intrigued me even more.
Stepping into her, I lowered my face down so close to hers, I could smell her fear radiating under her mask of valor, and if I wasn’t mistaking, her arousal as well. Placing my finger under her chin, I pulled her face up to mine, so she had nowhere else to look but into my eyes. As I stared into hers, I noticed just how beautiful they were, threatening to pull me in like a sink hole. But I had never been the kind of man who fell so easily for a woman. “Because I asked, and because you have no other choice right now. I’ll be the one to ask the questions and you’ll answer them. End of story.”
Pulling her chin from my grip, she took a step back, seeming to need the space to breathe. “M-my friends will come looking for me if I don’t return, so I would like to leave now.”
Moving in close once again, close enough to see her pulse beating in her neck, I asked, “do you want yourfriendsto live?” The fearful look in her eyes at my question proved her biggest weakness.
“Don’t you dare hurt them.” It was interesting to see this woman’s fierce loyalty to her friends. Few gave out that kind of loyalty to others anymore these days.
“Then answer my question, or I’ll have my men go out and find them.”
“There’s too many people out there for you to find them, so come up with another threat, devil.” Once the word was out of her mouth, she was scrambling to find a way to retrieve it. “I-I didn’t mean to call you that... I...”
Smiling internally at her reference to me being the devil, I couldn’t help but take pleasure in the way she saw me. “The devil, hmm? Well then as the devil don’t you think I could easily find your friends?” When she still didn’t answer, I stepped in even closer, forcing her back to the wall. “Tell me your name. This will be the final time I ask,” I demanded.
“Cassidy,” she quickly blurted.
“Last name?”
“Crawford.”
“Are you telling me the truth, Cassidy Crawford?”
Her only answer was a nod with her head, a sign that screamedlie.
“Boss,” Torin called out, walking back into the room, holding out the iPad to me.
Not taking my eyes off of her, I reached behind me and retrieved it from him. After he was gone, I looked down at the screen, spotting the picture of my little vixen here with heronlyfriend here tonight with her and one of my men entering the club. Sliding the screen over to video, I checked to make sure the feed came up before I turned it around to show her. “Looks like yourfriendis really enjoying the company of one of my men.”
Her eyes widened as she instinctively reached out for the iPad in my hand. “How did you get that? You better not lay one hand on her or I’ll...”
“You’ll what?” I asked, gripping her chin, cutting her words off. “You think you can just come intomyclub and start throwing threats around like you’ll leave here alive?”
Watching her reaction, she seemed to go from fear for her friends life to confusion. “Wait, this... this isyourclub? But I thought a... oh, I get it you’re... I mean I’m a little surprised and all but,” she mumbled the end of her sentence, looking me over, seeming to grow increasingly more confused.
“You think I’mwhatexactly?”
“Well, I figured that you were gay of course.”
Taking a step back, I’d been too stunned by her assessment of me to even think of something to say for a moment, then finally snapped out of it. “What the hell would make you think that I was gay?”
“You’re not? Oh god, I’m sorry, I-I thought... it’s just there are a lot of hot men that work here...I mean there’s nothing wrong if you are I...” Noticing the angry look on my face, she stopped talking.
Moving back a step, I opened the door and motioned for her to walk out. “Y-you’re letting me go?”
Leaning in closer once again, I informed her. “No. We’re going to visit yourfriend.” The second she began to argue with me, I grabbed a hold of her arm, dragged her out of the office and down the hall towards the bar where Kieran was sitting with her friend. Just before we approached them, I released her, turning her around to face me. “If you say anything to your friend about what you witnessed tonight, I will not only kill you, I will kill her as well and make you watch before you die. Do you understand?”
The look on her face was one of anger and fear mixed. “Yes,” the one word she practically gritted out was filled with bitterness.
“Good. Now be a good girl and walk nice with me.”
I gripped her firmly around her waist as we made our way over to the bar where they sat. I had to admit this woman was not only intriguing but feeling her pressed up against me felt like she somehow belonged there. Throwing that thought out of my mind, I kept us moving forward.
