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I was spouting bullshit, and she knew it.
Chapter
Twenty
Clarice
The way he made uphis shitty answer made me want to lash out. This man really thought I was either that dumb or blind to who I knew him to really be. So, I thought maybe tonight I should let him know what my suspicions were, and then maybe we could get past the whole secrecy thing that was going on here. “I think there’s something I should tell you, Creed... I know.”
The look on his face morphed from one of shock to seriously pissed off in the span of a millisecond. “What do you meanyou know?”
“I mean I’m not some stupid woman, Creed. Do you not remember how you and I met in the first place? I know you’re more than some guy who just owns a couple of places with rivals out to get him for being successful. I may not know exactlywhoyou are, but I have a pretty good idea.”
“And that idea would be?” My argument of not being a spy was looking more and more like I was with the words coming out of my mouth. The way he stared at me right now was as if he didn’t know whether to fuck me again or kill me, so I needed to tread carefully, and make him see what I was seeing. But before I could utter another word, there was a knock at the door. Wordlessly, he got up and went to the door, letting in the delivery man with our food before shutting it behind him when he left. Coming back over, he set the bags of food down onto the table and then took his seat across from me once again. “You were saying?”
The way his words came out were almost threatening. “Ok, I can see you’re starting to get pissed at me, so I’m just going to rip off the band-aid and tell you what I’ve observed over the past few weeks.” He still said nothing. Only stared at me. “Since I’ve met you, you’ve had a man in your office you were beating up and hinted at the fact that he was no longer among the living. Then you blackmailed me with my best friends life to keep me quiet about it. Showed up at my work with your two monsters, I was unlucky enough to meet the night before, threatening me once again if I didn’t go to some party with you. Then all the secret meetings that you and Kieran have, on top of all the code talking phone calls you have aboutpackagesbeing delivered. Your invitations to important parties, and secret meetings with the Mayor. Then there was the last one where you told me that you were flying off to look at property in Florida, yet Kieran for some reason refused to tell Scar anything about the trip? Something like that shouldn’t have been such a huge secret that he needed to keep it from her. And now another mysterious phone call from someone, I’m guessing Kieran, or one of your two monsters, about meeting them at the shop or at home. The whole thing screams you are a hell of a lot more than what you present yourself as. If I had to guess, I would say you were either mafia, or an arms dealer. Definitely something of the criminal nature.” I was babbling incoherently at this point.
So much for treading lightly.
He only watched me as though he was waiting for me to say more, but there was no mistaking the fact that he wasn’t happy with me right now. Getting up, he strode over to the bar cart in the corner of the living room, poured himself a drink, not saying a word as he gulped the brown liquid down in one go. Setting the glass down, he stared out the window for a moment with his hands in his pockets, seemingly thinking before turning to face me. “I think we should call it a night and get you home. I need to run into the club tonight.”
It was like a switch flipped and he’d just wiped the whole conversation out of existence as well as anything about us. The eyes I was looking into now were as cold as the night I’d met him.
Mydevil was gone and the old one had returned in his place.
“That’s it? We’re not going to discuss this any further? You’re just going to throw me out now?”
Making his way closer to me, I was instinctively on high alert, knowing I was dealing with a different man than I was only moments ago in the bathtub when he was tenderly massaging my sore limbs after what we had done tonight.
A man I gave my whole self to.
“I didn’t say that I was throwing you out. I simply stated that I was taking you home because I am needed at the club.”
“And the dinner you had brought here for us?”
“I’ve lost my appetite. But I can have it sent home with you if you’d like.”
