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He arches an amused brow. “And I give a fuck…why?”
“It just doesn’t. I’m not doing a year.”
He smirks coldly at me. “Well, there’s room for a counter-offer, I suppose.”
“A week.”
He laughs. “Try again.”
“A month?”
He turns away and walks back toward the single floor lamp casting the only light in the whole loft.
“Six months?”
He chuckles darkly. “Not happening.”
“I thought we were negotiating!” I blurt.
“I said there was room to, not that I’d agree to anything. It’s still a year. And I’d highly recommend brushing up on your negotiating skills. That came off more like begging.”
I swallow tersely, chewing madly on my lip as my pulse begins to thud.
“Nobody else.”
At the light by now, he turns and lifts a brow. “Meaning?”
“The other night, at your office…”
“That was my brother.”
“Yes, I finally figured that out, but just the same, I don’t have any interest in catching something from one of your whores.” My jaw tightens. “Like the ones that may or may not be dropping by the office.”
Deimos looks mildly amused, rolling this eyes. “Not that I owe you an explanation—”
“You’re right, you don’t,” I say coldly.
His brow arches. “I’m aware of that. Just the same, that’s not what you think it is. There’s no history with Raquel and I.”
“Great,” I say flatly, disturbed how secretly pleased I feel to hear that, after seeing the predatory way that woman looked at him in the office. “But still, no one else. No otherplaythings.”
“Fine.”
It almost comes outtooquickly. My brow furrows. “I mean that.”
“And I just agreed. Take the win, Dahlia.”
I shiver.
“One year,” he growls. “And no other people. I hope you’re aware that goes for you as well. If you so much as touch another man, I’ll find him, cut his cock off, and choke him with it. Clear?”
I gulp. “Graphically, yes.”
He tips his head, his eyes piercing into me across the dimly lit room. Fresh adrenaline begins to pump through my bloodstream as he fingers the switch on the floor lamp.
“Now, are we done with the fucking negotiations?”
I nod, my throat closing up as I wet my lips.
