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“You can’t keep her as your slave. Consent is always the rule. You know that.”
“That’s with sex.”
“That’s with everything.”
“Don’t worry. I have no intention of forcing her to do anything.” He grinned. “Alison will consent. She’ll stay and work.”
“I don’t know, Harker. I think you may have pushed her too far.”
“Trust me. I know Alison and I know what I’m doing.” He was an expert at recognizing what a person wanted and what they’d do to get it. It’d been the only way he’d survived in foster care. Alison may not be a true sub, but she liked her job and she liked to please. She’d give in to his demands like always.
CHAPTER 5: Alison
Alison paced in her office. She wasn’t working tonight. She’d done everything Harker had asked her to do—late nights, weekends, holidays—but that stopped now. She hadn’t had a date in over a year, and it’d been longer since she’d had sex. Harker could get as mad as he wanted. She was meeting Randy for dinner tonight.
She glanced at her watch. It was six o’clock. She’d been here since six that morning. She was done. She closed her laptop and slid it into the bag.
“I’d reconsider if I were you.”
She jumped at Harker’s deep, raspy voice. The man sounded like he’d swallowed sandpaper. She hated that his voice made her think of cool sheets and hot naked bodies. She pushed the image aside and stood. She’d step in front of a bus before she’d let him know how his voice affected her. “Well, you’re not me.” She slipped her laptop bag over her shoulder. “And I need time off. For the last ten months I’ve worked every holiday, weekend and late every night. I’m here almost as much as you are.” That was saying a lot because his office was inside his home.
“You’re really willing to give up this job, all this money for a date?” He leaned against the door frame. “This guy must be something pretty special.”
“He is.” She jutted out her chin. At least she hoped he was. She was tired of having no one in her life. During the day she was too busy to notice but at night, alone in her bed with her vibrator, it was pathetically obvious.
“How do you know? Didn’t you say this was a first date?”
“Yes, but we’ve been talking for weeks now.”
“When did you find the time? From what you claim, I’ve been working you every waking moment.”
“I haven’t been doing that on your time if that’s what you’re worried about. I can’t believe you’d even think that.” It hurt that he’d accuse her of cheating him. She worked her ass off for this man. “I thought you knew me better than that. I thought we were friends.”
“Friends?” He smiled his lopsided smile that made him look like a mischievous boy. “Hardly. We’ve never been friends.”
“Oh.” That hurt more than she’d ever admit. This had happened to her all her life. People pretended to like her, so she’d help them with a project or their grades. She’d thought it’d end when she’d finished school, but work had been about the same. She was always the one people came to for help but never the one they invited to go out for lunch or drinks. She’d thought it was different here with Harker. The second day working here she’d forgotten her lunch and had realized that Harker hadn’t eaten either. She’d ordered a pizza and had taken it to his office. They’d eaten lunch together almost every day after that and more dinners than she could count. But apparently, he was no different than everyone else. “Silly me. I have no idea why I thought that.”
“Me either.”
Oh, he was worse than the others. He wasn’t even ashamed of using her. “Oh, we’re being honest?”
“Of course.”
“Then let me tell you why I thought you were my friend. We eat lunch and dinner together almost every day.”
“We do.”
“You got me tickets to the hottest night club around for New Year’s Eve.”
“A bonus for working Christmas Eve.”
“You insisted on going with me.”
“I had business to attend.” He stepped into the office. “Plus, I assumed you’d need someone to look out for you and I was right.”
“I’m a big girl. I can take care of myself.”
“You could barely walk by the end of the night.”
