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“Okay, then,” I sigh. “I swear myself to silence.”
I sign the NDA. Of course I do. This is all for Dad. Just a few months of this and then everything will be over forever. No more gangsters. No more debt. No more threats.
And especially no more Damon Penmayne.
It’s the only way to free Dad. It’s the only way to end all this. It’s the only way.
Damon finally places the contract in front of me. It has all the terms we agreed to.
I sign it.
I exhale.
Done.
That’s it. No going back now. I’m Damon Penmayne’s mistress. He owns my ass for the next few months.
Damon offers me a glass of clear alcohol.
“What’s this?” I ask him, still reeling from what the hell I’ve just committed.
“Tequila,” the man says. “As congratulations. It’s my own tequila, made by my own company. It’s the strongest alcohol we produce. I think you might need it.”
“Well, I do need something strong right now,” I remark. “My heart is racing at a hundred miles an hour.”
“I know the feeling,” Damon says softly.
“I don’t think a man like you would.”
“I am human, Ava, just like you,” he replies. “I can feel things.”
“I doubt it.”
“Try me.”
He chinks my glass with his own before he downs it. He chugs it back like water. I try to follow his example, but the stuff is way too much for me. I end up coughing. It’s like fire rushing down my throat.
Yeah,strongis an understatement when it comes to that tequila.
There’s silence after I splutter through the alcohol, a tension in the air between us. I look at the gangster standing before me, and I can’t help but admire how gorgeous the dangerous man is. His strong jawline. His dark eyes. His smooth complexion. It goes against every fiber of my being, but I like it. I really shouldn’t be thinking of Damon Penmayne like this, but it’s irresistible to let my mind wander into all the possibilities...
“So... what happens now?” I quietly ask him.
“Now we must consummate our agreement,” Damon says.
And I blink.
“What the hell did you just say?”
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AVA
“I don’t wantto have sex with you.”
I stare at Damon. He stares back equally as fierce. If he’s mad about my blunt comeback, he sure isn’t letting it show.
Is the man moved by anything?
