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It was so faint I almost didn’t hear it. Had he not been so close I know I wouldn’t have.
I didn’t respond.
“So you hate the uniforms?”
I nodded. “Yes.”
“And if we keep them, what will you do? Quit?”
“I can’t. I need this job.”
“It seems we have a bit of a problem then. What do you suggest we do?”
“I don’t like the way they make me feel. I think we should get rid of them and go back to the old uniforms,” I said honestly.
He had asked for my opinion, and I was giving it to him.
I looked up at his face just in time to see a darkness move over his expression.
“I don’t like the way you make me feel. Should I get rid of you, as well?”
“What do you mean? I don’t do anything to you.”
He chuckled, but there was no humor in the sound. “You do more than you know.”
“Whatever,” I said, moving to go around him. “I don’t have to put up with this.”
He stopped me, his fingers digging slightly into my arm. Not enough to hurt me, but enough to make me stay.
“You being here is making me very uncomfortable.”
I had no idea what he was talking about.
I just knew being this close to him was making me uncomfortable, too. Not in a painful way, but in a way that confused my body.
I wanted to run away from him. He was demanding, dark, and menacing, yet the need to close the distance between us and feel his heat and fuel the fear in the pit of my stomach was there.
What was I feeling?
I didn’t understand it, but in a way, it felt like I wanted him.
His eyes grazed my expression, and his hold loosened on my arm.
“If I make you so uncomfortable, and if you’re so unhappy with my performance, then why don’t you fire me?”
“Believe me, I wish I could.”
“What’s stopping you? Fire me if that’s what you want. Either fire me or leave me the hell alone and let me do my job.”
“Kennedy’s very important to Empire Sevens, and unfortunately, you’re important to Kennedy. Otherwise, I would have fired your ass the first time I saw you.”
“So Kennedy is the only reason you haven’t let me go?”
“Yes.”
“I don’t understand. Why do you hate me so much? You don’t even know me.”
“And I don’t have any plans to get to know you. There is no point since, sooner or later, you will quit. I’ll do whatever it takes to get you to quit.”
