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doing, and for that, I will never forgive you. But damn if I don’t still want to fuck you out of my system so that I will never have to think about you again. And that’s worth the amount I’m willing to pay you for exactly that: 250 thousand for two months of your time. I want you at my beck and call. I want you to come running when I call. If I ask you to jump, you’ll say how high. And if I want my dick sucked again, you drop to your knees with a goddamn smile on your face.”
“You son of a bitch….”
He gave me that infuriating smirk along with a nonchalant shrug. “Considering you’re currently unemployed, you should have no problem with that.”
I was desperate, but was I that desperate? I wanted to tell him to go to hell, but I remembered Adam and couldn’t bring myself to turn away from that kind of money.
I took a deep breath and briefly closed my eyes shut. “Okay, I’ll do it. But on one condition.”
“Mighty audacious of you considering you’re in no position to make demands.”
“You want something from me, don’t you? I could walk out this door, and you won’t get what you want. I’ve apparently been living in your head rent-free, and the only way you’re going to evict me is to, as you said, fuck me out of your system. That’s not going to happen unless you at least concede to my one condition.”
His half grin faltered, and he flared his nostrils showing his annoyance. “Okay, I’ll bite. What do you want?”
“I need 50 thousand of that right away.”
“For what?”
“It’s none of your business. I just need it in the next 48 hours.”
“And what if I told you, I won’t give it to you if you don’t tell me what it’s for.”
“Then I’ll walk away, and neither of us will get what we want.” I held my breath waiting for a response and hoping that he didn’t call my bluff.
“Fine. Leave me your bank information, and you should have a deposit in your account tomorrow.”
I barely managed to stop myself from letting out a sigh of relief.
But Nick apparently wasn’t finished. “One more thing. Once the money in in your account, our deal starts, and if you back out if it, I’m going to make you wish you were never born.”
His words were laced with so much venom I believed him. I had made a deal with the devil, and I had a feeling that there was no way I would walk away from this arrangement without getting scorched.
Chapter Five
Nick
I should have left well enough alone. I could have let things play out and allowed my attorney to handle any legal affairs between us. But she was a fire in my blood that simply could not be put out. She was my obsession, and there was only one way I could get over her. Use her. Use her until I could move on with my life and never think about her again.
Fuck.
The way her mouth felt on my dick made me want her even more. I needed it again, craved it. Was something wrong with me to desire a woman to the point of madness? One I hated. One who had caused so much heartache and destruction in my life. There had to be, but there wasn’t a damn thing I could do about it except let this little game play out. Soon enough, I’d have her where I wanted her.
The thing is, I had every intention of leaving her alone despite my threats. Admittedly, when I’d threatened to ruin her the night of the funeral, I was on edge, angry and hurt. My grief and sense of injustice had guided me to confront her that night and make those threats. And maybe for a few weeks afterward I’d festered in that hate and resentment, plotting on ways to make her pay, make her suffer for what she’d done. For tearing our family apart. For taking a son away from his mother. For coming between two brothers. For destroying lives.
I had ignored the earliest signs of her duplicity, and for that I only had myself to blame. My mother had reservations about Frankie, and though she never came right out and said it, I knew my mother. The subtle digs she made about Frankie’s appearance, from her hair to her clothes, or even the way she laughed, seemed to bug my mother. I ignored