Lucien - Silvia Violet Page 0,5

work for a while. I’ve been trying to get jobs through a temp agency, but that’s not gone well. Jimmy said he had a job for me. I guess I was…”

I watched him for a moment, head bowed, hands clasped in front of him, the perfect picture of surrender. He would surrender to me, but I needed more information first.

“Were you desperate, Peter?”

He didn’t respond, but he looked up. The fear in his eyes made my cock begin to fill. I suspected he didn’t know much about me, but he knew I was dangerous. “Did Jimmy tell you who I am?”

“He said you were the owner of this business.”

I nodded. “That’s true, but I feel like that doesn’t give you the whole picture. My name is Lucien Marchesi.”

His eyes went wide, and he took a small step back. I’d been accused of murdering a young woman several months ago, and the case had gotten a lot of press. I had killed before, and I’ve ordered others to do it, but I didn’t kill that woman. I didn’t even know her. Some enemies of mine thought they could set me up. I’d tracked down most of them and made sure that wouldn’t be a problem again, but I had a suspicion Damian Ricci was in contact with the ones who had eluded me.

“Are you… I mean…”

“The head of a crime family? Yes. The man who killed that girl? No.”

Peter didn’t say anything else. He just watched me warily, not that I blamed him. “Did Jimmy tell you why he’d been offered this job?”

Peter licked his lips before he answered. I barely heard his words as I thought about how much better his lips would look wet with my cum. “He said someone owed him a favor.”

That fucking son of a bitch. “That was a lie. He owes me a debt. A debt he was paying off by working for me, but…” Peter’s hands were clasped so tightly his knuckles had gone white. As if that wasn’t enough to betray his nerves, he tapped his foot against the floor in a fast rhythm, though I wasn’t sure he even realized it. “Look at me, Peter.”

He glanced up, and I watched his throat work as he swallowed.

“I will allow you to work the debt off for him.”

3

Peter

I made the mistake of looking into Lucien’s eyes again. His gaze held me there. His blue eyes were as dark as the ocean at midnight, and they mesmerized me. He watched me like he wanted to devour me, and I had a feeling he wasn’t talking about working off Jimmy’s debt employed as his receptionist.

“No thank you. I’ll just go. I didn’t understand the situation. Jimmy never said anything about… He just said he wasn’t taking the job because he’d gotten a better offer.”

Mr. Marchesi didn’t say anything, so I took a few steps toward the door.

“I didn’t dismiss you.” His harsh tone froze me in place.

I turned back to face him and tried to remember how to breathe. I had to stay calm if I was going to talk my way out of this. “I appreciate the opportunity, sir, but—”

“I’m not offering you an opportunity. I’m telling you you’re staying. A debt needs to be paid, and intentionally or not, you’ve agreed to take Jimmy’s place.”

“But he—”

“Lied to you. And he will be dealt with. Don’t worry about that. I’ll make sure the work he does for me isn’t nearly as pleasant as the job I’m giving you.”

Why had I ever listened to Jimmy? I’d known something was wrong. Powerful men didn’t just offer assistant jobs to anyone. “Thank you, but I—”

“I’m going to give you the benefit of the doubt, because until now, you didn’t know who I was. I don’t take no for an answer. When I want something, I get it, and I want you.”

“You want me, sir? Me?”

He glanced around the room making a show of checking under his desk and behind me. “I don’t see anyone else here, so yes, I must be talking to you.”

I squeezed my hands into fists, not wanting him to see they were shaking. I might not be the smartest guy, based on the fact that I listened to Jimmy, but I’d have to be a fool not to know Mr. Marchesi was a predator, and I was nothing but a frightened mouse. He spoke with such certainty. I had no doubt he was used to getting what he wanted, and while I didn’t know