in order to get Hawk off the hook?
“What about my brother?”
He spread his legs out a little wider, my eyes tracking the movement. “I’m not into men.”
“No, I mean, what happens to his debt? Will it be wiped?”
“Of course.”
“I want that written into the contract.”
“Contract?”
“You think that all this won’t be put into writing? I’m going to make damn sure it is, so we both know where we stand.”
“No contracts,” he said in a hard voice. “My word is my bond.”
“Then, we don’t have a deal,” I told him, daring him to counter my threat with one of his own. When he didn’t, I stood. He mirrored me, his expression vacillating between humor and frustration. He finally fixed it on indifference and held out his hand for me to shake.
“I’ll let you think about this a little longer before you give me your answer.”
What an asshole. Opening my mouth to argue, I shut it a minute later. I didn’t need to waste time on this. It was not beneficial, and it would only serve to put me in a worse mood. He brought my hand to his mouth, brushing his lips against the back of it.
“I will be seeing you later, Wren. You can count on that.”
As I stalked away, the only thought I had was that I would never sell myself to a man like that.
Not even for my brother.
7
Bane
Jesus-fucking-Christ, my dick was so hard. As I watched Wren stalk away from me, I caught the looks from my patrons, from my Dolls. They’d never seen me with a woman like her before—one who had no idea about her sex appeal. Her sharp tongue and quick mind also turned me the fuck on.
“Want me to take care of that for you, daddy?” Syn asked, sashaying her way over to me. I knew the moment Wren left that she would swoop in.
Dropping to the floor between my legs, she reached up to rub my dick, but I stopped her, pressing my fingers into her wrist.
“No, Syn.”
Fuck, this had happened before. I’d had Dolls getting possessive over me, and I’d had to get rid of them. I didn’t belong to any woman, and as soon as they thought they did, they were gone too.
I stood, side-stepping Syn who was blinking at me like she couldn’t believe I’d turned down a blowjob. I wouldn’t have let her suck me in public, though. There were strict rules in the club, which included no sexual acts were performed on the general floor. That’s what the private rooms were for. Syn was walking a fine line to think I would let that shit go.
When I was safely locked back in my office, I called Dagger, then got back to the paperwork that had been demanding my attention for the better half of this week.
Two hours later, Dagger strolled through the door, his hair wet and his clothes clean.
“What did you find?”
“One of Sanderson’s guys sniffing around on our turf.”
“Did you question him?”
“Why do you think I got showered and changed?” he replied. Of course. Dagger wasn’t known for his patience, and when information wasn’t given quickly enough, he had a tendency to get out one of his knives and made the person more receptive to his desires.
I leaned back in my office chair and crossed my legs at the ankle. “Do we have anything yet?”
Dagger shook his head. “No. The guy was fucking keeping his thoughts to himself.”
I didn’t believe for one fucking minute that he didn’t know something. “You need to fucking find out. There can’t be any blowback onto the club.”
“No problem.” He turned to leave, but I stopped him. “Do you have someone on Wren?”
“Yeah.”
“Tell them to call me when she goes anywhere other than her work and home.”
Dagger pulled out his phone, his thick thumbs flying over the screen as he relayed the message. “Done. Anything else you need or am I good to walk the floor?”
“We’re done.”
He left me alone, and the silence was driving me fucking insane. I’d done all the paperwork, and the report from Dagger only made my skin fucking twitch. I needed a distraction, and the only one I could think of that I wanted was a little blonde with legs for fucking days. Snagging the jacket off the back of my chair, I slid into it then made my way downstairs.
It was edging onto eight o’clock in the evening, The Dollhouse filling up nicely. I had all the Dolls working tonight because it was the