Temptation - Leigh Lennon Page 0,31
his stare reminds me what I’ve forgotten. “I mean, you know how you are, Sir.” My pitch has to deliver the borderline sarcasm in my tone.
He stretches his neck, and I wait for him to respond, but all I’m greeted with is a sincere smile at the mention of his friends. “Growing up, my parents had a ton of people who watched me. My parents never were there. So the servants with kids became my second family. Mom and Dad would return for a couple of weeks here and there and ground me from them, but when they left, we’d go right back where we left off. The only break I had from the loneliness my parents imparted on me, besides my friends, had been my grams.”
I’m getting a better understanding of this man, this Dom with control issues, and some of my questions are now answered. “So your friends, Cord, Maddox, Jared, Gio, Anton, and Greer, they were all the servants’ kids?”
Knitting his eyebrows together, he cocks his head to the side and reaches for my hand. “You remember my friends’ names after me mentioning them once?”
Now it’s my turn to rib him. “Yeah, learning people’s names is really not hard, you know, Sir.”
He brings my hand to his lips, and he places a small kiss on it. “You’re something else, Kitten. You know this, right?”
“Says the man who bought out all of first class and made me sit in coach.”
“Yeah, well, you’re here now, so stay with me. Get buckled in, Kitten. Remember you’re under my protection, so I can’t let anything happen to you on my watch.” Hot and cold! This man is going to give me both a sunburn and frostbite with all his mood swings.
Chapter Fourteen
Chadwick
In the airport, Shiloh, Cord’s sub, finds us. I’m leaving Eve in Shiloh’s confident hands, and giving up her tender touch, whose little hand has been attached to my own, is hard for me. This woman affects me in a way no other woman has.
“How’s Cord?” I ask Shiloh, who looks like she’s been put through the wringer today. Her neatly maintained platinum hair whips out of her ponytail, and she has no makeup on.
“You know Cord. He should be ready for this because that fucker of a district attorney is after you guys. We were even prepared with all the legal documentation Greer had for us after the last raid.”
She walks with Eve and me to my driver, and I get in, watching Shiloh and Eve leave for my house. I want her as far away from this shit as she can get. The fucker of the DA wants to expose the stars and athletes who frequent my club. After the last raid, I lost a couple of famous members—not that I blame them.
But the DA has been harassing Shiloh after he learned she lives in an apartment under Cord’s name. He tried to charge her with prostitution due to this little fact. Funny, how quick Cord sold his apartment to Shiloh for one dollar.
The second I’m in the club, I enter through the dungeon entrance. Cord and our lawyer, Greer, are sitting on one of many couches, sharing a bottle of scotch. “I think I need to get in on this after the fucked-up phone call. Where’s the shithead DA who has it out for us?”
Greer stands to greet me. “Fuck, after the last raid, I had everything settled. I was able to show the legitimate business licenses, our rules, and the statute that allows this type of club to operate. More so, I was able to present the court order allowing us to keep our client roster sealed. That fucker tucked his fucking tail between his legs and left. And he’s hopefully getting his ass chewed out. If he wasn’t a sadistic hatemonger, I’d plow my own dick into his ass.” Oh, and not to mention our lawyer—both ruthless and loudmouthed—is also a whore who loves a man in power.
“Ah, maybe you should claim him. He could ride your ass and not ours.” I chuckle as I follow my thought and his fantasy with a shot of scotch. “So, I hopped the first flight and flew fucking commercial for no reason?”
Cord, who has remained quiet during Greer’s and my banter, leans forward. “I don’t think so. Do I get to meet this chick who has you on a leash?”
As I clink my own drink down hard, my response is quick and loud. “You know better than that.