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041: Phone Call
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LaraAmbrose arrived today. At first, I wasn’t sure if he received a call about Juliana or whether he just showed up because it was time for his arrival anyway. I had no doubts that he hadn’t known a thing when we told him the news. “What?” he asked, his voice barely above a whisper. I’d never seen him look so angry. It wasn’t even anger. It was something else. Something ancestral. I couldn’t see it on his face but I felt it. The air around him was charged. One of his girls had been killed in his strip club and that never happened before. Not ever. He’s in his office now. He’s been in there for hours. Occasionally, we’ll hear him yelling at someone. Then, it’ll all go silent. We don’t comment. We just look at each other and continue doing what we have to do. As for me, I’ve decided not to tell anyone about Juliana blackmailing me. Why should I?They’ll just think I had something to do with it. I can’t have people suspecting of me like that. I mean, it would make sense, right? She
Tempted by the Rogue Alpha 043: Plans of Ruination
Lara I gulp and close the door behind me. His eyes are on me as I walk toward him. Honestly, this rarely happens. I don’t usually have clients that make me feel so uncomfortable. I remind myself that I can’t be scared as long as I’m in control. I use my professional voice. “Why don’t you sit down, then?”“Sure,” he says before doing as he’s told. I get on stage. I go to the music player and sure enough, there’s a gun there. The sight of it, all black and oily looking, makes me shudder. But I’m glad we’ve been given something. This is better than nothing at all. I turn the music on and then move to the center of the stage. My client sits back and stretches his arms out. He’s watching me curiously and with a hunger that makes my skin crawl. I start to dance next to the pole. I ask him, “You’re new around here, aren’t you?”“Yeah,” he answers, distracted by my swaying hips. His eyes are a vibrant green, and dark lashes are framing his eyes, making them stand out even more. His ski
Tempted by the Rogue Alpha 044: Memories
Dexter I make my way outside of the club. Just seeing her makes me fucking happy. Elated. It’s so ridiculous but I’ve started to come to terms with this. I can’t help the way I feel. I just have to accept it. I start toward my car. I unlock it but then something catches my eye. It’s the kid. He’s sitting on the top of the stairs. I haven’t seen him in a while and so I go to him. He watches me approach him with curious eyes. “Down here again, huh?”“I’m bored,” he answers. “I thought I told you not to come down here again.”He shrugs but I can tell that what he wants to say is that I’m not the boss of him. “It can’t be dangerous out here, kid. Lots of creeps around.”“What do you do in there?” he asks. “In there?” I ask, jerking my head in the direction of the entrance. He nods. “Your mom works there, doesn’t she?”He nods. I can’t tell him what truly happens in there. If she didn’t tell him, then I have no business doing it. Besides, I know how my mother tried to keep her
Tempted by the Rogue Alpha 045: Horrible Past
Dexter “Well, first of all, I came here because I thought that we should find you. You’re our kin, and you deserve to know that we exist. That you have a family.”I nod, and then ask, “Where are you from?”“All the way in Baywood,” he states. “Yeah, a long way away. A whole week to get here. We never thought she got so far, you know? We started looking in the nearby towns and cities. Nobody ever heard of her. We thought that maybe she changed her name. My mother got sick afterward and stopped looking. Then, she asked me to take over as soon as I turned eighteen.”“And you’re how old now?”He’s clearly younger than me. He says, “I’m twenty-one.”“I see,” I say. “You came a long way.”“I’m glad it wasn’t for nothing,” he says. “I’m glad we found you. But I’m sad that things turned out so badly. I really hoped that she had that happy ever after, you know? I grew up listening to stories about her.”I sniffle and nod. “Yeah. It’s a shame, too.”“I was told by Jim about what happened,” he
Tempted by the Rogue Alpha 046: Happy
Lara I wake up in the morning feeling a little bit better than I did when I fell asleep. I’ve been thinking all night. It seems there’s nothing left for me to do but think. I guess being close to Dexter isn’t that bad. I can try to find out where this money is and use that against him. Naturally, if he loses that money, it’ll be the end of him. What would he do without it?I don’t have to go to the club until later tonight, so I take the duffel bag out from under my bed. I haven’t looked at the money since that day, and I haven’t counted it either. I asked him for a hundred thousand, and when I looked at the bag, it seemed like enough money. I won’t count every single more. The bundles are ten thousand each, so I believe that. I start counting the bundles and feel shocked when I surpass ten. I look at the small bundle on my bed and then look back inside the duffel bag.What? Am I mistaken? I count the bundles again. The number keeps growing and growing and when the number of bund
Tempted by the Rogue Alpha 047: Realization
DexterI meet up with Damson for a late breakfast at a nearby diner that I think serves really great food. Naturally, he comes with all the guys from what he calls his ‘squad’. There are five of them, and the leader is pretty clearly identifiable. He’s the big guy with even more eyeliner around his eyes, and I have to admit that I don’t like him. I’ve worked alongside the authorities for a very long time, and so, it’s easy for me to identify a crook. And this guy—this Jules—is a fucking crook. He also likes to intimidate people. We sit in a booth, all six of us. Damson is the one talking the most. The rest of us are just sizing each other up. My cousin is clearly the youngest of the group. The rest seem to be around my age. It’s incredible how I’ve known Damson only for a few hours and yet I already feel overprotective of him. I hope he’s respected in this group and that nobody takes advantage of him. Because I don’t like Jules. Not one bit. By the looks of it, he doesn’t like me
Tempted by the Rogue Alpha 048: Competitive
LaraOnce Dexter leaves, I realize that I really don’t want to see the apartment anymore. I wish I could say that he was following me or that he’s even stalking me, but I could tell that our meeting in that apartment was coincidental. And imagine my embarrassment. I’m home-hunting with his money and he caught me red-handed. That’s how I felt. But now he’s gone and even tried to make me feel more comfortable about the fact that he gave me a million fucking dollars. And the worst part? I am reassured. I am calmer about it now. It’s so messed up. I apologize to Nina and decide to go home and stop hunting for apartments. I don’t want to have to run into him again. I just feel so mortified. It’ll take a few more hours for Ander to be free, and so I decide to just drive around. I even go to car dealerships and look for new cars. There are so many that I like. I think I’ll ask Ander what he thinks. He’ll undoubtedly choose something big, shiny, and red, but that’s okay. Why can’t I have
Tempted by the Rogue Alpha 049: Crazy Confessions
LaraI walk into the private room, way ahead of Dexter, and he closes the door.Tingles spread all the way to the tips of my fingers at the thought of us being alone in the same room. To think that we'll be alone in this room for two hours is...I just have to find a way to see this through and not lose my cool. I have to remind myself that I'm doing this to survive. Nothing more, nothing less. I take a deep breath and try to remember to stick to my professionalism. Although I hate him, I have to treat him the same way I treat all my other clients. On top of that, he has his additional requests. He wants me to be more verbal."So, are you ready to have a mind-blowing evening?" I ask him, trying not to cringe. I hear him let out a short, humorless chuckle. "Vanessa, come on."I close my eyes and force myself to calm down. He's not looking at my face so it's easy for me to make these little facial expressions of annoyance. I tell him, "I'd appreciate it if you would let me do my job,
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