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The Deal With The Devil Endorphins Are Multiplying
GiovanniThe meeting that should have taken ten minutes takes almost two hours, and my attention is split.On top of that, there's the voicemail from my brother that I should never have listened to. My bastard brother is telling me to go to hell. Brandishing his victory.He should be more careful. He won a battle. I will win the fucking war.When I walked out to tell Sienna that Axel would take her home and found that man beside her, having almost cornered her, when I saw his hand on her, I lost my shit. All I saw was red.Rage.That idiot boy was touching her.And she looked scared shitless. Pale as a ghost. Eyes huge. And fucking terrified.The elevator seems to be crawling tonight as it climbs to the penthouse. I wonder if she's figured out that she can't leave it without a key yet. That's why I don't keep a man on her in the apartment.When the doors finally slide open, it's dark.I hit the switch and soft light bathes the large, open room."Sienna?" I call out, glancing around to
The Deal With The Devil Touch It
Giovanni"What are you doing, Sienna?""Making sure you get what you paid for." She slurs the words."Is it that bad?" I ask. "This secret?"Her hands stop their work and she looks deep into my eyes, searching them, then resumes, shifting her gaze downward as she succeeds in undoing the belt, the pants."You really want the waiter who's about two floors away to see you on your knees sucking my dick when he gets here?"Her eyes fly up to mine."Didn't think so," I say, redoing the fly of my pants, my belt.On cue, the elevator doors slide open and a waiter pushes a tray inside."Sir," he says, pretending not to see a drunk Sienna stumble her way to the couch."Thank you," I tell him and hand him a fifty-dollar-bill. "Don't worry about cleaning it up tonight.""Thank you, sir," he says and a moment later, he's gone.I go to the coffee machine and make her a mug of black coffee. When it's ready, I hand it to her.She takes it and I watch her drink a sip. When I set the plated club sandwi
The Deal With The Devil Too Little Too Late
SiennaGiovanni will not let this go. And he's going to find out. One way or another, he will find out.The man at that party, all those people watching us. They will be curious. They will ask around. Hell, all they need to do is ask that man.How many people saw those videos? How many others will recognize me?And what will I do when Giovanni finds out? How will I stand the way he'll look at me?I shake my head. I have to think about my options now because Sean Williams isn't the only threat.When we reach the shop, the driver pulls up along the curb and I get out. He climbs out too, but he doesn't follow me inside. Every time he's brought me, he just waits outside for me.I guess Giovanni's still not sure if I'll run or not and right now, I can't say that I won't.There's one thing I do need to do today, either way. I need to be prepared in case I need to leave in a hurry, and I need two things before I can do that.Deirdre is ringing someone up when I get inside. Her glance is worr
The Deal With The Devil Drifting Through Chaos
Giovanni"You're wearing out my patience."I step into the bedroom, note how the closet door is open, two shoe boxes having fallen over stopping it from shutting.She matches each of my steps in the opposite direction, keeping distance between us. She's flushed and out of breath and looks guilty as sin."Brian just lost his job.""I snuck out the back. It wasn't his fault."I walk toward the closet and she backs away to the foot of the bed. I open the door, look down at the toppled boxes."Actions have consequences. As does incompetence." I shove at a box. "What were you doing?""I needed something," she starts, her voice different, forced.I turn to look at her. "What did you need?" She looks guilty as sin.Her eyes search mine momentarily before she shifts her gaze to a point beyond my shoulder."A book.""You keep your books in the closet?"She wrings her hands.I step to her.She backs up again. "While I was here, I thought I'd get my yoga clothes.""Did I give you the impression
The Deal With The Devil All Of My Cages Are Mental
SiennaI don't know if I'm glad or upset that he's already gone when I get outside.I took longer than the three minutes he allotted me. Hell, it took me twice that to get up off the floor, to stop crying. And still, every few minutes, I suck in a breath and my entire body shudders.Axel—I guess Giovanni's making sure there aren't any more fuck-ups—glances at me indifferently in the rear-view mirror.Did he hear, I wonder?Does he know what just happened?Heat burns my face. I'm humiliated and hurt, and everything is falling apart.And Giovanni's too close. Too close to finding out everything. And being here, as much as I'm safest from Sean, if Giovanni finds out, I don't know what I'll do.When we get to the casino, I'm relieved that Axel just walks me to the elevator and barely looks at me as we ride up in awkward silence. Only once we're inside the penthouse does he speak."You'll stay here until Giovanni's back. The elevator will be locked. If you need something, you dial the lobb
The Deal With The Devil In Your Arms
SiennaIt's so quiet here, it's almost strange. If I stop to listen, it's a sound itself, that silence. And it somehow calms me. Makes things almost manageable when I concentrate on it and that's what I do. I sleep. I listen. I sleep.And the next day when I wake up, I leave another message for Deirdre telling her I don't feel well and it's not a lie. I tell her I won't be in for the next few days and just to close the shop and leave a note in the window.By the time I have a shower the next night, he's still not back.I lock the bathroom door and strip off my clothes then turn my back to the mirror and look at myself. Look at the damage.My butt and upper thighs are bruised, the welts of the belt distinct and tender to the touch. I don't know how many strokes he gave me. I stopped counting after ten.I switch on the shower and I don't know if I'm weak from hunger or just sadness. It's hard to even move, to get myself under the flow of water. All I want to do is sleep. I just want to
The Deal With The Devil Standing On Business
GiovanniI tracked down the asshole from the other night. I had to fly across the country to fucking Dover, New Hampshire, but I found him.I look down at Sienna. She's a mess. Her hair is a giant tangle around her head, she's wearing the same dress she had on the day I left. When I put my hand against her belly, it's concave. Empty.She hasn't eaten more than a few bites from a few trays. The maid said she wouldn't let her into the bedroom. I could tell when I brought her in here. The bed was unmade, the comforter a heap at the center of it. The glass walls blacked out.And here she lies, sleeping. Peaceful when I look at her face with her eyes closed, slightly sunken now. Her thick lashes flutter and she mumbles something, then settles back into sleep.Her color is paler than usual, but it makes her lips look almost redder for it. Snow White in her glass coffin. Cursed. Sleeping until true love's kiss wakes her. Or is that the other one? Sleeping Beauty? I don't fucking know.I lay
The Deal With The Devil Under His Protection
Giovanni "When I turned seventeen, I left. That's all," she says, completely avoiding my question. "I was old enough to take care of myself, and I did. I came to Las Vegas and I met Mrs. Adams who owned Wrinkles in Time and worked for her until she died. She left me the shop and I'm continuing her work. And her kids wish they could evict me and make real money on the building, but they weren't able to contest the will. That's about it in a nutshell.""And you donate about fifty percent of your profits to the homeless shelter a few blocks away. That's the reason you have the low rent agreement Mrs. Adams' greedy kids aren't thrilled about.""How did you know?""I heard the woman at the shop the other day and was curious, so I looked into it.""Looked into it? Why didn't you just ask me?""You're not so forthcoming, Sienna."She looks around again, then cocks her head to the side. "You don't have any photographs of family either, by the way," she says.I remember when she found the one
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