‘’Joanne’s here, I don’t need two of you tending, get upstairs and take the rest of the night off.’‘

‘‘No! I won’t go upstairs and twiddle my thumbs till four a.m. I’m happy down here and I don’t care if your new toy is here, she’s not capable of replacing me and I don’t intend to let her.’’ I have a stubborn determination too, and he can back off and get a grip if he thinks he can send me to bed like a child. That woman may be sharing his bed but over my dead body is she also going to be sharing this club. We built this and we run it together without interference. I am done being bossed around, pushed and trampled on by this arsehole.

‘’Since when has disobeying me ever been in your best interests?’’ Low tone, I’m in the danger zone. I really am sick of this little control method nowadays, so instead of sinking back like I normally would I flash my own little fierce at him.

‘’Is this because other men dared to touch me?’‘ I flash at him, tossing back my hair over my shoulder with a manicured talon.

So fucking transparent it’s unreal.

I honestly think I should book him a shrink appointment myself; this control thing he has going on was maybe sexy in the early days of meeting him, but when it’s rammed down your throat at every turn and his tight leash of possessive is around your neck, it gets old very fast.

‘’Yes. Now get up the fucking stairs.’’

Well he isn’t denying it anyway, and he did lose his cool very fast. I swear Carrero is unravelling the longer I know him. That cool controlled mask slips more often with every passing week, and I wonder if he’s brimming on an almighty breakdown. Maybe I do get to him too, in the same way he riles me, as he is certainly not the calm composed Carrero of the early days anymore.

and having a tantrum of my own, lifting my chin and tossing my locks back in an air

is off. Go get your new girl to figure that one out, if she has the brains.’’ Alexi’s arrogant

scans the list and then looks back at me with a

manner highlights that he’s at least listening and taking this seriously, so I too pipe down and move forward so surrounding ears do not hear. Putting our differences aside when it comes to something in ‘’our’’ club being off. We take security seriously and an imposter is never a good thing in this kind of

one another will always come

am certain we have one extra that’s unaccounted for, and I don’t know who he came in with. One of your members didn’t detail a guest.’’

closer, voices hushed as he gets in against me, dipping his head close to mine to make sure no one picks up on the issue we are discussing. He is a man who likes to always look like he

he is sitting with, but he’s either gone into one

seems pensive; all focus on this little issue, he hates not being in control and

to leave him. Hating that I am walking off from a problem, but the upper hand today feels great. I high five myself

my superior smile and walk slap bang into brunette as she practically throws

until I shudder in both disgust and with reaction to icy cold liquid.

now she has turned it to worthless trash. ‘‘Oopsy.’’ She smirks at me. Accidental maybe, but she’s more than happy about it and gloating like a childish playground bitch.

the actual fuck?’’ I literally snap at her, accusatory and hatred evident as Alexi’s hand cups my shoulder firmly and tugs me

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