Total pages in book: 35
Estimated words: 32859 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 164(@200wpm)___ 131(@250wpm)___ 110(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 32859 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 164(@200wpm)___ 131(@250wpm)___ 110(@300wpm)
She expected them to go straight out to his car, but instead he veered her off to the right, where the VIP section was located. There was a guard standing there, and he gave them a nod before allowing them to enter. This was a new guard. She tried to remember all the people that worked for Cain, just to be polite. She knew what it was like to work, be invisible, and not feel appreciated, so she attempted to bridge that gap.
She had a feeling most of the people that worked for Cain assumed he was sleeping with her. Nope. They hadn’t had sex. She imagined he would die of laughter to learn she was a virgin. Surviving on the streets, and still a virgin at twenty-five years old.
One of the guys she met had not been into kids, but they had hit it off, and before he died in a drive-by shooting, he’d taught her how to defend herself. It was why she knew how to fight.
It had been a long time since she thought of Ben. The guy had been one hell of a fighter. A savage. No one could beat him, until a bullet ran through his heart and took his life way too soon. She’d witnessed it. He’d died in her arms, and she ended up in foster care the next day. He might have been the only person in her life she ever cared about.
Cain took them to his usual seat, and Leah sat down beside him. She crossed one leg over the other and waited.
A waiter came, and he ordered a scotch for himself, and she got a glass of water. She didn’t drink or do drugs. Cain had made sure she took multiple blood tests as he didn’t believe her. It was rude, but she understood why. In their world, or in the real world, everyone lied. She was used to that.
It was why she couldn’t help but tense up from time to time. She kept expecting Cain to kill her. She hurt his son, and she hadn’t gone easy on him. Danny was an egotistical asshole. He assumed he was above the law because of who his father was, which was complete and total bullshit.
“Relax,” Cain said.
The waiter brought their drinks and stood for a second before Cain shooed him away.
“I’m fine.”
“You have got to get over this fear of assuming I’m going to kill you.” Cain took a sip of his drink.
Once again, Cain surprised her.
“And what makes you think that?”
“You’re a lot easier to read than you think, Leah.”
She ignored her glass of water and instead turned to look at him. “Sorry for having suspicions about you. It’s not every day that the most feared man in the city offers you a job after humiliating his son.”
“I’m not like most dads, and besides, Danny was becoming a bit of a problem.”
“A bit of a problem? I wonder how many other women he’d succeeded in attacking before I came along.” She looked at Cain, trying to find any obvious signs of discomfort. There were none. “Does it make you feel good? Knowing he uses your name to instill fear into others, and there might be dozens of women out there afraid of him?”
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“Ten,” Cain said.
“What?”
“There are ten women who are afraid of my son, and they know if he ever darkens their lives again, they are to come to me.” He looked at Leah, and there was that spark of surprise again. In all his forty-five years, he’d never met a woman like her.
The moment he saw her, she didn’t quiver or back down. She was the first woman to look at him, and there had been a challenge in her eyes. There might have also been contempt.
He’d wanted to meet the woman that put his son in the hospital.
Cain had seen the security footage. The manager of his bar hadn’t shut it down. Cain possessed the footage now, and he had told Danny that under no circumstances was he to step out of line again. Leah would be the last woman he attempted to rape, and if he so much as forced even a kiss on another woman, Cain himself would castrate the little shit. He was done cleaning up his son’s messes.
He didn’t owe the little shit anything. Danny lived a life of luxury, one that Cain was growing tired of providing. It served Danny right getting the crap beaten out of him. The truth was, he rather admired the woman for putting Danny in his place.
“Wow, ten women he’s ruined, and you think he should still be walking the streets. He should be in prison.”
Cain laughed. “And you think prison would fix him?”
“It might teach him a lesson.”
“With my name, all it would do is make him king, and yes, my son is a rapist, but he is also cruel as well. I am dealing with him.”