Page 101 of Danger and Dominance
David
When his phone rang with his grandmother’s ringtone, David frowned and immediately reached into his pocket, effectively cutting off the conversation he and Lincoln were having about a potential new hire.He held up his left hand with one finger up, indicating he needed Lincoln to give him a minute while he answered the phone.
“Hello?”
Hearing a man’s voice on the other end of his grandmother’s phone gave him a shock.
“David?”The thick Scottish brogue should have been a clue, but the surprise had him so off-center that he didn’t place the voice immediately.
“Yes.”
“It’s Gavin.”A distressed Gavin, going by his accent having deepened.“I’m with your grandmother and Cassidy at the store.Cassidy seems to be having a panic attack.She’s also insisting that she can’t go to the hospital, and your grandmother is backing her up.I tried calling you on my phone, but when you didn’t pick up, your grandmother gave me hers.”
“Shit.Yes.”David lifted his hand to rub his forehead, doing his best to remain in place instead of pacing the way his body was suddenly urging him to.“I have it on Do Not Disturb except for specific phone numbers… not important.Is Cassidy okay, other than the panic attack?”
“She doesn’t seem to be injured.”Gavin’s voice got quieter, as though he’d turned his head away from the phone as he asked if Cassidy was hurt.A feminine voice, calm and controlled, answered him, then he responded back into the phone.“Leah says she’s not hurt, just freaked out.She saw someone who she thought could be her ex as she and your grandmother were checking out.They got a few steps outside the store when she collapsed.Leah and I were on our way in, and we actually saw her go down and came running.”
Leah, Gavin’s wife, was exactly the kind of person Cassidy needed now.David blew out a long breath, trying to get his roiling emotions under control.She wasn’t in any danger.
But she was in distress.
“Can you bring her to the Black Fox office?”he asked.“Her and my grandmother?”
“Of course.We’ll be there as soon as we can.”
Hanging up the phone, David tightly relayed the situation to Lincoln, who nodded somberly.
“Poor Cassidy.The toll this shit takes on a person…” Lincoln shook his head grimly.“She doesn’t deserve this.Hopefully, that asshole takes the bait soon, and we can finish this.”
David didn’t bother to question how Lincoln expected to finish it.One way or another, Don wasn’t going to bother Cassidy anymore.He was going to make sure of that.
“I need to tell Jennifer to call down and give security Gavin, Leah, and my grandmother’s names.”His grandmother was already on the approved list, but it didn’t hurt to give them a heads-up, especially since she was technically on the ‘approved but call first’ list.Once they arrived, he wanted them to be able to come up straight away, and Cassidy was the only one onthatlist.
Lincoln nodded.“We’ll talk about Zeus later.”
Yes, yes, they would.David was not convinced hiring one of Marshall’s team was a good idea, even if the man had quit not long after Marshall was ousted from the firm.
His priority right now was Cassidy.
Getting up from the chair across from Lincoln, David stalked out of the office and down the hall.It might have been the fastest he’d ever walked, even though he knew it was going to take some time for Gavin to arrive.He wanted everything ready for them, so Cassidy didn’t have to wait even a second to feel safe.
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Cassidy
More embarrassed than anything else, Cassidy followed Master Gavin and his wife into Black Fox Security.Brenda was right by her side, her arm looped through Cassidy’s and her hand gently patting her in understanding.Didn’t make it less embarrassing, though.
She’d had a freaking panic attack over a guy that hadn’t even been Don.
He’d just been a tall blond, probably the same one she’d seen in the store, and when she’d seen the back of him in the parking lot next to a grey car, her body had reacted.There hadn’t been anything she could do.One minute, she’d been okay; the next, she’d been falling apart at the seams.
The poor guy hadn’t even known that he was the cause of her distress.He was a perfectly nice guy who’d heard the commotion and come over to check to make sure she was okay before driving away.
Knowing that she’d disrupted literally everyone’s day, she couldn’t help but feel weak.
“Would you get out?”Claudia snapped as Cassidy walked through the door, and Cassidy’s head jerked up.It took her a moment to realize Claudia wasn’t talking to her.The Domme was standing beside Jennifer’s desk with an annoyed expression, but it was directed to the two men standing in front of her.Cassidy couldn’t see their faces because their backs were to her, but they were both tall and dark-haired with broad shoulders that filled out their suit jackets nicely.Claudia’s gaze shifted.“Hey, Cassidy, you okay, hon?”
Both of the men turned to see who Claudia was talking to.They were both handsome with dark eyes.One of them had a beard, the other was clean-shaven, and they sported matching grins.
