Page 13 of Doormat
“My brother was right there, and I was in one of your nightclubs.”
“Do you have any idea what could have happened to you?You could have been poisoned right here in this club.Roofied.Raped.Beaten.This may be my club, but our enemies are willing to do whatever it takes.Even to women and civilians.Anything to weaken us.”
He looked so ...angry.
“Do you have a mistress?”Liana asked.
“What?”
“Do you have a mistress?You know, a woman you sleep with that is not your wife?”
He took a step toward her, then another.Liana tried to keep her distance, but his desk stopped her from running away and leaving.
“Do I look like a fucking idiot?No, I don’t have a mistress, and no, the only woman I have been fucking since we met is you.”
And then he grabbed the back of her neck, pulled her forward, and kissed her.This was not a gentle kiss.Diego usually gave her gentle, sweet, kisses.Something that made her toes curl but rarely left a mark.This was filled with passion, possibly a bit of anger, and a lot of heat.She moaned and pressed her body against him, not wanting to stop.
He ran his hands all over her body, going from the back of her neck, down toward her ass, gripping her flesh.She moaned his name, and then it was like a flash of cold water, as she pulled away from him.
“I want to go home.”
She didn’t like how easy it was to succumb to him, with just a single kiss.She wanted a divorce, and she was not going to stop until she got it.
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Liana wouldn’t stoprunning away from her guards.
Diego was growing tired of his men’s incompetence.Her father had informed him that his wife was very much a wild one.Of course, he was not made aware of this before his wedding day.She had always been so agreeable.This was new.So, he had no choice but to take her to work with him.At first, she was constantly trying to get away and evade him.In the end, to prove he was the one and only man in charge, he grabbed some cuffs, placed one around her wrist, and the other around his.
“What the hell?”she asked, trying to pull on the cuffs that now bound her to him.
“Now, you will sit your ass right here,” he said, pointing to his knee.
She growled and still attempted to pull free, but he wouldn’t let her go.She had to understand that he was the one in charge, not her.What he said, went.He raised a brow as she let out the cutest little growl.
Still, she kept trying to find an escape, and then she did sit her ass on his knee.Of course, Liana attempted to make it hurt just a little by pretty much falling onto his knee with a thud, but that didn’t work.
With their cuffed hands, he placed his on her thigh, then got to work making the necessary calls he needed to make and going over the figures.At first, Liana was tense and kept looking in the opposite direction.She was so adorable.The truth was, he was loving her attitude.He relished the fight and fire she had going on.Waking up in the morning to find her already making breakfast, not sure of what the day was going to bring, actually excited him.
His wife, by being naughty and acting out, was intriguing him even more.He was not going to allow her a divorce.Now, if she started to act differently, giving up, not doing anything and not showing this kind of fire, he might have considered it.Liana was proving to be a firecracker, and he loved to see just how far she was willing to push.He knew she was not going to cheat on him.
Even Enzo Sr.and Jr.said there would be limits to what she was willing to do.He had seen that at the dance club the other night.There were always limits, and he was happy to see her push.
“That’s wrong,” Liana said.
“What?”He had been so distracted by her behavior and how much he was loving this side of his wife, that he hadn’t really been paying attention to the paperwork in front of him.
Yet, Liana had, and she saw something wrong.This was not good.He needed to stay focused and not be distracted by his young wife.
Staring at the figures on the sheet, he had to read it three times to actually see the error, which he didn’t fucking like.He knew this meant he should leave Liana at home, but he liked that even less.The details on the accounts he was given didn’t match.Pulling up his calculator on the computer, he typed in the details and saw there were nearly ten thousand dollars missing.He sat back.
“This is not good, is it?”she asked.
“No, it’s not.”
“What does it mean?”
Diego looked at her and was tempted to tell her it wasn’t her place to know, but he had a feeling he would pay in the long term for that.
