“I don’t know what this is about, Mr. Ashwood.”
He paused, and she saw he wasn’t giving her direct eye contact. “I’m afraid we’ve had some difficulty of late, and we have to let some staff go. It is with great regret we inform you that your position here will have to be terminated.”
Everything clicked into place. Prue knew he and James were very good friends, and she also knew that James would do anything to get what he wanted.
She’d seen the intent and couldn’t believe the lengths he’d gone to, to get what he wanted.
Easing back in her seat she stared at him, seeing how uncomfortable he was. His friendship was being tested to the max.
“James put you up to this, didn’t he?”
Cadeon looked at her. His eyes were filled with the same kind of heat that James possessed. She knew this man was completely taken with his own wife. The possessive flare that the news had reported on was not a lie. She knew that now more than ever before.
“I’m afraid there is no stopping what he wants, Miss Star.”
“Please, call me Prue. Oh, he’ll get what he wants, just not in the way he thought.” She stood up and leaned over the desk to shake his hands. “Lovely to meet you, Cadeon. Give Violet all the best.”
She left his office moments later, walking back to the elevator that took her to her floor. When she was there, she walked over to her desk and packed the few personal items before walking out of the door.
Her anger was building with each step she took. She ignored the taxi waiting for her and insisted on getting her own. The taxi took her straight to Ravage. The club was closed. She saw Leo outside smoking a cigarette.
After paying the taxi, she waited to gain Leo’s attention.
“Where is he?” she asked.
Leo escorted her inside. “I’m afraid you’re going to have to wait in his office. James is a little busy at the moment.”
He left her inside James’s office. She took in the space around her. Prue knew where he was, and she was going to confront him. The dungeon may be off limits to her, however, James had just cost her her job. He was going to get a piece of her mind, whether he liked it or not.
She listened to the door to see if Leo was standing guard. Prue opened the door a little to peer outside. No one was hanging around. She closed the door after her and decided to find the dungeon. She walked to the far end of the corridor and found a door leading to a waiting room.
Prue knew if it was night there would be guards on the door so no one could gain access. She opened a set of doors that led to a flight of stairs. For a split second, she doubted herself. She shouldn’t be doing this. James wouldn’t like her going down there.
He’s just lost you your job. He deserves to get what is coming to him.
What he had coming to him, she didn’t know.
Taking the steps slowly, she descended to the last one until she came to another set of doors. Prue opened the doors and looked into a whole new world. She’d been to BDSM clubs before. Those clubs were nothing like this. This whole place was like being immersed into a different world.
“You need to show her that she can trust you. You’re the one in charge of her. She’s your responsibility.”
She heard his voice giving instruction. There was another man and a woman in the middle of the club. The woman was bound to a table with her ass in the air. Her pu**y was on display for them all to see.
Prue couldn’t help herself. She gasped. The last BDSM club she’d been to had been a long time ago. The lifestyle hadn’t been part of her because none of the Doms appealed. She’d done it for the current man in her life and because being told what to do turned her on.
Her small gasp caught James’s and the mystery Dom’s attention.
“I told Leo to put you in my office,” James said.
“Too bad for Leo that he had a pissed off woman on his hands.” She walked over to where James stood. His chest was naked, and he wore a pair of leather pants. He looked so damn good. She wanted to stand there and admire him. Instead, she forced herself to storm over to him.
James came toward her. He bent down, putting his shoulders against her stomach and lifting her. The move was so unexpected that she left out a squeal.
“Continue with your training. Lucas will supervise you,” James said, pointing to another man who’d entered the room.
“Put me down, you f**king ape. You poor excuse for a f**king man.” She wriggled on his shoulder in an attempt to make him put her down. Nothing she did budged him.
“Watch your head,” he said, walking out of the doors she’d just entered through. She curled up the best she could while he took her back up to his office. Prue took the time to thump and slap his backside with all the anger she felt directed at him.
“Sorry, Boss. I can’t keep her in one place,” Leo said when James passed him.
“No problems, Leo. I’ve got her sorted.”
She hit him, cursed him, and did everything in her power to try to get him to put her down. The door to his office closed, giving them much needed privacy. Only then did he put her down on her feet.
The moment her feet hit the floor she tried to slap him. He caught her hand pulling her in tightly against his body. “Don’t even think of trying to hit me.” He warned her.
She stamped on his foot as hard as she could. His facial expression didn’t change once. Prue stared down at his shoes. They looked like hard working boots.
When she glanced back up in his face and saw the gleam in his eye, she knew she was right.
“Stop being such a hell-cat,” he said.
“You got me fired, James. I liked that job. Okay, it was just a job, but it was one that meant I was able to keep a roof over my head and food in my stomach.”
“What makes you think I took your job?”
She punched him in the arm with her free hand. “I know you and Cadeon Ashwood are friends. I read the papers, James. I’m not stupid even if you do like to treat me as if I am.”
He captured her cheek with his palm. The action was filled with such tenderness it made her stop. Prue stared at him shocked by his move.
****
Her lips were in the shape of a heart. James thought they looked so damn good. He wanted to kiss them, desperately. Cadeon had kept his word. He didn’t know why it was important to him for her to be close, only that he needed to keep her there.
“What more do you know?” he asked.
He knew there was more knowledge behind her eyes. The report he’d gotten from Tate last Friday showed him how much Prudence knew. James cut off all other thoughts. He didn’t want to think of her with another man.