An Affair With My Boss by Verville Brendan

Author:Verville, Brendan [Verville, Brendan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Talent Writers
Published: 2014-02-24T00:00:00+00:00

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The next day was Saturday and I didn’t have to go to work at the casino. All the same, I put on my cocktail uniform and waited around for my ride.

When a knock did come at the door I opened it to find Tom standing on my doorstep, dressed in all black and wearing a ski hat loose on the top of his crown. He was sweating, bags under his eyes, and he shouldered his way inside. I noticed a black SUV waiting in front of my house, a driver behind the wheel, watching me. I recognized the man as Tom’s buddy from his job at the car dealership.

“Where the hell have you been?” I asked him by the door.

“I’m sorry, Alice,” he said, taking my hand. His eyes were only on mine. “I’ve been laying low, preparing for a job. I couldn’t let myself be seen around you, or else you’d be in danger.”

“What job?”

“I’m getting that fucker back tonight,” he said with a mouth full of snarling teeth. “For what he did to me and you. I’m gonna break up his poker game tonight. He should be careful how he advertises his own private games, because I found out with just a little research. Found out about his wife too, and her role in the whole thing. Fucking sick. He should have known the word would get out about it. Huge players are gonna be there. All that cash. It’s ours, baby.”

“Wait, what’re you talking about? Break it up?”

“Don’t worry about that.” He leaned forward and kissed my forehead. “We need to leave town tonight. I need you to come with me.” When I didn’t answer, he continued. “I need you to be ready when I knock on your door later tonight. Can you do that? Suitcases…everything. Then we’ll start over and live like royalty in another place. Wait, what’re you wearing?”

With his hands on my shoulders, he held me out at arm’s length and screened me up and down. My breath stalled in my throat. I was certain that he had recognized the cocktail uniform from the Salvador. So easily, my dirty secret was revealed, and I could do nothing to argue my case.

“I don’t know what’s gotten into you, but I like the new wardrobe.” Tom’s face broke out with a quickly spreading grin.

I learned to breathe again and managed to laugh.

“Do you understand, Alice?” he asked, serious again. “Will you be here tonight? Will you be ready to leave no matter what happens? Do you trust me?”

I managed to nod and he kissed me on the lips this time, his hands on my hips, just like John liked to do.

“I love you, baby,” he said, and then he was out the door, leaving me to shake in the entranceway. I hugged my arms over my breasts and shivered in the wind as the door slammed shut.

Torn between the two men in my life, I didn’t know who better deserved the clear hand of justice that

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