Christine Warren - [Others 07] by You're So Vein (html)

Author:You're So Vein (html) [Vein, You're So]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2012-05-30T03:27:47+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

He would begin by shaking her so hard, Dima decided as he stalked through the hallway the very stiff butler of the Vircolac club had directed him to, that he could not help but rattle some sense into her thick, pretty skull. Then he would turn her over his knee and paddle her ass until she thought of him—and his orders—every time she even considered sitting down. For at least a week.

Or maybe he would paddle her first. Then lecture her, then shake her. So, so many options, and at the moment he was mad enough to try every single one of the variations he was considering, just to see which one worked the best. In case this ever happened again.

“If it does, I’ll just save us both the trouble and kill her,” he muttered, pausing at a closed door and lifting his hand to knock. Before his fist could fall, the door opened and the Lupine he had seen before at his apartment smiled and held out his hand.

“Believe me, if you ever decide to go through with it,” the Lupine said, shaking his hand in an almost commiserating manner, “you have plenty of volunteers lined up to help, and to testify on your behalf in court. Or to provide an alibi. Whichever you prefer.”

Dima paused, breathed deeply, sighed. “I may need all three. Where is she?”

“Right this way.”

He followed his host across a beautifully furnished hall and through an open door into a small, comfortable study currently occupied by three women, two of whom were familiar to him, one of whom he wanted to strangle, and a third he’d never seen before.

“Dima, you remember my wife, Missy,” Graham said, with the polished manners of a man hosting a cocktail party instead of eagerly watching in anticipation of a bloody confrontation. “And this is Samantha Carstairs-Baker, my assistant and general right hand.”

“Nice to meet you,” the brunette said. She had pretty features, a noteworthy smile, and the decided scent of a Lupine. She watched him with avid curiosity.

Dima managed a small, civil nod for her and a grunt of acknowledgment for Missy. Then he turned his focus on the object of his fury.

Who currently sat, pretty as a picture, on the end of a comfortably elegant sofa, with her long legs crossed at the knees and her hands folded daintily in her lap. She nodded to him and offered a small smile.

“Dima.” Her voice emerged as regal as ever, but with its characteristic arrogance surprisingly absent. It made him frown. “I want to apologize right away. I wasn’t thinking when I left your apartment, and I realize it was badly done of me. I hope you’ll accept my sincere apologies and know I will not discard your advice so lightly in the future.”

His frown slid into a glower. “Who are you, and what have you done with Ava Markham?”

She made a face. “You’re just as amusing as Graham. Why is it so hard to believe that I recognize

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