Corruptible by Natasha Knight

Author:Natasha Knight [Knight, Natasha]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Natasha Knight

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Lina

When Stanley pulled up to the apartment, I immediately saw Alexi’s SUV parked out front. My heart thudded as we neared, and I met Stanley’s eyes in the rearview mirror.

“Shall I keep driving?” he asked as he slowed.

The SUV’s driver’s side door opened, and Maxx climbed out, his eyes locking on mine through the front windshield. He leaned against the car and folded his arms. Alexi wasn’t with him. But that didn’t mean anything.

“No, Stanley, this is fine.” I had to face the music sometime.

“All right.” He turned to me, waiting for something.

I cleared my throat. “Sergei said you’d arrange things?” He smiled and handed me a card from inside his pocket.

“Call this number. Let him know who you are. And if you need me again, just call the service. They’ll get a hold of me.”

He was still smiling, but I saw that smile differently than I used to. Any warmth seemed to have leeched out of it.

“Thank you,” I said, taking the card.

“My pleasure.”

I climbed out of the car and grabbed my bag. Bypassing the stairs to the apartment, I went directly to the SUV, where Maxx opened the back door and waited for me to climb in before closing it. He gave me a wary look in the rearview mirror, started the car, and drove toward the club. Neither of us spoke the entire way, and I didn’t bother to check my phone for a message from Damon. I knew there would be one by now, and to hear his voice would test my resolve.

We arrived at Club Carmen before opening, so we only passed a handful of staff on our way to Alexi’s office. Maxx walked me to it, staying close behind me as if I might try to run. As if I could get away from them. All the while, my meeting with Sergei played in my mind. What he wanted. The alternative to having to be Alexi’s whore.

When we got to the office, Maxx reached over my head to knock on the door before opening it.

Alexi sat behind his desk. When he saw me, he leaned back in his seat, his face hard and cold.

“Well, well, well, the prodigal server.”

“Um, I don’t think you’re using that word correctly.” Not my smartest move, but I couldn’t help it.

He stood and walked around his desk. I heard the door close and saw Maxx take up his position beside it, his big arms folded, watching but invisible.

“I’d shut your mouth if I were you,” Alexi said.

He perched on the edge of his desk and cocked his head to the side as he looked at me.

“Take off your coat.”

I did, folding it over the back of the chair he didn’t invite me to sit on.

“Don’t you look…refreshed? Sunny even. Certainly not getting that color here in freezing Manhattan, are you?”

“Something came up. I had to go out of town.”

“That so?”

“Yes.”

“What exactly came up?”

“A friend needed me in Florida. I went to help her.”

“Her?”

“Yes.”

He came toward me, arms at his sides.

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