Dark Empire (McTiernan Clan Series Book 1) by AJ Fallow

Author:AJ Fallow [Fallow, AJ]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: anonymous
Published: 2023-10-13T16:00:00+00:00

It had only been three days, and I was already plotting my escape.

When Tommy had said lockdown, he wasn’t kidding. I wasn't allowed to leave the apartment. Everything delivered to the apartment was carefully inspected by the bodyguards before I was even allowed to touch it.

I felt like I was in prison.

The first week, I mostly slept and read. The rest of my meager possessions had been delivered the previous week, and I set them up in the spare bedroom. I didn’t want them in the master suite where Connor was. There was only so much reading and sleeping I could do, though, watched over carefully by a never-ending parade of bodyguards. Today, it was Grady. I drifted, feeling like my life was a melancholy grey haze of skyscrapers and expensive furnishings.

I had to do something, or else I'd lose my mind.

The other problem on my mind was work. Being a workaholic had its perks, so I had quite a bit of leave built up. Some smooth talking on Jerome's part got Winters to allow me to tack on my leave to the tail end of my suspension. I'm sure it was one of the stranger requests they've had, but honestly, I was just glad I could get it to work out. But my leave was almost used up, now, and if I didn't go back to work, I would be out of a job.

I hated Connor for putting me in this position. I hated him for using my own rules against me.

As for Connor, I barely saw him. He was always up early, and he never arrived home before ten—that is, if he even came home at all. If I was a jealous woman, I might think he had someone on the side, but I knew that wasn’t the case. It was work. It was always work.

I saw the bruised knuckles. I saw the bulletproof vests stowed in the closet, the guns in the safe near the entryway. He never carried them around me, but I saw them. Once, I'd even found blood on his collar when I was doing the laundry. He tried to hide it, but I noticed.

My phone rang. It was Jerome.

"Hey, Jer—how's it going?"

"We've got a problem, Cass." Jerome sounded out of breath. "I just came out of a department meeting, and Winters is after your job."

"What?"

"Apparently, he caught heat for letting you take leave at all, considering he'd placed you on suspension. He got placed under performance review as floor supervisor, and he's taking you down with him. He's saying he was threatened."

I groaned. "You’ve got to be kidding me.”

"Just calm down. That's not the problem, I got them to chalk it up as a misunderstanding. The big problem is, they want you back at work. Today. Winters is supposed to call you, but we both know he's not going to do that. He's hoping you won't show and will get fired, anyway."

"That’s not fair!” I sputtered. “Winters has had it out for me ever since my transfer.

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