Malice (1996) by Steel Danielle

Author:Steel, Danielle [Danielle, Steel,]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 2010-12-19T00:40:26.546000+00:00

"I was in a chair in his studio."

"With your legs three feet apart, I'd say." He got excited again thinking about it.

"With my clothes off?" She looked horrified at what he'd just said, and he laughed.

"I couldn't tell, the shirttails were hanging between your legs, but the message was pretty clear. So what about it? How about a little birthday present upstairs between you and Uncle Bob? Just our little secret."

"I'm sorry." The tears welled up in her eyes, and spilled over. At twenty-two, she still felt like a child sometimes, and why did this keep happening to her? Why did men hate her so much that all they wanted to do was use her? "I just can't, Bob," she said, crying at the table, which seemed to annoy him more because it attracted attention.

"Stop that," he said brusquely, and then narrowed his eyes as he leaned closer to her. "Let me put it to you this way, Grace. We go upstairs for an hour or two, and celebrate your birthday, or you're out of a job as of this minute. Now is it Happy Birthday," or Happy Trails to You," which is it?" If it hadn't been so awful, she would have laughed, but Grace wasn't laughing, she just cried harder, as she looked him in the eye and told him.

"I guess I'm out of a job then. I'll pick my paycheck up tomorrow."

She left the table without saying another word and went back to her apartment in tears. And the next day she went back to the agency to pick up her things, and her last paycheck.

Cheryl returned from New York the next day, and she smiled broadly when she saw Grace come in that morning. Grace couldn't help wondering what Bob had told her. But it didn't matter anymore. She had made her mind up. She only had a little over two months left until her probation ended anyway, and then she could do anything she wanted.

"Feeling better?" Cheryl asked sunnily. She'd had a ball in New York.

She always did. Sometimes she was sorry they didn't live there.

"Yeah, I'm fine," Grace said quietly. After twenty-one months of working for them, she was actually sorry to leave them, but she knew she had no choice now.

"Bob said you got a terrible case of food poisoning yesterday at lunch, and had to go home. Poor baby." Cheryl patted her arm, and hurried back to her office. She seemed to have no idea that Grace had been fired, or was quitting. And at that moment, Bob came out, and looked at her blankly.

"Feeling better, Grace?" he asked as though nothing had happened between them. And she spoke quietly, so no one else could hear her.

"I came to pick up my check, and pack my things." "You don't need to do that," he said with no expression whatsoever. "I think we can both forget it, can't we?" He looked at her pointedly, and she hesitated for a long moment, and then nodded.

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