My Madame (Cameo Gentlemen's Club Book 1) by Savvi V

Author:Savvi V [V, Savvi]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: romance, Fiction
Publisher: Savvi V
Published: 2019-09-19T18:30:00+00:00

CHAPTER EIGHT

Gideon

No, she had no idea what my father was truly capable of. None.

I took a deep breath through my nose, bottled that shit deep—just like I always did where my old man was concerned—and faced her again. “You said something about a pretzel?”

Those wide blue eyes were disbelieving. “Are you kidding me right now?”

“I said to let it go, Charli.”

“No, you ordered me to,” she said, her lip curling on the word.

“Char—”

“I’m not one of your thugs,” she hissed, her voice low, her eyes blazing with angry tears. “You don’t order me around; I don’t care who you are.”

My blood ran hot. “You’re forgetting—”

“No, you’re forgetting that you aren’t him.”

It was like acid to my gut. I hated that she knew me well enough to push that button. I couldn’t let her. “I know damn good and well who I am,” I said, keeping my tone even, though rage was coursing through my veins like wildfire. “Someone willing to do whatever it takes. Someone you don’t know anymore.”

Her whole face twitched as if I’d slapped her. “And whose fault is that?” she whispered.

I kept my expression rock solid and unreadable—a practiced skill.

Charli nodded, and I watched some of the fight leave her as pieces of the old pain trickled in. She tried to hide it, averting her gaze to stare at a random spot beyond me, but I knew her buttons, too.

“You still refuse to give me the dignity of an explanation,” she said, sounding resigned. Her eyes came back up to meet mine, her own version of a glazed-over shield firmly in place. “You can fuck me, but you can’t be honest with me?” she scoffed with a shrug. “I have whores for that.”

I clenched my jaw so hard it hurt as she stormed away.

I counted to ten, then followed her. Partly out of duty and partly to piss her off, but also—I had to. She was the first thing I’d thought of when I returned to town, and damn if my ass didn’t land there at Cameo an hour later. It was dangerous, this need for her. Distraction was deadly in my business.

I wanted to keep her out of all of it. I hadn’t been avoiding her for the past week for my health, but because I’d been working my ass off. Not only had I flown to Mexico to seal an arms deal that had nearly gone south (literally), but before that I’d been pounding the pavement with my guys day and night to try and figure out who was responsible for Jade’s murder. I may sit in the big office now, but I wasn’t above getting my hands dirty again. After all, my dad hadn’t just handed me the keys to the kingdom. I’d earned that shit the hard way, with blood, sweat, and tears, including my first hit the night I’d driven Charli away, proving my ultimate loyalty to the family and the organization. I hadn’t looked back since.

At least, not until she’d walked back into Cameo.

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