Ruthless Control by L.V. Lane

Author:L.V. Lane [Lane, L.V.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-12-18T06:00:00+00:00

His office was as I remembered it. When I last stood here, I had been living the life of a non-dynamic and working at a smart coffee house. My life had been a precarious balancing act. It was still precarious, and I still did not know what the future held. For a brief moment, I had allowed myself to imagine the freedom to escape. Maybe leave for another world where no one knew me, and I could live without fear.

Two black-suited floor managers stood to either side of the door. Neither of them spared me a glance.

I didn’t linger on them either. A black cushion had been placed on the floor beside the couch, and I knew instantly what it was for. I stopped, and so did Lucian, and I could feel his intense study.

He waited, giving me time to come to terms with what it meant. What had I been thinking? That I might sit beside him like his equal? I wasn’t his equal, I was his pet, and I wore his collar around my throat. He had drugged me and confessed that he never meant to give me up.

I allowed him to guide me over to the low seating arrangement where the cushion waited for me to kneel. Beyond the floor to ceiling windows, the nightclub was busy. Like Chimera, it never stopped. I had never been part of that world, but Lucian owned both it and me.

“What happens to the discarded pets?”

He didn’t answer for the longest time, but then the corners of his eyes crinkled, and he said, “They make their new masters very happy.”

I was still reeling from that statement as he relaxed into the seat, and I stood there like a fool trying to come to terms with all of this. Expression expectant, he waited.

I knelt.

“Good girl,” he said, stroking his big hand over my hair before letting it rest against his thigh. The end of my leash lay over his muscular leg, and his hand sat on top.

I felt—connected to him through that lead, the collar around my throat wasn’t tight, but it had a presence that I could not switch my mind off from.

“We are bringing him through now,” a floor manager said.

Lucian nodded, and soon after, the largest Alpha I had ever seen entered the office—tall, dark hair, eyes narrowed, and radiating danger.

My lashes lowered, and I plastered myself against Lucian’s leg. “He’s harmless, Pet,” Lucian said, and I detected amusement in his tone. “It’s her first time in a collar,” he added.

My entire body was stiff with tension, and I stared at the end of my lead, now wrapped in Lucian’s other hand so he could stroke his fingers through my hair.

“That dickhead you have working for you is taking his fucking time,” Ethan said by way of greeting, the seat creaking as his body settled opposite to us.

Lucian laughed. I had pressed so closely against his leg that I shook with it.

After this fraught opening, they proceeded to discuss a man by the name of Erison Tsing.

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