Devastated by Em Brown

Author:Em Brown
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Wind Color Press
Published: 2018-10-23T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Sixteen

Ben’s whole body tightened. “He fucking touched her?”

“He grabbed her hand,” Moe, on the other end of the call, confirmed.

Ben looked out his office window at the Bay Bridge, fixing his attention on the structure to calm himself. He could kill the bloody wanker. What the hell was that motherfucker up to?

“Did she inform the authorities that Jake was in violation of his restraining order?” Ben asked.

“She made a call after the incident, but I couldn’t get close enough to hear what it was,” Moe replied. “I didn’t want her to notice me and wonder why I was hanging around.”

“How did she look afterward?”

“Shaken up a little but otherwise okay.”

Fucking Jake Whitehurst. After finishing with Moe, Ben called Bataar.

“You want daily reports on Jake,” Bataar guessed before Ben had said anything.

“I don’t want the fucker anywhere near Kimani,” Ben said. “Make sure your guys are in communication with each other so that what happened today doesn’t happen again. The dipshit knows he can’t touch me, so he’s going after her instead.”

“I’m on it, boss.”

Ben hung up, but he didn’t feel mollified. Part of him wanted to confront Jake, even let the wanker come at him if it meant he would leave Kimani alone. He could threaten Jake, but that would only make Jake more passive-aggressive, and that kind of blustering and chest thumping was for men whose brains weren’t large enough to command their penises.

The screen on his desk phone indicated he had an incoming call from the Dean of the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Ben let it go to voicemail so that he could continue his thoughts on Jake. He had never like the guy, but unlike Kimani, he’d underestimated what Jake was capable of. What was it going to take to get the guy to leave Kimani alone?

Leaning back in his chair, Ben closed his eyes to slow the swirl of thoughts and emotions. Bumping into Kimani had kicked up a sandstorm of conflicting desires.

It had not been an easy weekend.

After deciding he was going to The Lair, he had told Eumie he was going to put her up at a hotel or, if she wanted, he would fly her back to Hong Kong.

She had not received it well.

“What’s the matter with you men?” she’d asked while she threw her things into her suitcase. “I thought we had a nice arrangement, but too much sex and you freak out that we’re in a relationship?”

He didn’t say anything. It was better she believed that than the real reason he didn’t want her around anymore.

But even if she wasn’t especially astute, she had a woman’s intuition.

“Or is it someone else?” she had realized, narrowing her eyes at him. “You planning to go pussy-hopping?”

“None of your business if I did,” he replied.

“Who is she? Don’t tell me it’s that black girl I saw you talking to today? Does your father know you’re banging a black person?”

“I don’t care what my father does or doesn’t know.”

She had given him a look of disgust, and he’d left her to finish packing on her own.

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