The Drazen World: Need (Kindle Worlds Novella) by Liz Durano

Author:Liz Durano [Durano, Liz]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kindle Worlds
Published: 2017-07-09T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Seven

Jonathan

When I told Sharon that I didn’t want to know their names, I meant it. It was bad enough knowing one of them, and I didn’t want any more to climb out of the woodwork and destroy any of the groundwork Sharon and I had set up so far. I liked her. She was just the distraction I needed, someone who’d allow me to be myself in the bedroom and teach me a thing or two about what I really wanted. Her submission intrigued me. It was so natural. But at the same time, I wasn’t about to determine her wardrobe and menu choices. There would be no punishment waiting for her if she didn’t wear her hair a certain way or brush her teeth at exactly seven in the morning and seven at night. I liked to keep my domination of her in the bedroom, behind closed doors.

But I had a problem and his name was Sebastian Lowery. He was determined to make it hell for one of my properties only because he couldn’t stomach the idea of another man taking what he believed was his. Sharon never said anything about filing a restraining order against him. She didn’t tell me she was crashing at a friend’s apartment because she couldn’t go home. But she didn’t need to tell me these things. All it took were a few phone calls, internet searches and emails. Lucky for him, restraining orders–and open code housing violations–were a matter of public record if one knew where to look. Did Sebastian even know that?

Instead, the asshole was determined to rally other tenant advocacy groups to protest a new development one of my companies was undertaking. He claimed it would displace hundreds of residents at a rent-controlled apartment complex a block away. He even had the gall to threaten me about contacting the media, making sure that my name was right there for all to see unless I left Sharon alone. It was the last thing I needed after my breakdown at the shareholder meeting a few weeks ago. Shit like that had a bad habit of spreading and I couldn’t risk it.

I should be glad that the press hadn’t gotten wind of it–not yet. But if they did, all they had to do was keep digging until they’d strike gold and my credibility would be in the toilet. Rachel, Westonwood…my ass would be toast. I could lose millions, no, billions, in deals and there was no way I was going to let that happen. A punk like Sebastian Lowery was not taking Jonathan Drazen III down.

With one more day in San Francisco before I had to fly out to Seoul, I had to make sure everything would be handled as soon as possible without my name ever being mentioned. It meant more emails and more phone calls but I was running out of time. My assistant, Kristen, had been up all night helping me get everything I needed and she’d probably fallen asleep on her computer as soon as I told her I’d take over from here on.

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