White Nights by Zaires Anna & Pauls Charmaine

Author:Zaires, Anna & Pauls, Charmaine
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Grey Eagle Publications
Published: 2021-09-14T00:00:00+00:00

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After dodging Yuri, who’s waiting outside the hospital in the car again, I come home with the big box of flowers under my arm, only to find another one waiting on my doorstep. I’m about to pick it up when Yuri speaks behind me.

“Refusing my service isn’t helping either of us.”

I jump, almost dropping the box. “Shit. You scared me.”

“Sorry,” he says, not looking one bit sorry. “If I don’t drive you, I don’t get paid.”

“What?” I gape at him. “Alex can’t do that.”

“He’s my boss,” he says in a dry tone. “He can do whatever he wants. So either you pay me, or you let me drive you. I have mouths to feed, you know.”

“You have a family?” Now I just feel awful.

“What?” he says, lifting his shoulders up to his ears. “A man like me can’t have a family?”

“What? No!” Balancing the flowers in one arm, I bend to pick up the box on my doorstep. “That’s not what I meant. I’m just shocked that Alex would stoop that low.”

“He’s not a bad man. He just wants to save you the trouble of commuting in the cold.” He raises a brow. “What can it hurt?”

He has no idea. What do I have to do to get Alex out of my life? Maybe I should just sleep with him until he gets me out of his system. But no. That voice of self-preservation holds me back. He may fuck me out of his system, but he’ll only get deeper under my skin.

“You’re serious?” I scrutinize Yuri’s face. “He won’t pay you if I don’t let you drive me?”

He doesn’t so much as blink. “No work, no pay.”

“Fine,” I say with annoyance. “Until I’ve sorted this out with Alex, I’ll take a ride to work and home, but that’s it. When I’m free, I’m on my own.”

“You’ll have to take that up with—”

“Yes, I know,” I say, seething. “With Mr. Volkov.”

“Exactly.” Yuri’s flat smile says he’s happy that I finally got it through my thick skull.

I exhale through my nose. Inhale the good, exhale the bad. “I’ll see you tomorrow morning then.”

“Good,” he says, as if talking to a child. “Now go inside. I’m supposed to wait until you’ve locked the door behind you.”

I all but slam the door in his face—not that it’s his fault I’m angry. The reason for my irritability is the man who won’t take no for an answer. What will it take? A restraining order?

Even as I think it, I can’t imagine doing that to Alex. It’s not as if he’s stalking me. He’s just not used to being told no. I bet panties drop at the flick of his fingers.

Dumping everything on the kitchen table, I call my mom to see how she’s doing while I put the lilies in water. The flowers are too stunning to let them shrivel and die.

My mom sounds only a little better, but when I propose to come over and cook for us, she profusely declines.

“Why?”

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