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the
secretary asked in a sweet, cartoonish voice.
     
    “She’s here to see Mr. Blake, but
I’m not positive if she has an appointment,” she informed the other secretary
before she headed back to her desk.
     
    “Is this his office?” Lux asked.
     
    “Yes, is he expecting you?” she
asked sweetly.
     
    “Yes,” she lied with a straight face.
     
    “You’re name please?”
     
    “Lux Hart.”
     
    The secretary picked up her phone
and dialed her boss.
     
    “There is a Ms. Lux Hart here to
see you, Sir.” She relayed the message in the sweetest of tones.
     
    “Send her in,” Dean said
dispassionately.
     
    The secretary held the door open
as Lux sashayed into Dean’s office and then quickly closed it behind her. Once
they were alone, Lux glared accusingly at Dean for a moment as she held up the
large ball of tape. She strolled across the room with the air of a queen, despite
the butterflies wreaking havoc in her belly. She stopped in front of his desk
and dropped the large, sticky ball down on his paperwork.
     
    “What is this?” he barked.
     
    “ This belongs to you.”
     
    “You have to the count of three
to get it out of here,” he warned her.
     
    “Save your count; I’m not moving
it.” She glared at him as she handed him the paperwork.
     
    “Excuse me?”
     
    “I want you to sign this, then I
want you to get the rest of that red tape out of my building. Then I
want you to leave us the hell alone before I expose all of your secrets!
You have no idea the mental trauma you’re causing everyone!”
     
    “It’s just a record store; tell
everyone to download there music like everyone else,” he mocked.
     
    She tried to count silently to
ten before she jumped across his desk and decked him.
     
    “It’s not just a record store!”
she hissed through clenched teeth.
     
    “Oh yes… I almost forgot about
the lounge.”
     
    “It is so much more; if you’d
even taken the time to look inside you would know that. If you’re trying to
eradicate the building; you should at least know the extent of what you’re
destroying. It’s way more than just a record store and a lounge.” Her patience
was dwindling by the second.
     
    “You’re wasting my time; I’ll
never sign.” He was angry but somewhat amused by her audacity as well as her
passion. Despite his need to crush her, he also wanted to dominate her; she was
turning him on at rapid speed. He could feel his cock lengthen towards her
direction.
     
    “Then I will be forced to go
public with your affairs. The governor’s wife is bad enough, but what you did
to your last competitor is also damaging. Not to mention the long list of
disgusting deeds you have committed over the years.” She smirked.
     
    “Then by all means, let the world
know how depraved I am while you let them know how low you’d sink to win.”
     
    “That’s not going to work on me.
I fought too hard for the music hall to care about stuff like that. Unlike you,
I don’t have the public eye on me due to my family’s celebrity stature and
wealth. I also don’t have a family established enough to tarnish with my
scandalous affairs.”
     
    “You don’t know anything about my
family.” He rose from his chair and walked around the desk to stand beside her.
     
    She was suddenly over powered by
his smell. The appealing scent of freshly washed flesh drifted into her
nostrils. He didn’t wear cologne or anything more elaborate than soap, but the
simplistic smell was ruggedly appealing to her. She’d expected some overpriced
cologne or something equally obnoxious, probably something flecked with gold.
Surprisingly, she was just as impressed that he’d unknowingly proved her wrong,
as she was by the fact that he could make soap smell so fucking sexy.
     
    He took another small step closer,
and she felt the room shift with her unease. He dominated her with his size,
his muscular body towered over her five foot five frame. She suddenly felt very
small and was