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embarrassingly stimulated by the feeling. Normally, she preferred
to be the dominating force in the room, but somehow this felt just as
comfortable. The thought was unpleasant, but the feeling it caused was
exquisite.
     
    “Get away from him; he’s
dangerous,” she warned herself.
     
    “Your family is public domain;
all I have to do is look you up. Everyone knows you.” She took a small step
back.
     
    “You don’t know anything.”
     
    “I know enough.”
     
    “What do you think you know?”
     
    “I know you’re a womanizer who
doesn’t have respect for wedding vows. Speaking of which, let’s get back to the
governor’s wedding vows and how you violated them, shall we?”
     
    “If you leak those photos, this
will get nasty. You should quit while you’re ahead, I am the last man you would
ever want to go to war with,” he warned her in no uncertain terms.
     
    “Is that a threat?” She raised
her eyebrows dramatically.
     
    “Yes.” He nodded calmly.
     
    “Well your threats won’t work
either; you don’t scare me.” She unintentionally puffed out her chest and
raised her chin.
     
    “You should be scared of
me.” He took another step towards her.
     
    The only thing she was scared of
was her body’s unusual reaction to him and the way it seemed to be working
without her brain’s consent. She was unexplainably drawn to him and felt her
wayward body attempt to shift towards his direction. She couldn’t understand
her body’s horrific state of confusion nor could she understand the
overwhelming lust building inside.
     
    “This is the man that is
trying to destroy The Music Hall,” she repeated to herself as she cleared
her throat.
     
    “I’m not scared of you, and
you’re foolish if you think that you can intimidate me into giving up that
building. I’ll keep digging until I find something that hurts. I will never let
that building go,” she vowed with enough passion to ignite his.
     
    He wanted to continue arguing with
her, but he needed her to stop. His rage was tempting his lust and soon he
would lose the little control he’d been holding onto. She was as stubborn as
she was mouthy, and he was caught between shaking her and stabbing his tongue
down her throat to shut her up. He wanted to be the one who forced her to stop.
He wanted to take her down to the floor, slam his painful cock deep inside of
her, and fuck her until she changed her tone.
     
    “Neither will I; it’s an ideal
location,” he said while trying to refrain from grabbing her. Her mouth would
be the death of her. “It’s not the building itself that I’m interested in; your
property is but a link in the chain. I want that whole block. As you know, a
few of your fellow business owners have already sold to me. Now I need the
biggest lot on the block… I need that building.” 
     
    “You won’t get it without a
fight.”
     
    “I would love to fight you,” he
admitted.
     
    “Then I guess we’re at a
standoff.” She crossed her arms and narrowed her eyes.
     
    “We don’t have to be. You are a
beautiful girl. When this is over and the building is demolished, I’d be more
than willing to make it up to you.” He ran his finger down her cheek, but she
immediately slapped his hand away.
     
    She knew by his reaction that no
one had ever reacted so negatively to his touch before.
     
    “Don’t get pervy.”
     
    “Pervy? I didn’t even mention
sex.”
     
    “Then don’t get charming. It
won’t work on me,” she said with confidence.
     
    “Are you saying that I’m
charming?” he asked as he raised his right brow.
     
    “I’m saying that I’m immune to
the crock of shit that you consider sweet talk,” she elaborated.
     
    “You’re even sexier when you’re
pissed.” He ran the tip of his finger up her forearm, but she swatted his hand
away again.
     
    “Are you seriously standing here
talking to me about something as insignificant as my looks when I am trying to
save The Music