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Chapter Fifteen
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Betty “Good morning, Betty.” Julian Hawthorne says, smiling. “I didn’t think you’d come in this morning, but Kristoff informed me that you’ve never missed a shift since you started working here.”Yeah. Because I know the implication. But…I shake my head, pushing that thought aside. There’s something more perplexing. “What are you doing here?”Julian squints. “What am I doing here? I bought the place last night, remember? And you work for me now. But I have other plans…” he trails off, turning around and heading back into the bar. I stand in the open doorway—dazed and confused—for seconds. Then the pieces begin to reform. Last night. Yup. I ran into Julian Hawthorne leaving the bar. He got me in, then vanished, leaving me with Andy who I wasn’t interested in dancing with. Then I decided to leave, but Kristoff and a freaking big dude stopped me. Okay…Then Julian showed up. And he said he’d bought the bar. Along with several others. And—“A dollar?!” The question flies out of my
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Betty My head is splitting. And the sun is streaming in through the curtains I forgot to close when I left my apartment last night. “Ughhh.” I groan with my eyes still closed, reaching for my pillow that moved to the edge of the bed sometime during the night…or morning, rather. My blind search turns up nothing, but I’m too tired to open my eyes. My mouth is dry. My throat is parched. And for some reason, my head feels like it’s going to explode, even though I’m sure I only had what…two, three drinks? Surely I wasn’t that much of a lightweight? It’s been ages since I had a glass of anything over 5% alcohol, even though I work in a bar. Precisely because I work in a bar, actually. The cheap beer, the overinflated prices of other alcohol options, the leering patrons with wandering hands and gazes…Everything was enough to put me off drinking forever. Or turn me into a raging alcoholic. I chose the former. Why does the sun have to come out so early in the morning? The mornings
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Betty I tilt my head to the side, my mouth pursing as I stare at Julian. His employee? When did that happen? I didn’t agree to anything, nor did I sign a contract. “Mr. Volkov is not selling the bar,” Kristoff barks, his eyes narrowing. Ohh.So that’s what he meant.He still has plans of getting the bar. I sigh quietly. Julian Hawthorne isn’t just reckless. He’s stubborn too.“But Mr. Volkov and I have already concluded our plans,” Julian replies, his voice remaining infuriatingly calm. “It’s not in writing yet, but you know he doesn’t give a fuck about that, don’t you? He’d rather carve his contracts in blood.”A snort escapes me before I can stop it, and I quickly bite the inside of my cheek to keep from laughing. There’s nothing funny about Volkov torturing people to yield to his demands, though. Unfortunately, Julian notices.His eyes flick toward me, and for the briefest second, there is a pleased glint in them, as though my reaction has somehow entertained him. The c
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Betty“You didn’t tell me that you knew Julian Hawthorne?”I ignore Andy’s loud voice in my ear and the couple that bumps into me as they cling to each other on the dance floor, their tongues deep down each other’s throats as if they are the only two people in the entire club.Andy’s friends have all gone, each of them dancing with women they picked up at the bar, and I was going to sit on my own, but somehow he found me and I couldn’t say no to one dance.One dance turned to two.Two turned to four.Now my feet are aching, my ears are ringing from the music, and I don’t know how to tell him that I’m not interested in having a conversation when I can barely hear myself think.I shake my head. “I don’t know him. He saw me outside the club when I was leaving and offered to get me inside because he owns the place.”Andy’s brows scrunch together, and he cups a hand around his ear as he leans closer to me. “What?”I groan under my breath before raising my voice. “I need to use the restroom
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Julian Dmitri scoffs even louder, his eyes narrowing with spite. “You think I don’t know your kind? You’re a Hawthorne. You make empty promises to get what you want, and then you fuck the other person over.”“Empty promises?” I shake my head, with a puzzled frown between my brows. “Why would I do that? And the Hawthornes keep our word. Whatever you may have heard about us,” I wave my hand around, “—is just street talk. Everybody likes to make the other guy sound like the worse guy so they can feel better about themselves.”He doesn’t buy it. His scowl deepens instead, and he leans forward, his mouth moving like he’s chewing something. I realize, with seconds to spare, that I’m about to get hit by his bodily fluid. It lands on the floor next to me. Fucking yuck. “Now, now,” I click my tongue. “This is not the way to be friendly, is it?”“I don’t want to be friends with you.”I purse my lips thoughtfully. “Fair. I don’t think I could be friends with you, either. But you don’t have
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Julian Betty. Her name sounds nothing like the kind of person standing beside me, with hair that looked like it’d been marked with a streak of wildfire, the same streak that she was trying so desperately hard to hide. “You have a line of people growing angrier by the second, Betty,” I drawl, watching the ones behind try to peek out to see what’s happening without losing their spot. “Unless you don’t mind getting glares all through the night for ruining their own night, I suggest you make a choice soon.”She glares at me from the side of her eye. “You’re the one who dragged me into this.”“Do you want to leave, then?” I ask. She bites her lip hesitantly. No. I can read the answer clearly written on her face. “Does it matter?” Betty fires back. “If I leave, then they don’t get to enter and I’ll look like an asshole.”“You have the choice of claiming them as your friends,” I point out, “but you’ll be dealing with a bunch of people who think it’s unfair. What are you going to do?”I
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A black, sleek Mercedes car. Of course. Adrian Hawthorne, one of New York’s finest and wealthiest heirs, wouldn’t choose anything less. The car I rode in when he took me from the auction house was more expensive, with plush leather chairs that melted my bones as I touched them. I’d forgott
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I’m tongue-tied. “I—” I stammer for the first second, unable to look at him. “It was a mistake.” A genuine one. And it wouldn’t have happened if he hadn’t said we should sleep in the same bed. “It won’t happen again,” I tell him, lifting my head to face him. “As long as I have my own
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The sun is shining directly in my face when I wake up the next morning. Not wake up, actually. I open my eyes to the bright, stinging light from the drapes drawn open, grab the pillow, and slam it over my head like WWE. I used to watch it when I was younger, after my mother died. I thought if
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“You can do this. You can—” My courage vanishes the second I look at my reflection in the bathroom mirror. “I can’t,” I whisper. My hair is twisted into a messy bun, damp strands clinging to my neck. I spent the last thirty minutes in the bathtub, scrubbing my skin raw like I could wash ton
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