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Chapter Seventeen
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2026-09-23 02:36:49
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BettyI stare at my reflection in the mirror, my hands restless as I brush invisible lint off the dress, while my pulse races, feeding the anxious knot tightening in my stomach.The person in the mirror doesn’t look like me.I mean, she does—same facial features, same body proportions, but that’s where the resemblance ends. She’s wearing the most expensive dress I’ve ever owned, a dress worth far more than all of my clothes put together and a couple months’ rent.After Julian sent me money to go shopping—which had left me staring at my phone with my jaw practically dropping—he gave me the address of a luxury boutique with a French name I couldn’t pronounce, let alone remember.The dresses…Stunning.Every single one of them looked as though it had been custom-made, as though someone had spent hours obsessing over every stitch and seam. The manager in charge was friendly—to the point of having me try on twenty different dresses before I finally settled on a dark red gown, with a skirt
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Julian “How is anyone supposed to take me seriously if you call me pigtails while at work?”I contemplate telling her they won’t have a choice—because I’m their boss and they’ll have to do whatever I say…But the look on her face when I told her I preferred pigtails, that annoyed but somehow confused expression, was too good to pass up. “Do you want to be taken seriously?” I ask, flippantly. Betty glares at me, her eyes narrowed and her chin jutting out. She looked adorable, all fired up. Or maybe I was just an asshole who enjoyed toying with people. Alina would have an opinion about that. She would also tell me to cut it out, but thankfully, she wasn’t here right now. “Who wouldn’t?”“Okay,” I nod, like I’d thought about it and agreed with her. “I’ll call you Betty in front of the people you want to take you seriously. And when you’re not being serious—you’ll be Pigtails.”She gives me an unimpressed look. “When do I resume? What do you plan on doing with the place—tear the walls
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Betty Hard. And soft.I can feel the muscles bunching under Julian’s shirt and the way his biceps jump under my fingers that are wrapped around them. Not intentional, by the way. We were falling. And the only thing I could do, other than find some magical way to stop the rapid descent, was cling to him. Which……my thumb strokes his arm as a smile curls my lips, like a guilty pleasure. I knew he was fit under his shirt, because he filled it out properly, with those fine calves and toned legs hidden under his pants that are now caged by my thighs. But, mhm, it was different when I could actually feel every bit of it, hard but in a firm cushioning way. Like a bed I could lie on for a while longer…except the bed was making my stomach flutter and my thighs warm enough to get my blood pumping upward. Pumping into one spot, that was now softly pulsing. Ah—Nope! I shake my head, kicking the inappropriate thought into the gutter. No way I’m lusting after a man after I just sent the b
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Julian I didn’t think getting Betty on my side was going to be easy, but my head is aching right now. “…and this,” she points to a section of the contracts she drew up herself, her finger tracing the words. “I’d like to amend it.” I resist the urge to dig my fingers into my forehead or reach for one of Volkov’s suspiciously sourced bottles. “Okay,” I nod slowly. “What do you want it to be?” “Thirty vacation days instead of fifteen.” “Sure.” She withdraws her finger and raises her gaze to my face. “You’re going to give me thirty days?” Why does she sound surprised? “That’s what you want, isn’t it? Thirty days. That’s a month. I’m sure I can do without you for that long.” I realize I said the wrong thing the second her mouth flattens and her arms cross over her chest. “You can do without me for that long? You’re running a business, aren’t you? Are you going to get someone to fill in for me during that month—and then fire them after?” Her tone doesn’t spare me any of th
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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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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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