All Chapters of Subdued : Chapter 1 - Chapter 6

It was raining the first time she saw him. Aria was running out of her apartment lobby to meet up with her shift at work and he had been running in, away from from the dreary weather. Their eyes had met, or so she thought. She had come to a sudden halt and it had taken Pete honking loudly to get her moving again, but her eyes had remained on him. His short hair and full beard was wet and the drops of water running down his face made her feel strangely jealous. She wanted to be the water. She wanted to run down his body and feel the texture of his skin.His white t-shirt clung to him, showing off a well muscled torso, at least it looked well muscled from the few seconds that Aria stared at him. He stared at her as he ran past, and that look did terrible things to her insides.She turned back to watch him run inside, and kept staring as he waved to Mitch; their security man, who was also hurrying out of the lobby. "Bitch, if you don't get in this instant, I'll drive off without you!"

The lights went out and she could hear the MC as he started hyping the new spender. Aria felt like her head would explode from all the noise around her. It didn't help that most of the attention tonight hadn't been on the dancers but on the guys spraying money for girls to pick and those lighting bottles of expensive alcohol. As a result, the stage had not been making money. She watched her colleagues as they made big bucks in tips for carrying caskets out and serving expensive bottles of drinks. That could have been her, Aria almost screamed. The money on the floor wasn't even up to a hundred thousand naira and it would be split four ways before she had to split again with Odogwu. She was looking at about twenty five thousand or less. Maybe forty if the man gave her the fifteen they agreed on.At the moment, it didn't seem likely that he would because Odogwu had spent the better part of the evening scowling at them. She had been forced to actually do stunts on the pole to get his fr

When Kachi stood up, Aria could swear her heart dipped. He was so tall and muscular, like someone who spent all their spare time working out. He towered over her, his eyes cold and his full lips in a straight line as he stared down at her. Usually, she hated the feeling of being looked down on, but at the moment, his cold gaze sent goosebumps all over her skin and made her stomach tighten.She took a step closer to measure their height difference, finding that her head only came to the middle of his chest, and she had heels on."Back off!" His voice rang and she immediately blinked, getting a hold of herself. "don't come close to me, don't touch me without my permission either." She took a few steps back and stared at him."I wasn't going to touch you, I was just—""Walk," he interrupted and his brows drew together."What?""Time is money, start walking."Aria huffed but began to move, making conscious effort to sway her hips a little. She found Kunle in front of one of the rooms and