Page 18 of Bourbon Kingdom
“I’m not going to look for anyone else,” Kace said, backing Lyla up. “It’s Lyla or no one.”
The two pains in my ass must have communicated beforehand, because they were a united front on Goldie’s behalf.
In a surprising moment of complete and utter weakness, I turned my seat so I could rest my elbows on my desk and run my hands over my face. I didn’t do emotion in front of people, but I was so fucking exhausted, I couldn’t help it.
“She’s not with me anymore,” I stated weakly. “I received a message from Rex; she’s with him.”
The room fell silent at my confession. I wasn’t sure what Lyla was thinking, but I could feel Kace’s eyes boring a hole through me. He knew about my past history with Rex and how losing my little one to him could bring down my stone façade in a matter of seconds, which it proved to do.
“How do you know?” Kace asked, sounding more confused than anything.
“Rex texted me that she was with him. Since he’s not the most trustworthy man, I checked around, and no one else has heard from her. That’s the only place she could be.”
“Shit,” Kace muttered.
“Rex, as in the guy she used to bone for money? No way, he was hot, but she wouldn’t go back to him. Although, he did offer her a life with him a little while back . . .” Lyla thought out loud.
“What?” I asked, fury starting to pour through me, washing out the debilitating pain of feeling weak and useless.
Startled, Lyla said, “When she first started here, Rex wanted to take her back, once he found out she was becoming a Jett Girl. He offered her a place to stay, so she didn’t have to stay with you. At the time, Rex didn’t know she was desperate for help.”
Vaguely, I remembered Goldie talking to Rex before I gave her a set. Was she taking him up on his offer now? After so long? That didn’t make sense.
“Fucking hell,” Kace said, as he ran his hand over his face.
“What?” Both Lyla and I asked at the same time.
He was silent for a second, and I was about to yell at him to spit it the fuck out, but he continued, “I bet you anything she’s trying to take down Rex’s club. Diego told me he told her what he knew about it. She said she wanted to protect you; without a doubt, that’s what she’s doing.”
Fucking hell was right.
Chapter Six
“Secrets”
GOLDIE
The last crack of Blane’s flog echoed against the walls as the girl he was pleasuring screamed in rapture from the orgasm that ripped through her.
What the hell did I just watch?
Whatever it was, I felt a little wrong for watching it, but watching the girl orgasm was hot, like if I had a cock, I would be stroking it right now.
From the corner of my eye, I looked at Rex to see that he was smiling brightly and purely satisfied with Blane’s performance with the fem-bot; I mean, how could he not be pleased? My armpits were sweating and my legs wanted to spread just from watching that.
“Well done,” Rex said, as he stood. “Please release her so she can meet me in the back. I hope you don’t mind, Kitten, since we are building a friendship now.”
I scrunched my face as I tried to comprehend what he was telling me.
“Don’t mind what?”
Rex pointedly looked down at his crotch and that’s when I noticed his arousal.
“You can take care of it if you want; I would prefer it, actually.”
Gah! Gross. I usually like a good old fashioned boner against the pants, but after the way Rex was practically panting during the whole demonstration and the creepy look on his face now, yeah, I couldn’t be more turned off. Lady boner shriveled up . . . good job, Rex.
“Uh, yeah, sure,” I replied, really not knowing what to say.
