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He frowns.

“We should have gone slower,” he says and brings the towel, along with his dirty suit from the floor to the closet.

Do I sleep here now, or should I go back to my room? He answers for me by pulling back the covers and gesturing for me to get under them. I press myself to the end of the bed, but once he’s climbed in, he grabs me and drags me across the bed into him.

I swallow, unsure of what to say, what to think, how to feel. I’m not angry. I’m not filled with the hate I thought I’d have for him.

“Are you all right?” he asks quietly through the darkness.

“I’m fine. Are you?” I ask.

He chuckles and kisses the back of my head. “Go to sleep, Kasia.”

And unlike what I promised myself I would never do, I obey my husband.

Chapter Fourteen

Dominik

Last night won’t stop replaying in my mind. There’re complications between us, but then last night was easy. Kasia responds so quickly, so naturally to my touch, it’s hard not to get lost in her.

If I didn’t have to be in the city all day, I would have rolled her over this morning and taken her again. But I have things to do, information to gather.

That’s why I’m at the Katfish Klub, our newest investment, in the middle of the day. Jakub gets information better than anyone I know.

“This one?” Jakub waves over a woman from the wall. She hurries toward us in high heels, black stockings, and a shimmering dress.

“Jakub, how is she supposed to carry drinks in that get up?” I ask, waving my hand in her direction. She looks somewhat relieved that one of us is thinking. “Can you even breathe in that?” I ask her.

She looks to Jakub, who gives her a small nod. Permission to speak.

“Not easily, sir. It’s a little restrictive,” she says, running her hands over the leather corset.

“Fine. We’ll try again.” Jakub waves her away and plops down at the bar in the stool beside me. “I hate this place. Why did we buy it?”

“Because once you do what you do best, it will make us three times what the last owner was making.” I remind him. “And it gives us a legitimate business.”

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