Page 12 of Taking Over the Dark

“It’s Mr. Barone to you.”

His voice is shaking now. “Mr. Barone… I’m sorry you’re having to see me this way. M-my Dom was on a shopping spree with my credit card, and?—”

I cut him off again. “For being gagged, you sure can get some words out…” We’ll have to fix that. “I’ll be sure to send your wife my favorite divorce lawyer and make sure she gets every penny she deserves out of your spineless ass.” Circling him like a shark that’s found their next meal, I intentionally step around him, loudly, so he’s aware of my proximity.

Zamir’s brows pull together, and I know he’s wondering how I got the cheating information. Smith’s name popped up on some of our Dominatrix’s client lists, and some of the Doms have had their way with him. His wife was never willing to take control, so he sought it out behind her back. I’ll be sure to sendher a free year-long membership to Sins to rub some hot sex in his face.

No! What would be better is her dominating another man while making him watch.

Leaning into the pathetic man in front of me, I grit my teeth. “I need you listening and giving us answers, Smith. We don’t have much time and would hate to see these pictures of you tied up like this, making it out to your colleagues.”

* Ronald - Falling in Reverse, Tech N9ne, Alex Terrible

* mess of me, sexually - Artemas

TEN

ZAMIR

Noah’s snickering into the coms. “Boss, there’s a man in assless chaps heading toward the office. He’s rounding the corner now. I think it’s one of the guys from Sins, and this might be who left him in the office like he was.”

Yep, there’s the scream…

?*“He’s found our friends outside.” I shrug and head to the door, opening it with my gun drawn. No one that screams like that from a dead body or two is going to be any threat… but we can never be too sure.

The fear in his eyes when he finally realizes I’m standing there with a gun to his head is quite funny.

Oh, I’ve missed this.

“Can I help you? We’re a litt?—”

“Jack! Jack, are you okay?” This brave fuck does have some balls on him, after all.

Marcello commands me, “Bring him in here. He’s going to be very useful.” Never taking my eyes off our new friend, I hear Marcello smacking Jack’s face to grab his attention. “I’m going to ask this once. Who have you been working with?”

Cello lets a few beats pass, then an audible smack echoes through the office, and Jack groans. “Kev, are you good toperform? And that performance be recorded?” I guess the man in front of me is Kev, and he has his brows in his hair at Marcello’s question. Most people wouldn’t dare say no to Marcello Barone. But with Kev working at Sins, I would imagine consent being necessary… but this is the man that stalked Ellie, removed her birth control, replaced it with a tracking device, and happily fucked her after, while she wasn’t coherent.

Nothing Marcello could do would shock me.

“Yeah…” Kev’s voice shakes as he answers. He looks at me in question, so I wave him into the room with my gun and slam the door behind him.

Marcello starts to berate him more, “I could just stream this live to the whole city, Jack. Actually, my hacker is one of the best in the business, so why stop with the city? We could let this whole country know how much of a pathetic slut you are for Kev here. Which doesn’t happen to be your wife…”

Jack’s whimpering, bordering on begging. “Please don’t. What do you need to know?”

“Who was working with Igor getting those women and children in here on his plane? Into your fucking port, Jack. I’m not fucking dumb. You know who the fuck it is, and if you don’t, you need to run your goddamn airport better.”

“The only person I ever heard Igor talking to, besides his men, was someone named Agron.” As I hear my dad’s name roll off Jack’s lips, all the blood pumping through my body runs cold.

With the most unsettling smile, Marcello starts to lay his plan out. “I figured we were too late and missed the party, but then you popped up Kev.” He circles the tied-up man, gets to his back, and starts tightening the ball gag that’s around his face. “He didn’t want to tell me what I needed to hear, so there’s no need to be able to hear his whining and begging.” Marcello looks down his body in disgust and adds, “He’s thought of everything. Kev deserves a raise, Vin. His ass is already plugged and all.”

With his phone out, about to start recording this whole thing, Vin remarks, “Noted.”

“Act like we aren’t here, and continue as you were paid to.” I don’t miss the wink Marcello throws to Kev, implying there will be more of where that came from if he complies.

I walk my happy ass to the extra chair in the opposite corner of the office and get comfortable, more than ready to watch the show.

You will never take the voyeur out of me…

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