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She screamed, “No! No!” as another orgasm overcame her, her breast pressed into my palm as her back arched, and I tumbled over the cliff with her.

Her cries of pleasure complimented mine as the sweet melody of our joined release brought heaven into this little room.

She gasped for air, and so did I. I held her close, and she allowed it, her palms covering the backs of mine as I pulled her tight against me, her thighs shaking from my lover’s abuse.

For long minutes, we stood there, joined in the afterglow.

I would have stayed there forever, but it wasn’t good enough.Thishad not been good enough.

Not until she was upstairs, in my suite, taking toys up her pretty pussy while I watched.

I pulled my cock out from inside her, the warm, sweetness of our joined release dripping down her thighs.

With a firm swat on her bare backside, I picked up the papers, and piled them up. Without bothering to put away my dick, I went to the scanner on the shelf, and made a copy.

I handed it to her, as she looked at me with venom in her gaze, her trousers still down around her thighs. She swiped them from my hand, the papers loudly rustling as she fumbled to fix her clothes.

Without a word, she stomped to the door. Before she could step through it and slam it shut on our blissful union, I called out, “Pleasure doing business with you!”

Chapter Seven

Jazz

The next morning, I dropped the papers off at Barkada Industries, then received an urgent call that I had to be at our newly purchased docks. I avoided Jareth, because I knew he would try to ask me why, after all this time, the Greens had finally accepted our bid.

I couldn’t tell him. Not until I had found a suitable lie.

If I told him the truth, then Kieran O’Malley would never be found breathing. An outcome I should have wanted, but didn’t.

I went to the docks, driving the gold Audi A6, winding through the narrow streets of New York. The people who say it’s hard to drive in the city have never driven in Manila.Thatis a high stress environment. NYC taxi drivers were quite pleasant because they gave a shit aboutnotkilling themselves or their passengers.

It takes two to make an accident, and the person who cares the least always has the advantage.

The docks were laid out in long rows that jutted out into the water, lined with rails, with warehouses. The entrance wasgated by a menacing chain link fence that reminded me of a penitentiary.

Shipping was big business in this city. This was prime real estate. This one had a large, historic building that was the size of an aircraft hangar made of red brick with victorian crown molding around the high windows. It was the reason I had pitched so hard for the property. I wanted that building. I wanted that to be the spot of our underground Circuit.

This would be the site of my championship arena!

A man in a black suit was standing at the entrance of the chain link, his hands clasped in front of him, a bodyguard’s earpiece coiled over the conch of his ear.

“Miss Barkada?” he asked, with a nod as I approached.

“Yes.”

He stepped aside, opening the gate. “Come on through, ma’am. They’re waiting for you in the main building.”

With a twitch of his hand, he indicated the site of my soon-to-be arena, where the best fighters would come to rake in the dollars of rich, blood-thirsty gamblers.

I went in through a side door, already picturing the octagon I could place in the middle of this building. This would be my coliseum! My area. My world to conquer.

Sunlight came in from the high windows, though the walls up to twenty feet high were completely blank, blocking the view of the outside.

The place was dark, save for a single chair in the middle of the room, with a sad fluorescent light shining down from above.

I squinted, looking to see the occupant and almost laughed. “Feldon?”

He moaned, fighting against restraints that I couldn’t see. His hands and feet were bound by the chair, and duct tape covered his mouth. There was a wet stain, and aroma waftingfrom his clothes that suggested he had soiled, or at least wet himself.

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