Page 66 of Dominate Me

Chapter Sixteen

Jensen

I was elbow-deep in law briefs, clicking away at my computer and trying not to watch the clock tick by.

An hour ago I’d heard Haley arrive for her meeting with Ron. Since I hadn’t been able to concentrate all morning, wondering how in the hell I’d become so fucked up over a woman, I closed my blinds so I didn’t see her.

It didn’t mean my dick didn’t get excited when I heard her voice as she responded to something Ron said while they walked down the hall.

I remained sitting in order to not make her uncomfortable again. Ron had discovered quite a bit during his investigation into the lawsuit from her ex-husband. While I also wanted to handle not only the suit, but the miserly little prick that was trying to make Haley’s life miserable, I forced myself to stay out of that, too.

While always legal, my ways of getting convictions and winning cases weren’t always the cleanest methods. I had contacts all over the state who could do dirty work while allowing me and my clients plausible deniability.

Ron didn’t work that way even though he had used a private investigator I’d practically forced on him for Haley’s case.

I was long past caring that he thought there was something going on between Haley and me. Hell, he’d see it for himself anyway when she came with me to the fundraising benefit I always hosted in my father’s honor.

It was the only weekend each year my mother left sunny San Diego to return to the dredges of Michigan. She’d moved away shortly after his death, insisting she wanted to move on to someplace new, someplace warm. While I didn’t fault her, I did hate that she was almost an entire country away from me.

Haley didn’t know my mom was coming and I hadn’t mentioned it. She was hesitant enough to meet my friends and business partners so soon that I figured siccing my mother on her would make her run far away, and she’d do it quickly.

The sound of footsteps filtered through my closed door and just hoping it was Haley coming to see me made my dick twitch.

Yeah...I wasn’t going to get anything done until Haley showed up, let me have my way with her like I desperately wanted, and then let me take her out for dinner.

That was the plan.

I had the rest of the night planned, too, because as much as it’d been killing me all week long not to take her ass like I wanted, to mark her as mine in every way, I loved teasing her...making her wait more.

This week had shown me that I could be more than a Dom. I could be more than someone who doled out pain and pleasure.

I had needed that after Courtney. Needed someone to trust me beyond my abilities with a paddle or a flogger. While I not only loved that Haley wanted that, that she craved the same sex I did, I enjoyed sex with her without the use of implements to heighten our experience.

That...that big part, was something that had always been missing with Courtney and my other subs. The times that went beyond the sex and moved into something deeper.

Perhaps I’d been waiting for a woman like Haley all along and hadn’t realized it.

The idea that I’d have to actually thank Dylan for helping me figure my shit out made me laugh.

I’d known him ten years and I wasn’t sure I’d ever muttered a “thank you” to him. He’d get it now—perhaps with his favorite bottle of Scotch.

I was so lost in thank-you plans that I barely had time to register my door opening before it slammed shut.

“What the hell?” I asked, snapping away from my computer and toward the door to see Haley standing on the other side. Her face was pale, her arms crossed over her stomach, and her eyes were wide and manic. “What’s wrong?”

I jumped from my chair to go to her but she held up a hand, stopping me in my tracks.

“Haley? What happened? Is it Timothy?”

The mention of his name snapped her out of her daze. “No,” she mumbled and looked directly at me.

I’d seen that look on a woman before. It usually came right before a knee to the balls or a slap to the face.

I took a step back to be safe.

“What is it?” I asked, slower this time. Calmer.

She glanced around my office before dropping her hands to her sides. “I met Meredith today. And Courtney. So I’d like to know why in the hell you lied to me about being in a business meeting the other week.”

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