Page 8 of His Virgin Angel

“Can I talk to you?” Mark asked, coming to stand beside him.

Nodding toward Drake—his driver would know to keep Piper company—Jack followed Mark toward his office.

“What is it?” Jack asked.

Entering Mark’s office, he saw how spotless it was. There was no crap lying around, or spare sheets of paper. This was what Jack demanded of each of his businesses, and Mark was under his employ for Exquisite.

“Ronald has been around.”

Jack paused. Ronald was still his enemy, in a big way. Neither of them would concede on giving up their areas of the city. It had been a couple of months since he’d heard from Ronald, but that wasn’t unusual. They weren’t the kind of guys to spend time gossiping to each other.

“What happened?”

“He came in, and before I could stop him, he was in Piper’s section, and I had no choice but to allow him to sit and eat.”

Jack folded his arms. “Not only did you have the enemy here, you put my Piper in his way.”

“It wasn’t intentional, believe me.”

“Who was on the door?” Jack asked.

“That’s the thing, Ben was on the door that night, and no one has found him. He’s gone, and we checked the security footage. All it shows is Ben leaving the door, and then Ronald comes in.”

Jack cursed. Ben was the security he put at the club. He was a vicious thug, who knew what to do. No wonder they’d gotten rid of Ben.

“I will add more security to the door. I don’t want Piper near that asshole, do you understand?”

“I do. I’ll deal with it.”

Jack left the office with Mark behind him. “Piper will be eating dinner with me. I will deposit the money into her account for the time she spent with me.”

“Yes, sir.”

Leaving Mark behind, he approached Drake and Piper. They were laughing and smiling.

“Did I miss anything?” Jack asked.

“No, not at all. Drake was just telling me about a movie he went to see with his date. He needs to settle down, find a wife, don’t you think?”

Jack smiled, taking a seat as Drake stood. “I don’t know. Do you think any woman could handle our guy?”

“Yeah, there’s a woman out there for everyone. I believe that. I also believe there’s a guy out there for me.”

He tensed up, and he saw how sad she suddenly got.

“Any guy who gets you will be lucky,” Drake said.

The sadness faded. “We’ll see. I wonder at times.”

“Drake, do you need to go and do your thing?” Jack asked, looking at his driver.

“Certainly. I’ll be back when you finish.”

“Oh, what happened to your date?” Piper asked.

“She decided to behave like a child, and she had no choice but to go.”

Piper’s lips formed a perfect O. The sight caught him unaware as he wondered how good they would look wrapped around his cock. Jack jerked as he stared at her. In all the time he’d been protecting her, never once had he had sexual thoughts about her, but in that moment, he saw her in a completely different light. She was no longer a kid, but twenty-one years old.

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