CHAPTER5
Jessica
Donovan was clearly not happy. After I got dressed, he led me out to the car and ordered me into the back of the vehicle. I pulled his jacket further around my shoulders as I watched him through the window as he spoke with his driver. I wondered what he was saying. I wasn’t sure if he was really taking me home or if he was taking me somewhere to get what he’d bought and what was now his.
My virginity.
The thought of Donovan Black taking my virginity didn’t suck. I’d been attracted to him since I started to work for him, but I got the impression he wasn’t impressed by my actions tonight.
I wasn’t ashamed of what I did. I needed the money and I leveraged what I had to get the cash, but the way he kept glaring at me made me wonder if I should have been embarrassed.
Had I gone too far?
You sold your virginity, Jessica, undoubtedly you went too far…
I was in a bind and I did what I had to, I reasoned. One hundred grand was a lot of money and it would see me right for a while—at least long enough to get ahead and make things comfortable for me and Krissy.
I glanced over at Donovan, who was now sitting beside me in the back of the car and focused on the side window as his driver eased onto the main road.
It was wrong of me to think it, but he looked handsome tonight, even in profile. He was wearing one of his tailored suits, the white shirt open at the neckline. It was fitted well, showing the outline of his pectorals. I wondered if I should offer him his jacket back, but I didn’t want to give it up either. I liked how it smelled. It was infused with his cologne and a masculine scent that was all him.
“Are you going to say anything?” I asked after a moment. The silence was making me crazy.
“What is there to say?” he snapped, finally looking at me.
“I don’t know,” I said, finding myself bristling at his own attitude. “Why did you buy me?”
“You were in a den of vipers and completely unaware. I did what I needed to do to keep you safe.”
That statement warmed me even as it annoyed me. I didn’t need to be protected. I wasn’t a damsel in distress. I was a grown ass adult who knew exactly what I was doing.
“I knew exactly what I was getting into,” I argued. Kyra had been very thorough in briefing me about what to expect.
He growled a curse under his breath and my ears warmed at the dirty language. I’d seen Donovan Black at his best and at his worst over the past year. I’d never seen him this pissed though. He was fuming. I was surprised there wasn’t steam coming out of his ears.
“The fact that you believe what you just said shows exactly how little you know about what those men in the club expect of you.”
I fell silent, not sure what to say to calm the anger thrumming through him.
“I was safe,” I said, lifting my chin stubbornly. “Kyra told me everyone in the club was vetted, that there was a process for becoming a member.”
“There is, but that doesn’t mean you were remotely safe,” he said though his clenched jaw. “The men in that club would have eaten you fucking alive.”
Why was he so angry anyway? Did I embarrass him? The company? I was his assistant. People would talk if they knew…
Shit, had I screwed things up at work?
I hadn’t even considered that would be an issue.
Then again, I hadn’t expected my boss to be at a well-known sex club…
“Am I fired?” I asked.
He made a grunting sound in the back of his throat. “No, you’re not fired.”
This made me frown. “Did I embarrass the company?”
“I don’t give a fuck about the company right now,” he snapped.