“You mean Bobby Sandwell.”
“You worked it out then.”
“He’s Luigi’s son. You’ve booted out the sheriff, but you left Bobby working at the bank. Why?”
“Because he’s my leverage over his father. While he’s in my eyeline, Luigi won’t try anything. I send Bobby away and Luigi might come in, all guns blazing. By the time we’ve tidied up the mess, the vault’s on fire and your inheritance is gone.”
We get to the bookstore, and she unlocks it, heading inside. I follow and bolt the door. “What now?” she asks.
“The money you owe me.”
“Not this again. I told you, I can’t pay you back until I get in the vault.”
“That’s where you’re wrong. You can pay me back, just not in cash.”
“You got your book. You said money was no object. Why are you being so greedy?”
“Because I want leverage over you.”
“Is that what I am? Just a business transaction to you?”
“You’re a proposition and a good one.”
“Thanks, that makes me feel really well valued.”
“I want you to unbutton that blouse and stand in the window for sixty seconds. Do that and I will knock a thousand dollars off the amount you owe.”
“What? Why would you do that?”
“Because I have a feeling about you and I want to know if I’m right. Am I right, Natalie?”
“So I undo my blouse and stand in the window and you reduce the amount I owe by ten percent?”
“Facing the street.”
She swallows hard. “What if someone sees?”
“What if they do?”
She looks at me, frowning slightly. “All right,” she says at last. “I must be insane, but I’ll do it.”
She unbuttons her blouse from top to bottom, a lacy cream bra coming into view, barely holding her tits in place. “I must be mad,” she says, shaking her head as she walks over to the window and stands there, facing outward.
“Hands behind your back,” I tell her.
She does as I say. My cock hardens at the sight. She’s a submissive. I thought she was, but now I’m sure of it.
This is going to be fun.
She’s breathing heavily, her chest heaving as the seconds tick by. When the minute’s up, I tell her and she turns to face me. “How was that?” I ask.
“Honestly? Kind of exciting.”
“Remove your bra and do it again and I’ll knock off two thousand.”
“Seriously?”
“How busy is it out there?”