His bones rubbed together in her grasp. The harder she pressed, the more it would hurt.
He whimpered and she tightened her grip. It’d be so easy to destroy him. It had taken her months to learn to control the unbelievable strength in this arm, to identify the fine line between making it hurt and crushing bones. Now she knew exactly how hard to squeeze.
That was when his two bodyguards moved closer.
As soon as they stepped toward Taryn, her guys intercepted them. Her team had them out of the way with barely a whisper.
Taryn changed her arm position slightly and he dropped to his knees. Only her grip kept it a controlled movement. She kept his arm straight while the rest of his body flopped to the floor.
Fear and anger warred in his eyes. The fear was winning.
And she wasn’t even breathing hard.
Time for him to learn who was boss here.
“Now that I have your attention, I’ll say this again. But slowly this time. Get. The. Fuck. Out. Of. My. Bar.” She emphasized each word with a little squeeze. Rage simmered below her surface, her control on it as finely tuned as that on her arm.
He moaned.
“Do you understand?”
He nodded. A weak, pathetic effort.
“Out loud,” she demanded.
“Yes.” He spat the word.
“You will not come back here.”
She waited. When he didn’t respond, she gave him another little nudge.
“Yes, fine.” He nodded again.
“You will leave Giselle alone.”
Now he showed outright confusion. “Who?”
Save her from goddamned idiots. “Gazelle.”
“She’s mine?—”
Whatever he thought he was going to say cut off with a scream.
“No. She’s not yours. She belongs to no one but herself.”
“Fine.” He spat out the word.
“Come to think of it. Why don’t you dismantle your entire operation?”
It was a pipe dream. As soon as he did, another pimp would pop up to take his place, like a game of whack-an-asshole.
“You stupid bit?—”
Another scream.
“That’s really not very nice.” Like she fucking cared. “It does make me pretty determined to make it happen.”
Every eye in the place was on her now. No one spoke. Half of them probably weren’t breathing.
