She turns and walks away, and I can’t stop from staring at her ass, all the way down her legs to those three inch high fuck me heels. The assistant is staring again but I ignore her.
We’re leaving straight after this meeting. I need to prepare for tonight.
I’m distracted by more texts until the assistant jumps up and a few other people pop their heads up from their desks. The sound of shouting filters down the hallway. Angry, male shouting.
All I can think about is Cassie and that asshole and storm out of the office. The assistant shouts after me but I ignore her and run along the corridor.
I come to a large meeting room with a wall of glass beside the door. Inside, Cassie is standing up holding up one hand, another guy is also on his feet watching the second man who is pacing back and forth. He moves forward, grabs a decanter of water and throws it at the wall, shattering glass everywhere.
I burst through the door and go straight for him. He’s taken by surprise when I grab the collar of his shirt and swing him face first into the wall, he doesn’t put his hands up to protect himself and his nose smashes against the glass. At least it’s reinforced, although it would have been satisfying to push the bastard through it.
Cassie is shouting as I spin the fucker around and jam my forearm against his throat. He has blood pouring from his nose and looks terrified.
Handlebar is right, assholes who attack women are chickenshit cowards when faced with another man.
“Mace!”
Her shriek makes me stop from suffocating him. It might not have been happening long, but she has been calling me Dominic. Now I’m getting Mace. Shit, I should have thought this out, but I saw red, hearing him shouting at her, then he threw that jug in her direction.
That is a man on the verge of doing something very fucking stupid and I wasn’t going to let him do it to her. I’ve fucked up once in the past, and it almost cost a woman her life. I’ll never let that happen ever again.
“Let him go.”
I still haven’t said a word, and this asshole can’t either because I’m almost crushing his windpipe. Cassie tugs my arm, surprisingly hard for a woman of her size.
“Let go now!” she shouts.
More people are appearing outside, watching the commotion. The other man is talking about calling security, but Cassie tells him not to. With one more tug, I release him and step back. The dick practically falls to the floor, grabbing his throat and touching the blood on his face.
Cassie is explaining to the other man that she knows me, that this was a mistake, and she will fix it. The other guy is not happy.
I still don’t regret it, and my posture says that. Someone comes in with a first aid kit, everyone is eyeing me as the older guy tries to appease Vance who is getting his wits about him again and shouting profanities. Cassie helps him get up as someone holds tissue up to his bloody nose. He knocks into her, and I see red but she puts her hand on my chest and stops me before anyone notices.
“I can’t believe you did that,” she hisses.
“He could have hurt you.”
“He was angry because the case is going to shit and…” she puts a hand over her forehead and shakes her head. “He wasn’t going to hurt me.”
“The senior partners will hear about this,” Vance shouts as someone tries to usher him out. “I’ll have your fucking job for this. Somebody call the police.”
Cassie whirls around and I can tell from her posture she wants to tell the asshole to go to hell, but she keeps her mouth shut. The fucker is still ranting as he’s taken out of the room, leaving the three of us.
“Mace you need to leave.”
“I’m not-”
“I mean wait outside, out of sight, they’re going to call the cops. And I have enough to sort out here without getting your ass out of jail.”
She’s right.
“Cassie,” the older man calls, and she turns to face him. “I’ve ignored the work you do for yourprivateclients because you have always kept it separate. He’s one of them, isn’t he?”
“Harry, please don’t call the police.”
“This is a law firm, we don’t allow thugs to come in and start choking people out. This is completely unacceptable. You keep that side ofyour business and life separate and I warned you the second anything interfered with or brought trouble down on us, then the agreement was over.”
“This was just a misunderstanding, he thought Vance was going to hurt one of us.”
