“I don’t believe you should be. If you can run numerous businesses, you know exactly what I said and meant. Do I need to go and find him to stop him?”
“Then I would be unguarded, and anything could happen to me.”
I narrowed my gaze at him. “You’re getting on my last nerve.”
He grinned. We stared at each other for a moment, all while Wolf ate. That was until my phone vibrated.
“It’s a call,” Wolf said after glancing down.
Walking over to the table, I saw the name on the screen. “I’ll be having a word withyourlover.”
The call from Link ended, just to start up again. I ground my teeth together.
Wolf stood. “I’ll be in my office.”
I pocketed my phone and nodded, waiting for him to leave, knowing a guard outside of the kitchens would pick up my job if I wasn’t at Wolf’s side.
“Are you just going to ignore him?” Wolf asked.
“I’m good at ignoring many things.”Like how I want to murder you and Ruin.
Wolf’s phone shrilled. He pulled it out and answered, “Yes? … Correct. … I’ll make sure he’s available. … Yes.” He held it out to me. I glowered. If I didn’t take it, I would look like a sullen child.
Snatching it out of his hand, I placed it to my ear. “Ryo.”
“Go out to dinner with me and listen to my side,please.”
“I have plans,” I told Link while glaring at Wolf.
“Wolf told me you’re available. Don’t you think it’s a little unfair that you’ve judged me from what one person said? Give me half an hour, Ryo.”
Sighing, I dropped my head back and stared at the high ceiling. “Half an hour.”
“Yes! Same place we met. Six. See you there, snookums,” he said and hung up before I could tell him not to call me that.
I handed Wolf’s phone back to him, even though I wanted to throw it at the wall.
“You’ll be heading out later?” he asked, knowing full well I would be.
“It seems. Have I told you lately that I hate you?”
“First and foremost, you are my friend over your position here. I want to see you happy, and I believe that man can help toward it.”
“And if he doesn’t? If this is the worst choice?”
“If he hurts you, I’ll kill him.”
I believed those words. So, I was shocked that Wolf truly thought Link could be the one man for me. Well, he may be for me, but would I be the only one for him?
CHAPTER TWO
LINK
Rounding my desk, I again asked my guard, Bradshaw, “Is Cassandra back yet?”
He looked up from his tablet screen. “She’s just walked in the front door. Want me to grab her?” When I nodded, Bradshaw slipped out of my office that was on the top floor of the building I owned. This was where I held my computer coding business, but it was also where I handled my other illegal dealings from.
It was lucky I had a bathroom connected to my office and spare clothes because I wouldn’t make it home in time to shower and change before my date.
