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All these memories just hurt too much tonight.

FIVE

TYRAN

Iopened the door that led to the basement where we tortured information out of our enemies.

It was the first time I’d set foot in the sex club since I got out of prison. There were so many memories with Sienna here, but the strongest one was the day I first spotted her.

I sat in the private office on the second floor, overlooking the entire sex club through its one-way windows. Leaning against the minibar I’d built into the wall, I watched the club through a wide-angle lens, nursing my drink as I took it all in over the rim of my lowball glass.

Each time I took a sip, the alcohol burned down my throat and trickled into my chest, yet did nothing to extinguish the flame of unease flickering there. I was on fucking edge and needed to get laid. The sooner, the better.

I closed my eyes for a brief moment, suddenly aware of the tension knotted across my back. When I opened them, she was the first thing my gaze locked on to.

A fucking sinner that looked like an angel.

How did I know she was a sinner?

Well, you had to be to enter this club. Angels had no business being here and avoided this place like the plague.

I’d be lying if I said I hadn’t looked at her like every other man in the club, all of them seemingly incapable of tearing their eyes away.

And then I looked a third time.

She stared at everything wide-eyed with her mouth parted, her gaze skimming every single person in the club. Almost as if she was searching for someone.

That part didn’t interest me at all. The fact that she looked too innocent to belong in a place like this did. Yet, the green dress she wore confused me. It revealed far too much skin, making her easy to mistake for a fucking stripper.

And then there was her blonde hair.

There was so much of it, falling loosely down her back and framing her face with big brown eyes and a smile that promised heaven and hell at the same time.

It didn’t take long for me to slip away from my office and go in search of her.

I didn’t find her; she found me. In fact, she bumped right into my chest.

“Ouch,” she muttered, her hand on her forehead, rubbing it as she slowly lifted her eyes.

Up, up, and our gazes clashed.

“Oh,” she murmured, her eyes flashing with recognition. “It’s you.”

“Do we know each other?” I didn’t think so, because there was no way I’d forget ever meeting this woman.

“No, we’ve never met.” She smiled, then waved her hand dismissively. “I just saw you entering the club earlier.”

Her gaze roamed the dark space around us where couples were kissing and grinding against each other and I watched the attractive blush creep up her neck.

“Is this like a couples’ club?” She chuckled. “Maybe we should start kissing and grinding so we don’t look out of place.”

The vein in my left temple began to throb.

I lost all sense of reason. In fact, for the first time in my life, my mind blanked. My body acted on its own as my one hand gently wrapped around her throat and the other tightened in her hair. How it even got there, I had no fucking idea, but she didn’t seem to mind as she closed her eyes and her lips parted in invitation.

“What’s your name?” I asked, our breaths mingling.

“Hmm… Sienna.”