Free CHISELED (A BAD BOY ROMANCE) by Alexa Rynn

my
body starting to pump my anger more and more.
    “Look, I’m just
trying…”
    “I know what
you’re trying to do and I’m telling you to knock it off.” I walked over to the
window and looked down at the city below me. Thousands of people milling around
beneath me, who knew how many of them would be terrorized or have unthinkable
things happen to them in the next week. Misery didn’t discriminate and Troy was
trying to make me leave them, he was trying to make me give them up.
    “But…”
    “No. I’m going to
keep doing what I have been doing and I’m going to go to dinner tonight and
handle this whole mess with the girl just like I handle everything.” I let my
eyes get lost in the sea of people below me. “Now get the hell out of my
office.”
    “Braden…”
    “I said get the
hell out.”
    A second later I
heard the door shut.
    When were people
going to learn to not challenge me?
    ***
    ADDISON

 
    Braden Nash seemed
abnormally intense tonight. I knew it was weird for me to make such an assumption
since I had really only met him a few days ago. But still, something about him
was… too intense. He sat across from me, looking at the view of the city being
chaotic behind me.
    “So many people,”
he mumbled.
    I titled my head
to the side. “Excuse me?”
    He locked his eyes
on me, surprised. “There’s so many people in this city.”
    He made me feel
like he had forgotten I was there completely. I turned around and followed his
gaze anyway. “Yeah, all searching for something, some dream they never knew was
anywhere near in reach.”
    He chuckled.
“Dreams that will probably never come true.”
    “Kind of cynical,
don’t you think?”
    He shrugged. “Not
really.” He leaned forward and took a sip of his drink, allowing his eyes to
drift down to my chest in the process. He licked his lips as he took in my
exposed flesh.
    Pretty sure I
turned as red as a tomato.
    He always made me
feel like he was taking my clothes off in his mind. Which was ridiculous,
someone like Braden Nash would never be interested in me. I was a nobody in his
world and in his eyes.
    A business dinner
didn’t change that.
    Then why did
you wear such a revealing dress? A voice asked me in the back of my mind
but I pushed it away. I could want to look sexy for myself, I didn’t need an
excuse to look good. Besides this was the most expensive restaurant I had ever
been to, it deserved a little class.
    He landed back on
my face. “So, the article?”
    “The article?” I
repeated, puzzled.
    “The article you
want me to print on Superman.”
    “Superman?”
    Braden nodded.
“Yeah, was he wearing his cape?”
    I threw the napkin
that was on my lap down on the table and pushed my chair back. “Look, if you
aren’t even going to take this serious then I’m just going to leave right now.”
I stood up, trying to prove how serious I was.
    “Sit down.”
    Something about
his voice made me obey. I didn’t want to piss him off. The thought of
disobeying him was one that scared me. It occurred to me that it was something
that probably wouldn’t go over well with him.
    “Why did you wear
that dress?” He demanded. “It’s way too revealing. If you belonged to me I
would never let you out of the house looking like that. It gives off the wrong
message.”
    If I belonged to
him… what was he talking about? In what world would I ever belong to him? Just
the sentence was enough to thrill my entire body for some odd reason. “I’ve
never had any complaints before.”
    “That’s because
everyone who’s probably seen it only had the intention of getting you out of it
and fast.” He looked furious by this. “For such a smart young woman you seem to
make a lot of stupid choices.”
    Did that mean he
hadn’t thought about getting me out of it?
    Of course he
hasn’t, Addison. You’re his assistant.
    “I do not!”
    He leaned forward and
placed one of his hands in front of the other, exposing a different watch than
earlier