He could see a blush creeping up her face and down her neck. “If everyone thinks you’re taking his sister to repay the debt, that will satisfy the revenge aspect, won’t it? The appearance that I belong to you?”
Before he could respond—well, before his mouth could respond, because his cock had responded the moment she’d mentioned belonging to him—she continued. “Then there’s just the matter of paying you back the hundred thousand dollars? He said it was just a small shipment, and he didn’t think you would notice it had gone missing.”
“I notice everything, but especially when it’s the first time I entrust something to a new associate.” He cupped her jaw, not gently, and swung her face up to force her to look him in the eyes. “So let me make sure I understand. You’re offering to whore yourself out to me in exchange for your brother being given leniency?”
Those blue eyes widened. “No!”
She tried to jerk away but he wouldn’t let her. “I just thought maybe we could be seen in public a few times. You could tell people you had taken me to satisfy Robbie’s debt. That I paid it off in other ways.” He cheeks burned. “I don’t have a whole lot of money, but I can sell the jewelry my grandmother left me and cash out my retirement. I could probably scrape together at least seventy thousand now, and then work out an arrangement for the other thirty thousand, if you’re agreeable?”
He dropped her chin. This conversation was definitely not what he’d thought it would be. “What do you do, Sarah?”
She cleared her throat. “I’m a kindergarten teacher.”
He chuckled. “Of course you are. Let me get this straight, you want to… what, pretend to be my girlfriend in public while you pay me back privately for your brother’s crime? In return, I don’t kill him. Is that what you want?”
She nodded, her eyes gazing into his, obviously hoping there was some decency in him. “I know it’s a lot to ask, Mr. Rinaldi, but you appear to have a generous side too. I researched a bit before I came here tonight, and I know you donated a wing to the hospital, and you also provided a grant to the Head Start program.”
He shook his head “No, that was the Rinaldi Foundation, which was founded by my mother. I support their work, but my brother Lukas heads up that. I had nothing to do with those directly.”
She seemed to shrink in on herself a little. “Even still, you support the deeds, so you must be a good person deep down.”
Roman stared at her, letting his mind wander for just a minute to all the things he could do to her. She had such an ingrained innocence about her. Roman wanted to plunder that. Take her in all the ways he knew how. Debase her.
Strip her and spank her and plug her and fuck her.
Oh the little kindergarten teacher with her frumpy clothes had no idea what a not-good person he was.
He chuckled starkly. “If I’m a good person, it’s so deep down I don’t know that I recognize it anymore, Sarah. Would you like to hear my counteroffer to your proposal? See if we can make a negotiation satisfactory to us both?”
“Yes, Mr. Rinaldi.”
Roman’s cock grew hard. Or harder. He wanted her naked on her hands and knees begging him to fuck her and using that same sweet tone while calling him Sir.
The way her nipples kept pebbling against her shirt, her body wasn’t opposed to the thought of intimacy between them. He would have to see if the little kindergarten teacher’s mind would be willing to accept it also.
“If I’m prepared to indulge this insanity—and I haven’t committed to the idea yet—there will be nothing pretend about it. You would be my mistress, not girlfriend. It’s an old-fashioned word, but applies reasonably well to our arrangement. A woman everyone knows I keep nearby for my pleasure. Whenever and however I want it.”
She gasped, opening her mouth to protest, but he pressed on before she could speak.
“I’m not going to take your retirement or your grandmother’s jewelry, but if we negotiate an arrangement, what I will take is every inch of your body at my bidding. You do what I say, when I say, and for how long I say.”
Her eyes widened, and she licked her lips. “Basically, you want me to be your sex slave for however long in exchange for letting my brother off the hook?”
He scowled. “Robbie isn’t off the hook under any circumstances. There’s nothing you can negotiate with me to make that happen. But what I’ll do, out of respect for our negotiation, is send him far away, probably to Sicily. He’ll get another shot with a different branch of the family, which is far more than he deserves, but will also be watched like a hawk. He fucks that up, he’s dead. You’d better emphasize that to him.”
Her hands were fidgeting in her lap, eyes downcast again. “What will you do to me if I agree to this, Mr. Rinaldi?”
He crossed one leg over the other, and picked an imaginary piece of lint of his trousers. He wasn’t into rape, so he wanted to make sure Miss Hastings knew what she was getting into. What her body would be paying for.
“You have this whole innocent sweetness vibe going on. Kindergarten teacher makes it damn near perfect and I have to admit I find it very sexy.” He reached over and grabbed her chin again, forcing her eyes back to him. “I especially love the idea of ruining it, wrecking you, and turning you into a wanton slut instead of this virginal persona you project. One who begs for my cock anywhere she can get it: mouth, pussy, ass.”
He heard her shocked intake of breath, but saw the heat flare in her blue eyes. She wanted this, at least some part of her, although he doubted her angelic lips would admit it right now.
“But, Mr. Rinaldi—”
“One hundred nights of submitting your body to me, for whatever purpose I please. A rather good deal for the theft of over one hundred thousand dollars, not to mention the much less tangible but more expensive cost of Robbie’s disrespect.”
“I-I can’t just go off with you for three months. I have a job.”
“You can keep your teaching job. This will be nights and weekends only. And I will make sure the word gets around to people in my circles that you are my fuck toy as payment for your brother’s insubordination.”
“How will you make sure word gets around?” she whispered.
He wondered if she would run screaming from the room.
“Maybe I’ll have my men watch while I fuck you. That will get the word out easily enough. Or perhaps I will have you serve me and my friends drinks naked when they come over. It’ll only take once to make sure the word is out about what happens when someone disrespects me or my brothers.”
Although she flinched, heat in her eyes flared once again at his words. She shifted her hips in a little restless movement on the couch.
Little miss innocent was turned on. And definitely wasn’t running from the room.
This plan was growing on him. The ability to have a woman like Sarah at his beck and call? To use her only when he had an itch and not have to worry about keeping her happy or emotional entanglements? He’d probably get her out of his system way before they hit day one hundred, but who cared?
It would solve both their problems. The perfect negotiation. And Robbie, that little fucktard, wouldn’t get off scot free, Roman would see to that. But Robbie wouldn’t die. Thanks to his lovely sister.
“So what do you say, Teach? Ready to get all dirty or want to walk out of the room while you still have your self respect?”
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