Punishment

Alessandro called again the next morning and left a text.

'Please answer the call or.'

Seemed he had been thinking of a way to threaten her and ended up changing his mind.

The bastard.

Eve ignored the text and dressed for work, but she got to her car where Sean, her security guy waited for her, he also held out his phone.

"Ma'am, Mr. Stark asked me to give it to you, says he couldn't reach you."

The manipulative son of a bitch.

Eve nodded and took the phone, entering the car before she spoke.

"Really? You called Sean?"

The young security officer walked around to the front of the car and got behind the wheel.

"You left me no choice, it was either him or your attorney, and we both know the man doesn't like me."

Eve inhaled deeply and pushed a button, rolling up the partition.

"How about an option that involves me not wanting to talk to you? Well, maybe Leo has a valid reason not to like you."

She was angry and hurt and spewing words out of repressed emotions.

She had after all wok