I gritted my teeth as I watched the man across my desk. He knew the rules and he had still decided to break them. Now I would have to teach him a lesson. Getting up from my chair, I moved around my desk as my first lieutenant eased over to cover the door. He hit the switch that would turn this office into a soundproof room. I sat on the front edge of my desk. "Martin, you disappoint me."The arrogant idiot just smirked at me. I sighed. "How long have you been in the family, Martin? Three years? Four?"He snarled. "Five, Arturo."My lieutenant growled low in his chest at the lowly soldier using my first name. I waved him off. We had bigger fish to fry than his utter lack of intelligence."And yet you still think being glib, disrespectful, and going against my wishes is the way to survive?" I curled my fingers into the desk. This stupid fuck. He was going to make me maim him. This level of insubordination wouldn't be tolerated.He slouched back in his chair. "I should be

I hung up with the bank. Rubbed a hand down over my face a couple times. A knock sounded at the door. I groaned at the cessation of my brief reprieve. "Come."Edi opened the door. His face was thunderous. "I've got news from Jimmy and Fran."The bottom of my stomach dropped out. "Bring them in here." Shit. He stepped back and let two of his soldiers come in. Jimmy and Fran were brothers who looked nothing alike. They were the same height, and that was where the familial resemblance ended. Jimmy was a lanky guy with long dark hair and piercing blue eyes. Fran ‘Never call me Francis,' on the other hand, was stocky, built like a fucking train, and had a shaved head with light brown eyes. They were also my best tail team. Jimmy nudged his brother. Fran rolled his eyes. "Where do you want me to start in the timeline?" he asked me, his voice low and raspy. "Wherever you think is relevant."He nodded. "Jimmy was on last night. But I think you know what went down then."

I knew I shouldn't be here. I did have other things to do. Important things. Family things. But just like a moth to the flame, I was helpless to stay away. And I had officially passed into creeper territory as I watched Nik walk down the street. In the heated warmth of my black car that I had hidden in the shadows, I stalked her. But the woman herself wouldn't talk to me. How the hell else was I supposed to get valuable information about her? So, really, it was her fault that I had stooped to being nothing more than a Peeping Tom. The only difference I could see was that I wasn't currently getting my jollies from watching her. Eyeing the movement of her tight ass in those leggings made a liar of me. Hell, everything about her made a liar of me. And for that reason alone, I hated her just a little. I was honest with myself. Always. One thing I knew, beyond a shadow of a doubt, was that I wanted to drown myself in her. But I also wanted to fuck with her head a little bit. Just l

I set the phone on my desk carefully because I wanted to throw it across the room and watch it smash into a million glittery pieces. But I was better than that. I had more control than that. My dick throbbed in my pants. A nagging ache that told me I'd been too long without anything more than just my hand for relief. I was going to paddle her ass. I groaned as a picture formed in my mind. Closing my eyes, I saw Nik spread wide in front of me, her ass up and rosy under the bright lights of my bedroom. Her gleaming pale skin a blank canvas for my hand prints. I felt my cock twitch, a bead of pre-cum leaking from the tip. Shit. I needed to fix this before my entire family showed up for a serious discussion. Easing up from my chair, I went to the bathroom attached to my office. Shut the door, locked it. I gritted my teeth. She was going to pay for this.Undoing my pants, I pulled my rigid dick from under the fabric. Getting a tight grip, I started pumping my hand up and down

I hit the refresh button on my computer the next morning. Nope. Nothing had changed. It was still the same information from Nik that she'd given me last night. Nothing new. No little quip or comment about my bossy ways. Just a businesslike email that felt like the social equivalent of ‘fuck off.'I gritted my teeth. Would have kicked my own ass if I hadn't been sitting. I really needed to stop antagonizing her. Especially if I was going to get her in my bed. I might be into some power exchange, but kidnapping Nik was just asking her to kill me slowly. A knock sounded. I glanced at the clock. Wondered why Edi was up this early. "Come."Nik came strolling in. Her long legs were accentuated by a pair of sky high stilettos, a short skirt, a tight top, and a pair of long pigtails that dangled just over her tits on either side. She shut the door behind herself, locked it. "I've been thinking." She leaned against it, her tits thrust out, her back arched in a curve that made my mo