For His Taking (For His Pleasure, Book 2) (The Submission of Miss Masters, Domination, BDSM) by Kelly Favor Read Free Book Online Page B

used to this, she thought. This is going to be my life from now on.
    A lot of my privacy is going to be violated, and it comes with the territory.
    And quickly on the heels of those thoughts, were the words of her mother, still ringing in her ears.
    “What kind of life is that, Nicole?”

    ***
    The ride to Connecticut was long. Nicole was in her own world, quieter than she normally tended to be.
    Red didn’t seem to mind. He alternated between listening to music (mostly rock music) and talking on his Bluetooth. The calls were innocuous stuff; him making little decisions, telling someone how to best approach an important pitch for a big campaign, talking company strategy.
    She tuned most of it out, assuming that this was just part of his typical routine.
    But there was one call midway through the drive that seemed different than the rest. His voice took on a different tone. At first, he seemed to be discussing something very dull…a company in Germany. She didn’t remember the name of it. And then suddenly his manner changed and became very intense.
    “Why would you say that?” Red asked, his eyes staring at the road in front of him as he talked into his headset. “No, no no. That’s not the case at all. We’re heavily leveraged in that market and we absolutely need them to be on board.” There was a long pause while he listened. His hands gripped the steering wheel until his knuckles turned white and she could see his lips press together. “No, John. No. That’s not how it is at all and you can tell them. Tell them they better not fuck with me on this one or so help me God…”
    For a moment, Nicole felt afraid of him. He was so intense, so full of a dark rage and she thought that it could somehow be directed at her.
    “We need this deal to go through,” he said. “It’s not a little thing, John. It’s a big thing. We’re talking millions and millions…the stock price will go into the fucking toilet otherwise…and you know what that would mean.”
    The conversation seemed to downshift from there, and Red made some small talk before finally getting off the phone.
    When he was done, Nicole looked over at him. “Everything all right?”
    He smiled tightly. “Just the usual business bullshit.”
    “Really?”
    “Yeah. Well, some things are shittier than others. This thing is particularly shitty.”
    “You seemed angry at whoever you were talking to.”
    “That’s John Peterson, our CFO. He’s involved in a pretty important deal with a company we’re looking to acquire in Germany. It’s a very complicated deal. I can’t go into the details.”
    “Oh, of course. I wouldn’t expect you to.”
    His shoulders were hunched and he seemed distant. “It’s just business,” he said, as if trying to convince himself.
    A short while later, they arrived at Nicole’s new home.
    She’d tried to prepare herself for a shock, but really nothing could prepare her for what was in store when they approached the gate of Red’s Connecticut property. She couldn’t even see his home from the gate. All she saw were rolling hills, a large lake (or maybe it was a pond, but it was a huge pond), and trees fading into the distance.
    The private road was well lit by street lamps, but this time of night it was hard to tell just how big the property really was.
    At the gate there was a security booth with a young, fiercely serious man inside, sporting a military crew cut.
    Red put down his window and smiled at the young man peered into the car and looked directly at Nicole with cold, green eyes. Then his eyes flicked back to her fiancé.
    “Good evening, Mister Jameson.”
    “Evening, Dan.”
    “Is everything good, sir?”
    “Better than good, Dan. Thanks.”
    The gate clicked and hummed as it opened electronically. The guard watched them as they drove slowly past and now they were on the private road.
    Red glanced at her. “Overwhelmed?”
    “Very.” She took a deep breath and exhaled. The pond was on their left