Dominate me by Julia Romush (best e reader for epub TXT) 📗

His tone indicated that he was calm. Completely took himself in hand and controlled his emotions. Damn! I envied him at that second like never before. How I wish I had such a gift. To control everything that was now raging inside me.

The desire to ask all that pile of questions that I had in mind was so strong that I could barely contain myself from making a fuss until the driver got out of the car.

When Artem still got in the car and glanced at me through the rearview mirror, everything exploded inside me. He didn't look at me the way he always did, and that made me even more nervous.

The man started the car, and I had already opened my mouth to ask the first question when his phone rang.

"No, I can't today."

There is a long silence, and I can only hear my heart beating with fear.

"Andrew deals with this issue. Yes, I trust him completely."

He finished the call. When a woman's voice said something else in the receiver, Klimov simply pressed the call button and dropped the phone on the passenger seat.

Apparently, only this betrayed the fact that the man was not as calm as he would like to seem.

Crawling slightly forward and taking a deep breath, I still decided to start a conversation. I no longer had the strength to listen to the call of silence.

"Artem", I said, expecting him to react, but Klimov didn't even nod.

After licking my parched lips, I decided to try again.

"I did not want that to happen. I didn't want to deceive you, and I tried to warn you."

Looking up, I expected something. Even if he started shouting, it would be better than just keeping quiet. From his reaction and emotions, I could understand what I was preparing for. And so ... I just got more nervous and from that I bit my teeth into my lower lip.

"But you cheated". He said it in such a tone that everything inside me shrank, and it became impossible to breathe.

My hope that it could still be solved melted away with each passing second.

"I had no choice. More precisely, I ..."

"More precisely, you have chosen the path where you will have no choice."

He condemned me and had every right to do so. I deceived, hid the truth from him, did not trust. And how he found out about all this ... Once again remembering this shame, I closed my eyes.

"I do not argue that I acted recklessly. But for me this meeting was very important. My sister is very important to me, and I am ready to do anything for her."

"I noticed."

At that moment, his phone rang again, and Artem answered the call without hesitation. He interrupted our conversation with him and began to discuss a contract.

I didn't know what to think. Did this mean to me that my time for excuses was exhausted? Did he let me know that he didn't want to listen to me anymore? 

Even in conversation with the interlocutor, his voice sounded even. No emotion that could betray his condition at the moment.

Waiting for the end of the conversation, I made another attempt to talk.

"Where are we going?". I asked too quietly, but the man heard me.

"You'll find out soon", this answer only made me tense more. Artem was clearly not in the mood to talk.

"Is this a secret? Or do you not want to tell me?"

"I decided to follow your example."

It was at this point that I realized that everything was going to hell. He was annoyed by my every word.

Twenty minutes later, the car stopped near the mall. I've never been here before.

In complete shock, I looked at Klimov. I was sure we were going home to finally discuss everything there. Talk or just in case I get punished. But now I was not sure why we came here.

"Let's go", the door on my side opened and Klimov held out his hand to me.

Looking down at his palm, hope settled inside me. Could this be seen as hope? If he was furious and didn't want to have anything to do with me, he probably wouldn't treat me like that?

Grasping his palm with my fingers, I silently got out of the car.

My heart was pounding in my chest like crazy. I tried to look into his face at that moment to understand what to expect. But there was still no emotion on Artem's face.