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TESSI

I didn't go right back out onto the club floor, instead finding a small utility closet.

I needed to get myself together but conflicting feelings boiled like a sea in a storm.

How could he do that to me? Spanking me like I'm a disobedient child!

I rubbed my bottom, finding it really didn't hurt all that much. It might have been easier for me to take if he had actually done damage instead of just turning my skin red.

Then I could have more fuel to rage against the rather exasperating sensations that still shivered through my body.

I trembled as I tried to regain control of myself. I didn't want my conscious thoughts to go anywhere near the idea that some part of me had enjoyed the spanking. It still throbbed and tingled between my legs, even though the indignity had me fighting mad.

Eventually, I managed to calm down and go back out to the floor to finish my shift. Even though I received actual credits for tips, it did nothing to brighten my mood.

Alkard had not even mentioned the search for Mera, and under the circumstances, I had been unable to ask.

Was he really going to keep his word?

I lingered in the dressing room of the club, even though I was free to leave for the night, long after my shift was over, my thoughts tumbling over and over again until I felt dizzy.

Alkard was the leader of the most powerful gang on Thodos III. It was rumored even the station's ‘official' authorities were afraid to cross him.

Surely, such a man could find something about my missing friend by now.

If he was actually looking.

But if he wasn't…

When Alkard had taken me into his office, the door hadn't been locked.

Perhaps he thought himself too powerful in his own domain to need to bother. Or maybe it had been a one-time only oversight.

But it was a chance. If I poked around, I might find something pertaining to Mera, or at least something that could point me in the right direction.

I went out onto the floor of the club. I didn't see Alkard around, but didn't want to ask the snippy dancers about his whereabouts.

Then I saw the one dancer who'd been nice to me, Lucia, and waved her over. The topless woman bore a tray of drinks balanced on her palm, and didn't spill a drop as she moved across the club floor.

"What's up, hon?" Lucia asked with a smile.

"Have you seen Alkard?"

"Alkard?" she frowned, then gazed across the club to a door almost hidden in the shadows. "I think he went down into the off limits area. If you want to talk to him, I would advise being patient. They don't like it when anyone tries to go down there."

"Do you think he'll be down there for long?"

"I don't know," Lucia shrugged. A patron whistled and motioned impatiently for his drinks. Her face shifted, the fake smile replacing the real emotion like a switch had been flipped. "Gotta go. Good luck, hon."

I made my way into the back once more, tip-toeing down the dimly lit hallway leading to Alkard's office. Nervously, I reached out and pushed the control panel.

The door rose up into the ceiling with a soft hiss. My momentary triumph was tempered by a pulse of fear.

What would Alkard do if he found me poking around in here?

My belly clenched as I remembered the weight of his body on mine, the feel of his tongue at my neck, his teeth.

The heat in his eyes as he'd made that deal with me.

None of that meant anything.

He was just another male who would promise anything to get what he wanted.

The only one who could help me was myself.

I crossed the threshold at last. The door closed behind me, startling me momentarily. Then I sat down behind his desk and examined the sleek computer console built right into the glossy surface.

Alkard had the best of everything, including, it turned out, network security. I had to input a password just to get into his terminal.

Of course.

"Fuck," I said, pondering the password. What could it be? I tried typing in the first thing that came to mind.

"Grim…fangs," I said, and then hit enter.

An error message scrolled over the display screen.

"Damn it," I hissed under my breath. I could keep trying, but it was futile. And for all I knew, it would trigger an alarm. Better to look around for a clue.

"Maybe he keeps his passwords somewhere close by," I muttered, opening the top desk drawer. A little squeak escaped when I saw a fully charged energy pistol sitting on top of a stack of thin parchment covered in figures.

I carefully looked through the papers while disturbing the gun as little as possible. There had to be something in there that would give me a clue as to what his password might be.

Engrossed in my search, I didn't pay enough attention to my surroundings.

The door hissed open, and my heart sank into my feet. I tentatively lifted my gaze up to meet the angry red eyes of Alkard.

Shit.

We stared at each other for a long moment.

Would he kill me, right here?

"What do you think you are doing?"

He moved like a hurricane, flashing across the office and grabbing me by the throat in an instant. My hands went up to grip his wrist, but I might as well have tried to free myself from stone.

I gasped as he dragged me over the office and slammed me back hard against the far wall, his snarl contorting into a mask of rage. Alkard lowered his face until his nose was almost touching mine.

"You must be tired of life," he growled in a low, husky tone. "I can't figure out why else you would think yourself impertinent enough to trespass in my private chambers."

"I—I was looking to see if you knew anything about Mera," I said in a voice tight from his grip around my throat. I could breathe and speak, barely. I felt the power of his grip and knew he could have crushed my windpipe without breaking a sweat.

"You were what?" He trembled with anger. "Do you think I'm a liar, Tessi? If I knew anything about your missing friend, I would have told you, don't you think?"

I licked my lips, and opened my mouth to speak.

"Silence," he hissed, squeezing one iota harder on my throat until I made a strangled gasp. He eased up again, just enough so I could breathe. "Clearly you think I am either a liar or a fool. In either case, you may have just forfeited your life."

My breath came hard and fast, panic threatening to envelop me, body and soul. But I had a major birth defect.

The more danger I was in, the more fear I felt, the mouthier I got.

"You really want to waste the credits you spent acquiring my contract?" I asked.

He sputtered with rage, and then leaned in until his nose pressed against mine.

"Do you think," he said in a voice all the more frightening for how eerily calm it seemed, "that I need to worry about money ?"

His body pressed up against mine. I swallowed with difficulty, and then sneered up at him.

"Either kiss me or kill me," I snapped. "Pick one."

His eyes went wide as his fingers loosened their grip, and he let go of my throat, stepping back and staring at me, his face totally blank.

"Explain," he said in a low, guttural tone. "Why should I not kill you right here and now?"

My eyes darted downward, until my gaze fell on the prominent bulge in his crotch. A shiver went through me that had nothing to do with fear.

"Well," I said, a tad breathlessly as the tingle passed through my core to spread through the rest of my body. "I can think of one reason why you might not want to kill me."

He wasn't the only one getting hot and bothered. Part of me wished he would pin me up against the wall again…

For a completely different reason, of course.

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