Mastered(19)

“Seven. Tomorrow,” Maddox said crisply, suddenly all business. “Don’t come down. I don’t want you waiting on the street. Stay inside until I come up for you.”

She barely managed to control her flinch. Barely. Even so, she was certain she’d gone completely pale.

After giving her the best sexual experience of her life, Drake had calmly told her that his driver would be at her apartment the next night at seven and she was going to spend the evening with him. Just like that. He didn’t ask. He planned without consulting her about . . . anything . . . and she was supposed to just meet his driver and go God only knew where with a scary-as-hell man who also happened to have a positively sinful mouth and an equally sinful body.

She’d been too shattered by her orgasm to do anything but nod dumbly when he’d given her his crisp instructions, and then she’d been herded out of the club and into the car that drove her home.#p#分页标题#e#

“Seven,” she answered, nodding to reinforce the lie.

And then she shut the door, thanking God the girls weren’t all waiting in the tiny living room for all the gory details of her evening. She leaned back against it, closing her eyes, her control finally breaking, and she began shaking from head to toe. Even her teeth chattered as she relived every sinfully decadent moment of being sprawled across Drake’s desk as he went down on her like a starving man.

There was no way in hell she would be here at seven tomorrow. She had work, rent to pay and money to send home to her mother. And nothing, not even a very scary, very sexy man who made her tingle in places she’d never tingled in before was going to prevent her from taking care of her responsibilities.

She hadn’t moved so far away from her tiny southern town to a city with a bigger population than her home state to be a party girl or even to have fun. She’d come to the city because her family needed her, and she wasn’t going to let them down.





It was the height of cowardice, and Evangeline made no excuses, nor did she even attempt to offer any when she left her apartment well in advance of seven o’clock the next evening.

Though she’d been granted a temporary reprieve when she’d gotten home and her girlfriends weren’t waiting up—much to Evangeline’s utter astonishment—to make her spill all the gory details of her evening out at Impulse, they had awakened her the next morning by all piling onto one of the twin beds in the room she shared with Steph and literally pounced on her.

Evangeline had grumbled and whined about them waking her up when she had to work a late shift that night, but they’d ignored her and informed her she had time for a nap. After she gave them every single detail, word for word, of the ultimate payback they’d cajoled her into. As if she had a prayer of going back to sleep after recounting it.

She hesitated for a long time, biting her bottom lip until her friends grew concerned, and Evangeline knew she would have to spill or they’d assume far worse than what had actually happened, and they would absolutely have no compunction about paying Eddie an unexpected visit and beating the ever-loving hell out of him.

And one wimpy guy against her three ferocious, positively evil—their best quality, in Evangeline’s opinion—friends? Wouldn’t have a chance in hell. Then Evangeline would have spent the rest of her day figuring out how to afford to bail all three out of jail, when raising the funds to bail just one would have been impossible.

Her friends were loyal and protective, and their friendship was unconditional. Evangeline wouldn’t trade them for anything in the world, which was why, despite her humiliation over the events of the night before, not to mention the OH-MY-GOD ending and her leaving like a mute automaton, programmed to obey without question, she poured out the entire story.

The first part involving Eddie was actually enjoyable, and now that she had distance and wasn’t existing in that moment, she could actually find amusement in what a complete spineless wuss he was and what a complete moron she’d been to have ever allowed him to have sex with her. Especially allowing him to be her first. Despite the amusement she was able to summon, the humiliation was still ever present in her mind, because how stupid and naïve could she have been? She wasn’t a stranger to hard life lessons, but this was one she would have been more than happy to take a pass on.

Her friends found it vastly amusing as well, once they got over their rage at the way Eddie had humiliated her and had actually assaulted her in public! But Evangeline had assured them that he had thoroughly received his comeuppance and he had ended up being far more humiliated than Evangeline.#p#分页标题#e#