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my wife,” he said vindictively.
    “She stopped being your wife the moment you shoved your dick into your secretary,” Kelly said jabbing a finger in his face.
    He narrowed his eyes at her. There was a wicked gleam in his stare and it had the hairs on the back of my neck standing to attention.
    “Stay out of this bitch! If it weren’t for you and your influence on my wife , we would have worked things out. I would have gotten her to forgive me and things would be back to normal.”
    I had never seen Jared act that way and it was certainly disarming. He was usually a very calm and mellow man, but I assumed that the loss of his job and our divorce was starting to take a toll on him. I needed to step in before the situation got out of hand.
    “Jared, what are you doing here?” I asked him to try and get his attention away from Kelly.
    “Like I said, I’m here to see my wife ,” he repeated.
    “Jared, I am not your wife anymore. The papers are final. Why can’t you just let it go? What’s done is done. You made that choice.”
    “No, No! You have to listen to me. We need to talk, alone ,” he said as he peered over at Kelly, “Have dinner with me tomorrow night so we can talk,” Jared begged me. Only my thoughts weren’t on him and having dinner. No, my thoughts were now on a brown-eyed, gorgeous Adonis whose club I would be at tomorrow evening.
    “I can’t Jared,” I finally said breaking from my trance. Jared’s disposition went from desperate to angry, fast. He gripped my upper arm and squeezed it so tight, I feared my circulation would cut off. I could feel his fingernails gripping into my skin and winced at the pain it caused.
    “I am not leaving here until you agree to talk to me! Do you hear me Ashley! We are going to talk!” He was yelling now, and soon the attention of all the patrons in the bar was fixated on us . Great, I just started this job and already I was going to lose it for making a scene. I tried to yank my arm out of Jared’s grip, but it only caused him to squeeze tighter.
    “Please let me go Jared, you are scaring me,” I whispered trying not to cause any more of a scene than what was already going on.
    “Not until you agree to have dinner and talk to me,” he gritted out through clenched teeth.
    “I believe she asked you to let her go,” a deep, familiar voice bellowed. My body went rigid and I looked up to see the murderous look of Dominic staring at where Jared had my arm in a vice grip. I was so distracted by the situation with Jared, that I did not even see him come in. Jared turned to look and see who was speaking to him as Dominic stepped closer to us.
    “Who the fuck are you, asshole? I am talking to my wife. Butt the fuck out,” Jared said to a now very large, very pissed off Dominic.
    “I said let her go before I make you,” Dominic said a little too calmly only I could see the anger in his face. His stare still hadn’t left where Jared’s grip was on my arm, “Last I heard, divorce papers mean that she isn’t your wife anymore.”
    Before I knew it, I was being shoved aside and landed on my ass, hard. Jared was face to face with Dominic. My boss, Andrew, had come out from the office to see what the commotion was all about. When he saw me on the floor, he rushed to my side in an instant. I think he was asking me if I was ok, but my eyes were glued to Jared and Dominic.
    “How the fuck do you know our business?” Jared asked Dominic. He then turned to look at where I was still perched on my ass on the floor, “Are you fucking this douche? I always knew you were a fucking whore!”
    The horrible sound of bones crunching was the next thing I heard and I blanched as I was spattered with blood all over my white blouse. I looked over to see Jared who was now on the ground with his hands clutched to his face and Dominic leering above him with a look of rage.
    This was not happening. This was not happening.
     
    I let Andrew help me to my feet as Dominic looked