when I didn’t hear back from you. Why else do you think I called so many damn times?”
“It’s not true? How can you say that Dawson when only today you were annoyed that I’d fucked another man while I was supposed to be working?” Her voice was spitting fire now, but she was only just getting started. “Most normal men would have been furious that I’d actually slept with someone else, but you didn’t give a damn about that, did you? All you cared about was the fact that I’d done it on company time. All you were concerned about was whether I’d messed up any chance of Armando wanting to do business with you and your damn company.”
Dawson opened his mouth to reply, but she held up her hand and effectively silenced him with just a look. “And then, after you’d scolded me like a naughty child, you proceeded to fuck me in your own special way.” Zoe’s fingers came up as she spoke to give some air quotes. “And then you had the nerve to actually congratulate me on securing the contract with Armando. Do you not realize how completely fucked up that is, Dawson? You couldn’t even be bothered to tell me about him agreeing to your terms before you fucked me because all you were concerned about was doling out punishment for me being indiscrete!” Zoe knew that her voice had raised an octave, but she was way past caring at this point.
Dawson had the grace to at least look a little abashed, but he wasn’t ready to admit that she was right. “I thought that you enjoyed what we did together. What I did to you. You can’t tell me I was wrong about that, Zoe, because I know your body and what it likes.”
Zoe was infuriated. “You’re completely missing the point for God’s sake. You had absolutely no problem about me being intimate with another man so long as it secured the contract you wanted.” Even saying the words made her feel dirty. “I’m nothing more than a glorified whore for you and your company, Dawson. You fuck me when it suits you and you use me as your sex toy when there isn’t anyone else available to take part in your kinky control freak games.”
Dawson was starting to look seriously pissed off by this point, but Zoe was way past noticing or caring. “I thought that this was the job of my dreams, but it’s turned out to be nothing more than an up-market version of standing on a street corner touting for business. And I’m done.”
“Can I speak now?” There was definite sarcasm in Dawson’s voice, along with a good amount of annoyance and exasperation. Zoe nodded her head; her words having finally run out. “Okay, for your information, there is always someone readily available and more than happy to take part in any ‘kinky control freak games’, as you call it. But I don’t tell you about them because quite frankly it’s none of your business. As for not caring about you sleeping with other men, it would be a tad hypocritical of me in light of my last statement, don’t you think?” He quirked his eyebrow and Zoe could have quite happily slapped it off his face.
“Now, on to your statement about being nothing more than the company’s whore. You get paid damn good money and travel all over the world at the expense of the company. What you do not get paid for is to sleep around while you’re supposed to be working. So yes, I was pissed off that you had sex with Armando during company time, but I don’t own you and you’re not my possession, so while I may have been disappointed about it I was not going to act irrationally jealous over it. If that makes me a bad person then so be it, but I can’t change who I am or how I feel, Zoe, and if you have a problem with that then maybe it’s time to reevaluate exactly where you want to be and what you want to be doing with your life.”
Zoe felt an ice-cold calmness wash over her at his words. “You’re absolutely right, Dawson. It is time that I made some changes in my life, and I’m
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