Shall we meet Dante?

Karina

The next day I wake up to an empty bed. Even though Klaus came here with me, he didn't stay all night after the stove incident, which makes me upset.
I would love to know what it's like to have your body against mine in the morning, your tail wrapped around my leg. I don't think I've ever wanted something like this with someone as much as I do now.
However, when I look in the bathroom mirror, all the thoughts in my head disappear. There are bruises everywhere. On my arms and hips there are clear marks from his fingers holding me, on my butt I have bruises from his palms and scratches from his claws. My face and knees are even a little bruised from being forced onto the dirt and grass floor.
— Damn… — I swear under my breath, seeing a bite on my shoulder.
I decide to immediately wear the beige dress skirt, too short for my taste, and a light pink blouse with sleeves and buttons that Klaus separated. I put on the leather necklace with the K in diamonds and put some makeup on my face to eliminate the scratches.
I know that if I want all this to go away I'm going to have to ask Klaus to lick it, however, I find him in the living room and I don't think he's in the mood to help me with anything.
Persanes is all dressed formally, with dress pants and a gray jacket, a white button-down shirt and a burgundy tie that strangely matches the high heels he put aside for me. He really looks like a snobbish millionaire now, a seven-foot millionaire with horns.
— We’re going to DEC, my family’s company — he says, looking at himself in a mirror with a golden frame, hanging on a wall in the living room.
Klaus slides his hands into his hair that has been styled for a wet effect and tucks it into place, and in a strange way it makes me sad, because he just doesn't look at me.
Every time we go out, he always evaluates how the clothes he chose look on my body. Sometimes I would make changes and add something that I liked more and he would evaluate that too. The simple act of getting dressed became something fun, because every day there is a new piece that arrived from the dressmaker who took my measurements at the beginning of all this.
Before Klaus, I always alternated between very few and uncomfortable options and after him I was left with endless pieces and compliments too. But now he doesn't seem to care how the clothes fit on me.
— Shall we meet Dante? — I arch an eyebrow.
Yesterday, before we left the party table, Dante said he wanted to meet Klaus again. But I didn't think I'd see that guy anymore, since he's clearly a danger.
— Yes, we have a meeting today and you will be my secretary.
- Are you sure about that? — I get closer to him and breathe in his scent delicious, which makes a shiver run down my body. It's as if my brain had saved its aroma and related it to pleasure and warmth.
— You were acting as my secretary at my company until
now, so I decided to give you the position while we are at DEC. — He shrugs and heads towards the door. - Let's go now.


***

I get in the car believing that we will talk and I will be able to understand how he expects me to be in the same room as a guy drugged with a substance that might make him want to rape me, but Klaus remains on a long and stressed business call and only when we arrive at the big company that hangs up the call.
“I don't know if I can do this,” I say, as we walk down the hall. entrance to the building where several human people are also present. They all stare at us, strange. — I can't go near this man, Klaus, he's too dangerous.
His face is very serious, without showing any emotion that I understand, and his legs are too long for me to follow him, which makes me run a little.
— I already said that you are protected by my side — he says, as We arrive at an elevator that is too big and leaves me feeling strange.
—But yesterday we ran away from this guy into the middle of a forest and now you want a meeting with him?
Klaus presses the button for the top floor, crosses his arms and leans against a wall. Today he looks exactly like the Klaus Dark Elf from the newspaper, which leaves me at a loss as to how to act. He is distant, dark and moody. His eyes are only on his phone and his reflection and I'm just a bug next to him.
— You will do what I tell you to do, and if I say you will even a meeting with me, you will. — Then he finally looks at me and I start to wish he had continued to ignore me. The moss green irises are icy in a mean way that makes me shiver. — If I say you're going to be naked in front of Dante, then you will be, Karina. — His voice is placid, a tone I've seen him use with his family, but never with me. I was always the exception, I always knew it was all a mask to intimidate.
— This is absurd. — I shake my head
— It's not absurd, it's the contract, female. — Gives a short, loud laugh, full of
of mockery, which causes me a sudden shame, heating up my face and leaving me feeling out of place. — Don't act naive, yesterday you really enjoyed showing off naked for me in the forest and now you're no longer a virgin. You can do whatever it takes to seduce Dante. — It's his voice speaking, but the words… don't fit Klaus, not after I've met him. Not after feeling him tremble in front of the fire yesterday.
- Are you kidding me? — I shrug my shoulders, losing my mind. courage to face it. This Klaus makes me feel cheap, dirty. — What happened yesterday between the two of us was very different and I thought it had been… it had been… — The words barely want to leave my mouth.
“I thought it was special” is what I mean.
—What could it have been, Karina?
I had sex with Klaus because I thought he was different from anything I'd ever seen. Because I thought you thought I was beautiful and important.
— I-I told you I wouldn't do anything sexual. I'm not a prostitute. — It's like he stuck a dagger in my back.
— No, you are more than a whore, you are mine. Your image,
the clothes, the jewelry, every piece of your body is mine, because I'm paying! So do as I say or leave. — Every word of his is more fierce than the last, more superb, and it shocks me so much that I don't even notice that the elevator
arrived at the floor where we should get down. — Your debts have already been paid and this is our second week, worth thirty thousand. It's good money for you, so value it.
He gets out of the elevator and I'm forced to go with him, because he holds my arm tightly and that makes me realize that I'm shaking with anger and fear, but I can't say anything. My throat is dry and like a little robot I follow the Persians.
In the end I just fell prey to a wolf who didn't even bother to dress up as a sheep.
My eyes fill with tears and I lower my head, so that the woman serving us cannot see. They have a brief conversation about the times Dante will be available to see Klaus, and when she says that the president will see us in ten minutes, I feel a huge vomiting sensation.
— We're going to wait in his office, then — he says and continues to want me
take it along. We even go a little further inside the company, we move away from the receptionist's desk and into a corridor, but after that I don't let it take me any longer through this chic business environment.
— I'm leaving — my voice is too low, however, I know that I'm
he heard.
- What? — He tries to pull me again, but I free myself from his hands that They're not squeezing me so much.
— I'm leaving, Klaus — I repeat firmly.
He acted like Dante was a monster yesterday and today he wants me to face this man? What kind of sadistic plan does Klaus have?
At the beginning of the contract I was only thinking about my mother. But now the bills are paid and he did well to remind me of that. Now is the time to not be greedy and walk away before things get worse.
Before I… fall in love with this being.
— We have a deal, female. — Your big hands take me by the hair shoulders and spread heat throughout my body. We are too close in this all-white, carpeted hallway and I know that if he wanted to, Klaus would take me into the room by force.
— Agreement you just broke because I said it wouldn't be forced to do nothing sexual. — I move once again away from him, so he doesn't touch me anymore, and Klaus responds to this with a low growl in his mouth.
throat. — Keep your thirty thousand, I'm going to go to your house now, leave all these clothes, take the only dress that belongs to me and I hope… I never see you again in my life.
The damn tears run down my face without me being able to control myself and I wipe them away quickly, but not before being seen by Klaus. His words keep repeating inside my head and I only feel more disgusting with each passing moment. I need to get out of here.
“Your image, your clothes, your jewelry, every piece of your body is mine, because I’m paying!”
— I'll wait for you inside Dante's room and if you don't go in there in five minutes, say goodbye to everything you've achieved so far. You will lose everything I gave you and more, do you understand me? — he speaks between teeth, with the thickest, almost demonic voice I've ever heard coming from his lips.
Everything inside me shakes and I even find it difficult to breathe at his clear threat.
— What are you going to do, Klaus?
I always knew he couldn't be trusted, but I ended up forgetting that in the last few days, which was a big mistake.
— You don't know me if you think you're going to do whatever you want. — It licks its lower lip with its long tongue and then gives a very dangerous smile, full of pointy teeth. — Test my patience, female, and your life will become hell.
— You can't threaten me like that!
— Go away now and you will find out what I can and cannot do. — He practically spits the words at me and then turns, opens the door to what must be Dante's room and walks in, leaving me behind.
I stare at the doorknob for a few seconds, trying to convince myself to turn it and go back for my mother's sake. But I can not. Not if you want to sleep peacefully every night.
I'm not going to be this guy's sex slave and have sex with whoever he tells me to. I will not accept destroying myself for him or for any money. So, still on wobbly legs, I make my way back to the front of the elevator, when suddenly I hear a familiar voice.
- Karina?! — I'm startled when I realize I've found Gina, the insufferable lawyer at Former's office. She is truly the last person
in the world I would like to see in my current state. - What are you doing here?
— I'm Klaus Dark Elf's... secretary now. — My voice comes out
strange and shaky and I just want to disappear.
She's dressed in one of her pretty dark suits, wearing much better makeup than me, and looking much more composed.
I really hope I don't look like I just cried.
—His secretary? How did you get this position?! — he exclaims and I stay even more uncomfortable, because she is talking too loud and ends up attracting the attention of the human receptionist behind the counter, in this small waiting room with some sofas to accommodate people.
— It was an indication — I mumble awkwardly and I'm about to find some lame excuse to run away, when a second familiar face appears and I'm sure God hates me.
- Karina? —Wesley, the tall lawyer who always made me nervous, His eyes widen and I give him an awkward smile in response.
The lawyer comes from another hallway than the one leading to Dante's office, which makes me feel a little better. He didn't hear what just happened.
—H-hi, how are you? — I question, having no idea how to act.
— Did you know that Karina left the office to be the rich guy’s secretary? Klaus Dark Elf? — Gina doesn't even let Wesley answer my question and talks over it.
I want to kill this woman!
— After he showed up at the office and treated you like that? - O my ex-colleague asks in a very surprised tone and I swear I wish it was socially acceptable to run away in the middle of a conversation you don't want to have.
— He was just having a bad day… — I murmur and shrug, embarrassed. Bad day? Klaus is like that every day.
- You can only be kidding. When they told me that you had fired, I didn't believe it and now he's here, with... — Wesley looks at me from head to toe. — Is this all new clothes?
How does he know that what I'm wearing is new clothes? It's okay that my outfit in the Former office wasn't varied, but only if Wesley was good
Look at me and you would notice that I only had a couple of button-down shirts, a pair of pants and a skirt to wear to the office.
— It's not new clothes, it's just… old clothes. Very old. — I smile the best I can, which isn't good at all.
— Is that around your neck a collar? — He arches an eyebrow and points out, which makes me even more nervous.
Lucky for me the bites aren't visible.
— Don't be silly, Wesley, that's not a collar. It's a choker leather! — Gina exclaims and rolls her eyes, and I don't know how to respond. —
Karina doesn't understand fashion and combined this choker with formal clothes.
— It doesn't matter that it's a choker, Gina, for God's sake! — he exclaims, getting angry in a way I've never seen before. Wesley is always very calm, never raises his voice to anyone. — Can't you see that Karina quit her job at the office, never answered my calls or responded to my messages and became a… thing for this man. — She makes a disgusted face that leaves me very embarrassed and wanting to cry more.
— I-I'm his secretary. — I shake my head, wondering
How could this day be so horrible? — And I didn't receive any call from you.
The new cell phone Klaus gave me stays with me all the time now and I've never received a single message from Wesley, even though he's using my old number. Did Persanes block the lawyer on purpose?
— Is Klaus paying you to have sex with him? That's why it came out mid-day to meet him at the hotel? He turned you into some kind of prostitute?! — he asks and I can't even look around to see if anyone else is watching this horror show.
— Karina, did you have sex with the Dark Elf in the middle of the work day?! — Gina's eyes widen. - I don't believe! You, with that virgin face of yours going around?!
— I didn't do that, okay? I have nothing to do with Klaus. — My voice almost disappears and my heart is racing.
— I was considerate of you, I thought we were both… involving! — He points a finger in my direction and the way he shouts at me manages to make me even more terrified, as if that were possible. — But you preferred to get involved with that freak full of money who thinks he can buy anyone!
“Just let me explain, please,” I beg, sniffling. — You're not going to explain anything to this little shit!
Before I can even turn to see Klaus coming, he's already at my side hitting Wesley in the face with a punch, which makes him fall backwards.