Passion By Control (Passion Series Book 2) Read Free

to our matching uniforms. “So welcome to the club, literally. I hope you like it here. It’s not too bad. Terry’s pretty good.”
    She was bright and bubbly, about my height, but more curvy, and with shoulder length strawberry blonde hair and vivid blue eyes.
    I smiled. “Yes, yes, thanks, thanks and great.” I answered her string of comments that probably didn’t need answering, but I needed someone on my side when confronted by an unfamiliar city and a new job where I knew no one.
    “So are you new to Hobart?”
    “Yes, I was born and raised on the mainland, the Hunter Valley actually, but I’ve been on a working holiday overseas and only got back two weeks ago. I figured I wasn’t ready to go home just yet and I’d heard Tasmania was a nice place. I thought I’d stay awhile if I can keep a job and find somewhere to live.” My smile was rueful.
    “Where are you staying?”
    I groaned. “A hotel but I can’t stay there forever. It’s sucking up my savings faster than I can afford. I need to find a house or something where I can share.”
    “I live in a house that has a couple more spare rooms.” Chloe said. “My friend Cassie owns the house. It was actually willed to her when her best friend passed away about 6 or 7 months ago. I’ve moved in with her since Cassie enjoys the company but I know she’s after one or two more people to move in. She’s actually coming in tonight to the club. I’ve been pushing her to get out a bit lately. It hit her hard when her friend Allegra died.”
    My heart skipped a beat at the mention of Cassie and then Allegra. Bingo. What were the chances? The very person I needed to meet. Cassie was the one I’d been told about that might be able to give me somewhere to live. My clients had given me her name and insisted that I try to get in with her. She had been around the very person I was here to stir up trouble for, so a valuable contact for accommodation and association.
    Through her, I should be able to make contact with him, the one I’d heard so much about. He was a complete asshole from what I’d learned, and messing with him, could potentially be fun, well if tossing a few spells in his direction could be classed as messing with him.
    “Really I gushed?” Laying it on thick, but I needed to meet this Cassie and try and convince her that having me as a housemate was a good idea.
    “Yeah, she’ll be here Sirene. I’ll be sure to point her out when she arrives and introduce you two. It would be kind of cool if we lived in the same house when we work together too. We could car pool?” She said, her face lighting up with excitement and I grinned. Damn, me grin?
    Still, Chloe’s bubbly personality was infectious and maybe someone like her would be good for me, bring me out of my shell a bit? Not that I really wanted out of my shell, but I know my more aloof personality made me less open to mixing with others. If I wanted to get a room that wasn’t costing me a fortune anymore like the hotel was, I had to pull my head out of my ass and socialise more, or be more social. Plus being in Cassie’s home would give me a much greater chance of meeting my target. He was known to drop around to the house on occasion apparently.
    “Come on then, it’s almost show time.” Chloe said suddenly, and I followed her gaze to where the band was starting to set up. The doors to the area where the live bands performed were still closed, but we could see faces lining up outside them, so it wouldn’t be much longer and I’d be working my first real shift.
     
    “I want five beers, one bourbon and coke, and flash me your tits will ya?” I sighed when the sweating, leering man placed his order.
    ‘Keep it together Sirene. You can’t turn him into a toad or something.’ I tried to remind myself, struggling to keep the rage building in me, from fully surfacing. Turning the man into a slug would not look good on my resume, I was sure.  
    “Will that be all?” I asked him