Streetlife

55 - The Boss

LENA POV

This was the first time in a long time I was ever this nervous around Warbucks for I could sense his annoyance and irritation with me as we went to a tea at the Four Seasons. He had been quiet the entire ride up here and had not even looked at me.

As we now take our seats in the lovely dining hall, that was one of my favorite places to dine, the waiter brings us our waters as I smile at him. Not even when I first met Warbucks was I this nervous and me being me, I decide to break the silence as he pulls out his newspaper and begins to read and for some reason this rattles my nerves even more, which not many things do.

"Mike, can we talk? Listen, I want you to know..."

"Can't you see me reading my paper?" His voice is cold and stern as he glares hard at me and I politely nod my head at him as this catches me rather off guard.

"Yes, forgive me." I say softly now looking around as the waiter brings us our little sandwiches and tea as Warbucks puts his paper down. It seemed like we sat here for almost an hour eating with him not saying a word to me and I wasn't sure what to do. No clue at all as he finishes his meal and lights a cigar.

The Four Seasons was one of the first places Mike took me when I became his girl. He wined and dined me so hard that I had almost forgotten my name. He had introduced me to the finer things and I had never even been to a tea before much less heard of one.

He had been so kind, I felt like I could tell him anything, he was so affectionate and afterwards he had spent so much money on me going shopping for new clothes and shoes, more money then I had ever seen in my entire life.

It was the first time I had ever set foot in any store in 5th avenue as he took me to Bergdorfs, Sakes, Chanel, and Burberry. I didn't know what to do I was so overwhelmed but he helped me pick things out and made me feel like a queen. I had never felt so special in my life, ever and we had sex for days after. Intense sex that I felt in my bones and heart. That now felt like a lifetime ago and I felt I was now faced with the very thing Tess had warned me about. I was in love with this man and in my gut I felt he was about to toss me out like a rag doll, and beat the hell out of me.

"So Lena," he finally says after nearly an hour and a half of ignoring me. Snapping me out of my thoughts I look right into his eyes. "What is it you need to say to me? Mm?"

"Well, I thought I was doing the right things and making the right decisions in terms of Callie and Tess. But it seems you're upset about it. You seemed fine the other day and I don't understand what happened?" I quickly say as I fold my hands under the table and his eyes grow darker and more intense. I knew what happened and her name was Stef.

"Right decisions, how?" He asks puffing his cigar. " You said you had it under control, yet you had Callie's money for her missed shift and still made her work and punished her for what? Where's that extra money that you neglected to tell me about? You pocket it?" He bites as I shake my head.

"No, of course not Mike...I would..."

"It's Warbucks." He corrects as I gulp. "Lena, I'm not a fucking idiot, " he whispers. "I'm a smart man, a VERY smart and wise man and I thought you understood that I know A LOT which is how I've gotten this far in life. I may fuck you, I may give you things, make exceptions for you, but when I feel lied to, or that the truth was withheld or even part of it, I get angry. Because at the end of the day, Lena, you're also just some pussy to me. Especially if I feel you aren't honest." He says this so calmly as I nod my head once again at him but his words are like knives. Knives I was so dumb to believe he wouldn't throw at me.

"I guess I figured you'd ask if you wanted details. But you didn't ask, and I..."

"That's not the fuckin point! You SHOULD have told me everything. All of it," he says through gritted teeth as my heart hammers in my chest. "Instead of being fucking sneaky."