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Fashioned for Power
Book: Fashioned for Power Read Online Free
Author: Kathleen Brooks
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feeling Shirley would tell the devil himself to mind his manners.
    “If you’re done pouting, we need to talk.”
    “About what? Allegra made it perfectly clear she didn’t want to be with me.”
    Shirley slid her dentures around absently and then slammed her mouth shut in a thin line. “I heard all about it from Elle. Something is not right. Allegra told Elle she was protecting you. I’ve seen the two of you together, and there’s something there. Trust me.”
    Shirley’s words slowly penetrated the fog in his mind. “Wait, she said she was protecting me?”
    “Yes. Something is going on. Something she’s not telling anyone. But the only reason she’d say something harsh like that just to protect you means she cares about you.”
    Finn thought about it for a minute. That was what had been bothering him ever since that night. Her reaction was so un-Allegra . . . so desperate. “I think you’re right. Excuse me, Shirley, I have to see someone right away.”
     
    * * *
     
    He dialed the phone and smiled. He had her just where he wanted her. His wife would be in his arms and under him in his bed whether she liked it or not. Even if she had spread her legs for that scum, Finn, he’d purify his Allegra and teach her the proper way for his wife to act. She was destined to be his and his alone. The feeling was so strong, and he knew she felt it, too. She was just scared of those feelings. She was a part of his heart and soon would be more than that.
    “I’m sorry, the number you are trying to reach is not in service,” a woman’s automated voice said over the phone.
    “That bitch!” He slammed the prepaid phone down on his desk. If she thought she could shut him out of her life just like that, she had another think coming. She was his . He grew excited as he thought about how he was going to punish her. Oh yes, he was going to enjoy teaching her a lesson. He was going to woo his wife into his life and his bed before showing her who was really in control.

     

CHAPTER THREE
     
    Allegra smiled to her driver as she stepped out of her car and onto the sidewalk in front of Simpson Global. Her line was complete for Fashion Week. She’d just met with the last of her designers and the casting directors who were heading off to New York soon to start interviewing the models. Things were falling in place. And since she moved and changed her phone number, she hadn’t received a single threatening text. Finally, she slept all night long.
    “Allegra?”
    Allegra looked to the deep voice calling her name and smiled. “Asher! What a pleasant surprise. I haven’t seen you since Blythe’s Valentine’s dinner party. How are you?”
    The handsome man in a tailor-made suit stopped and smiled down at her. He was sinfully attractive with his black hair and emerald green eyes. He was old Atlanta money, the Southern version of the Rockefellers. His job was to be the heir of the empire. Empire of what, Allegra wasn’t sure. It was why she and Asher had never dated. He’d asked, but she’d declined politely. They just cared about different things. He cared about having his face all over the society pages, traveling the world, and wasting his huge trust fund. But, they’d managed to strike a friendship. Probably because he was so easygoing it was hard not to like him.
    “I’m good. Just been traveling. I was in Monaco the other week with the Princess of Denmark. I’m surprised I didn’t see Reid there.”
    “He’s busy starting a resort here in Atlanta. It’s almost done from what he’s said. You’ll have to come to the grand opening.”
    “As your date?” Asher grinned.
    Allegra rolled her eyes playfully. “Ha! I saw the picture of you in Page Six . I’d need to grow another five inches, lose twenty pounds, and perfect the indifferent stare to be one of your dates.”
    Asher laughed, and Allegra felt good. The past year had been hard on her, and now she finally felt as if she could put them behind her.
    “You
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