Chapter 234

“Hmm, guess I really can’t bring myself to kill you. You’re way too valuable to waste—think decades of return on investment,” Damien Blackwood said, his tone thick with meaning.

“So what you’re actually saying is, since you’re not planning to kill me, I can pretty much do whatever I want now, huh?” Cassandra Taylor raised a brow, not realizing their conversation was drifting into dangerously flirtatious territory.

“Exactly. Go wild. Just keep it aimed at me,” Damien answered smoothly, picking up on her words.

Cassandra shot him a glare, visibly annoyed. “Mr. Blackwood, do you have some kind of weird kink? Always picking on younger girls?”

“You’re legally an adult now, Sweetheart,” he corrected her matter-of- factly.

“I wasn’t when we first met,” she shot back. His infamous line that night—‘I’m not doing anything tonight’—still echoed in her mind.

“Oh,” Damien replied, mimicking her tone with a single word.

Cassandra could practically feel st