Choked (Devoured #3) Read Online Free PDF

walked across the shiny tiles lining
the dingy brown hallway until she got to Kirk’s office. It was time to play
hardball.
    If he was going to try and scare her, she was going
to remind him who he was dealing with. He was the one that had every reason to
be afraid. He was the one whose life was going to fall apart if he didn’t give
her exactly what she wanted.
    She opened the door without knocking and found him
in the room with a young male student. They were hunched over the edge of his
desk, looking at a paper covered in red pen.
    “I’m sorry. I didn’t know you were in here with
someone.”
     “Oh, hi,” Kirk said in a fake, friendly voice. He
turned to the young man. “I think we’re about finished here, Jonas, don’t you
think?”
    Jonas turned and looked Julianna up and down.
    “You think you can take it from here?” Kirk asked
him.
    Jonas stood up and grabbed his paper off the desk
and gave Professor Kirk a guy-to-guy “nice one” look.
    “You’ll let me know if the rest of the corrections
don’t make sense?”
    “Sure.” Jonas picked up his backpack by one strap
and stopped next to Julianna on the way out. “What class are you in?”
    She looked down her nose at him. “Not yours.”
    Jonas gave her a snotty look and closed the door
behind him.
    “Problem student?” Julianna asked, leaning against
the bookshelf.
    “Compared to you?”
    Julianna scrunched her nose.
    “Just kidding.” Kirk sat in his desk chair. “Did you
think about what we talked about?”
    “Funny. I came to ask you the same question.”
    “Sorry?”
    “I was just stopping by to see how Madeline took the
news.”
    Kirk’s lips grew thin.
    “You didn’t tell her?” Julianna shook her head.
“Kirk. Kirk. Kirk. I’m surprised at you.”
    “I can’t imagine why. You know I don’t want her to
find out.”
    “I know it’s not ideal.” Julianna took a step
forward and wrapped her fingers over the back of the chair where Jonas had been
sitting. “But you can’t really expect her to be happy with a marriage built on
lies. Any mother would want to know if her husband fathered another child. It’s
only right.”
    “Five thousand dollars, Julianna. I can give it to
you right now, and you can stop joking around like this. It’s a reasonable- a generous-
offer.”
    “I really think you should keep it.” She shifted her
weight behind the chair. “You’re going to need it more than me with the baby
coming.”
    His eyebrows came together.
    “And with your job being in jeopardy.”
    “My job isn’t in jeopardy.”
    “Maybe not this semester, but you haven’t been here
long enough to make yourself indispensable.”
    Kirk looked at his desk and clenched his fists.
    “I mean, I really shouldn’t be telling you this, but
it sounds like some staff might be let go to make room for new talent.” She
cleared her throat.
    He glared at her.
    “And most of the psych staff is tenured, as you know.
So that makes you one of the only options. Especially if your study doesn’t get
more funding.”
    “Why are you saying these things, Julianna?”
    She shrugged.
    “Really. Why are you threatening my job?”
    “I’m trying to help you Kirk, as a friend.”
    He winced.
    “It all comes back to me not thinking of myself
again.”
    “Is that so?”
    “Yeah,” she said. “I’m worried about you.”
    “About me?”
    “Of course. I’m worried that you don’t know whether
Madeline is going to stick by you if you lose your job. Or when she finds out
about the affair.”
    “She’s not going to find out!”
    “Yes she is, Kirk.”
    He pushed his fingers against the desk until the
joints in his knuckles turned white. “You’re not going to tell her.”
    “I agree that it’s better if she hears it from you.”
    Kirk turned his back on Julianna and ran his hands
through his hair.
    “And I think you know that I’m going to tell her if
you don’t.”
    He turned back around to face her. “Why would she
even believe