Satisfaction by Marie Rochelle

 

     
     

     
     
     
     
     
    Chapter One
     

    Sitting in the very back of his crowded nightclub, Jace Diamont tapped his fingers against the table watching as everyone flirted around him, hoping not to leave alone tonight. A few times during the last hour, more than six women had come up to him asking for a dance, but he wasn’t interested in holding any of them in his arms.
    Tonight, his mind was on other things besides having a willing female in his bed. He was worried about his little brother, Devin. His father contacted him over a month ago to inform him that Devin had left during the night to go in search of his mate. He didn’t bother to tell his father that he already knew about it. Why should he? It wasn’t as if he ever respected the old man.
    Of course, his domineering father ordered him to go and bring his brother back home, but he thought it was probably too late for that. Despite Devin being over a hundred years old, he was finally growing up, which meant finally standing up to their father. There was nothing he would be able to do or say to his sibling if he had already tasted his woman’s blood and turned her.
    Besides, why would he leave the side of the female he was destined to be with to live back under their father’s roof? Jace left home when he was barely a hundred and never looked back in all of these centuries. Why would he when freedom was so sweet and the women so tempting to his senses? He would be out of his mind to want to go back into that environment.
    From the corner of his eye, Jace spotted his assistant, Clark Kent, coming toward him. When he first heard Clark’s name, he instantly found it very amusing and didn’t have a problem with Clark about it.
    Almost instantly his friend confessed that his parents had been huge fans of Superman and didn’t think twice about naming their only child after the character. So, when women started taking notice of his name, Clark darkened his naturally light brown hair and bought a pair of fake glasses to further his famous name with them. Jace secretly wondered how many more women would continue to fall for the gimmick before they caught on to what his buddy was doing.
    “How are things going tonight?” Clark asked, taking a seat next to him as the DJ played an old-school TLC song.
    “Everything is running smoothly as usual,” Jace answered, looking at his friend, “but I know you didn’t come all the way here to ask me that. So, what’s really going on? You usually avoid my nightclub as much as you can.”
    His friend looked away from him and glanced around the packed house. He could tell from the stressed look on Clark’s face that whatever he was going to tell him wouldn’t be good news, and he wasn’t in any mood for bad news tonight.
    “I heard a rumor, and I know you aren’t going to be pleased about it,” Clark answered, directing his eyes back in his direction. “In fact, I can see it’s going to set you off.”
    Turning in his seat, Jace faced Clark. “What is so important that you had to come all the way to tell me instead of just calling or texting me? Wouldn’t it have been a lot easier on you?”
    “No, the news I have to tell you needs to be done face to face and not over the phone,” Clark answered, pushing up his fake glasses.
    Jace’s interest was definitely peaked now. He couldn’t wait to hear what the news was. “Don’t keep me in suspense. Tell me what it is.”
    Clark took a breath and quickly blew it out. “Your father is coming to town to see you about the Devin situation. He should be here first thing tomorrow morning.”
    “You’re wrong. There is no way my father is leaving Greece to come all of the way here to see me.”
    “I’m right,” Clark said. “His assistant called me and asked if you were in town or out of town on one of your business trips. He didn’t want to make the trip all of the way here for nothing. He’s taking the private jet to make sure he doesn’t waste time on a