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It had been too long since Clovis retrieved her right hand man from Legacy manor. Things were different since then, sitting at her desk trying to keep calm and not let her mind wander to what he could have said while not in her presence.

That dumb oaf....He better not have said anything out of turn.....

Just thinking about it boiled her blood. The half-breed thought back to when she was in the bath with him. How he was so anxious and trusting but now that seemed to dim in her mind. Back then she just played the part of sneaking around as the sister of the boss, having secret rendezvous and kisses. Going back to those thoughts she bit her lip, turning slightly red in her golden fur and continued to write out a few things on the documents provided.

But he's my dumb oaf...if he or anyone else knew this secret....they would surely have me sent off...

She could feel the tension twisting up in her chest, nervous about Brutus hating her for hiding something so important. Lately she had been feeling a sense of doubt since the encounter at the manor, missing her opportunity to take out Natani and his brother Zen leading her to think if she had gone soft.

Unable to work like this, Clovis got up from the desk and pulled her cloak around her feminine body. Maybe a walk outside or some time in the bath would help ease her nerves. No one would dare bother her in the bath...She made her way out of the room and down the stairs a couple flights to get to the wash-room. As she drew closer, a familiar wolf spotted her and decided to follow. Brutus wanted a chance to catch up with the boss as much as he could seeing he missed out a couple months.

Clovis made it inside the wash-room and began to take off her cloak just as Brutus walked in at the same time. This shocked the female as she covered up frantically while staring at the wolf in the eyes. To see his boss with a different body had him shocked but a bit dumbfounded at the same time, wondering what happened in the time he was away.

"B-Boss! I...I don't understand you look like.....like her but you're not...you're not her...."

"Of course I'm not her you fool! What the hell were you doing following me?!" Her gaze snapped away, ashamed and embarrassed for being revealed as a female. She couldn't let him live with this or else he would tell someone just as Roan described to her when she came back.

"Please boss I wasn't trying to.....I just wanted to talk with you."

_He what?! _

"Shut the goddamn door!" Her voiced snapped at Brutus and he immediately scrambled to shut the door as if he were on fire. She seemed so angry at him, feeling his heart sink at those words and leaning against the door as if he were afraid to move.

"S-Sorry boss....I really wasn't trying to sneak around on you....I really...Y-Your sister...she isn't real...is she?" He sounded so hurt at the realization but Clovis could honestly smell a cover up not far behind.

"What do you think idiot?! Do you really think that I will share your sympathy of your puppy love?! No....not after you went and shot your mouth off around the enemy! Yea...Roan told me all about your conversation while being locked up at the estate...Do you think I'm that stupid or that I wouldn't have Roan tell me....? At this point I trust him more than I trust YOU!" Her eyes filled with angry tears, arms shaking as she held the cloak against her body and moving toward Brutus slowly with every word rising with anger.

At those last words, Brutus looked up quickly and made his way over as if to comfort the half-breed. "Clovey...please I didn't...I really didn't mean to..." Before his hands could grasp her shoulders, Clovis pulled back but he made a quick move to seize her with a hand paw behind her head. "Please trust me...."

"I can't...I could before when....when I was pretending to be her and now....You're looking at me like....like I'm....a stranger..." As more tears fell Brutus saw the hurt in her eyes, holding her still and pressing his forehead against hers to stare into those ruby orbs. "I just didn't know...Believe me Clovey..."

"No! I believe you....but I cannot trust you to be that clumsy again! Do you know if anyone had been listening that....if anyone overheard this....I could be ruined! Do you know what they do to women in a lucrative business like this?! They sell us into slavery...." She pulled back more but he would only follow in closely, making sure to not lose her again. Brutus didn't want that to happen. To have Clovis sold into slavery, to be used for whatever foul reasons men would make happen. He felt so angry at himself for being reckless and blurting out, shaking his head in frustration.

"But I wouldn't do that to you! I know I screwed up but please....please don't think that I would sell you off...you're the best boss I could ever have..." He wiped away her tears, moving in closer than he had before and pressed his lips into hers for a deep kiss. "I couldn't do that to you.....Not when I..-"

The door opened to reveal Roan and another that seemed to be in league with him. "There she is! Grab her!" Roan followed the other's orders, snatching Clovis by her arm and dragging her out the door as she glared to Brutus, "You tricked me! How could you do this to me!? You told them!" Another guard came in and held Brutus back to keep him from getting to the half-breed female.

"N-No! I didn't do anything! I swear!" While being pushed out the door and down the hallway, she looked back at him angrily but tears falling down her cheeks. Now she really felt betrayed, Roan keeping her held by the back of her neck and sinking his claws into her fur roughly, "Don't let him lie to you.~ Now I can get you sold off for a pretty coin, sweetheart."

As they made their way out of the estate, Clovis could feel the humiliation and hurt building up again before being shoved into a slave traders cart.

Why did I fall for that dumbass....?

(Continued in Riches to Slavery...)