POV X Millie's eyes widen at my forwardness, I’ve left her speechless and in deep thought which makes me secretly smile on the inside, I've got her right where I want her. “Let’s go,” I say once more raising an eyebrow in invitation. “Uh,” she says scanning the area where the shitty band is playing and that’s where I see that motherfucker. Chase. What the fuck is she doing here with him? We get into one little argument and she runs into his arms? I'm ready to end this prick once and for all, I start fuming and see Millie is now looking at me out of the corner of my eye. She puts her hand on mine and I look over to her. She has a worried look on her face and shakes her head knowing what I’m thinking. “Please don't cause a scene…” she says. I know better than to cause a scene in a public place, I'm not stupid, even though I do have a few cops that secretly work for me but she doesn't know that, so instead I say one last time, “Then let's fucking go…” I say heated. She nods,
*Warning* This chapter contains in-depth sexual content. POV Millie I know what I have to do. I need this challenge for him to be over. He wants sex and that’s what I intend to give him. I’m not going to do this just to let him have his goal be made, but I genuinely want it too. I know what’s going to happen when it’s over, it’ll be over. He will have gotten what he wanted, and he’ll move on with his life and so will I. It’s what needs to be done for us both to go back to what we know, our worlds are like water and oil, they’ll never mix. I’m in a weird state of mind right now, feeling a bit of sadness because, after tonight, there will be no more X, but at the same time, I am nervous and thrilled to be sharing my body with him. I text Steph to not expect me for a while. When we exit his expensive car, I follow him to the penthouse not saying a word. We get inside and he turns on the lights and leads us to his bedroom where my bags are still sitting on the floor. I
POV Millie It's been forty-five minutes of laying in X’s bed and still no trace of him. His actions tell me everything I need to know, what I have already known, just confirmed. I don’t regret sleeping with him, it was hands down the best physical and emotional connection I’ve ever had with a man, but at the same time, I’m heartbroken. I’ve fallen for this person hard and way too fast. It took me about a year just to question if I loved Chase. I wish it could’ve just worked out with Chase or someone like him, for there to be minimal drama, an easy-going relationship, maybe even a little boring, but most of all, available for a future in some way. With X, it’s a dead end, he got what he wanted all along and now the dead end has been reached. I stand up off the bed and shamefully get dressed feeling worthless. I grab my bags off the floor and walk out of the bedroom with my head down full of depression. I tread down the hallway keeping my eye on the door I need to exit fr
POV Millie X is sitting at a large espresso-colored desk with his head in his hands. He lifts his head up and looks at me, surprised that I’m still here or surprised that I just barged through his office without knocking, I’m not sure and I don’t care. I walk over to him and sit on his desk in front of him, never breaking eye contact. “X, I don’t want to go, I just thought maybe you did,” I say gripping the wood beneath me. “No.” He says shaking his head. “I don’t care what the future holds anymore, I don’t care if it never goes anywhere or if it does, what I do care about though, is you, right now, today. I’d rather have this little bit of time with you than never have it at all.” I say losing my breath after my speech. He stands up towering over me and bends down, taking both of his hands behind my neck and bringing me in for a passionate kiss. He breaks the contact and puts his forehead to mine, “me too baby, me too,” he whispers. “Please stop running from me,” he says in
POV X I open the door and see Adria and Ghost standing there. Fuck, not now. I rub the back of my neck, “what do you guys want?” I ask irritated. Adria folds her arms and lifts a black eyebrow, she pushes past me letting herself in and Ghost follows. “Where the fuck have you been? Did you forget we had a meeting this morning?” Adria snaps. “Shit,” I say, I completely forgot. “Hugo is coming here in a few days and you’re missing meetings and completely distracted lately, you better not fuck this up for us X,” Adria says with an attitude. It’s too early for this shit. “What’s going on with you, man? You’re slacking lately.” Ghost says, fuck him. I’m about to ream him out for talking to me like that when I notice a smile come across his face. I follow his line of sight and so does Adria. Fuck me, he’s spotted Millie. “The distraction. So you’re not a prude after all, huh?” Ghost says and I could just knock his fucking teeth out right now for talking to my girl li
POV Millie I slowly rip off my clothes one by one while X watches me, if I go any slower I think he’ll start panting before me. I strip off my underwear, ending the show but just beginning another. “Fuck baby, I want you so bad,” X says while stroking the hardness in his pants just dying to be freed. “Then what are you waiting for?” I ask and open the door to the shower, letting myself in and turning the water on. “Oh god…” he says as if he may just die here on the bathroom floor. I turn around allowing the hot water to wash over me. I hear him rush to get off his clothes and I inwardly smile to myself. He promptly lets himself in, god, this man is so unbelievably sexy. How did I get him to take an interest in me of all people? He grabs me by the waist, turning me around to face him, and interlocks his mouth with mine. His kisses are so much intensity I feel like I may just unravel in his arms. Our bodies are as close as can be, water dripping down us creating a perfec
POV Millie I turn to the girls who practically have their jaws to the sand. “Oh. My. God, Millie! Tell us everything!” Alina exclaims, shaking my shoulders as if answers will just literally shake out of me. Oh great…not this again… I’m blushing and feel my face warming up more by the second. “Millie!” Ellie says, “c’mon, c’mon.” “What do you want to know?” I say being overpowered by them. “My girl?!” Mia asks intrigued. “Are you guys in a relationship?” Steph asks almost in a more worried way, emerging from the group. “No,” I say shaking my head and she furrows her eyebrows. She’s not happy about any of this and I understand. “Have you guys, ya know…?” Ellie asks not paying attention to Steph’s differing demeanor. I nod my head, feeling bad that I haven’t even told Steph about it first. Steph’s eyebrows shoot up in surprise, and then back down. “Let’s talk about something else,” I suggest. “Oh come on! It was just getting good!” Alina pouts. Steph walks awa
POV X After I left the beach, regretfully giving a group of mental women more wine that they did not need, I went to the in-house gym to relieve some stress after a mentally exhausting day. I overworked myself all day after the blunt but true comments Ghost and Adria made this morning. Hugo is coming into town in three days for a big meeting, it’s a make-or-break situation and I need this to go well. I walk up the stairs to the 4th floor instead of taking the elevator to get a few more minutes of a workout in. I open the door to the penthouse and all the lights are off. I quietly walk to my bedroom, the lights are also off in there with a beautiful Millie fast asleep in my bedroom. Seeing her peacefully lying in my bed could never get old. I head for the shower before I join her. … The sun coming from the balcony window shines right on my face waking me up. “Ugh, what the fuck?” I say to myself turning over, Millie is still knocked out. I get up instead of trying to get some
POV Millie 6 months later “Ow!” I screech out. “Well if you’d just hold still!” X says looking up at me. “Are you sure you’ve tattooed someone before and I’m not the first?” I ask starting to regret my decision. He keeps his gaze on me and shakes his head in disbelief, “I’ve done this before baby, I’ve tattooed Julian plenty of times.”“Seriously? Julian? That’s not making me feel any better,” I say shaking my head back at him. He laughs, “I’m hurt you don’t trust me.” “Oh, whatever,” I roll my eyes at him and he gets back to work on my arm. The past six months have been quite life-changing but also in a good way. Julian proposed to Steph last month. I swear I question his mindset sometimes. He pulled another psychopath role-play scenario scaring her to death. “Marry me or I’ll kill you” I mean c’mon Julian…she’s been traumatized after walking in on me drenched in blood that day. My mind goes back to that day. It was a beautiful disaster. Stone worked overtime cleaning the
POVMillie & X XAs soon as the words fall from Stephanie’s mouth that Millie is in trouble I book it out of the door. I practically fly down the stairs, holding onto the railing for support but jumping four stairs at a time. Time is of the essence, every second that passes is a second closer to Millie’s death. I don’t know Dani’s motive here but I can only assume the worst. I’m finally on the third level of the house, sprinting through the hall. I hear Stephanie and Julian behind me, gasping for air as they try to keep up for Millie’s sake. A thunderous bang fills my ears and my heart plummets immediately. A gunshot. I want to fall to my fucking knees and die. “No!” Stephanie cries out but continues running behind. “309! It’s 309!” Stephanie sobs breathlessly. 312, 311, 310, 309! I instantaneously slide my master keycard in the door. “Fuck, hurry up!” I scream out kicking the door. Fucks sake an eternity later the green light appears. I hastily open the door barging thro
POVMillie I tell Steph I need some pain relievers for an oncoming headache but really, my nervousness has gotten the better of me. In the past two weeks, X has been a madman in his office for more hours than not. I’m not entirely sure what is going on or if it’s just investigating the incident from two weeks prior. Sure, I told him I thought it was Dani that one day but I chose not to press the issue after, for now at least. I roam the hall for a few minutes, something in my gut is feeling…off? I feel the presence of someone behind me, I go to turn around but I’m pushed against the wall, hard. “Don’t. say. A. Word” a husky voice from behind me demands. Fear strikes me within. Could this be X role-playing the way Julian and Steph did? Something tells me no though. I know X’s touch, his scent, his body and this is not it, it’s not him. The fear creeps over every inch of my body and into terror. I’m forced to move my legs to a black door and I’m slammed against it facing forward
POVX“Ah, what the fuck man,” Julian complains as I hit yet another solid ball into the pocket. I smirk his way taking all the glory as I’m currently kicking his ass in pool. “Gimme the lighter,” I say with my hand open towards his way. He hands me the red Bic lighter. I spark it up and light up my joint, take a hard hit, and hand the joint to Julian. “Good shit,” I say and then blow the smoke out in his face. “Fuck you, bro,” he says as it goes straight into his eyes. Oops. “Shoot your shot already,” I badger him.I sit on the crocodile brown leather bar stool and lean forward to watch him miss the shot. “Calm your tits,” he says concentrating on the yellow-striped ball. “Fuck yeah!” He yells out, dammit he got it. My phone vibrates in my pocket and I lean myself backward to reach inside the pocket of my black jeans to retrieve it. My spine stiffen from the text from an unknown number. +34 85601-1337You fucked up X. Now you’re going to pay. Blood will be shed Who the
POV Stephanie I bring my computer to life, type in my password, and open up the browser to search for morning flights. “Do you think everything is okay?” Millie asks me laced with suspicion. “Yeah mills, don’t worry this isn’t unusual,” I remark calmly. “Okay,” she balls her hands into a fist on her lap. She notably looks uncomfortable as I go to work and it’s distracting me. “I think I’m getting a bit of a headache, do you mind if I grab some ibuprofen from your room?” She asks rubbing her head. “Oh yeah for sure,” I say handing her my keycard and she gets up stepping out of the office. Okay, now I can actually concentrate. I click on various flights, Julian didn’t say anything about a return flight so I choose a one-way ticket until advised otherwise. I book them their usual hotel rooms for three nights, once again, I can adjust it at any time. I text Julian that they have a flight booked for 9:30 tomorrow morning. I close my computer down, turn off my office light, and
POV Millie It’s been an extremely interesting last couple of days. I sit on X’s lap wrapped in a light blanket on the balcony while we watch Julian and Slim risk their lives lighting off fireworks, the real Fourth of July. Although I hold my breath every time they bring a flame to the firecracker, the beauty of the lights over the ocean almost makes it worth one of them losing an arm. I snuggle into X’s hard warm body, wishing to be cocooned into him forever. I’m a lot more at peace now, X sat me down and explained his talk with Dani which I appreciate him doing. She’s still on my shit list though and I promise she’ll pay. …It’s Friday evening and It’s been two weeks since the Fourth of July. I’m physically and mentally in a better place but I of course still have my moments. X and I have been in a much better place as well since our brawl that one night. “Oh my gosh, you guys! We need to discuss chapter 23!” Mia says fanning her face. Oh yeah, somehow in the past two week
POVXI pull Dani outside of the door and close it behind me. I run my fingers through my hair in frustration towards Millie. I don’t know what that shit was but this is obviously not working out right now. “Dani, look,” I start off as she looks up at me expectantly. “Millie is not okay right now and I apologize,” I say trying to be nice. “Look, X, it’s fine. She’s hurting right now and she needs someone to blame, it’s okay, I understand it and I’m not taking it personally,” she says being mature about the whole situation. “Thank you, but like I said, she’s not okay. Something about you is triggering her. She may be out of line right now but she is my main priority. I’m not firing you but I need you to stay away from me. As for work goes, I need you to go to Julian for everything. As for a friend, I like you as a person I really do but I need you to not text me anymore or come here unannounced or at all for that matter. Millie is my main focus and I need to respect her feelings,
POVMillie I’m awoken by a knock at X’s door. X is still sleeping, miles away from me may I add. He was incredibly sweet to take care of me, holding me in the shower, dressing me, and sleeping next to me when I knew he didn’t really want to do any of it but he still did. For me. “X” I gently shake him awake. “What?” He grumbles out. “Someone is at the door,” I say. “Ugh!” He grunts, “stay here I’ll be right back.”He yawns and sleepily sits on the edge of the bed running his fingers through his hair and walks out of the bedroom. I rub my eyes and grab my phone from the nightstand, five o’clock?! My god that’s the longest I’ve slept in days, I really needed that. I have a text from Steph How are you feeling? Let me know if I can bring anything up for you. Do you need a spicy novel? Also, how’d the conversation with X go? That was two hours ago. Hey! Sorry I fell asleep. I’m feeling fine. We haven’t talked yet because we fell asleep. I might need some new yoga pants in a bit
POVXI’m on my tenth set of pull-ups, sweat glistening my entire body. My hair is drenched and pissing me off as it falls to my eyebrows, constantly needing to be pushed back. I’m trying to channel my rage without alcohol and working out is the only way I know how. I’ve been in my gym for two hours now, Julian joined for forty five minutes and then dipped like a weakling. I’m on my sixth rep when my phone vibrates and lights up with a notification. I finish my pull-ups, wipe myself off with a towel, gulp down some water and check my phone. Millie. I can’t do this right now. I do fifty push ups before I decide to text Millie back so I don’t lose my shit on her. She wants to talk tomorrow, I just don’t think I have it in me to face her yet. I don’t respond to her requests because it’s something I need to sleep on. We’ll see how I feel about it later. I do a few sets of Russian twists before I decide to end my workout for the night. I leave the gym dripping sweating, patting mys