Chapter Two

Chapter Two

CAELUM

  Tonight, I had plans with my friends like I do every Friday. What I didn't know is it would lead me to my past. I prefer not to come to this club in particular because my sister runs around these parts and I prefer she not know I purchased shares in this club around the same time she started working here.

  I could tell her about it but my sister is stubborn and she would think her fiancé, my friend Ryker and I did it to control her but it's not like that.

At some point five years ago, this cooperation was in the dumps, my four friends and I purchased fifteen percent of the business each and we worked to raise it. It was a good investment, an undergoing elite sex club that we turned around. Cassian and Bishop with their architecture, Ryker with his engineering and me with my bone for flipping businesses.

  None of us have had interest in anything to do with a club that didn't involve money until two months ago. Cassian was here to run an errand, why did he do it in person? I have no idea but he met a woman here.

 Cassian has a girlfriend he's set to marry soon as she's out of college but that has never stopped him from pursuing other women. Among us four, Ryker is the loyal one, always has been and will die so because he is marrying my twin sister.

  My sister is a female Kohen, at eighteen she ran away to pursue her career and this fucker I call my friend helped her. When she returned two years later, they started seeing each other secretly, Ryker had just gotten out of a toxic relationship at the time and Cassian and I were determined to help him fuck his ex out his system.

   We had succeeded at first, but soon Ryker wouldn't dare touch another woman.

   It wasn't long before I found out the reason he didn't want other women was because he was screwing my sister, catching them in bed together at my second wedding anniversary party earned him a beating from me. I assumed he was using her as a rebound but he proved me wrong, Ryker loves her just as much as I do, if not more.

 Back to Cassian, ah yes, my best friend has a type, rich and lonely women. He lures them in with his charm and they fall into his trap, unlike him I don't charm women, I simply gaze at them and they drop their panties in a heartbeat.

  Cassian has been struggling to charm a certain dancer and slash Dom into his bed and tonight we came to see the woman, he wouldn't show us pictures because he said she looked better in person.

  Two months, he's been coming here, blowing us off on most Fridays. According to Cassian, the woman is a knockout, her beauty has angels singing hallelujah when you lay your eyes upon her. I thought this one was an exaggeration and I needed to see this woman, I needed to see what the hype is about.

  I sat in my seat for a solid one hour thirty minutes, downing Johnny Walker blue label scotch whiskey.

  Bishop went to the other side of the club, to the sex frenzy region. Today is his first time here but he doesn't need directions, he knows the blueprints by heart. I wanted to go with him and see how different they do things here considering it makes more than the other sex club Bishop runs.

   I was about to leave when Cassian stopped me, reminding me how he has been my wingman since we were in cribs so I stayed. His logic was preposterous but I was intrigued, too invested in the love story between playboy bachelor Cassian and the stripper that had him swoon without even touching him.

  The stories he told us about their encounters were surreal. According to him, she is playing hard to get with him, it's what she does.

    Rumor, that's what he said her name was, it made us laugh because it was the first I'd ever heard of. Ryker joked I should also try to charm the stripper and see who she'd pick between Cassian and me but we all know I don't court women longer than three hours. I make them cum so hard that by the time I'm done fucking them, they forget their name and they make their decision, to stay or leave.

  Most of them stay, they plead with me to use them for my pleasure. Cassian was willingly to bet us tonight, she'd go home with him and we happily took that bet to the next level.

  Cassian has a classic car that I've been meaning to add to my collection of cars but if I can get it out of him for free, why waste money on a new one, he can and so we made the bet, if he didn't take her home tonight he would give Ryker and I his car and if he did, we would give him whatever he desired.

Little did I know I wasn't prepared for what came next, when the music started playing I poured myself another glass of Scotch.

 The room echoed with chants and cheers, for Cinnamon, Trixie, Blue, Candy, Lexi and Rumor. The Rumor chants much louder than the rest, Cassian moved closer to me with excitement as the dancers came on stage. My eyes were checking out the bartender who was watching Ryker, little did she know she had no chance.

  Ryker didn't so much as glance her way but my sister saw her, she yanked her by the hair and took her somewhere, I lost them in the crowd. When my gaze shifted to the stage, I wasn't prepared for what I saw.

   I was met with a familiar face, too familiar.

  I had only fallen in love once in my life, and her face was engraved in my mind forever. There was no way I could ever forget the woman that showed me I could love so deeply.

  God knows I was a dead man walking for her kisses, her touch, whatever she had to offer I was a fool for it.

   I looked at my whiskey, and shook my head, rubbed my eyes and leaned forward to see if I wasn't imagining her. No, I wasn't drunk yet and the image in front of me was moving, she wouldn't be moving that fast if I imagined her.

  I didn't imagine her, Aurora was real.

 Beautiful as the day I first saw her, if not more. Cassian was yelling over the music, cheering for the woman in pink sparkly lingerie. My air supply was limited as I saw my past come to life before my eyes.

When her eyes finally met mine, she smiled like she wasn't shocked at all to see me. I tensed when our eyes locked but she didn't, not until minutes later when she had her fingers in some old man's mouth. The fingers I'd watched dip into her fellow dancers cunt right after she kissed her like there was no tomorrow, when Aurora pulled away, the dancer looked at her with empty eyes.

  I would never admit it but I sympathised with the dancer. The feeling of emptiness when Aurora's lips left hers was something I felt one too many times. I brought my glass to my lips as Cassian leaned over to whisper how she'd noticed him and he was going to be enchanted by him.

  Little did he know she wasn't staring at him, she was looking at me. I couldn't help but wonder what she thought of when she saw me but her face was indistinct.

  Her eyes widened when Cassian leaned into my ear, she blinked twice and that's when it hit me, Aurora wasn't looking at me, she thought she was envisioning me but when she realised, she was alarmed, if I weren't studying her so closely, I would have missed her reaction but I caught it before she fixed her expression.

 The next thirty minutes turned into a staring contest, Aurora stared at me as she danced. Cassian was cheering loudly for her, so loud it disturbed me but then again, every straight male was screaming at the top of his lungs for the women on stage.

  Aurora didn't miss a beat on that stage, the way she touched herself and moved her body had my cock pushing against my zipper. I was willing to bet ninety percent of the men in this room had a boner thanks to her.

  I stayed put for the entire show, brushing my cock against my thigh as I watched her. When her performance was completed, she went backstage with all the dancers that accompanied her on stage. I spotted one of my toys and had her give me a hand job in the bathroom, she obliged with ease.

   That was ten minutes ago, now I'm sitting next to Cassian as rumbles on and on about Rumor. At one point I had to ask which one was Rumor just to be sure and I must say, it fits her.

  She's not like I recall, she's grown bigger tits and her hips are fuller, so much fuller. I wonder if-

No Caelum.

  Over the past hour, I've discovered a lot about her but mainly three things.

1: She's dead inside, the fire in her eyes is nowhere to be seen.

2: She's a master at this, she could do her job in her sleep.

3: She's not the Aurora I knew.

  The girl I met seven years ago, was just a girl but the one I saw today, she's all woman. When I first met her, I took one look at her and decided she was the one but it was a lie.

  Just like everything that slipped past those sexy lips of hers, it was a dream.

 Aurora weaved the best fantasies, I see why she'd be perfect for Fantasy Elite. Illusion is what she does best, Aurora made me feel like I was the only man she'd ever met, the only one in eternity, she looked at me with such innocence.

  Aurora was a free spirit, wild, free and she spoke her mind too damn well.

 I loved how a fury little girl would melt into my arms. She made me feel things I'd never felt before and she vanished, she ran off with someone else. I found it hard to believe I was just another one on the hit list, I shouldn't have been. The way she kissed me, and danced in my arms when there was no music couldn't have been a lie, or maybe she was good at faking it....

  Or maybe, maybe Aurora was my karma. I used to leap from one girl to another in under a week, I had no preference, female was my preference until her. Aurora was a game changer in so many ways, she wasn't like the girl's I was used to and certainly didn't smell of desperation but that was probably because she had so many men lined up already.

   Hell, she had me fooled. I felt special, I was her first. She trusted me with her purity and I fell harder for her. It was hard to find an eighteen year old virgin but of course she wasn't eighteen, she was younger than that. Every time I saw her she had a smile on her face, mischief burning in her eyes and I loved it. I loved the way she was with me, for me. Every time I saw her, she made me feel giddy like a little girl that received a Barbie doll house she longed for but I didn’t care.

Aurora reappears a few feet away, this time she's dressed, barely but it's more than she was wearing earlier. Cassian was right, angels do sing hallelujah when you see her. She's signing autographs with her lips and lipstick. All men surrounding her will be jerking off onto the papers, imagining it's her mouth hanging open, waiting to receive their come, perverts.

 Aurora notices me once again but looks away immediately. Another man holds out his right hand.

Yikes, way to be obvious.

She pulls another lipstick from her hair and wears it before placing a kiss into his palm. Her lip curls up slightly but the expression is eliminated as fast as it came. She signs his arm, flashing him a million dollar smile that will have him emptying his wallet.

  Right now he feels special, she not only kissed his palm but she smiled at him as she signed her name on it. He moves and another takes his place, Aurora can make fifty men feel like one in a million at the same time.

Exhibit A: The way she's working the room.

She smiles at the man in front of her, holding her heart dramatically as he tries to charm her.

Don't do it buddy, she'll chew you up and spit you out so fast, you'll never see it coming. Aurora broke my heart, a heart I didn't know I still had till I met her.

A song I don't recognize starts playing and Cassian nudges me. “I'm going in, watch me work.”

I don't respond, I should but I let him move seeing he is hypnotised by her. Bishop returns, standing right in front of me with the widest smile on his face. I don't see why he's so happy, he is blocking my view, my foot nudges his feet and he moves, declining in the seat that Cassian occupied until a minute ago.

“Where are the idiots?”

“Ryker went to find Lia, and Cassian is..” I trail off, raising my glass to where Cassian is, he is with Aurora.

 Bishop whistles, “Hot. I think I just came.”

I don't respond to him, I proceed to watch the exchange between Cassian and Aurora. He's talking and she's smiling, batting her eyelashes at him.

 The more he tries to charm her, the wider she smiles, he seems to crack a joke and she laughs, placing a hand on his shoulder, she brushes his arm softly before pulling away.

Smooth, Aurora knows how to tease a man until he is on his knees, begging her for more, for a taste, a tiny drop of whatever she can give him. Even when she was younger she had this power only she was oblivious to it but now, it's evident she's acknowledged it and she knows exactly what she's doing to these men, to Cassian.

   Cassian has been following her for weeks now, she knows what she's doing and it won't end in his bed like he thinks.

Aurora has a maliciousness about her, it's what she's here for. She knows all eyes are on her, and not in an innocent bewildered manner and I know for a fact she feels my eyes on her, yet, she acts like I don't exist, she is pretending I'm not sitting here.

  Like she didn't see Cassian with me, like seeing me didn't strike one reaction out of her.

  What's worse, she's pretending the last few minutes on stage didn't happen, fuck minutes, the last few years. God I'm going to make her pay for what she did to me.

  For each lie she fabricated, I will make her pay and mercy? Yea, I most likely won't show her any.

  Aurora ruined me for any woman after her, Scarlett included. There's no way that fact will change but I have had the urge to hurt her like she did me for so long, finally doing it will give me peace and best of all, she's fair game.

  Cassian manages to drag Aurora to us, keeping her at arms reach, at the exact moment Ryker arrives, without my sister. I guess she has things to tend to. There's another set of dancers on stage but I'm not watching, neither is Bee. I look at Aurora, she looks better up close.

   Her hair is longer, her lips are crimson, she licks them and I look up to her eyes, still beautiful as ever but something is missing, they look empty. Her jawline is so pretty I can't wait-