Kaila. A visit to the hospital The ride home was quiet, and I appreciated Paul not trying to make small conversation, it had been a long night. "Hey, can we stop by the memorial?" I asked as we were pulling up to the main gate, I had the sudden urge to go visit my dad. I had not seen him since the day after the wedding. "The hospital, sure." Paul said, turning the car back around."I'm really sorry about this." I tried to apologize for making him drive all the way to the hospital in the wee hours of the night. "It's okay Kalia, I'm happy to help." was all he said with that smile of his. I studied him for a while, just staring at him. I didn't even notice he had realized I was looking at him. "Do you have any family left? I know you told me about your mom." I finally asked. "Not really, my mother was a single mom so after she died it has always been just me." "What about a girlfriend? A wife?" "Too busy, the job takes most of my time and I am devoted to my job, it would not be
The hospital waiting room. Kalia. I never in a million years expected Jake to show up at the hospital, especially that night, I was certain he was going to spend the night with Naima, but yet, here he was sitting right next to me. It felt different, like we were different, like something had shifted, even though we had a wall between us, but it felt nice too having someone there with me. I looked at him again, he looked to be so deep in thought, I wondered what he was thinking about.After staring at him for a few more seconds, I stopped, my mind carrying me back to the day I found out my mother had died. It was the first real day I could remember of me ever being in a hospital. It was my birthday I was turning six the next day. We always had a tradition with my mom, she would buy me a cake on the eve of my birthday and we will spend the evening just me and her in my room eating the cake and making wishes and visions boards for my new year. But on that particular birthday, she h
Jake. Unexpected visitor. Seeing her at the hospital so vulnerable, I was used to the strong Kalia who looked like nothing fazed her. But I could not get her face and how hurt and sad and defeated she looked last night. A part of me wished there was something I could do to help her, take some of her pain away. But another part of me, the business side of me, had questions about the secrets she had revealed last night. Her father Mr Kiari never really married, and I always assumed he had just gotten one of his mistresses pregnant, but something about how she talked about her mother felt off. Mr Kiari never lost his wife to an accident, I would have known, one of the things he was known for was his ability to detach. I needed to find out more. "Good morning, you look happy today."Maria said, pouring me a cup of coffee. " That's because I am, " I said cheerfully." But I have a question for you " I said to Maria and she sat down. " What is it Jake?"" It's about Kiari, was he ever
Jake. The meeting When they had requested Kalia's presence at the meeting, it had me shaken there for a minute. I didn't want her fucking everyrhing up. But seeing her there, I couldn’t help but be impressed by Kalia’s performance. She came across as bright, confident and witty. James Preston was eating from the palm of her hand in a matter of minutes. The older man was completely taken in by her charm and intelligence. Which I knew should please me, Instead, primal want and possessiveness surged through my body.I moved closer to Kalia, wrapping my arm around her delicate waist and drawing her to me, smoothing my fingers along her silk covered flesh. She smelt heavenly. I felt a slight tremor race through her body at the light contact.“So, Jake,” James said, sliding nearer to my own wife, “I understand you find it old fashioned of me to have a vested interest in what will become of the resort when I retire and sell out. But I built it up from the ground. This was my first great
Meeting part two.Kalia. He was right, nothing about us was complicated. We both knew exactly where we stood with each other. But could I separate my feelings for him from what I was supposed to do from my mission. Something was completely off, I could feel it but it could easily have been my paranoia. Since last night something had happened between us, something had changed. I know I had been vulnerable with him but it also felt like something else had changed, even the way he looked at me. He didn't look at me like he used to, with hatred. Maybe I should just let go and see how everything was going to play out. I wanted him, I wanted to feel him, to kiss him. I could easily separate my feelings for him from my mission, I tried to convince myself. He was somewhat right, nothing about us was complicated, atleast in his eyes, but that was because he didn't know what I was after, he didn't know what I was accusing him and his family off. If he knew what I did, he would never want
JakeDesire It was my turn to stare at her as she walked away, my body telling me to ran after her and kiss her, touch her, beg at her feet. But I needed to get some work done, so instead of following her no matter how tempted I was, I decided to give her some time to think. I went into the office without bothering to watch her make her final decision. My body ached with need and it unsettled me. Yes, it had been a long time since I had felt this way about a woman but something about her was different, I was drawn to her. Ironic that I had never come close to proposing marriage to a woman in my life, and the one I had married was a con. I knew nothing really about her, everything out of her mouth was a lie but yet somehow my body wanted to do things to her body. She wanted me too. But something was stopping her from making the final step. It could all be part of her act playing at reluctance in order to build my level of sexual frustration to a fever pitch. Or she could be genuine
Kalia.Getting physical “I was looking for you.” Jake’s husky whisper drew me from my reverie. I turned to face him and my throat dried. He was so impossibly handsome, so amazingly, sensationally masculine. He made everything feminine inside of me quiver with expectant longing and desire.“I took a bath,” I said, hoping the silver moonlight disguised the blush I knew was staining my cheekbones. “It helps me relax.”He moved closer to me, his eyes black in the dim light, the planes of his face thrown into sharp relief. He reached a hand out and cupped my cheek, stroking it lightly with his thumb. I shivered, and i felt mynipples tighten and press against the thin, insubstantial fabric of the robe, my aching flesh calling for his attention, his touch.He tipped my chin up and I met his eyes, shocked by the stark hunger I saw in them, a hunger that reflected my very own. “If I kiss you I won’t stop,” he said, his voice a rough whisper. “Not until you are naked beneath me, crying out my
Kalia. Getting physical part twoI inhaled and wrapped my fingers around him. His skin was even hotter there, like aflame. I moved my hand over his velvety skin, exploring him, learning what he liked and what made him moan with pleasure.“Enough teasing.” He picked me up again and I found myself lying flat on my back on the cool white comforter.He drew a nipple into his mouth, sucking it, leaving it with the flat of his tongue, before moving his attention to the other breast and repeating the act. Heat flared in my pelvis and all nervousness fled, pushed out by the intense longing that was pouring through my body in waves.Jake pulled back and looked at me, his eyes glittering with passion.He let a finger drift up my inner thigh, coming close to my pulsing wet center. I shivered, anticipation of the unknown coupled with my intense arousal making the muscles in my legs quiver.Testing my readiness, he slid the tip of one finger inside of my tight pussy. I gasped, my hips bowing up o
Kalia.I had been working for him for a couple of months now as his pr, and still I was not used to it. The fact that the very first thing I felt when Jake’s deep, masculine voice pulled me out of the deep sleep I had been in was a shiver of excitement, and not a pang of annoyance, was disturbing on a lot of levels, all of which I was too tired to analyze in that particular moment.“It’s one in the morning, Jake .” I said, as I blinked against the blinding light radiating from the screen of my smartphone. After four months in working for him, I should know better than to be surprised by a midnight phone call, but somehow every time it happened it caught me unprepared. “It’s nine a.m. in England.” He said, “And we have a crisis on our hands?” I immediately rolled over and brushed myhair out of my face, the cool sheets from the side of the bed that had been unoccupied chilling me slightly.“The sky isn’t falling, if that’s what you mean, but we have protesters lining the streets at
Kalia.And I had vowed i wouldn’t become like that. I wasn’t letting anyone have control over my life again.Although, obviously Jake had some modicum of control over my life since he was my boss and my child's father, but that was different. “If you expect me to buy new clothes you have to give me time to shop.” I said facing him with a straight face, after all this was his event he was inviting me to, it only made sense. “You can have the afternoon off.” I shook my head, my tight bun staying firmly in place. “Morning and afternoon. I need some sleep too.”“Morning to lunch hour,” he countered.“Deal.”“No black. No beige.” He added“It’s an art gala, most of the women will be in black.” I said defensively “I know, and that’s exactly why I want you to wear something else.”I frowned. “I’m not in the habit of allowing men to dictate what I wear. I can choose for myself.”He stood from his desk, and I was distracted, as I always was when he surprised me like that, by the superb sha
Jake was from a fairly affluent family, that was general knowledge. It surprised me that he’d had to take out loans to start up his company.When we were married he never talked to me about this type of stuff, or anything business related at all. Which is why I loved our new arrangement, I felt needed and smart. I was not just a pretty girl. “But now you have to play the diplomacy game,” I said.“I would anyway. I develop resort and hotel properties, the public has to have a favorable view of me.”“That’s true.”For the most part, the public did have a favorable view of him. He was charismatic and charming and dated the most eligible women in Hollywood, which put him on the front cover of a lot of magazines andmade him very high profile for a businessman. He was also a slave driving taskmaster, but only his employees knew that. And in fairness, he never expected anything from her that he didn’t expect from himself. In fact, he seemed to expect more from himself.Which was why, even
Kalia. In theory, I liked sexy men, at least from a distance. When said sexy man was both my baby daddy and boss, it made life a bit more complicated. It didn’t really matter, though. Business was business and I had no intention of crossing any lines with him. I wasn’t his type anyway. He liked party girls. The shallower, and the shorter the skirt, the better. Of course, I wasn’t entirely certain what my type was as far as practical application went. Judging by my recent string of failed dates I didn’t really have a type.“How many shots?” he asked, lowering the cup.“four,” I answered, trying to bring my mind back into the present and away, far, far away, from his lips.“Good. It’s going to be a long day.” i sat down in the chair by his desk, pulled my notebook out of my briefcase and sat poised with a pen in my hand.“Why do you do that?” he asked.“Do what?”“Take physical notes on paper. You have a million little gadgets for that kind of thing. I know because most of them were pu
Kalia. In theory, I liked sexy men, at least from a distance. When said sexy man was both my baby daddy and boss, it made life a bit more complicated. It didn’t really matter, though. Business was business and I had no intention of crossing any lines with him. I wasn’t his type anyway. He liked party girls. The shallower, and the shorter the skirt, the better. Of course, I wasn’t entirely certain what my type was as far as practical application went. Judging by my recent string of failed dates I didn’t really have a type.“How many shots?” he asked, lowering the cup.“four,” I answered, trying to bring my mind back into the present and away, far, far away, from his lips.“Good. It’s going to be a long day.” i sat down in the chair by his desk, pulled my notebook out of my briefcase and sat poised with a pen in my hand.“Why do you do that?” he asked.“Do what?”“Take physical notes on paper. You have a million little gadgets for that kind of thing. I know because most of them were pu
Jake was from a fairly affluent family, that was general knowledge. It surprised me that he’d had to take out loans to start up his company.When we were married he never talked to me about this type of stuff, or anything business related at all. Which is why I loved our new arrangement, I felt needed and smart. I was not just a pretty girl. “But now you have to play the diplomacy game,” I said.“I would anyway. I develop resort and hotel properties, the public has to have a favorable view of me.”“That’s true.”For the most part, the public did have a favorable view of him. He was charismatic and charming and dated the most eligible women in Hollywood, which put him on the front cover of a lot of magazines andmade him very high profile for a businessman. He was also a slave driving taskmaster, but only his employees knew that. And in fairness, he never expected anything from her that he didn’t expect from himself. In fact, he seemed to expect more from himself.Which was why, even
75.Jake.I had never seen Kalia look less than perfect. She always looked beautiful, even when she rushed into the office at two in the morning to handle some sort of media crisis. But in a dark navy blue gown with ruffled sleeves, a demure neckline and a back that dipped so low it ought to be illegal, she was stunning.Her hair was pinned to the side so that her curls cascaded over one shoulder, and didn’t cover any of the skin that was on display in the back of the gown. Her makeup was more dramatic than she usually wore to the office and her legs were bare, and on glorious show, the dress barely skimming her knees. And they were amazing legs.My libido kicked into gear, a reminder that I hadn’t had sex in a very long time. But business had been intense and when I hadn’t been focused on my various building projects I had been handling Maya’s big move into her new, off campus apartment. An apartment she hadn’t wanted, because she couldn’t afford it herself. But there was no way I wa
JakeI put my hand on the small of her back, on her bare skin, and I felt a small shiver go through her whole body. She was feeling every bit of the attraction I was. Strange, because I had only ever seen her in herbuttoned up professional mode for a while now, now suddenly she was unbuttoned and very, very hot. Although, she had always been hot. I had thought more thanonce about uncoiling her tightly wound hair and watching the dark curls tumble down.She shifted against me, her hip brushing my body intimately. My muscles tensed and desire roared through me, my body hardening at the accidental contact.I drew her closer, letting her feel. Letting her know exactly what she was doing to me. I didn’t hit on employees as a rule, ever. But she tempted me. And that was a new experience. Women appealed to me, and I desired them. But I had never considered them a serious temptation. If itwasn’t the right time, it was easy for me to leave my date standing on the doorstep and go home withou
KaliaI bit my lip. This side of Jake always confused me . In some ways he seemed more uncomfortable having people know anything good about him.He didn’t seem to mind the negative press that came when he dated one supermodel, then switched to an actress the next night. But he didn’t seem to want to let anyone know about his good behavior. And there was something about that that made me almost like him sometimes, and that made all the other physical things he made me feel intensify.“It’s … okay, events like this are definitely a little bit fake. It’s see and be seen. Most people are flashing their bids all over the place.” I jerked my head toward the glittering celebrities and debutantes gathered around different pieces of art, waving their bids around while they talked.“I don’t play the game,” he said. “It doesn’t appeal to me.”“You have to play the game a little bit, Jake It’s good for business.”“What’s it like for you, doing a job that’s so at odds with who you are?”The questi