ELENA I woke up to the aroma of freshly baked croissants and strawberries, amongst other things.At least those were the ones I recognized instantly.I opened my eyes and stretched my body, sighing at the popping sounds made by my stiff joints. For some reason, I felt really happy for someone that had just woken up from sleep in the morning. And if the hum between my thighs were anything to go by, then I definitely knew what the reason for my happiness was.The previous night had been nothing short of wonderful. It was like nothing I had ever known or experienced.Jason had brought me to more orgasms than I could count. Orgasms that were now etched on my soul, because each had been memorable for me.I smiled a little as I recalled him asking me to look into his eyes while we made love. When I had done that, it had felt like we had connected on a really deep level, and were looking into each other's soul.I could lay thinking about it all day, and it would be damn worth it. But my sto
JASONI was wrong about her.Dead ass wrong.And it was eating me away badly.Actually, it had been eating at me from the very first moment I had realized that she was a virgin.I had almost run away then, and planned on not looking back as I did so.But her body...the way she made me feel as I lay in her arms...oh Fuck!It was best not to go there.But I had so many questions to ask. So many freaking questions...like how?All the while, I had thought she was my father's mistress, and had used her body to get him to sign away all his properties to her, and also make that devilish will. But now, I didn't know what to think again.Especially after my discovery lady night.But why? I was willing to compromise and give in to our burning sexual attraction, despite whatever she may have had with Paul. And right now, I didn't know what to do or think again."I know this may sound awkward as fuck, but my curiosity had been peaked, Elena." I started, leaning forward in my chair. "How? Men must
ELENA"You need to tell me the details girl...!" Jane screeched, bouncing up and down in my cabin. The look on her face was priceless, but I wasn't so sure about giving her the details she so desperately wanted to here. In fact, from the stinging sensations on my check and neck, I knew I was blushing, and was probably as red as a potato now."Can we just pack out things? We leave in less than two hours." I countered, picking up a dress I never got to wear, and folding it up so I could put it in my suitcase.Jane gave me a glum look, drawing her lips into a pout. It was funny, but I wasn't going to laugh. I didn't want to let my guard down in front of her."You know you are no fun." She said, sighing and throwing something at me. It landed with a small thud on my lap.I rolled my eyes and looked down to see what it was, chuckling instantly. "You got these?" I asked in disbelief, picking up the object and inspecting it closely. It was a small shrunk up towel they had shared at the gala
ELENA "So....what are you going to do now? Because, this is actually big." Jane asked, looking concerned. Which surprised me.I frowned. "Do about what? This doesn't change anything obviously. It's not like he was asking me for my heart on a platter the morning after." I said cynically, looking around to see if I had put everything in the box.My answer seemed to faze Jane a little bit, because she looked at me with her mouth open for a moment, before she said anything else. "So...you are indirectly telling me that you just started a friends with benefit arrangement with Jason. Only he is your husband?"I blinked. "I didn't say that, but if you put it that way, then yeah." I told her with a shrug, feigning ignorance. "Wow. That is a shocker right there." She said. "I was thinking you had a crush on the guy. And that, something really beautiful was going to happen from here on out." I grimanced a little as my heart did a little thump. "Jane, only and idiot would delude herself that s
JASON "Home sweet home." I said, rolling in my suitcase with one hand, while I held the door open for Elena, with the other.The house was already cleaned and ready for us, before we even came back. I hadn't really explored the time I had come here, so it was still a little bit new to me. "Thank you." Elena said softly, before walking past me, while the driver handled her many luggages. If I were correct, then there weren't as many luggages as that, when we had been leaving. I could swear there was an extra bag or two there. It was amusing though. "Careful." I told her, letting the door close on its own behind me as I stepped inside. The house was white, gold, and grey. Beautiful. That was all I could say. And knowing the way Elena always looked at decor with critical eye, I was very sure she was going to do something about it, and hoped she like the way the place looked at least."Wow.." her voice sounded like she was in awe, which was actually a good sign, giving the circumstance
ELENA"Mum..." I tried to explain. But she was not done, because she was interrupting me immediately, with a long speech I knew was going to come."Now, how could you do that to me? I thought Mrs Gilbert was joking, until I went online myself, and had to Google images of you! Your father is hurt! I am hurt! I mean the others are exciteqd...but the church is certainly talking about it... because there was no news about a church wedding!" The next series of statements went by in a blur after she said that. My heart started to squeeze painfully as she mentioned a church wedding. How could I explain to her that this was fake? My parents had been anticipating my marriage, even going as far as bugging me about it which had cemented my not moving back home with them like they had initially thought I would after school."...are you even listening to what I'm saying?" She asked, drawing me back to the present.I nodded, momentarily forgetting that I was on the phone and not in front of her. "O
JASONI awakened to the soft vibration of my phone. I had intentionally put it on silent right before getting into bed with Elena, so I wasn't going to wake her up with the sound. Knowing I had just one day till I resumed work fully at Richardson's, wasn't going to stop clients from calling me. Especially when I had put them on hold for a full week. I had done the same to Elena's phone, hoping she wasn't going to get important calls from the people close to her.She had looked tired as hell when I had seen her earlier. And I had jumped in, helping her get into bed comfortably, instead of watching her sleep in those tight clothes and shoes.Now, as I stared at her beautiful face, I was entranced. Even as she slept, she was easily the most beautiful woman on the planet. I had known that, all the while, and had just pushed it to the back of my mind to avoid any awkward feelings.But now, that was quite difficult.And judging my the hard on I was currently sporting, I couldn't agree more.
ELENAI had the longest sleep ever.In fact, I woke up complete groggy, and too tired to stand up. It felt like I had run a horse race in my sleep, because what was with all the weak muscles I suddenly had?I was in that situation when you just open your eyes, and nothing made sense around you, and then you go back to sleep because something keeps dragging you have under.But I did force myself to awaken, only to be greeted by the charming smile of Jason, who just stood there, looking at me with amusement as I fought with the angels of sleeparia. Hah!"What the Fuck is sleeparia? And why do they have angels?" Jason asked, his brows raised high and almost disappearing into his head.I frowned. "Huh?" I hadn't said a word yet, so why was he asking me about something I had literally just formed in my crazy head, only a couple minutes ago?Jason shrugged, folding his arms accross his chest as he leaned into the dresser behind him. "Well, toy kept murmuring about them for the last fifteen
ELENAI smiled as I looked at my self in the mirror.It had been exactly two weeks since the incident with Colton, and we had resolved a lot of issues.Jason had come to confess to me about what he had hired Colton to do, and the truth was, even if I had been hurt hearing it from him, I had actually known about it. The night before that day, I had been having a very serious headache and had been on my way to the bedroom when I had heard him and Tyler argue about it.But I had also heard him say that he hadn’t gone through with it and had only kept Colton there.I had forgiven him then, because I couldn’t blame him. It wasn’t easy losing your father and then hearing that he had given everything he had to his assistant.Jason had even confessed that he hat thought that I was his father’s mistress and had cast it out of his kind the night we had made love for the first time.It had been a long discussion, but had actually settled a lot of things.And there was something Colton had said t
JASONI didn’t want to believe what Lucinda was saying, but with everything that had been happening for the past few days, I couldn’t not believe her. I would be a fool to give Colton the benefit of a doubt.I had taken care of that man right from the time I had seen him looking all tattered and unkempt. And all that had been a ploy to extract money from me?Well now that he had taken the millions I gave him and the one that he had stolen from Elena. Why couldn’t he just let my family be?“And did he tell you why he was doing all of this to me and my family? Did he tell you why he tried to kill us?” I asked in a raised voice that sent Lucinda cowering away, and hiding her face behind the curtain of her straight blond hair.I had always known there was something off about her. The way she behaved. The way she spoke. The way she kept mostly to herself as if the whole world was against her or something. You had always known.I just hadn’t expected this.“No. I swear he didn’t. Most of th
ELENAI didn’t have to stare at the picture for very long before I realized who it was. Even if I had seen his face only once, I could recognize him from anywhere.The eyes were a dead giveaway.Such dead eyes. Menacing eyes that looked like they had no soul.I could remember the first and only time I had seen his picture and had literally been scared of it the moment I set my eyes on him.It had to be him.“What do you mean by knowing who this man is?” It was Tyler who was asking and I turned to look at him.“Tyler, where is Lucinda?” I asked, lifting myself off Jason’s lap.The both of them looked at me in confusion as I went in search for Lucinda.“She just left. What does that have to do with anything?” Jason, who had gone completely silent, finally spoke, in a cool voice.I looked from Jason to Tyler and sighed, leaning on the kitchen counter as I recalled what had happened the day I had seen that face.“I am telling you, that that man in that picture, is Lucinda’s boyfriend. So
COLTONMy stomach hurt.I couldn’t breathe.I had been running for hours and hours as the police chased after me, showing up at every spot I tried to hide.How had this happened?I had planned everything. It had taken me weeks to do so, but I had put everything in place for the big day. Including all those distractions at Elena’s parents home, and the prank with the him.I had done everything to make sure things went according to plan. But Craig had spooked everything when he had gone inside and probably alerted the police and Jason about what was going on.This was not the first time I had gone to that bank to make a huge transaction. And it was a the fifth time either. But that idiot had chosen to make a big deal out of it. And I wasn’t going to forgive him for what he had done.By the time I was done with Jason and Elena, then i would go to Craig.Deep down though, I knew it was all because of that idiot. He had already made Craig’s transfer that huge sum to his Swiss account. And
JASON“Are you trying to tell me that Colton is involved in this sham too? Because I find that very hard to believe.” Tyler, who was usually reasonable in situation like these, looked like he was about to lose it. And I didn’t blame him. I found it hard to believe too.It was crazy as fuck just thinking about it. In fact, I just wanted to go home and rest already.We had closed all activities today as the police went in search of Colton.He had escaped as soon as Craig had gone into that room to make that call.Probably had panicked when Craig spent a little over a few minutes in his bid to reach me.“I’m as confused as you are, Tyler.” I said, as the guilt that always ate me up began to resurface again.We were currently on our way home as we had closed really early and had decided to head home and wait for any news on the police chase that was going on right as we spoke.“Do you know if he had any kind of animosity towards you are something?” Jane asked from the seat opposite us. S
ELENAI couldn’t even believe what was going on as I looked from one brother to the next. What were the odds?I knew it definitely wasn’t a coincidence that the same to y Richardson was the one who had rendered my family broke beyond repair, and had run off with my fathers vast wealth, to go do whatever he liked with it. That was as far as I knew at the moment. My father had claimed that he had known nothing about his were abouts, until his death in that plane crash. “Something doesn’t just feel right about all of this.” Tyler said, looking from me, to Jason, who had gone really quiet ever since he had told me that Tony was his uncle.I cleared my throat and looked at them. “I mean, I’m not trying to say anything to worsen the situation or make anyone suspicious of anyone. But do you think the three of them knew each other?” I asked, staring pointedly at Jason. His frown had been increasing by the minute.“I don’t know, because the only person alive out of the three men, is Thomas.
JASON“What are you talking about?” I asked Jane, dropping the file that I had picked up, babk in its place in the shelf.I made my way over to the computer with a huge frown on my face.What the heck did she mean by me having Elena’s father’s enemy’s picture in her phone?“This man right here.” Jane said, as soon as I reached and saw what she was talking about.But I was in for a shocker, and not just because of who she was pointing to, but what she had referred to him as. “But that’s my uncle.” I said, shaking my head. It was the picture I had taken at Elena’s fathers house with my phone. And since most of the things save in my phone went straight to my email, it automatically showed in my computer which had my email in it.And the picture was one of those things.Jane looked at me like I was mad. “No. I can recognize Tony Richardson anywhere_ “ she paused and looked from me to the picture. “Wait a minute. You are Richardson. And he is Richardson.” Her finger pointed from the me to
JASONI sat in the office with Jane, trying to work on a little problem we were having with two of our plants. For some reason, while Colton had been working as my assistant, he had failed to realize that those particular plants was scheduled for maintenance and would take exactly two days before it could be in use again. And also, he had also omitted that detail when he had been maki g some entries on the particular time we were to make some deliveries.And now, since it was just me, Jane had offered to help me, while Elena was in a meeting. Which I was thankful for, because it was already taking a toll on me. I hated not delivering when I was supposed to.“Do we have any other option? Because at this moment, I think we have run out of every option we have.” I said tiredly.We ventured into a lot of businesses, and while this particular issue wasn’t going to make us actually loose much, but it would affect the other party badly.And I didn’t want that.My father had brought me up in
ELENAI didn’t know what I was doing.All I knew was, I had to have my husband inside of me. I was honey as fuck, and I wasn’t sure that was the way it was supposed to be after the long conversation we had just had, but I guess that’s the situation I found myself.I had acted out on impulse a few minutes ago, telling him everything that had happened with Colton. I had known him hen that if I hadn’t done it that time, I wasn’t going to ever have the courage to do it again.And I could hear Jane’s voice egging me on as I started to speak. Even when I wanted to stop.I had seen Jason’s face show signs of jealousy and anger, but he had managed to sit through all of it, until I was done.And where I had expected anger, or at least, an indication that he was not happy with me, after I was done talking, I had been super when he had taken my hands in his like he had done, and told me what he did.“Don’t start what you can’t finish, Elena Richardson,” Jason said, clearing his throat. The hand