Her eyes scanned the names of the shops in the street and she was shocked when she saw her brand name elegantly signed with lots of sparkly light around it.The facade was colored pink and purple. It highly contrasted with the other storefront signs there.“That must be my shop,” she pointed at it, and she could see the awe that fell on Allen's face when he saw it.Her eyes scanned the street along her store. She could see a flower shop, a wine shop, and a bookstore. Perfect complimentary stores right next to her store. No competition in sight. Well thought out by Alessandro. She hopped out of the car and onto the sidewalk. A lot of people were going to and fro places. There was a large traffic of people. This was a strategic location indeed.Her shop door was a glass door with white panels. There are also white panel glass windows on each side of the door. She unlocked the bakery with her key and walked inside. Allen followed closely behind her with the designer bags in hand.The sp
Alessandro walked into the shop in a Charcoal Gray Suit paired with a burgundy coloured tie. Sleek and modern. Camilla ran to him and threw her slender arms around him in a tight embrace. Alessandro hugged her back stroking her hair and drinking in her scent of moss and cedar.When Camilla released him from her tight embrace, she drew back a little and looked up at him, “thank you very much for the shop. I love it so much. It is such a perfect fit for me. I really appreciate your effort,” Camilla expressed her gratitude and fell into his broad arms again. Allen began to feel hot bile rise up his throat.“You are welcome,” Alessandro told her while stroking her brown silky hair again, not bothering to spare even a glance at Allen whose laser eyes were burning on Alessandro's left hand that was wandering on the small of Camilla's back. It should better not go lower than that, he warned in his mind. A brazen heat of jealousy washed over him and his patience snapped. He cleared his thr
“I'm… I'm Camilla's Friend,” Ruby stammered, “I just came to pick something from my bag,”“You came to pick something from your bag?” Allen eyed her warily and a cold tremor slithered down her back.“What is going on here?” Camilla came into the room.“Nothing much,’ Ruby responded quickly, “I have to go!” she briskly walked inside the bakery.Allen walked in putting the breakfast packs on the table, “Where is she going?” “She wants to use the restroom. Is there any issue?” Camilla asked, walking to the Counter.“I don't know, but there is something odd about her. I don't like her,” Allen said slowly.Camilla looked at the batter and it looked untouched, “If it were someone else I'd say that you were too fast to judge, but she can be cunning just be careful around her.”Allen nodded at her words.“You got the food?” Camilla asked, the pang in her stomach intensifying.“You bet I did.” Allen handed her one of the breakfast packs and she took it to her table and chair.“We should eat i
Ruby lay on the massive bed in her room, drowned in thoughts. Is this really worth it? Did I just destroy my friend's life again? What if I confess what I have done? Would she still forgive me? Questions buzzed in her mind. Guilt gripped her.I have gone too far with this. I can't go back now.Since I started it, I might as well finish it.A knock on her door yanked her out of her grim daze. She checked the door. It was the maid.“Mr Alessandro just came back to the house.” The maid informed her as requested.“Thank you Natalie. One more thing. Just let me know when he is done with his food.”“OK ma” Natalie left.It was time. She got up from her bed and headed for her shower. She undressed and put on the shower.What if Alessandro finds out? God knows he will show no mercy. Should I risk it?She took a bath, tied her towel around herself, and came out. Her phone rang; she sat on the bed and picked it up from the cabinet beside the bed. The number calling wasn't saved on her phone.
“I love you.” Allen's proclaimed beads of sweat forming on his forehead.The proclamation fell like several lead blocks on Camilla's head.The room suddenly became stuffy. The air between them, thick.Her shoulders felt heavy.She felt like running away, but Allen wouldn't exactly appreciate that. He wants an answer immediately, judging by the way he looked at her. What was the use of delaying it? It won't change the response, will it? But she doesn't want to break him. She knows what it feels like to love someone and not to be loved back. It hurts. A lot.She leaned into the table, holding Allen's clammy hands in hers tightly. “I'm grateful that you feel this way towards me. Allen, please forgive me, but I can't.” Immediately after the words left her mouth, she saw Alessandro's shoulders slouch and his face fall. “I'm sorry if I unknowingly led you on, but this is not about you at all. Nothing is wrong with you. You are a great person. You are nice. You are caring. You are everythi
Alessandro was woken up from his sleep by the loud sound Of his alarm the next dsy. He slowly opened his eyes to the sunlit room. He felt a sharp headache shoot through his score. He struggled to sit up from the bed. He felt significantly weaker than usual. What could be wrong? The more he tried to remember what transpired yesternight the more the headahe pummeled his head. So he gave up thinking about it.He got out of bed and called Dorothy for some painkillers which were delivered to his room a few minutes later.He went on with his routine of reading for thirty minutes with his hot cup of coffee beside him. After reading he checked his schedule for the day and saw that he had no meeting that day. He decided to use that opportunity to spend time with Camilla at the bakery. But before that he cleared some of the documents on his table that he needed to attend to. He also did some personal work before freshening up and leaving for the bakery.He reached the bakery and was glad when
“Where exactly is he?” Alessandro asked the guy on the phone.“He is at the hospital.”“Which hospital?” Alessandro echoed and Camilla's eyes went wide when she heard the mention of a hospital.How did he get there?“We will be there as soon as possible.” Alessandro said and ended the call.“What happened?” “I think he got into an accident,” Alessandro responded, waving down a taxi that took them back to where Alessandro had parked his car.Alessandro got into his car and rode at full speed to the hospital. Once they were at the hospital, Alessandro's informant showed him to Allen's room. On getting there, the doctor was just coming out of the room.“Good afternoon, doctor,” Alessandro greeted, blocking the doctor's path,“Allen is our friend and we were informed that he is hospitalized here.”“Allen Thomspson?” The Man in the white coat asked and Alessandro nodded.“Yes, Allen Thompson. What happened to him?”“He attempted suicide,” The doctor ehispered and Camilla sucked in a sharp
When they came out of the staff room and into the retail space she could clearly See that it was a customer knocking.Alessandro's hands were already folded into balls As he gingerly strode to the door.Camilla knew if she let him go there that he might escalate matters or be violent so she held him down to calm him.“Please let me handle this,” she pleaded and he let out a breath and nodded at her.Camilla held the door handle, took a deep breath before she unlocked the door and pulled it open with a small smile on her face. Maybe to appease the man.“Good morning,” she greeted when she saw the flushed face of the man, twisted in rage. She recognised him immediately as the man who had bought the cake yesterday before they closed.“I wish you a morning as horrible as you and your cakes!” he barked, “What kind of cakes do you sell here? After eating what you call a cake I suffered severe diarrhea. Not just me. My colleagues at work too. My team members and I spent the whole day in the
CAMILLA'S POVThe night before had been beautiful with Alessandro and I, making love twice. The first with his tongue. The second with his fingers. Was he intentionally teasing me? I wanted his cock. I wanted all of him inside me. I knew too much about how to play this game especially when it came to a man like Alessandro. It took patience.I had just woken up but I stayed in bed a little longer, cradled in the arms of Alessandro.. feeling his skin around me as he kept me warm. After a while, I climbed out of bed and started off to make breakfast. I fried bacon's prepared eggs, sasages and with toast.Soon he joined me In th kitchen, we prepared the food together and ate and while walking to the bedroom to get ready for the day. We began kissing right in front of the wardrobe where we had been picking up clothes.ALESSANDRO'S POV Her hand moves to the back of my head. With mythrusting tongue, I part her lips so that our tongues clashin heated passion.Our once calm, leisurely kiss
ALESSANDRO'S POVWe were just about to go to bed. I was lying down on the bed when I hear the shower turn on in her bathroom. But then… she walks across the bedroom… completely naked.Tits, the perfect handful.Hips, just enough to grab on to.Pussy, waxed and so goddamn tempting. One taste wasnot enough.Mother.Fucker.She looks over at me, flips her hair over her shoulder,and then goes to her nightstand. She opens a drawer andpulls out her pink dildo with the suction cup at the end.Turning toward me, she offers a full-frontal view, and my mouth goes dry as my eyes take in her tight nipples, hard and craving my mouth. Aware of my staring, Camilla takes the end of the dildo and rubs it across her chest, allowing her head to fall back as she brings it up to her mouth.Her tongue peeks out . . .And she licks the goddamn top.I’m fucking gone.My cock jolts in my briefs.Sweat breaks out on my lower back.And just like that, my willpower snaps.Satisfied with herself, she moves to
CAMILLA'S POVI broke away from the kiss with a rasp, “While you were away I had to get a helping hand.”“What helping hand?” He asked and I stuffed my hand inside the side of the sofa, “This,” I said pulling out the pink dildo with a suction cup from the side of the chair.. His eyes widened. I didn't know you were this… Wild.”I blushed looking away from him, but he turned my face to him and said, “There is no reason to be shy.” He lifts me in his arms and places me on the table, “I love my girls wild.” He said, taking off my palazzo trousers and panties and bending to his knees, “On the day you bought it did you play with yourself when you got home?” I suck in a sharp breath as he places a kiss on my inner thigh. “I’ve played with myself every night since you left me alone.”His eyes meet mine. “You missed my cock?”“Yes I missed it,” I drawled, needy.“From today, If you play with yourself at night, I want to fucking hear it. I want to hear your moans. I want to know that you’re s
After finishing my meeting with the board of directors of the company I just bought, I called Camilla but she was not picking my calls. That was quite unusual. I called her about five more times but she still didn't pick up. Maybe she was swamped by work. I went back to the mansion after the meeting. After undressing and putting on something more simple I walked straight to my study to do more work. As I sat on the swivel chair in my study I checked my phone.I had missed calls from Santino. He must have been calling to plead for the release of his father and uncle but that is one of the last things I cared about at this moment. I'll make him suffer for his sins. I called Camilla back and she still didn't pick up.I decided to do some work before calling her again. After about one hour of working, I tried her number again. And this time it was not going through at all. I grew restless and worried, so I drove down to the bakery myself. Once I walked in, the store was brewing with a l
It has been four days since we opened the bakery. I had about a hundred thousand dollars sitting pretty in my bank account. Even though the money still belonged to Alessandro I couldn't help the feeling of pride that swelled within me at having that amount of money in my account. The same person who barely had a thousand dollars to her name eight months ago now has about fifty five thousand dollars which Is mine and a total of a hundred thousand dollars in my account. That is growth in my definition. I dreamt sweet dreams with these thoughts in my head. I woke up the next day feeling so fly and happy. Who says money doesn't buy happiness? I felt as though I could buy the world with just fifty five thousand dollars in my name. And people say that money doesn't buy happiness. What would happen when I have a million dollars to my name? I might as well walk on water.I stood from my bed. I put on the sound system and connected it to my phone and began to play music.I swayed my body f
CAMILLA'S POV“Ruby?” I answered with wide eyes.“What is she doing here?” Alessandro asked the question that was in my mind.“I don't know if she had mentioned that she had something to tell me. I guess that's why she is here.” I explained to Alessandro and I saw a frown crease his face. His face became suddenly distant. “Please let her in.” I told clara who immediately left the office. Probably not wanting to be tagged as a gossip, but it was people most likely like her were the greatest gossips of all time.“Why do you look so annoyed? you obviously don't want to see her, what did she do?”“Nothing really.” he shrugged, “I'm just no5 fond of her anymore.”“Does she still stay at your house?” I asked my eyes swimming in curiosity and he grimaced at me.“Gossip,” he teased and inlaughed “Oh please, Alessandro, just tell me. Why are you eating like a Saint now as though you don't ask me personal questions about people too. And by the way this is just my first time.”“I'm just doing
CHAPTER 98CAMILLA POVI winced, snuggling more into the soft pillow. My hands flew to my head immediately when I felt a sharp headache from hell. My head was throbbing so much as though there were invincible hands pressing my head together to squish out juice from it.Even with my heavy eyelid closed I could feel the full sunlight filtering through the curtains into the apartment. The apartment?How did I get to the apartment? I was at the club. Then I left with someone… Jeez. WHO THE HELL DID I LEAVE WITH??The question forced my heavy eyelids Open, sitting up immediately and backing myself against the headboard. I felt a presence beside me and when I looked I saw Alessandro and immediately a sudden calm settled around like a cold blanket of warmth. I hurled in a deep breath, slowly closing my eyes and opening it to catch myself. “Thank God, I wasn't picked up by some psycho.” I looked down at myself and a gasp escaped my lips when I realized I was wearing one of my night wears. Ho
CAMILLA'S POVTears slipped from my eyes immediately as the elevator shut against Alessandro and I let myself collapse to the floor of the elevator as it descended. The cold of the metal floor seeping through my dress, a mirror to the cold world we live in.Loneliness clothed me like a thick cloth. With no one to rest my shoulder and cry on except the one I couldn't let myself go to. He was my only true ally. Ruby was too busy plotting new tricks, and my mother doesn't give a rat's ass if I was dead or alive. Alone. Maybe I was a true workaholic, like Ruby always said. How can a full-grown woman like me not have friends? Could it have been because I didn't go to college?The ding of the elevator pulled me out of my daydream, and I scrambled to my feet immediately so I didn't leave the security personnel wondering if I was mentally stable.Once the elevator opened fully, I trudged out of the elevator into the hallway, where a few couples were dining and laughing. I looked at the main d
“I'm faring well,” she swirled the wine in her glass with fidgety hands. “What about you?”“Bad.” I said, leaning in to the table, and saw her face go blank. She might decide to hide her feelings, but I'm not about to hide mine.“May I know why?” She asked, setting her glass on the table after taking a sip.“Because I missed you.” I told her and saw surprise splash across her face before she masked it in careful indifference.“How did the advertisement for the bakery go?” she asked carefully, and I leaned back on my chair.“Yes, I'm done with it.” I said, taking a quick gulp of my wine to lubricate my dry throat, “We can open tomorrow and start preparing for the next few days and weeks because it will be such an intense period of growth.”“You are so confident in your strategies.” She said, and I smiled, looking up at the dazzling star-filled sky and inhaling a deep breath.“Of course. I have been doing this for years, so I kind of have a knack for things like this. I already know how