“I hope I didn’t hurt you,” he asked her, gently shifting her hair back, “I’ve never made love to a virgin and …” “You what?” she got up momentarily forgetting the sheets to cover herself. His eyes immediately dropped to her boo*bs. “Eyes here, Marwick.” She snapped the fingers of her good hand, “Who told you that I am a virgin?” Marwick who was slowly descending his head to kiss her bud, stopped right there. His eyes shot up in surprise, “You … I thought…” Now he rested his palms on the bed and sat up, “Last time when we were kissing during that hashbrown issue…” She nodded with a smile at the memory. “You said you are not much experienced in that department. So, I assumed…” “No! Oh!” she laughed, “I meant, I wasn’t experienced in the kissing department. Never got a chance with a good kisser who could train me.” She murmured and lifted her hand to touch the skin of his taut abs. “But no. I am not a virgin. Do you have any problem with that, Mr. Garner?” she was looking for any
Ashton Garner threw away the phone. It landed on the floor and crashed. Chad was looking at it open-mouthed.Today Ashton Garner called him to his place for telling him the good news that his job was almost ninety-nine percent confirmed.“Hell!” he balled his hands into fists, “how dare he?” Ashton Garner spat in anger.“That fu*cker! How dare he?” Ashton walked to the glass cupboard that had all the marble and glass decorations, collected from around the world.He looked around when his gaze fell on the paperweight. Without giving it much thought he picked it up and threw it on the glass showcase with full force.“Mr. Garner!” Chad went to him and tied his arms around his waist, “Please control yourself!” Chad tried to console him, but Ashton’s face was turning crimson in rage with each passing minute.“My friend is very close to Marwick and Marwick takes him as his mentor. This man promised me that he will not only talk to Marwick but will also make sure that you are hired. He had a
Her hand was searching for him beside her. It was the coldness that made her open her eyes and sit up in bed. He must have left quite early.She found it rude and that made her furious. How dare he?He seemed to like her. For God's sake, they made love last night and here he had…Couldn’t he wait for her? Or was he out, bringing breakfast or something? She jumped out of bed, with her sheet still wrapped around her.After the shower, she didn’t call for Greta and got ready without her help. It did take time, but she was angry and a little hurt too.She wore a cream-colored, off-shoulder top with black skin-fitting jeans.When Greta saw her coming out of the room, she panicked, “You are awake. You should have called me, ma’am.” River just nodded her head politely and walked to the small kitchen of the cottage.“I can order food for you from cottage service,” Greta offered looking at her face carefully, but she kept doing her work.The conference room was just across the living room, and
When she kept standing there drumming her fingers on her other arm, Marwick released a sigh and closed his eyes.“Ok. Sit down.” River nodded in appreciation and took a seat around the large table. Marwick sat beside her and picked up the intercom.“Greta. Please send breakfast for three people inside the conference room,” he barked and placed the receiver.“Now spill. What it is?” River demanded.Gerald raised his hand to ask for Marwick’s permission. When Marwick nodded, Gerald cleared his throat.“Marwick came here on my insistence so that we can get the bidding. And we succeeded. It was necessary for our international market. This bidding is signed and now we are again number one on the international market.”“Ok, that’s good.” River was aware of it because last night’s party was the celebration for securing the position back to number one.“The problem is these small biddings from local vendors. We are failing in it. Yesterday when we got this bidding, we also failed to grab a sm
“Can I tell you one thing?” she asked him softly. Her head was on his naked chest, and they just had a passionate session.She felt a calmness wash over her while hearing his heartbeat.“Hmm,” he hummed in answer.“I don’t want these days to end,” she said with a little sadness tinged in her voice.He tightened his grip around her and kissed her head, “But you agreed to my terms, Bella.” He said in a low murmur, “Getting closer to you on this trip meant breaking all my rules.” He was brushing her hair absentmindedly, “After this trip it has to be a strict no.”She raised her head and looked at him, “Does that mean we will be strangers?” she pouted, and he got up grabbing her hand in his.“Not strangers. The moment we will catch the culprit I’ll want you to let me know what you want.”“And?” she didn’t have a good feeling about it, “What will be next?”“Obviously. If you are not interested in living with me then I need to keep myself safe for my future wife.” His casual remark made her
“You smell so good.” He said after pulling back. “And you have messed up my lip color,” she giggled covering her mouth. They were sitting in a bar and this was their last night in Zanzibar. She wanted to tell him that she would miss him. But she didn’t want to sound desperate anymore. He had done a lot for her already. “I hope it's not on my lips. I don’t want to face any of my acquaintances carrying this bold red color on my lips,” he murmured his lips still too close to hers. “This is the last night, Marwick,” she sighed and curved down her lips sadly. “Yeah. Tonight is the last night so we will make the most of it,” he remarked making her heart go crazy. They both knew this closeness will stay here in Africa and will not go back to Sycamore. They couldn’t get intimate unless she will commit to him. She closed her eyes when he again started kissing her. “Guys!” they both broke the kiss when they heard Gerald. He was carrying his drink and had just returned, “You two are impos
When she came out of her room for breakfast, he was already there with his phone in the crook of his neck, the laptop was opened before him, and he was engrossed in his work.“What should I make for your breakfast?” Greta asked her in a hushed tone, “Mr. Garner hasn’t eaten his breakfast yet. He was waiting for you.”“Just make whatever you are preparing for him,” she said casually and scurried to the dining table with a small smile.He looked up, their eyes met for a moment. He nodded, acknowledging her presence, and then got busy again.She quietly tapped a spoon on his shoulder. He glanced at her while speaking on the phone, “Yes, please. Make them do it now. I don’t want them to lose it this time.”He covered the mouthpiece and whispered, “I am sorry. Some unexpected work problem came up and now they want me to go to the office and dig in deep.”“Oh!” she mouthed but didn’t say anything.Placing a fist under her chin, she eyed him with fondness. He looked so fresh in that olive gr
Aniya didn’t know what the meeting was about. She was happy that ever since River had left, Marwick had asked her to take up the PA duties too along with being a receptionist.She had informed the HR in charge, security in charge, and Gerald about the meeting. She pressed the numbers to Marwick’s direct line on the intercom and waited for him to receive the call,“Hello, Mr. Garner. I just wanted to confirm about the projector. Should I call the guy and ask him to set it?” there was silence initially and then she heard his heavy voice.“No need, Aniya.” Her heart was doing summersaults after she heard his voice. For the last few days, he was not coming to the office. First, it was his secret visit abroad and then he was working from home.Initially, she was worried that maybe he was sick but today he was office. And the first thing he asked her was to arrange a meeting and call the selected staff.“All ready?” she heard Mr. Theodore Penks and raised her face. Giving him a small smile,