The town of Gemini was ten minutes’ drive from the house, and though O’Rourke had told me not to see anyone or do anything, I already knew I wasn’t going to listen to his advice. It was impossible. How could I hole up in the lake-house for days, without doing something, without moving? I might be feeling lighter today, but I still wanted to take my mind off the company.I got some things at the market and the grocery store, and drove back. On my way, I called the sailing club from the hands-free headset in the car.“Good morning,” I said, keeping my eyes on the narrow, winding road leading back up to the lakehouse. “This is Riley Anderson speaking.”“Mr. Anderson,” said Lonnie, the yacht club attendant. “How can I help you?”“I’m at my lakehouse and I wanted to know if I could take the boat out this morning, say at 11.”“Why, of course, sir. I’ll haveThe Marieloaded at the dock for you. Would you like anything on board?”“Champagne and sparkling water on ice, please.”“Very good sir.”
There weren’t many places to eat in town, and I was worried someone at the yachting club might recognize me. So after we’d come back, we walked into town, and stopped at a humble, ordinary, everyday diner. “Coffee?” said a waitress, walking by our table. “Yes please,” I said. “Sure,” said Chloe. She filled our cups and walked away, eyeing us curiously. We looked a funny pair, Chloe dressed up in my shirt, which was enormous on her, and a cute pair of jeans. We both wore a pair of sunglasses, just to make sure no one was going to recognize us. “I haven’t been to one of these in about fifteen years,” I said. “Don’t worry,” she said, winking. “They’re still just the same.” “Do you like them?” I said. “There was one in colombia I used to go to with my mom now and then. I used to have corned beef sandwiches and a milkshake, every time.” “Was it nice?” “No!” Chloe laughed. “Getting taken to the diner was a big treat back home.” “It must have been a lot of work being a single mom o
In the heat of the early evening, I could feel myself preparing for him, as he passed a hand under my shirt while his other undid the buttons. I felt like he was smoothing out all the cracks in me. I could smell by the way his cologne blossomed that Riley was growing hot for me, and when he finally tipped me over onto the bed and let his tongue press against my clitoris, I shivered with passion.Gently, he worked at me again, playfully tussling with me as I rolled this way and that, working against him now and then just to feel the ease with which he pulled me back. He made me feel at home in my own body, letting me push and pull against him. His tongue drew in deep, pressured circles over my clit.I was shocked when I heard myself say, “give me your hand too, inside of me.”“Of course, sweetheart,” purred Riley.His hand reached up, and in addition to his incredible oral skills, he pushed a single finger inside of me gently and began to curl it upwards, stimulating my g-spot as I dre
“Don’t try and run away!” I said, a little nervously. I could hear my own voice, high-pitched and squeaky. I wasn’t in a position to do anything.“As if I could,” said the old man, as he sat down at the rock and lifted up his leg. I could see he’d hit it on a stone or something. It was bleeding.“Who are you?” I said.He looked up at me. I could see a sharp set of cheekbones between the lank, graying hair and the rough stubble. He’d been handsome once, long ago. And his eyes bore that familiar, icy blue, the same color as the lake that was shimmering next to us.“I’m Kiefer Cage,” he said. “One of the investors in Riley’s grandpa’s company.”My mouth opened, and I heard myself gasp.“What do you want?!,” I asked with authority“To help get every important document to win the insurance for the company,” said Max, looking down at the water.“I don’t believe you! ” I said.“No, I’m not here to hurt him. Or you, for that matter. Though Lena, Amanda’s mom would have paid handsomely for it.
“I was scared that someone could hurt me and my family, I felt is grandparents could be hurt as well then when he is all alone all of this will be taken from him, Lena is a dangerous woman, she is as dangerous as her dad.“Where have you been all these years that you didn’t tell the truth then?” she said, in desperation.“The deed has been done?” I snarled.Chloe turned, and as she did, I saw her shoulder slump in despair. I could see the look in her eyes, green orbs in the night, as the moon lit one side of her face while the other lay in shadow. Who was she? Friend or foe?“You,” I growled, and the old man stood up.“Yeah,” he said, slowly, and I saw the hopelessness in his gaze. The man in front of me, I don’t know if to trust him or not.“You know him, Chloe?” I said, stepping to the right. I didn’t know what I was going to do, but one part of me wanted to leap on the stranger, to hit him and keep hitting him.“Sweetheart, no, no,” she said in desperation, but I wasn’t really list
I explained everything to his grandparents and told them I done being Mrs Anderson.He took me somewhere knowing I don’t know how to survive and that place could be dangerous for me.They pleaded with me but , I refuse, I took my kids and leave, I will start all over again.“My rent has due, I can’t go back to my house, even if I can, I can’t stay there for so long and I don’t want anyone coming to fool me”On the way back in the car, I felt like I was talking to him. At some points I imagined what I’d say to him if he was there.“Don’t you know?” I said to myself, sulkily, while I kept my eyes on the freeway. “Don’t you know I’d never do anything like that to hurt you?”“ Mom, you are talking to yourself” Henry says. I held their hand and pull them closer to me.I meant it, too. But somehow I couldn’t help feeling like I was getting what I deserved. My friendship, my relationship whatever I called the complicated mess that was me and Riley, had never once felt safe, never once felt se
Dearest ChloeHappy married life or should I say happy divorce life? If you want to see yu kids again,please do yourself a favor divorce Riley, he belongs to my daughter,trust me if you do that you will get back your kids.Lena’s men had come to the apartment and he’d taken Macy.Chapter 24RILEY.My cellphone keeps on ringing and I didn’t want to pick because I was sad “Ninetysix,”Igrunted.“Ninety seven. Ninety…eight!”A hundred pull-ups. There are professional athletes who wake up and don’t have the energy to do a hundred pull-ups. But of course, it was not about energy. It was about motivation. And I was highly motivated during the three-hour workout I’d just subjected myself to, during which I’d already beaten all my personal bests and was about to beat another.“Ninety-nine,” I cried, and then came the last one. Every muscle in my body was burning already, but I didn’t care. Anything not to think about what had happened since I’d got back to New York this morning.I collapsed ont
I didn’t have time to get a driver and I wouldn’t have gotten one if I did. I sped into Queens through the rain, which was heavy now, verging on a thunderstorm. When I got to Chloe’s apartment,I dialled her line , no one was picking ,She wasn’t there then I called my friend who was seeing Sara, then I drove down there I sat in the driver’s seat, shaking with rage and something else. So this was fear, true fear. The fear of losing the things in the world which matter most to you.I slipped inside through the open door and bolted up the stairs. But when I got there, I could see the door to Chloe’s friend’s apartment was open.I went inside, and what I saw made me feel sick. The upturned table, the crayons on the floor. Little pictures of a happy sun smiling down on a house. A drawing of a lady with red hair that said Mommy next to it in childish, curly handwriting.Chloe and Sara were on the sofa, shaking. From the looks of it, they’d only just got back. Another man was standing by the