Chapter 4

LIAM

Her lips are as soft as I thought they are, and they are warm against mine. The best thing is that she wants me as much as I want her, the way she responded to me, the way she pulled me close when I kissed her, and the way she moaned my name god damnit! She is going to drive me crazy. I know I am married and I love my wife no doubt about that but Mia. She makes me feel things that my wife doesn’t.

Lindy is grounded and makes me want to do better and be better for myself and my family. She makes me a better man and I am proud to be her husband. I don’t know what I am doing with Mia but it feels right; I don’t want to leave my wife and kids. I don’t feel myself ever leaving Lindy and my children. If what I feel for Mia is just lust, then I want to get over it soon before I hurt the woman I love.

She looks around the place and keeps nodding as she goes along. “I like it, I was thinking of having one here, then another in Kimberly, I want it to be a franchise, I want to see it in each and every city I go to. I don’t want my customers to only see or find my shop only in one city but in every place, they go to.” I love how her eyes light up when she speaks about her business, these are small things that she does are the ones that will make me feel like there is more to what I am feeling for her than just mare lust.

Oh my, I don’t know what is going on, Lindy is the woman that makes a home while Mia here is the kind that lights up the man’s world. She and I can relate on this level. “If a franchise is what you want, then a franchise is what you will get Miss Black but, I better see returns on my investments and for that to happen you will have to work harder than you have ever worked. Are you ready for that?” I look at her she looks at me with this hunger in her eyes.

The kind of hunger that I always see in prospective business owners, the hunger to succeed and make something for themselves. “I am not a stranger to hard work Mr. Brown, give me this and you and I will enjoy the fruit of our hard work in eight months.” The confidence when she says that is so sexy and makes her even more attractive. I take long strides towards her and caress her face. She leaned into my hand, so responsive!

I close the brief gap between us and her breath hitches. She looks at me and I see nothing but the longing in her eyes. She parts her lips, and that just sends me over the edge. I smash my lips against hers; they feel so soft and warm. Fuck! Am screwed. The way she responds to my kisses, my touch it’s just amazing, fucking sexy. My phone rings and I pulled out of the kiss. She moves away from me and I take my phone out.

Guilt is what I feel when I see my wife’s name flash on the screen. “Hello, sweetheart.” I looked at Mia and I see her stiffen. Great! “Hey love, how are you doing?” he asks. “I am doing well my baby, where is my little girl?” I asked her. “She is the reason I called, I wanted to wait for you to call us but she wouldn’t stop nagging.” I chuckled. “I was going to call after this meeting but you can give her the phone for a minute.” I hear shuffling before my princess comes online.

“Dad, when are you coming home?” I wonder what those boys are doing to my princess now. “I will be there the day after tomorrow, what is the problem, Caroline?” I ask her and she sighs dramatically. “Well, if you are going to be away for that long then you will not have kids when you come back, I will kill mom’s minions.” I can’t help but chuckle, the boys love Lindy so much and she always defends them. Caroline has always been a daddy’s girl.

“Well, how about this, uncle Carlos is coming back later today, how about you go with him to his place and hung out with grandma Katherine until I come back?” She keeps quiet for a moment. “You don’t want me killing your boys is that it?” as if she could actually kill them. “No Caroline, I don’t want you killing my boys, I still need them, baby,” I tell her. She is my second born but seems to think that she is the oldest while the boys are younger.

“Fine, but you pick me up from uncle Carlos when you come back and we go for ice cream before going back home.” She bargains. “Deal.” She doesn’t wait for me to say more and cuts the call. I chuckled shaking my head, I think Caroline is the one that will take over the business, her brother is into art and I don’t see him in the boardroom. He might surprise me as he grows up but for now, Caroline is the one that shows potential.

I hear her throat clearing, and I turned. Shit! I totally forgot about her, clearly, there is something wrong with me. “Am sorry about that, my daughter can be too much.” He smiles, but it doesn’t reach her eyes which tells me it’s fake. Well, I just ruined this day. “Speaking of kids, I was planning on spending the day with my son before the conference tonight.” Oh wow, she is a mother. I must say, I didn’t see that one coming.

“Is he at the hotel? Why would you let me take you away if you have your son here with you?” I wouldn’t let anyone take me away from my kids when I go with them and I just took her away from her son. “He is with my sister at the hotel, we always travel together, I have attachment issues, I don’t think I can survive three days without seeing him.” I know how she feels, being away from my wife and kids was difficult at first but I got used to it but that doesn’t mean I like it.

“Then let me take you back, but I would like us to meet again let’s say after the conference or tomorrow to complete everything about this deal.” I proposed, and she nods in agreement. She is no longer the same and I can see that. That phone call ruined it for her, but that is my family and she will have to understand that they come first. But I still feel bad for making her sad, not just bad, I don’t like it. I don’t know what the hell is wrong with me.

The drive back to the hotel is silent like when we came, I like it that way, this is my family driver and I don’t want him thinking that something is beyond business is going on between me and Mia. Shit! I am confused; I want Mia that is clear and I love and respect my wife. I think I need to think about what I want and soon before I hurt either of these women. When we get to the hotel she goes out and heads in before I could say anything or get out of the car. Great!

“Head back to the hotel, I have to take Carlos to the airport.” I tell my driver then send a message to the florist I used this morning to send flowers to Mia with a message saying ‘am sorry and I would like to make it up to you if you would let me’ when am done I pocket my phone. The drive to my hotel is not long and soon we parked. I got out and went in. Carlos was having breakfast when I got in and he look clean.

“Where have you been? I woke up, and you were not here.” He asks as I walk in. “I had a morning meeting; can you pick up Caroline from home when you get there before she kills my boys?” he chuckles. “Sure, I will pick her up, she will get mom off my back for a while.” He agrees. “They do get along so you are safe until I pick her when I get back.” He sighs, the only thing his mother asks him when he sees him is when he's getting married and that annoys the hell out of Carlos.

He says that he will never get married; he says if he does end up getting married then it won/t be now maybe later in his life. I asked him once why and he told me that no one has ever died from marrying late but one can die from marrying wrong. I don’t know what that means, but it made sense when he told me because I was drunk and everything made sense. “What are you thinking about?” he asks me when he comes into the room with his bag.

“About what you said once about marrying late and marrying wrong. I don’t remember the exact words but it was something along those lines.” He chuckles. “Just please don’t be my mom, I am still going to face Katherine when I get home.” He laughed as we left the hotel room. I wonder if the florist has delivered the flowers to Mia yet. Sigh, I don’t want to hurt her nor do I want to hurt my wife.