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Chapter 16
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2024-10-29 19:42:56THE NEXT MORNING
Melissa got out of bed as the shrill alarm beeped, hitting the button. She got up.The oversized mans shirt she was wearing fell just below her bottom. Walking down the stairs she went and opened the french doors and let the dogs out. Shutting but not locking the door, because the dogs could open the door to let themselves in, Melissa put some food into their bowls, filled the other bowls with water, put them on the floor, Melissa grabbed her mobile calling up “Becky’s bakery.” The voice answered.“Hi yeah, can I get a selection of pastries, delivered please?”“Yes the breakfast box is good. Would you like to know what that contains?” The disembodied asked politely“No that’s okay thank you. Could you charge it to the Hartford account please, would you be able to get it here before 9am? It’s to the residential address you have on the account.” Melissa loved Becky’s bakery, their food is always made fresh and delicious. And Melissa also knew that Ryan used them regularly, so they have their parents address on file.“Ok. We can do that. Although it might be at 9:00. Is that okay?” The voice asked“That’s perfectly fine. Thank you. Goodbye.” Melissa said, putting the phone down Melissa jumps in the shower, the hot water beating down on her frame, steam fogs up the mirror as she steps out.Melissa went to get dressed, putting on a white vest top, with a long sleeved lace tunic over the the top, a pair of leggings, and flat shoes, although not her usual attire her business meeting wasn’t in its usual place either. Spraying a light floral perfume, that she wore only on weekends.Her hair in a french braid, with a white hair tie as the end. Even in these simple clothes she looked elegant. She applied some light make up, no foundation, she was trying to let her skin breath, just brown eyeshadow, mascara with wings, and red lipstick. Melissa didn’t normally go for red it clashed with her hair, but this was a deep red like red wine, and looked amazing. She nipped downstairs and put on a pot of coffee carrying it and mugs through to the dining room along with cream and milk and sugar.Putting the dogs outside a knock came to the door, checking her reflection quickly in the mirror by the door, Melissa opened the door, and stopped stunned, at the door stood who she thought was Blake. Brock was equally stunned, he knew she was beautiful from the IBA awards, but dressed in none business clothes she was breathtakingly beautiful.‘Say something you idiot’ clearing his throat he spoke “Hi I’m Brock Milligan. Your secretary confirmed we’d be meeting here.” Brock stood there. A briefcase in one hand, his shirt, tight over his biceps, Melissa could see he like Blake clearly worked out. He was wearing a suit but no jacket. As he arrived the pastries also arrived, as Melissa went to turn to shut the door the awkward box made her over balanced and she fell, Brock standing close caught her in one arm and the box in the other. Melissa’s face is buried into his chest, her hand clutching at his bicep, as he effortlessly handles a briefcase, a box of pastries, and Melissa.“Easy there.” Brock said, his eyes locked on hers as she looked at him from against his chest. She could smell his aftershave it was a very masculine scent. And seemed to suit him. He could also smell her perfume, ‘Wow, she smells amazing.’Realisation hitting Melissa pulls away, straightening her clothes, with a slight blush on her face. “T-this way Mr Milligan.” Melissa said not dating to look at Brock as she took the box from him. Guiding him towards the dining room, with a table big enough to seat 16 adults.Placing the box on the table, Melissa said “Ok Mr Milligan. Impress me. Setting his things down Brock gave a 40 minute explanation of what his business did.Now Melissa understood why Sam had pencilled in this meeting last minute. Brock was looking to start his own photography business, to take the place of McAdam Photography. Smiling to herself as Brock handed her his portfolio.Opening the book, she was a complete novice, but she saw how talented he was. As she flipped through the photos one in particular caught her eye.“This is me. I’m at the IBA.” Melissa said shocked.Brock had forgotten he’d put that in his portfolio. “Ah yeah. Sorry.” He started to explain.“No you misunderstand, I look amazing, I only recognised it was me by the dress I’m wearing. Wow. May I keep this portfolio to show the board, it will help your case.”Brock nodded, pouring himself some coffee and pouring some for Melissa as she looked again at the photos. Drinking down his coffee he had managed to look over at her, seeing the expression on her face, the curve of her neck. Taking a deep breath he placed his cup back on the saucer, “I think that’s just about covered everything.” Melissa said standing, “I will call you tomorrow with a final decision. The board meets Monday Mornings, so would 2 o’ clock be okay?” Melissa asked as she had her phone scheduler at the ready.Brock nodded “Yes of course. I look forward to hearing from you then.”Melissa walked Brock to the door as the clock struck 11:00. As she opened the door there stood Blake.“Blake?!” Said Brock and Melissa in unison.Related chapters
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Blake looked from Melissa to Brock, a smile formed on his face. “So this was your business meeting.”He let the statement hang in the air. Melissa spoke “I didn’t know it was your brother who I would be seeing, I was tired when my secretary phoned me and I didn’t look at the name properly, can you imagine what I thought when I saw your twin Brock standing there.” Both Brock and Blake smiled. Brock told Blake “What are you doing here Blake?” Brock had his suspicions about why Blake was there with two bottles of red wine, Brock saw the label and knew that Blake reserved this wine for the VIP area of his bar, and cost $200 a bottle. But he had to hear Blake say the words.Blake opened his mouth and said “Melissa and I are dating.” Melissa’s mouth dropped as Blake admitted it. They’d never made it clear, and Melissa had began to wonder herself, Blake saying that made it clear and it kind of stung a little, which was confusing but honest. Brock turned towards Melissa “I-I look forw
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Climbing onto the bed next to her, Blake lay and opened his arms, getting up Melissa grabbed the remote and the wine, when all of a sudden the door to the bedroom opened. In walked Sully, and Storm, Ebony was nowhere to be seen. Sully climbed up onto the big bed, lying horizontally across the bottom, letting out a small “oof” he fell asleep, Storm however wanted to sleep with his humans, jumping onto the bed next to a cuddling Melissa and Blake, he put his paws and head on her thigh, Melissa and Blake decided what movie to watch “Die Hard” came the response from Melissa, Blake looked at her shocked.Shrugging she said “What? I like all sorts of movies.” And put Die Hard on. As they were watching Bruce Willis in probably his greatest role ever according to Blake, Storm slowly crept further over Melissa so his front half was lying on Blake and his back half on Melissa, Storm then proceeded to turn over, lying on his back, all four feet in the air, tongue hanging out the side of his
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Blake leaned over and kissed Melissa, it started out as a simple chaste kiss, but quickly grew into a battle of dominance.Stopping for a bit Blake stands up and opens the bedroom door “Storm, Sully out.” Both dogs just look at him never moving. Exasperated Blake runs a hand through his hair, laughing quietly Melissa said in a firm voice but never moving off the bed “Sully, Storm out.” The two dogs got up, giving one last puppy dog eyed look to Melissa they walked straight out of the room, Blake closes the door behind them.Stalking back to the bed, Blake, cups Melissa’s face and kisses her again, deeply, the sort of kiss that makes you loose your breath, pulling away slightly, Melissa’s face was flushed pink. “Blake I....” she said “I’m...” Blake put his hand on top of hers, “Breathe, take your time.” He said gently.“I’ve never had sex before.” Melissa blurted out, clearly embarrassed that she had got to the age of 25 without ever having sex.Blake face became gentle “
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Waking later Melissa looked over at the clock and saw it was 1:30 am, Blake was snoring slightly, his arm draped possessively across her waist, turning slightly, Blake’s arm tightened to stop her leaving.As his bicep relaxed she wriggled out from under his arm, she nipped to the en-suite, splashing water on her face, she looked in the mirror, expecting to see someone different staring back at her. She didn’t. She still looked the same albeit with with messed up hair.As she reentered the bedroom, Blake was sitting up against the headboard and spoke “I woke up and you were gone.” He pouted slightly Melissa saw this thinking how adorable he looked in the moonlight. And moved towards him, “Oh Blake, I needed the bathroom.”Blake looked at he mischievously “Well I’m sad now. I need you to make it up to me.” He said with a twinkle in his eye.Melissa kissed him, he was taken by surprise but only for a second as he kissed her back. He hadn’t expected her to be so forthcoming.
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Melissa opened her eyes and looked at the clock the red numbers flashed 6:00. Melissa felt something nudging into her lower back. Turning over she saw it was Blake’s cock. At the same time as she turned over his eyes were open.“Good morning beautiful.” Blake said as he propped his head up on his hand. Leaning in for a little kiss, Melissa blinked away the last bit of sleep from her eyes.“Good Morning, handsome.” Melissa said in response. Lifting her head in to kiss him.“Were you watching me sleep?” Melissa asked.“What can I say, you look beautiful when you’re sleeping.” Blake murmured into the curve of her neck.Giving her a long lazy kiss, Melissa returned it. “Are you okay? Not too sore?” He asked worried that his length and girth had hurt her.Melissa was touched at the concern, “No I’m okay.”Blake had a mischievous look on his face “Come with me.” He said getting off the bed and pulling Melissa up by the hand. Following him to the en-suite Melissa reali
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Grabbing his phone his expression turns black.“Yeah. This is he. Ok. Ok. Give me about an hour. Call the plumber. Tell them I’ll be there at 8:00. Ok. Bye.” Running his hand through his wet hair, Blake threw the phone on the bed, “Shit. I have to go deal with an emergency at work. The fire department have been called to find my bar flooded from a broken water pipe. I wanted to spend all day in bed.” Blake said sadness in his voice.“It’s okay Blake you have to go deal with it. Melissa said as Blake gathered up his clothes, pulling them on.Blake couldn’t understand what was wrong with him, usually he had one date, slept with the girl then left. He NEVER stayed overnight, he NEVER wanted to spend all day having lazy sex in bed like he did right now, this wasn’t what HE did, this was what Brock did.Pulling on his shirt and jeans, he looked at Melissa drying her hair, “Listen baby, I’m sorry.” As he pulled on his shoes, the brown leather shining, he walked over and droppe
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The morning passed by quickly, before Melissa knew it Sam had returned from the dentists and it was nearly lunchtime.Melissa reminded herself to increase Sam’s salary because his system for dealing with the work Melissa gave him was flawless.A knock came at the door “Come in.” Melissa replied.“Hi Melissa, a Mr Brock Milligan is here to see you.” Sam said cheerfully.“Thank you Sam, oh after I’ve had my meeting with Mr Milligan, I would like to have a chat with you.” Melissa said quite nicely, but then added “Don’t worry you’ve done nothing wrong.” After seeing the look of horror on the young guy’s face.Sam left out of the door leaving it open, and in he walked, all tall, dark and handsome.“Hello again Miss Hart.” Brock opened his mouth but was cut off by Melissa’s response “Please we are becoming business partners, and I hate formalities. Call me Melissa.”“Ok Melissa.” Brock liked the way that her name sounded on his lips.“Please take a seat. Would you
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LATER THAT NIGHTMelissa stood in her walk in wardrobe, deciding what to wear. She doesn’t want to dress up too much but she doesn’t want to wear her casual clothes.Deciding to play it safe Melissa wore her winter dress, a thigh length wool dress, with thick black and grey hoops, with a small turtle neck long sleeves, and pantyhose, on her feet she wore Cuban heeled black knee high boots. The boots hugged her calves. It was warm and sexy all rolled into one. Melissa grabbed her wide belt and fixed it around her waist.Leaving her hair down she curled it, and put on smoky eyes and winged eyeliner, mascara a bit of foundation and concealer to hide the grey tinge to her skin from lack of sleep and food.Melissa’s personal mobile rang as she was at the front door.“Yeah I was just letting the dogs in and I will come to you.” Getting towards the door the dogs ran in. Melissa frowned as she thought she saw something flash in the garden, not having time to investigate, she
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LATER THAT EVENING.“Dinners ready.” Blake called to Melissa who had had a nap and a shower. Walking down the stairs with damp hair falling around her shoulders and her face Melissa could smell the scent of baked trout, her mouth salivating at the thought.An hour later with full stomachs Blake and Melissa retired to the couch with a full bottle of Malbec both slightly tipsy.“So I gotta know.” Blake considered for a minute asking Melissa what she saw in Brock. But quickly changed her mind.“What was young Melissa like? Party girl? Nerd? Or were you miss Popular?” He smiled as he said this.“I was very studious, but I wasn’t a nerd, I wasn’t popular either.” Melissa made a face like she was remembering a bad incident. “I was just normal. My turn now.” Melissa squealed with glee “What was Blake like as a teen?”“I was
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THE NEXT DAY.“I’m sorry baby. I forgot I’m supposed to photographing the governor and his family. It’s supposed to be an all day event. Until about 10pm.” Brock said guiltily.“What’s the point in being here if I’m going to be alone?” Melissa asked trying her best not to sound whiny.“I’ve spoken to Blake. He will take care of you. I trust him to keep you safe. I trust him with my life. He’s going fishing, and you can go with him.” Brock said plainly.“Fishing? I wouldn’t know where to start.” Melissa said as Brock got out of the en-suite.“Well bows a great time to learn. Listen Blake’s taken time off and closed his bar so I can work and so that one of us can always be with you.” Brock explained gently.Melissa pouted for a brief moment before realising he was right. Blake had put his business on h
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Melissa stood up getting ready to leave. “There’s really no talking to you. I came here in good faith to make you aware of what was happening as you don’t care.” Blake ran and grabbed her hand pulling her into his chest causing them both to fall on the floor.Blake looked into her eyes as Melissa lay on his chest. Putting his hand on her cheek a very loving and caring gesture he moved his head up towards hers and kissed her again, this time though she brought her knee up between his legs connecting with his genitals.Blake howled in pain. Sucking at his teeth he howls “Again?” Melissa extracts herself from the floor, and runs to the door.The hot sting of tears in her eyes. She fiddles with the lock as she hears Blake get up.She ran down the stairs, her heeled boots clump clumping as she went.She could hear the pit pat of Blake’s feet as he chases her. “Melissa, honey w
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A FEW DAYS LATER“This is soooo relaxing.” Melissa crooned as the masseuse rubbed oil into her back.At the same moment Brock’s phone rang. Adjusting his towel around his waist he got up and took the phone call into the hallway. Melissa allowed herself to think back on the previous days events. “Babe? Babe? Come on wake up.” Melissa shook Brock’s shoulder. Opening a bleary eye Brock looked at Melissa. She was showered and dressed. Wearing black skinny jeans, and a red cashmere sweater, her hair was tied up in a high ponytail and she had make up on. Brock jumped out of bed and in the shower. Showering and dressing in record time he grabbed the keys to the Porsche and they went to the car. Brock snapped his belt in the drivers side, and started the engine, pulling out of the parking lot, before driving off to his and Blake’s apartment. “So you sure you want to do this alone?” Brock asked.
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After a little while the doorbell went getting up off the couch Brock got up and walked over to the door. Melissa sat on the couch, her head hanging and tears falling down onto her lap. Gritting his teeth knowing he feels helpless to stop this Brock opens the door. “Mr Milligan?” The detective asks. “Yes. Come in. Miss Hartford is in the living room.” He steps to the side and in the detective walks past him, taking a seat on the opposite couch to Melissa. Shutting the door Brock follows him and sits next to Melissa taking her hand that’s now in her lap. “Can you take me through tonight’s events?” He asks. Melissa nods and starts to recall everything that has happened, including the phone call, the detective writes everything in a notebook. “Ok. I’m going to bag all the stuff and take it to the forensics.” Sliding on a pair of latex gloves, he disappeared into the bedroom. After a few minutes,
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Grabbing the phone Brock could see that this has pushed Melissa over the edge. He grabbed the detectives card and typed in the number. The voice came out down the end of the phone as if he’d just been woken up “Yeah?” “Hi it’s Brock Milligan, I don’t know if you remember the break in a Melissa Hartford’s place.” Brock said into the phone. “Yeah. I remember. What of it?” The voice said no longer full of sleep. “There’s been a development.” Brock said putting his arm around a now shivering Melissa and guiding her into the living room. “On my way.” The detective said before hanging up. Brock pressed the red button to cancel the call. And sat Melissa down next to him on the couch. “Baby, you okay?” He asked worried that this would be a tipping point for Melissa, knowing that even the strongest of women would find it difficult to cope, with everything that happened. “Y-yeah.” She said haltin
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Melissa awoke to bright sunlight streaming through the glass windows. The warmth felt nice on her skin. Rolling onto her side she opened a sleepy eye, she had a sudden feeling of dread, as she saw a tie that was not Brock’s, and a memory of last night came flooding back, Chris, she remembered the way his hands felt on her body, and the way he felt inside her, for a brief second she smiled then she felt an arm drape across her. That feeling of guilt gnawed away at her insides. She’d cheated on Brock. A single tear ran down her face as she realised this fact. She was in her own world thinking of what to say to Brock how to redeem her relationship when a voice, thick and scratchy from having just woken up, startled her. “Good morning babygirl. Not too stiff I hope.” The voice came from behind. She immediately turned over, and was met with Brock’s smiling face, an eighth of an inch of stubble, and very messy hair. Bro
