Both seated inside a different restaurant from last night, Ben watched Belle devour the dish in front of her. He couldn't stop smiling because it had been so long since he sat with someone, a woman who was willing to be as free as belle was as she ate the spaghetti she ordered.She didn't even remember he was there with her, the food was delicious and she was hungry, that was all she knew as she ate on. She sucked in a strand of spaghetti into her mouth even though her lips were pressed together. Some spaghetti sauce stained her lips when she did that so she reached for the table napkins at the middle of the set table and that was when she remembered Ben was sitting with her.Her right hand on the napkins like she was frozen, she looked up slowly and he was smiling, that genuine smile that she had noticed was rare and scarce to the public. She became grateful that there was no one else sharing the part of the restaurant where they sat with them, it was a reserved spot.Her eyes still
"You are beautiful Belle, very, very beautiful and I can't get my mind off you even when I try, many would mistake that for love but not me Belle because I know it's not love, it's not, I don't love you, I'm just sexually attracted to you, if love is a true thing then I am in love with your body." He said in what he thought was the simplest way he could explain his attraction to her. Belle just stared at him as he went on, she didn't believe he would actually say what he was saying. She had seen it coming, she had read all about him and his dislike for the topic of love. She knew he would say what he just said before now. He had told her during her interview with him that he wasn't a romantic. "Okay." She just said and picked up her glass of water in front of her, taking a sip from it. "Okay? Is that what you are going to say?" He had to admit, he was surprised at her response. "Mhmmn." She nodded, dropping the glass and looking at him. "Really?" "What do you want me to say?" She
"I like the way you are now, uncaring that I don't love you, we are better like this. Let's just have sex whenever we want too but let's do so with no strings attached.""Okay, I get it, no strings attached." Belle said again. She could listen to this man holding her, talk all day and agree with whatever he said."Alright then, let's go shopping." He held her and they headed out.The were still in the driving car, both in their own thoughts when Belle's phone started to vibrate in her purse. Ben looked at her to try and know why she wasn't picking up her phone as it rang on.He realized that her mind was lost, so he called her back;"Belle.""Hmmn?" She turned to him sharply, disengaging from her far thoughts."Your phone seems to be ringing.""Oh." She open her purse to get the phone out but it had stopped ringing.She checked on her notification block and saw who it was, calling her. It was Brie, her own cousin who had called her for the twenty seventh time. Belle's phone has been
Are you okay?" Ben thought he should ask her because she looked distressed about the call she just had."Yeah." She nodded before putting her phone back in her purse."You are such a horrible liar, if you should know." He said and she looked up from her purse at him.He was right, she wasn't okay, she was worried and he could fish that out."You should have just said; I am not okay but I also don't want to talk about it." He said again before looking away from her."You don't have to tell me what the problem is, I mean you are not obligated to, we are not a couple now, are we. Just let me know if I can help."After that, the car became silent till they got to a boutique. As she was used to him doing since she met him, he got down first and came for her.His hand around her tiny waist, he walked into the boutique with her and she couldn't help but wonder what this man wanted. He had just told her earlier, back at the restaurant that he didn't love her and that he couldn't but here he wa
"Ma'am, please try this." The man who had been helping her took out one of the packaged dresses in a bag and showed it to her. "My size?" She asked because she couldn't tell while it was still in the bag. "I think so, ma'am." The man replied so she took it and went to changing room to try it on. "It is my size." She confirmed as she walked out wearing the dress. It was a red short sleeveless dress and it accentuated her toned shoulders and her slender neck. The man thought the dress was made specially for her considering how much it fitted her and matched her beauty. "Are you taking it, should I add it to the list of things you want?" "Yes, it's look great, I love it." "So, ma'am, I think you should try this one next, it will certainly look good on you, just like the others did." The man said, taking out another bag(packaged with a jumpsuit). "No, that's enough. I don't want to try anymore clothes, just this ones are okay, I think." "Just these?" Belle heard Ben and turned to
"Who is he?" Brie asked when she finally noticed the man standing behind Belle with his hands full. "I will explain after his gone, just let him through so he could drop these off, his boss needs him to drive him somewhere and it's important." "His boss? Who is his boss?" "Brie just make way so he could keep these then I will tell you everything." "Okay okay." Brie said making way like Belle requested by opening the door wider and watching the man walk into their apartment. At least it wasn't the man with the scar, she wouldn't have let him in if it were him standing behind Belle. Randy didn't look scary at all to her. "Where do I keep them, ma'am?" Randy asked standing and waiting for her to let him know where to keep the bags. "Uhmmm....on the couch?" Belle said looking at Brie to know if that was okay. "What are they?" Brie asked Belle. "Clothes." Belle replied and Brie nodded. "Okay, keep them on the couch please." Belle told Randy and he carefully out the bags down on the
"Belle, what is it, did he say he is interested?" She asked her. Belle went silent when she was asked that. This was why she didn't want to let them know about it in the first place but she couldn't keep up with lying about her whereabouts and leaving them worried whenever she went with Ben. At least, noe they would know she is with Ben and wouldn't get worried over nothing, she was going to tell them about the unusual sex pact she was planning on embarking with him. "This is where it gets a little weird." She told them, scratching the back of her neck."He wants me to keep on sleeping with him...." "What?" They both chorused before she could explain the situation further. "Just listen, he says he doesn't believe in love and therefore he doesn't plan on starting anything serious with me but...." She stopped when they were both giving her a non-acquiescent look, their arms folded across their chests. "Come on, hear me out first," She didn't like that they weren't all in on what she
Belle closed the door behind her and leaned against it, breathing in slowly before going to the vanity in the bedroom to take a look at herself after keeping the purse in her hand. She went to the bed to sit and take her heels off.‘I shouldn't have told them.’ She thought to herself. Now she had to rethink her already made decision. She really wanted to do what Ben proposed but now that Brie said it, she thought her cousin sister was right;What if Ben just wanted to use her? What if he only saw her as a sex toy just like Brie said and not as a sex partner that she wanted to agree to being."Urghh!" She groaned, falling back on the bed and dragging her body up to where the pillows were set. LooShe just laid there, facing the ceiling still thinking when her phone rang in her purse, she rolled her eyes with a sigh because now she had to get up to go take her purse from the vanity stand."Hi, Mrs Johnson." Belle greeted when she picked the call, she hoped her boss wasn't mad about her