GregYup, it was Jeremiah, and I was in his house.How did that happen again?The memory hit me all of a sudden.Me drinking myself to a stupor last night.A face looking oddly familiar—it must have been Jeremiah—and me ranting to the person.God. I couldn't believe I had done that after so many incidents with him already."Are you okay?" He asked as I stood up, and I rubbed a hand over my face. "Yes. So sorry for the inconvenience. I'll leave now.""I made coffee, though. You sure you don't want some?" He folded his arms and smiled. Okay, tempting, but...But nothing.I ended up in his kitchen before I could even convince myself out of it.Wow, his place was pretty cool.Masculine.Expensive also, I'll say, but he sure did look like he came from money."Your place looks nice." He looked up from the mug he was pouring coffee into and smiled. "Yeah, thanks.""You must get that a lot."He cocked an eyebrow. "Are you asking if I bring over other guys who also think the place is cool?"
Jeremiah "He's not my boyfriend, Mum."At least not yet."Oh, soon then."I shrugged and sat down by my kitchen island."I don't know. Maybe. Maybe not.""Why? What is the matter?" She asked as she placed the things she had brought over in the fridge.I glanced at her when she drew over a stool to sit beside me after."I don't know... I just... I don't know what he's thinking.""Like how?"I shrugged, "I don't know."One moment, he's apologizing for God knows what; the next, he's smiling with me and pulling me in to kiss.I would be lying if I said I'm not confused."Then ask him.""Huh?""Ask him what he's thinking. It can't be that hard.""It is. At least for me. Did I forget to mention that he's my subordinate in the office?"Oh really?" I rolled my eyes as hers began to twinkle with mischief."Don't do that.""What?""That. That smile or smirk. Whatever it is."She shrugged and folded her arms. "I'm not doing anything. I just think it's cute, but you know what? You don't have to
Greg The pop-up store was exactly like what we envisioned when we got there.Cobalt blue and yellow to give off that edgy but friendly vibe for the collection, and there was the runway, which was placed directly in the middle of the hall.There was a photo booth area, a try-on area, mannequins and racks, and a workshop area.I turned to Jeremiah to see him already looking at me and cocked an eyebrow. "What?""What do you think?""Oh. It's great. Exactly what we came up with."He nodded, "Just what I thought.""Mr. Stone." The event organizer, who we had employed for this sole purpose, called to us when she finished talking to a lady who walked away now, and we both turned to her."Mrs. Hutchins." Jeremiah replied. "Wasn't expecting you here...""Yeah, just thought I'd check in. How is it going?""Great. Everything has been put in place, just remaining the models and clothes, which would be displayed on the racks and mannequins over there."She pointed to them."Hmm. And backstage?"
Kael"Hm."I took a look at myself in the mirror and assessed my new appearance.Blonde hair, long now, not short.Black-rimmed glasses that were settled nicely on my face and a light stubble.I turned my head from side to side and nodded towards the man in the corner.Sebastian Hayes, who is to help me with my assignment here. He is part of the Mancini group."It will work."He nodded, "Good.""You can go then." He said to the salon staff, who immediately left and closed the door behind him, and he handed me a tab when we were left alone."Your schedule for the week.""A visit to the gallery. A meeting with the gallery curator. Then a trip to New York for an auction.""Yes."I gave him back the tab."Can't someone else do that?""What? Going to the auction?" I nodded."We need to show your credibility to everyone as an art dealer. The exhibition is to get the gallery properly introduced into the society; then we can proceed with the intricacies that will help with our assignment her
GregI have a lot of things coming up.The pop-up event in a few days on Monday, the housewarming party with Jeremiah's family a day before that, and then, another project for my course at the institute. This time written.Yet, I still managed to think about a certain asshole.It could be the freaking weather news, a coffee from the coffee shop, or even a random guy wearing a hoodie on the streets, which shouldn't remind me of him, but it did, and I hate that.It was quite annoying."Greg!" The voices of my friends, Bella and Lyra, brought me out of my reverie as I stood in the middle of the office lounge staring at the TV there, and I sipped the coffee I had been holding."Sorry guys, I was just uhm..." Thinking about an asshole"... doing something."Lyra sighed, "Okay, so what should I do?""What?""She's thinking of telling Adrian on their anniversary that is coming up." Bella replied on her behalf."Oh. Right. I mean, why not? It's a good surprise.""Exactly what I said." Bella
GregAdrian was already in the hotel, La Vita Eterna, when I got to its lobby, and he gestured towards the elevator, which we both got into immediately."Thank you for deciding to help me today.""Of course. It's for Lyra, so sure.""How was she when you left?""Calm." She had been pretty occupied with the shopping, which she insisted we do even though she already had a bunch of clothes early this morning, and I had excused myself a few hours later to come here."Really?""Yes. She's getting prepared for your anniversary too.""Oh, great. What do you think?" He asked once we stepped out into an open space.It was the rooftop with a single table and two chairs in the midst of it.The fuck?There were flowers also, candles, a freaking red carpet, and a whole kitchen counter beside the table setting."What is going on?" I glanced at Adrian to see him staring at me intently, and he raised an eyebrow. "What do you mean? Is it too small?""Small?"You must be kidding me.First of all, luxu
GregThe idea kept building up in my head even after that night.Fuck him out of my system.Would it really work?I mean, there could even be the possibility that he wouldn't be good in bed, so why not?Okay, I think he would be good.He's always so... He just seems like someone who would be a good f..."Greg!"Oh fuck!I turned in my seat to see a colleague, Hunter, holding some papers, and he handed them to me, "The final report. Mr. Stone told you to bring it.""Right. Thanks."I stood up from my seat immediately to go deliver the report, and I paused in my steps when I opened his door to see him buttoning down his shirt.He looked taken aback too."S-sorry." I had forgotten to knock."No, it's fine. Come in. I stained this with that, and that's why I'm doing this..."He smiled as he pointed to the cup that was on his desk, and I took a seat after shutting the door behind me.It's crazy how we were still awkward around ourselves after we had kissed a few times."Give me a minute."
Kael"Weather forecast for the day. Heavy downpour is expected in the following areas today: Carrer de la Llum, Plaça del Sol Blau, and Carrer del Sol. Citizens are advised to take their umbrellas, suit up, and..."I picked up the remote on the table to turn off the TV, then turned to face the floor-to-ceiling mirror that was in my room, quite shaken up.I tried to think of various things.The success of the exhibition.The artwork we had successfully purchased.The rain...No, I shouldn't think about that.I rubbed my hands together and stuffed them into my pocket once I was done knotting my tie."Mr. Clarke."Right.I stepped out of the room and into the hallway where Sebastian stood."We're going to be late.""Let's hurry up then.""How are things at the gallery?" I asked when we got into my car outside, and he handed me a tab right before starting the car."The artworks have been placed as we agreed, and the gallery is ready to be opened.""Great," I said as I took a look at the p
BellaOne month later,The town was just as quiet yet noisy as I remembered it. Most tourists were bustling around as they got some things, and I picked out a few things myself for dinner since we didn't have the luxury of ordering pizza here."Here." The elderly man said as he handed me the ingredients for soup I had bought, and I paid him in cash, thanking him as I left.Seriously, where was this girl, Quinn?I glanced around, trying to find my companion, who was just as dazed as a child by the things he found here.Okay, yes, there was a lot of antique and beautiful stuff, but getting lost among the crowd because of that was not...I gasped and smiled when I suddenly felt her arms wrapped around me from behind."Seriously?"She smiled, kissing away the scowl I had only just managed to plaster on my face."See what I found." She raised up a type of camera that looked really ancient."Wow..." That really dripped with a lot of sarcasm, or at least that was what I planned, but I think
Quinn "Oh fuck!" I sighed in relief when I finally saw that she was okay.Phew!You should have seen the way my heart skipped when I got the news that she had been kidnapped from the condo.Like, how the fuck did that happen?Who was even the...I turned to the other guy in the room, raising my own gun to aim when I finally saw who it was. "Matteo?"He tucked the gun he had been holding into his pocket and faced me."Isn't it odd that no one is here?" And there were no dead bodies outside or within.It was almost as if no one else was here except us, and that was weird. If this had been a kidnap mission like he had said, after all, he was the one who had sent me the video of him being kidnapped, then called me to tell me he found her.I raised my eyebrows, immediately becoming suspicious, and raised my gun again.He rolled his eyes, knowing exactly my thought process."You still don't get it, do you?""What?""This is what might happen if you guys keep up with what you've been doing.
BellaThings kept going great after that.Days after that.The sex.The glances.This thrilling feeling that came with just being around her.I threw my head back and moaned loudly when her tongue slipped into my pussy, slopping quite loudly."Ahh... Quinn..." It felt so good."Hmm-mm. Feels good, huh?"I nodded, unable to get the words out thanks to her adding another finger to the finger that was already driving me crazy by my clit, and she raised her head up after another mind-blowing orgasm on that same kitchen counter.I smiled and opened my mouth wide to accept her kiss when she raised her head up a moment later.God.So obscene and hot, I loved it.The twirl of her tongue, the salty but sweet taste, she bit on my bottom lip for a second when we finally pulled apart minutes later."God, Matteo is going to kill me, but..."Right, her meeting with that Moretti lady. She had told me about it a few days ago when we decided to come to this condo for privacy.Yes, it was the condo we
QuinnWe all got into the car, with Matteo taking the wheel again after we finished with Hastings, and we maintained the silence we had kept on our way here—except for the time I caught Riley staring, or maybe it was the other way round as I had been staring too—till we got home.Both I and Riley got out when he got to the house. Matteo remained inside to drive the car to the garage, and I waited for him to drive away before I caught Riley's hand in mine.She glanced at me for the first time since we left the lawyer's office. Seems like the visit to the lawyer hit her hard all over again.She blinked a number of times. "What?""Come with me.""Huh?"I didn't give her a chance to understand what I was about to do before I was dragging her all the way with me to the back of the house, where I let go of her hand to search through a bunch of thick bushes that had some flowers in them.I turned back for a moment to see her giving me this ridiculous look. At least she wasn't looking so sad
BellaThe drive to the office was dead-ass silent. Like I'm talking pin-drop, cemetery-type silence as we all sat huddled in the car, and I smiled at Matteo for the third time when we made eye contact through the car mirror just because I was not willing to get caught fixating on the person beside me.He smiled back again, definitely thinking I'm weird or at least acting weird.I sighed deeply.After the little confession session we had out in the alley the other day, what am I saying, yesterday, I would have expected things to be more expressive between us.You know... those things people in relationships do, but for some reason, we have just been avoiding each other for the most part of today; I couldn't understand why.Okay, I know I'm part of the problem since I'm not making any moves, but at least she should do something, right?Ugh!I fidgeted unconsciously, pissed at all this tension and weirdness.I glanced at Quinn for the hundredth time even though I've kind of convinced mys
Bella"Huh?"I kept my hands around her shoulder, unable to move my legs anyway because of how wobbly they were, and I stared up into her eyes once she said that.She stared at me too, quite troubled."I think I might like you too."Okay, not love, but at least we were past the fuck buddy stuff.She pulled away and ran her hand through her hair after a moment of just staring at each other.Like, what do we do now? Have some more sex. Kiss.She nodded towards the club and back at me, "Are you going to... We should go home or..."Right, I had even forgotten I was drunk before and kissing another lady because the thought of being just a fuck buddy to her had irritated me.Now that she had said she liked me, I felt more sober than drunk.I moved away from the wall and stumbled a bit right before gaining my balance."Yeah."I wondered where home was now.The family house?Maybe. After all, it was my father's house but more Quinn's than mine now. I was definitely going to feel out of place.
Quinn Drunk, annoyed, tipsy; maybe still drinking, was what I had been expecting when I stepped into the club; the GPS had indicated the car was parked in a few minutes later. But instead of that, the person I had come to look for was by the bar, kissing a lady that basically had her whole body on her now. I felt my insides twist with this feeling I couldn't quite place. Jealousy. I wouldn't know, but just the sight of what they were doing and the fact that they kept kissing had me storming over to them without warning and basically throwing the other lady across the room before I could stop myself. Those familiar amber eyes stared up at me in surprise, "Quinn." I didn't wait for her to get another word out before I was dragging her out of the club and into an alley that enveloped us in complete darkness if not for the flickering streetlight beside it. She tore her hand away from me and glared, stumbling a bit when I turned to face her. Oh, she was drunk but still...
Quinn Matteo didn't seem to buy the it's just sex theory, though, and I sighed, turning away from him."Is that advisable though?"I shrugged, "Why not? It's not like I forced her to have sex with me.""But she's..."Yes, Jose's daughter. I knew and shouldn't have started any of... I wasn't even sure what we had now, especially if she really felt the way she had said earlier."I think I love you."I pushed the words to the back of my mind, facing Matteo, who sighed in resignation again."Just be careful. Getting involved with her could make things dangerous, and you shouldn't have any distractions, especially in the early stages of this..."Taking over, he meant.It was already my fourth month as the leader of this organization, and things were going well, at least on the surface.I nodded and sat behind my desk, shoving thoughts of how naked a certain person had been on that desk a minute ago.He sat opposite me.I kind of knew what he might want to bring up."Hayden..."Yup, knew i
Bella Fuck!I grinded my hips against the table, chasing after the high that had come over me as I came super hard on Quinn's tongue a minute earlier, and she raised her head to my lips to kiss me after that, sucking my tongue and spreading my salty taste all over our mouths.It was obscene but also hot."Hmm..." I purred, loving it."Get on your knees, princess. Time to put that mouth to use." And even though I had been willing to do that, hearing her say that while she leaned back against the chair in the study had me hot and bothered on a whole new level.Fuck, and this was not what I had been planning when I left Lyra's house.Like yes, I had wished and fantasized about having sex with her over the past three months that I was supposed to use to figure out my life, but I had also been planning to talk about whatever the hell I was feeling.Now I wasn't even sure what was going on in my mind anymore, but that wasn't going to stop me from doing what she ordered, though, so I got on