“What?” Was he trying to play pranks on her? Was that some kind of joke? What the hell was he talking about? “I was there at the restaurant. My family was upstairs for dinner and I arrived while he was yelling about your clothes. I had gotten the feeling to come to punch the hell out of him, but I was with my kids and couldn't do that.” He said. “Holy shit!” Ruby whispered. She couldn't believe that her boss had seen her in such an embarrassing situation. Maybe he had recognized her the first time they met and that was why he didn't want her, but that didn't sound like it. It didn't make any sense. As if he heard her thoughts, he said. "I didn't even see your face or anything, but I knew you didn't deserve how the ass was treating you. He had no right to embarrass you that way.” Ruby agreed with a nod, but at the time, she couldn't do anything. She had only said what she thought was right, and she had gone home to cry. But, thinking about it now, she wondered why he was so inter
The joy that Ruby felt as she watched the faces of the kids from the children's ward as they were given their gifts was so immeasurable. She had never seen them this happy before.She watched how different Cameron was with the children, playing around with them seated on the floor in their midst. They were singing a song and clapping with smiles on their faces. Olivia was standing beside her, looking at Cameron as she was. She shook her head and turned to face Ruby. "I can't believe this is your boss in the midst of those kids, behaving like mortals like us.” Ruby nodded. She was really surprised by that too. He was acting like he wasn't her boss whom she knew for those few months they've known each other. It was good to see this side of him, more than the usual cold, and arrogant side that looked down at her from his nose like she was dirt on his shoes, or she was there to ruin his life. She could still remember the look he had given her that first day. It was really frustrating
“Dance with me?" Cameron said. They had gotten home after they left the hospital and he said he had told his secretary to cancel his plan for the day. He invited her to his office right after they both went to shower and then she came downstairs. When she walked into his office, she didn't expect him to ask her to dance with him or play slow music in his office. She didn't even know he had the music box in his office. She could tell that it was because he was in a good mood, and nothing special but this was a dangerous territory for her. He might only want her to dance with him because of the deal, or because he was just happy generally, but her idiotic brain was already reading too much into it. She wanted to shake her head and say no, but she also wanted to nod her head and say yes. The frustrating thoughts that kept roaming around her head were what she just couldn't understand or get rid of. She wanted to do both the words and opposite of things that came to mind with him, get
“As I said, I can't deny that, but whoever started that rumor obviously didn't see the beginning or the end. It wasn't me that kissed her, she kissed me, but it only lasted for a minute because of my surprise. I pushed her away, and that was the end.” He said. He was staring at her intensely now, bent on finding out what she was thinking, staring at the expression on her face, not wanting to miss a thing. She was better suited to hide behind a wall without being seen than to hide this from him. For so long, she had kept her thoughts and feeling to herself, but this glimpse he was able to see, he was going to hold onto use as much as he could until he was satisfied she couldn't hide any longer. “You’re not going to say anything to what I just said?” he asked when she kept quiet, not saying anything. He knew quite well that she was trying to get herself out of the situation, but by God, he wouldn't let her. He had hidden her feeling long enough. Cameron still wasn't entirely sure ab
Instead of pushing him back and getting away from him as her brain told her to, she moved even closer to him. She pressed her lips against his as softly, and sweetly as she saw fit. At the back of her mind, the warning bell kept ringing but she turned deaf ears to it.Damn it, Ruby! Her mind chastised. This was her boss, the man who had wanted nothing with her when she first arrived, but here she was kissing him as if her life depended on it. Maybe it does, who knows? This was the first time in a very long while that she had kissed a man, or in this case and any, allowed a man to kiss her. Although she expected it to feel odd, or foreign, but it was as natural as sleeping and waking up. It felt like it was something she had always done with him, yet, so new and refreshing. His lips shifted against hers and he deepened the kiss. When his mouth opened over hers, hers opened as well and his tongue slipped between her lips, licking the roof of her mouth and then sucking her bottom lip i
After the kiss episode, Ruby made sure to avoid Cameron completely, even though it was almost close to impossible to do. She would always wake up extra early to cook for the kids, went back into her room until she was sure it was time for him to get ready for work, and then she would go out to get the kids ready for school, pack their lunch and sometimes take them to school. She knew that once the kids were around, it would be easy to avoid him, because he couldn't do anything in their presence, and for those times she had to be with him when they were there, it was always super awkward. Making sure to avoid his eyes wasn't as easy as she thought it would be, but she didn't care about that. Thankfully, it was always only for a few minutes before he went to work for breakfast, or at dinnertime. If he missed dinner by coming home late, she would have put the kids to sleep and retire to her room.This was the exact thing she was trying to run from when she left him that night in his o
Ruby threw her head back to down the alcohol, then she replaced the small cup on the tray of the waiter that just brought the drink to her, and she allowed it take over her body as she swayed from right to right, to feel the rhythm and take in every beat. She looked behind her to see Olivia at the bar of the club with Liam beside her and one of his friends beside him as well. She shook her head at them as they watched her, wondering why they were not trying to have fun themselves. Shrugging her shoulder, she continue to dance, raising her hands in the air as she moved. She was so engrossed in the dance she didn't realize that Olivia was watching her anymore, she was now talking to someone. It wasn't until she looked back to her so that she could signal to her to get her a new drink did she see that and who she was now talking to. In front of them, Cameron stood there, glancing from Olivia to her. She wondered how he got to be there and if his presence there had anything to do with
How many times would this happen before he got the gist, that she wanted nothing to do with him? Or maybe it was her that needed to get that. Anyway, she knew he hated that she was the one rejecting him, and the one that was also looking at him with passion in her eyes. What the hell did she want? She needed to figure that out too, but first, she needed to find a way to get him to leave her the hell alone. She knew quite well it wasn’t coincident that he was here. He still stood behind her and didn't say anything, but maybe he just couldn't. He was probably scared of opening his mouth to say anything because that might make thing even worse than it already was. He allowed his hands to drop by his sides and stepped back, shaking his head. "Is this really want you want?” he asked. "You want me to leave you alone and leave? You don't want us to talk about it and then it gets awkward?” He grabbed her again, probably to try again, but she wrenched her arm away from him. No way! He did
Closing the door behind her, she turned to see something on her bed and she stopped in her stride, squinting her eyes to determine what it could be. She had left nothing at all on her bed when she left it this morning, so it could only be from one person, and that was Cameron. This must be what he meant when he said something about the gift he was preparing. With a small smile on her face, she walked to the bed to take a closer look at whatever it was. She definitely knew that she was going to have to thank him when he got back from work. This was really nice, she thought even though she hadn't seen it yet. The package was wrapped in a gift box with a ribbon tied in a bow at the top. Slowly, she sat down beside it and opened it, unwrapping the wrapper after getting rid of the bow. This was making her feel like she was a little girl on a Christmas morning, unwrapping a gift she had been expecting from her father. She finally got the wrapper off the box and with a sigh, she opened t
When Davey came into the kitchen, he took Summer out and back to her room by picking her up and Ruby turned towards Cameron. He had gone upstairs after she was done with breakfast to have his bath. He said he had a meeting at the office to attend to. He still hadn't wished her a happy birthday, but she guessed he must have forgotten about it because she had only mentioned it once. She would be sure to remind him after this one, so he doesn't forget anymore that easily. She definitely still stood by her word on not caring about that because she was grateful that she could spend it around people she loved and that loved her, and that was enough. At this point, all she wanted to do was have fun with the kids, call Olivia, and then make great food for lunch and dinner, even if it meant that she would stress herself out to achieve that. Cameron was wearing a dark sunglasses that hid his beautiful eyes from her but the rest of him looked as gorgeous. The dark brown suit hugged hid body p
Summer picked up the book she left in the living room and she walked back to the kitchen to sit with Spring, as Ruby made lunch. She would be going out soon because it was her birthday tomorrow, and she was planning to get some things to prepare for it. “Stop pulling that, Spring. Leave your sister alone.” She said when she saw Spring pulling at Summer’s book. He loved to pick on her sometimes like that, but she was always there to stop him. Spring laughed. "I was just messing with her, but she's a crybaby.” He said as Summer’s eyes started to water with tears. Ruby smiled and shook her head, then she begged Summer and told her not to cry. It was all she could do not to send them both out of the kitchen. They were really distracting her, and she needed to get the lunch done on time if she wanted to get going soon. “I’ll tell Daddy once he's back.” Summer said. Spring raised his shoulder in a single shrug as if he didn’t care who she told. The boy was growing so fast every day th
Olivia grabbed her purse from the kitchen counter, and then her keys from the small table in the living room, ready to head out for a shift at the hospital. She had rejected Liam’s offer to come to pick her up on his way to work as well. Although, she was a bit tired and sleepy, but she had to drive to the hospital because she would be going to the police station to meet Ruby. They had submitted the evidence to the police and Roy had been taken in for questioning.It was another sweltering day and her thick scrubs are not taking the high temperatures into concern at all, making her wish she could stay inside with the air conditioner at full blast. But seeing as she couldn't do that, she started to go out of the apartment, and got to the front door, opening it to step outside.She had barely made it out her front door and she was already feeling the heat welcoming her. Thankfully, her car had an air conditioner, but the only disadvantage was that she couldn't turn it on for long. She
Cameron reached out his hands to grab her before she meet the floor, and then he bent from his waist to grab her behind her knees. Grabbing her, he hoisted her up and into his arms. “Just don't struggle if you don't want your towel to fall off. Or you could, because I'll get to see you like I've been wanting since like forever.” He said, and Ruby stopped squirming in his arms immediately, settling. He walked to the bed and sat down, settling her against his lap, and holding her there, with her butt firmly against his crotch. He groaned at when she squirmed against him, and then she stopped. Ruby realized he was semi hard against her, and she wondered how that was what was in his mind when he had only come in to talk. But then again, he was a man with blood running through his vein, so she understood he would be aroused by being this close to him. She was, after all, aroused too, as she felt her nipples tighten into hard little rocks, and the junction of her thigh tightened in pain.
She waited there, waiting for Davey to come to get the door as she pressed the doorbell, but when the door ripped open, it was someone unexpected that opened it. Cameron!But, it wasn't entirely strange that he was the one that answered the door, after all, it was his house. She started up at him for a long moment, actually, she wasn't sure how long she had stood there staring at him, but when he cleared his throat, she snapped herself out of the daze she had been in. The truth was not that she didn’t know what to say as she watched him, but the fact that she realized at that moment how much she had missed him and how much she had wanted to see him. She had not even realized it sooner until that moment. His beauty, just as he looked on at her, his elegance, as he stood there, his stance, and the way the light behind him in the hallway, made him look even better than he was. Not that he wasn't handsome or anything though. There was something about seeing a man one was in love with
“Dad, ask your wife why she did all that. Please do, because I'm on a very thin line with withholding my anger here.” Cameron said as he looked from his mother to his father. He was really angry. He had waited until Gomez gave him all the proofs to take to her before coming over to confront her. Although he hadn't done anything wrong, he had to shoulder the responsibility for what her actions had caused, and the hate directed towards him by Ruby, a woman he was madly in love with. "What are you doing here, Cam?” Sarah asked behind him. They had talked about this, and she had begged him not to cause a scene, but he just couldn't. It wasn't something he could do. "You should go home and leave Mom. You look really exhausted." She said, observing him.Cameron wanted to roll his eyes because he knew she was only saying that to make him leave and stop yelling at their mother like that. Well, he didn't mean to be disrespectful, but he just couldn't stay quiet any longer. “Stay out of this,
When the phone rang, Ruby was sitting in the living room back at home with Olivia sitting on the couch in front of her. She was telling her about how many times Cameron had called her just to speak with her. She picked up her phone and frowned down at it, not sure she wanted to pick up a call from a strange number. For all she knew, it could be Cameron, but then again, this wasn't his number. She would have recognized it if it was, as she had it memorized. Besides, she knew he wouldn't call her again after he had done it several times but she hadn't picked it up. “Who’s that?” Olivia asked and Ruby lifted her shoulder in a shrug. “I don't know who it is.” She said. She wasn't a psychic so she couldn't possibly know who was calling her. Olivia was convinced it might be Cameron though, because of the look in her eyes. She was even more angry than she was, on her behalf, she would say every time they talked about it. “Then you won't if you don't pick it up. You can drop your phone a
It's been a solid hour since Cameron sat outside the hospital in the garden with his hand in his pocket and a lot going through his head. He had left the room and come out here when Ruby told him to leave because she didn't want to see him yet, whatever that meant. She was probably blaming him, but that was fine. He was blaming himself as well. It didn't help matters that his family was here; his mother and father, Davey must have called them. He said there in silence, when though his phone buzzed in his pocket for a while now. Someone had been calling him about fifteen minutes after he came out but he had refused to get his phone out of his pocket or pick it up. It was of no use right now, not when the woman he was madly in love with was in this state, and not when she had walked him out.Soon, he heard the rustling of a person’s footsteps behind him, but this was a public place, so it could be anyone, but when the person stopped at his back, he knew they were there for him. “Cam