Fayre didn't notice the other woman in the room upon her entry.
All her attention had been honed on the look she'd imagined would be splashed across Jordan's face when he saw her.
It's been months since she last saw him and though they'd broken up on very rough terms this last time, she was sure he wouldn't be able to resist her once he saw her again and gets a taste of what he's been missing.
After all, she wore this figure hugging, revealing dress whose red color screamed 'fuck me' for a purpose.
No man have been able to resist her and her smoking hot body before, he wouldn't be any different, not after she's made special effort to tempt him back.
They've had break ups before, ones almost as messy as the current one, but he always took her back anyways. She shouldn't feel any worry about this time around.
She stood glaring at the vacant space staring back at her, her disappointment marring her perfectly made up face.
"Ughhh" she groaned.
She might as well wait for him here and spin him the pleasant surprise that she was, she thought, smiling at the provocative idea.
A kiss or two wouldn't be so bad and if she plays her card right, she might just get lucky enough to have his impressively huge cock buried deep inside her pussy.
She was getting wet already from thinking of him bending her over his desk and pumping her hard.
He's never consented to sex in his personal space before, like his apartment, any of his houses and even this office, but her plans for today included making him want her so much he'd have her anywhere she chooses and she's choosing this office, his work table precisely.
There's something kinky about having your man's big dick in you, fucking you hard with your tits slapping against cool glass of his work table.
She smiled smugly at her own dirty thoughts as she trailed a nicely manicured finger on the glass surface of his table making her way around it and plonking down on his super comfy swivel chair.
Damn, the luxury.
This is one of the major reasons she won't ever give him up, his infinite wealth, well you can always add the amazing sex.
It was after she was done settling herself in his seat that her searching eyes finally spotted Jojo.
She decided at first sight that she didn't like her.
The woman, though possesses worse fashion sense than anyone she's ever met, she was beautiful.
She'll give her that.
She didn't want any woman around Jordan except herself.
While she's still trying to condone having that sassy little wench, Lisa, whose desperacy to dig her claws into Jordan reeks, right outside this door, this one won't stay.
She'll fucking make sure of it.
The only woman with a place beside him was herself and she'll make it stay that way.
Jojo was getting uncomfortable from being under Fayre's scrutiny.
She could already tell from her scrunched made up face and the down drawn lipsticked lips that her presence wasn't appreciated.
"And who are you?" The derogatory tone in which the questions was delivered made her want to ignore it and not grace it with an answer but she figured the lady was Jordan's close acquaintance seeing as she's comfortably seated in his chair like she owns the place.
Maybe she was the girlfriend Lisa had so not subtly mentioned. She didn't dare piss the princess off and risk her job in the process.
"I'm Jocelyn Colleen, Mr McGrath's personal assistant." She offered.
She didn't keep her head up long enough to catch the eye roll directed at her, but she did hear the disapproving tsk that accompanied it.
"I don't like your being in here. Isn't there a space outside here that you should be occupying?"
Jojo's ears perked up at that and her eyes flew up to watch Fayre flip her hair and cross her legs on her boss' table.
She's barely known the woman for less than twenty minutes but she could already tell she was shallow as all hell get out.
And beauty with no depth wasn't a trait she admired.
The woman was damn obnoxious.
"Whatever does Jordan need a personal assistant for anyways?"
She did the hair flip thing again trying to initiate superiority and intimidate Jojo.
Jojo wasn't having any of it.
She would have let that jab go by unattended but the insane level of stress she was enduring and with the anger the threat to her job had conjured coursing through her, she short circuited, bringing back a piece of the old her with it.
"Why don't you ask him that as soon as he walks in that door!" She snapped.
"And if you don't mind, use the damn visitors couch cause I don't think my boss will appreciate having you in his seat."
She half regretted those words almost immediately.
Good job saving that job, Jo.
She watched Fayre's eyes widen in shock at her guts for a second before her face took on a disgusted scowl.
"And who the fucking hell do you think you are talking back at like that and telling me what the fuck to do?"
She could literally see the smoke coming out of Fayre's ears.
"You little, filthy bitch...."
She tuned her voice out, not willing to be reduced to a blubbering mess of verbal exchange.
Too sad all that beauty didn't have a deserving personality to boot.
She focused her attention on the ever growing pile of correspondence on her table that needed returning.
If worse comes to worst and she looses her job over lossing her head with fucking miss 'I own this place cause I'm screwing Jordan McGrath', she wanted a clean slate that would guarantee her paycheck comes in.
Having a valid argument if it came to that wouldn't hurt anything.
She heard the loud clicking of heels against the hard squeaky clean floor and knew Fayre was headed her way.
She didn't bother looking up until a manicured index finger with nail covered in glowing black was tapping away at her table and ruining her peace.
When she finally did draw her attention away from her work, she found Fayre glaring down at her with mischief filled eyes and a threatening smile.
Her voice dripped of venom when she spoke.
"You know, when I first saw you, I didn't have you pegged for an annoying bitch."
Jojo scoffed.
"And I'm supposed to be grateful for that?" She retorted.
Fayre's eyes hardened.
"I like the fire you think you have. That at least, is not boring. I'll love to see how well that works for you after I've got you kicked out of this job and any other reputable one."
She twirled a lock of her blonde hair, slightly leaning in a bit closer.
"I don't know what strings you pulled to get your disgusting, sassy self here in the first place because the likes of you don't work here, but I promise you this, I'll make sure you are out this door and flat on your butt as soon as you can say my name."
Let it go.
Let it fucking go, Jo, her usually sane and rational self cautioned.
You've said enough already, don't let her fucking get to you!
But she was way past listening to the little voice of caution in her head.
The daring minx in her that Fayre had managed to resurrect wanted a bite and she let her have it.
"Make sure my pay check comes in intact while you are at it, will you? And a little advice on the side, you should definitely work on your threat voice. You sounded like a cat being strangled just now. That doesn't incite much fear, you know."
She knew Fayre would blow her top, saw it coming, and she did.
She smiled as she watched her turn very shade of red before she lashed out.
"You scum! You are nothi......"
The door chose that exact moment to slide open, revealing a furious Jordan McGrath.
His eyes were narrowed down to slits, his whole six feet plus tense, and his green depths were drilling holes in her.
Smoking hell.
She's well and truly screwed.
* * *
Jordan was exhausted from having to deal with a cold feet Malcom all afternoon.
He'd fucking spent the better part of two hours explaining to the man that they still had a valid contract signed and making sure he understood the penalty for breaching.
Then he'd gone on to convince the man to keep his end of the contract with a solid promise and prove that his company wasn't in any financial crisis.
No thanks to the anonymous messages Malcom have been receiving for a while.
He even went the extra mile to take Malcom to the newly finished ultra modern building he'd created on his order for a place to move a branch of his tech company.
The building with its perks was the final push Malcom needed before he totally gave in and even apologized for bailing without finding things out himself.
He offered a re-inspection, fixed for a later date before the deal was officially close.
His effort paid off but not without the accompanying fatigue.
If Malcom wasn't one of his best clients, he wouldn't have come himself for this.
It felt like all his energy have been sucked out and his body was running on fucking reserve.
Taking the rest of the day off for a deserved break was a tempting idea but he had a late appointment with Ian Blackwell.
The man was a very important client and he didn't want to offend him by canceling now and risk loosing him.
At least not with words going around about his supposed financial crisis, no thanks to fucking Morgan Drew.
He also had an unavoidable shitload of paper work piled on his desk that needed immediate attention.
Fuck!
He groaned as Fred guided his car into his office parking lot.
He would have loved to take his private elevator to his office but that won't pan out fine as Kevin his sales director had called with an urgent matter.
If the message hadn't come with a glaring 'need your immediate attention' tag, he would have told Kevin to go fuck himself.
"Fuck!" He groaned.
Again.
He reached for his non existent tie before realizing he wore none.
He wished he did in the moment, that, at the least, would be explanation enough for the tightness he was feeling around his throat.
He popped the second button of his immaculate white inner shirt open as he strode in the front door.
The whole floor went pin drop silent as soon as his presence registered.
Everybody was suddenly too deep in something work related.
As if their pretentious asses can mask their slacks with that shit.
If they all worked as hard as they are pretending to be doing now, he wouldn't have any issues running this company and they'd be earning their pay fair and square.
He scoffed when his exploring eyes found Mandy the receptionist keeping her leaky trap shut and actually doing something productive.
All she fucking do around her is make up and gossip.
No wonder her desk was popular among the ladies as the 'juicy hot-spot'.
He didn't utter a word, his stance said it all and they better take the hint before he pays them another thought.
He heard their collective sigh of relief when he finally moved and got into the elevator.
He stopped in the sales floor and spent almost quarter an hour stuffing poor Kevin with orders and directives.
Done at last, he was on his way up to his office.
The thought of seeing Jojo again made one corner of his lips tug upwards in the making of a smirk.
He wanted to see her, needed to touch her, feel her.
He wanted to cover her soft mouth with his in a driving kiss, bend her over his desk and show her how much he fucking missed her.
She's the first to make him want to christen his personal space with sex.
Not even Fayre had been able to achieve that.
It was either at her place or hotel room.
Never at his place or his office.
He needed a dose of that adorable smile JoJo lets slip when she gets lost in thought and thinks he isn't looking.
His cock stirred in his pants from the mental images of her smiling like that at him while very naked in his arms, her full tits at his mercy.
Fuck.
He was almost at a point of obsessing having a taste of her like he's dreamed to ever since she turned fifteen and started giving him hard to relieve hard ons.
From the moment she'd waltzed back into his life as his personal assistant, all his buried feelings for her, his best friend, had come rushing back, lurking and hoping he'd do something about it and the accompanying painful hard on.
Now that he thought about it, it's been a while since he'd gotten laid.
Between his break up with Fayre and his outrageous desire for his assistant, coupled with the hectic phase he was wading through at work with his multiple projects, there was no room for random rolls in the sack.
He was tired of fucking his way through New York's female population anyways.
The fun in having his dick buried in a woman for a night and never seeing her again after was beginning to wear off and the idea suddenly unappealing.
He only wanted his cock in one woman but he doubted she was ready for it yet or his secret that came with it.
The elevator finally dinged open and he stepped out more tense.
He totally ignored Lisa Monroe and her patronizing, flirty smile and gestures.
Her desperacy to get into his pants was on a high level of repulsive.
A woman, ready to bend to his every whim and order without a little chase doesn't hold any appeal for him.
Impatient to get into his cocooning office he quickly scanned his palmprint and waited for the door to open and grant him entry access.
His eyes hardened as it did because right in his office and standing in front Jojo's desk, spitting venom was the last person he needed to see.
Fucking Fayre Carson.
"What are you doing in here, Fayre?"The low resonance of his voice carried his anger with it but Fayre didn't take the hint.This was her Jordan after all and no matter how angry he got at her, she always managed to calm him and make him come around her way.She smiled at him, subtly pushing her chest out and making her voluptuous breasts more obvious.She smirked as she noticed his eyes drop to them momentarily.This leopard can never change his spots even if he tried."Baby," she drawled,"I've been waiting forever for you. Thought I'd sur
It was just seven pm, give or take a few minutes as Jojo stood outside her house.Whatever function they were attending didn't start until eight but Jordan had insisted she be ready by seven so here she was.She was nervous.Well she was until Jordan's sleek, black Mercedes pulled to a stop in front of her miserable excuse of a home.First, all that nervousness had transformed into a soul ripping pool of embarrassment and then they'd morphed into a sizzling bolt of desire that made her wish she had time to go back in and change her under wear as soon as his door had opened and the man stepped out.He was incredibly hot for lack of better words.He was the perfect blend of gorgeous and sexy. Fuck he gave the words meaning on a whole different level.A Much, much, better level.His whole six feet three body was decked out in a snug fitting,
A fucking princess!That is what Jojo felt like.The perfect, figure hugging, black dress she had on, God bless whoever picked it out, was nothing short of gorgeous.It did wonderful things to her figure, hugging her in all the right places.Her hair had been released from the boring bun she'd done it in and was now in amazing curly waves that flowed down her back.'Miss touchy', whose name she'd learned was Betty, had performed magic on her and she could hardly believe that the woman that had smiled back at her from the wide, floor length mirror was indeed herself.Albeit the surprise it had been and the snarking voice at the back of her head that keeps asking her,'Why is he doing this? What does he want?'she could really kiss him right now.A high crashing thought flitted through her mind.
The front door creaked open and there were footsteps.Meghan knew they didn't belong to anyone she wanted to see in the moment.Not even Layla, the new lady that pops in every now and again to check on her since sweet ol' Maria left, didn't walk like that.For one, they were heavy and patterned and definitely belonged to a male.A big one at that, probably with dirty blonde hair, receding hairline, reeking breath and eyes as brown as they were malevolent.Fear clogged her throat, stealing her already shallow breath and a slight tremor shook her thin body.Doors were being thrown open, she could hear it, and there were more footsteps now.He'd brought people with him.She knew who that devil in her house was and what he was looking for but he'd have to literally take her to hell to get it.She prayed to every God listening&
Jordan stood stiff at one corner of the small waiting room, the only moving part of his physique were his eyes following Jojo's petite figure as she paced the length of the room.He didn't even notice Brad standing awkwardly at the other corner of the room nursing a fraction of unease.He wasn't acquainted with the woman in question, so the same level of tension and fear wasn't expected of him.Neither was it expected of Jordan but he'd known the woman.She'd been like a second mother to him while he was growing up because he'd spent half his time during childhood at the Collen's home either waiting for Jojo's lazy ass to get ready or dropping her off and ending up staying over.He knew exactly how Jojo felt in the moment and he wanted to go to her and hold her, she needed someone to promise that everything was going to be okay and he wanted to be her man but he couldn't. Didn't dare.
The ride to Jordan's home was quiet.Jojo stared out of the window, wondering why she'd given in to the bizzare idea of staying with him even if it was only for tonightMaybe because she had Riley to consider.Carl Stratton had dropped her off at the hospital because his family and himself were going out of town for a few days and there had been no where else to take her.Or it could be because Jordan had pulled that sexy, commanding voice on her.Riley's small body snuggled into hers and her hands instinctively wrapped around it.Apart from responding to Riley's enthusiastic greeting back at the hospital and coercing her to give in to his deal, Jordan haven't said a thing and Jojo worried that he already regretted offering in the first place.He was opening his home to his mere PA, and the added baggage of her family, of course he regretted it already.
Jojo couldnt sleep.She lay restless on her bed, still turned on from earlier in Jordan's room and frustrated from her unsatisfied desires.She felt bad because for heavens sake, she should be up worrying about her mom and the mystery behind her present condition but no she was up craving the touch of the man that was her annoying boss!The thought of getting herself off wasn't appealing to her, not when Jordan was the prize.She got off her bed, ready to chanel all the energy fueling her sexual frustration into something else.Anything other than lying here would be better.She went past the wide, sliding door and into the other room to check on Riley.Jordan had insisted that she let the little girl have her own space when he'd carried her in and without giving her a chance to negate him, he'd done as he'd suggested and carr
Jordan heard it too.The sound was foreign to him probably because it's been so long since he'd been around a child.But it had been loud enough to have penetrated the fog of passion that had cocooned Jojoba and himself.He took a deep breath in a bid to calm himself and then he gently released an already pushing Jojo who was still trapped by his body on the island top.He didn't let her jump down."Let me go," she fussed beginning to sound pissed, "that scream was from my sister and you want to carry on from where you stopped? God!"He moved, pulled her down and then dropped her hand like it was some scalding hot potato.His face closed up, losing all trace of emotion.He could have told her that he'd only held on because he'd wanted her to calm down and try loosing the 'I've just been in a heated make ou
Hailey stood in front of the whole family, her seven year old palms sweaty. She'd spent the whole night reciting this all over again, so it shouldn't be a big deal, yeah? "It's okay, baby, it's just us." Jojo whispered from her seat, her very pregnant belly making her movement strenuous. Yeah, just them. Well, here goes nothing. "Uhhmm, this is my family tree....." She started a little shyly, pointing to the treelike structure balanced on the table next to her, stuck full of pictures. Her voice was so small, but it carried around the room. "I made it myself, well, mummy helped.....a lot. And I'm taking it to school for show and tell on Monday." She could see her daddy giving her an encouraging thumbs up and it put the light into her eyes and confidence in her voice. "From the top, this is Granny Meghan and Grandpa Tommy who I didn't get to meet and they gave birth to my mommy and Riley. Too bad they died b
If JoJo had thought her life was a mess, the truth she'd just discovered crashed if past the grounds, it shattered every truth she's ever known and believed. Uncle Fer....... Fucking Ferdinand! That monster. He'd been the architect of a her pain and problem but he'd always crawled back to blow on them and make it seem like he'd cared. And to find out that he'd been her sperm donor, it killed her to believe it. Jordan was as struck as she was from what they'd read. She ached for her mother too, who'd had to live with all these for years, having no one to be by her side while she played sick and lost in a bid to protect her girls. It must have been hard, being in bed all year round, reliving the nightmares of both events and hating herself for being so weak. She swore she'd be stronger, for herself and Riley and they'd bring the man to Justice, for her mom. But I like her mom, she had Jordan by her side in these t
Jocelyn,Been so long I said your name, guess this might be last you'd hear me call you by your name.So many years have passed and sometimes I lie here, in bed and regret the decisions I made in the past.But I'll always hope you realise it was all for the best, I did what I did to keep you and your sister alive and out of the clutches of the devil, Ferdinand.The man is a devil that shouldn't have found his way into our lives, but he did and till date, we are all still suffering in the wake of all his evil deeds.Tommy, your father, bless his soul, was a good man, the best ever.I met them both while in college and yeah, Ferdinand asked to court me first, but my heart had been longing for another and I'd turned him down.Turns out that was a sin he couldn't forgive.
"No, that can't be." Jojo muttered in disgust as she watched the video playing out before her.There's no way this is true, no way it's him.It'd kill her to believe it was and see just how blind she's been all these years, to find out that her mom had been right all along......God, no.But her denial didn't bring any desired difference to what she'd seen, it didn't wipe the memory or make the video a prank.This had been the night she'd lost her father, this had been where his body had been found, there's no mistaking it, she'd never forgotten.It took Jordan rubbing down her back and asking her in a concerned voice to breathe, to realise she'd been holding her breath.Maybe if she holds it in long enough, she'd realise that all this is just a dream home wrong.Or maybe it wasn't and she was just in a hopeless denial."Please Jordan, tell me it's not him, tell me that's not Uncle Ferdie, I'll believe you."She sob
After Riley was fed and out with her very own little family, Alfie and puppy, JoJo got to work searching for that little box.It was one thing to loose her mother so unexpectedly, but to loose the last trace of evidence and her only hope to bringing whoever had been behind her decade old pain to justice?No fucking way!She turned the room they'd been in inside out in her search, but it was nowhere to be found.She was already halfway done with fixing it back up when it did occur to her that she'd last seen the box while lying in that bed with Jordan.It made a lot of sense to think that he had gone missing from the room at the same time her box had and that easily translates to it possibly being in his possession.It kinda pissed her to have him butting into her family issues without her permission, even without the confirmation that he had.Stupid, yeah, but it did embarrassment to have all her linens in his hands without any contro
JoJo woke before Riley did, there'd been nightmares that didn't let her hold onto the oblivion for too long. She was glad Riley wasn't subjected to the same fate though that didn't hold for long. Tiny feet and big, soulful brown eyes found her sooner than she'd have liked, clouded with visible confusion and fear. "Come here, baby girl." She called to her from where she stood at the door. It did just occur to her why the room looked emptier than she last remembered it. Jordan had been with her before she'd succumbed to the luring hands of sleep. "Come." Her voice was much softer, pleading and beckoning, she didn't want force her, that could be more harmful than it'd be good. The younger girl finally gave in, and came into the room, crawling into JoJo's laps. She held her, stroking her hair, the quietness that was hanging around the house making her nauseous. Maybe it's always been this quiet with
The twist got bigger the deeper he dug and the plot hole wider.There'd been a lot going on with Tom Collen and Ferdinand and the more he discovered, the clearer it got and the more his theory on Tom's murder held.The files on the card were too many to peruse at one go so he abandoned it for the line card he'd inserted to read.At first there seemed to be nothing of interest in it until he stumbled upon a video record.It looked to be from a security camera recording from long ago.He sat in his chair, watching it and wishing he didn't have to.It made it worse that this was what he'd have to show JoJo, the horror she'd have to see.If only he could save her this, the pain and the nightmare.She didn't deserve it, not do soon, not with everything she was dealing with.He dialed Brad instead, requesting for immediate audience.They've become an investigative team of their own after all,bent on riding the world of
She finally fell asleep, right in Jordan's arms, drained from all the tears she'd cried and all the grief she'd let herself become buried under.He understood her pain, he'd seen it, experienced it and it was nothing to joke about.And he'd give anything in a heartbeat to take it away from her, to see her face light up with one of those her beautiful smiles that always made his day.These times have been the hardest and this crown looks too heavy for the head wearing it.But one thing he was sure of was that he was going no where, he'd be her, by her side until it gets better and even then, there'd be no force strong enough to remove him from her life.He loves her more than he'd ever imagined he could love anyone, his baby girl, his JoJo.She looked calmed while she slept, a tad bit relaxed, better than she'd been when she'd been up and grieving.He leaned down, pressing his lips to her forehead in a gentle, tender kiss.Her g
Meghan's passing was a blow nobody expected, and everyone was taking it hard around the house, especially JoJo.She'd never expected this day to come so soon and now that it did, it did hit hard.She'd been do lost, but Jordan had been there every step of the way, taking charge and getting the body to the morgue.At least that's where she believes they went.She'd let herself get sucked into shadowing Riley and crying her soul out.Riley was asleep now, having cried herself to it, and now JoJo had time on her hands to mourn.She had the watch she'd recently just retrieved, fiddling with it and wondering what she's supposed to do with the damn thing without Meghan to give her a guide.The door to the room came open and Jordan stood at the door.She wasn't expecting him to be back so soon.She could see the pity swimming in his eyes even before he took steps closer in her direction.He was careful not to wake