I still felt shaky from seeing the pictures of Jeremy kissing me in Isabel’s phone. When did that happen!? I remembered being dizzy at Lisa’s birthday party, I was drunk but I hadn’t drank much, Jeremy had brought that drunk and—
I gasped, Jeremy! He roofied my drink! He kissed me while I was unconscious! I was so angry, I paced around my room, gripping Isabel’s phone in my shaky hands. I needed to tell Eric… but, could I? Was it best to tell him? I could just confront Jeremy and get him arrested. But what about Lisa? I’d be causing a rift in her relationship and she seemed so happy with him. Despite we weren’t on speaking terms, I didn’t want to hurt her. So, I deleted the pictures and went on about my day like I hadn’t seen them. “How’s Isabel?” I asked Eric as we ate dinner. He wasn’t eating, he was just tossing around his steak with his fork. She had been in her room all day probably crying. “She won’t eat dinner..” “This must be really hard on her.” I sighed. “Do you think that bastard has… you know, done really intimate stuff with my little girl?” He asked, his face hard in pain. He couldn’t even make an eye contact with me. “No. I think they’ve only kissed.” I told him, I didn’t dare tell him about the chats or nude photos… or the pictures of Jeremy kissing me. I paused and thought of something. “Why don’t she go to the vacation with us?” “No!” Eric quickly refused. “I have business friends coming too and they might overlook your presence as a mistress but not Isabel, no one knows about her. Except you.” I wondered how Isabel must feel about being hidden from people, she had no friends at all, no social life. I couldn’t do anything about it, I wasn’t her mom. I was just a contract mistress. “Okay baby.” I agreed and continued eating. At night, I went to Isabel’s room to talk to her. “What are you doing here!?” She frowned immediately I knocked and entered. She was holding a big pink teddy bear with her name on its white tummy. Her food was covered on the desk, probably untouched. There were pictures of Eric holding her as a child and her playing musical instruments on a shelf of books. Their father daughter bond was special. “I’m sorry for what happened, Isabel.” I started as I walked closer to her bed. “It was for your own good.” “You’re up to no good in this house, Olivia. You’re only here for my Dad’s money like the rest of them and you’ll leave soon like they did.” She told me. I decided to ignore that. “You should eat.” I said, rubbing my arms like I was cold. “No.” She replied defiantly. “I want you to leave! Just leave! I hate you!” “I’m not like the rest of them! I love your Dad!” I blurted out. Did I just say I loved Eric? Did I ? “Well, he doesn’t love you. He loves only me, get that into your head!” She half yelled and turned away from me. “If you ever need anyone to talk to, I’m here.” I said to her back and then left with a aching heart. There could be others before me, contract mistresses and Isabel was right, she was the only thing that mattered to Eric. Eric had a customized private jet. Almost everyday, I get to understand how really rich he is. I had diamonds jewelries and beautiful dresses that cost more than I could fathom and all my debts were cleared in less than a week of being with him. We left for Florida on our vacation in the jet. We sipped cocktails and had a sweet conversation on our way there. I thought a lot about Isabel and wondered how she was doing, although Eric had asked that her musical instruments were returned to her and got her a new phone, also new dresses and a diamond tiara, she looked happy before we left but I still felt she was miserable deep down. Getting to Florida, we settled in a colonial house with beautiful gardens, it was similar to his house back in New York but this one had a rural environment setting. “It’s so lovely!” I squealed, twirling in my shirt flared red dress. My room had a huge window that gave me the beautiful view of a golf course and pond, although, I was a bit sad that he retained our sleeping arrangements in different bedrooms on our vacation. “It’s an old house, one of my first houses, I had it renovated about three weeks ago. “That’s exactly when we met!” I mentioned. It had been three blissful weeks getting to know Eric in and out of bed. “I had it renovated for us, I wanted to bring you here. It’s somewhere I want to live in when I’m old—older and you know, It’s my retirement place.” He said, sheepishly like he was telling me his life dreams. It was his refuge, a place he would return to and he brought me here? What did that mean? “I love it!” I said, happily and hugged him. He leaned in and gave me a kiss on my mouth and forehead. “I got you something.” He told me as he moved away to a small box. He opened it and brought out a white bikini. He showed it to me with a proud smile and I gasped at the sight, It was so classy and sexy. “Wow! It’s so.. sexy and lovely!” I said as I took it. “Thank you, Eric.” I smiled at him and he smiled back. He was so freaking cute! “There’s a beach a mile away, it’s private, just you and I. I don’t want other men ogling what’s mine.” I giggled at this, his possessive side was sexier to me than it ought to be. We paused and watched each other for a moment, I stared at his handsome features and how good he look in a casual t shirt and denims, his eyes unabashedly ran from my face to my boobies and then my legs. “Come here.” He hooked his finger at me and I walked slowly to him. He pulled me to himself once I’m within arm’s reach and squeezed my butt through my dress. “This ass of yours will be the death of me..” He murmured, kissing my chin. I kissed his too, his stubble grazing my lips and then our lips met and it turned into a deep kiss. “And your boobies too..” He rasped in between kisses as he reached for my left boob and caressed it. I moaned into his mouth and searched for his hard-on which wasn’t hard to find. I gripped it and he grunted. “Sometimes, I wonder if you’re ever soft..” I giggled. “Not when I’m around you. I’m just a love struck old man..” He chuckled and gave me a big kiss with a smack. My heart skittered when he mentioned he was love struck, did that mean he loved me? “Turn around..” he ordered and I did. He unzipped my dress and it fell to my feet, he walked me to the bed and bent me over. “Please, please, I want it..” I begged when he was taking so much time to get his dick out. My pussy was pulsating and dripping with need. “You’ll get it, you’ll get it a lot..” he rasped and then I hiccuped in pleasure when he sank his hard hot dick into my wet heat. He thrusted right away, locking my wrists in his hand as he took me from behind. “Yes, yes..” I moaned as he continuously hit the right spot. He was super good at this and I got jealous when I thought of how he became so skillful—other women. I came in minutes and he thrusted more before he came too. He fell on my back and kissed it as we panted heavily in unison. I wondered if this would really have to end. Eric could not stop staring at me at the beach, I was playing with the water while he sat under a tree reading some business magazine . He was wearing shades and just blue knickers, his big chest was in view and all mine to look at. “Come into the water!” I called out and immediately, he joined me. I splashed against him and tried to run but he caught me quickly and spanked my butt. We laughed, happy in the moment like an actual happy couple with no weird contract. “Where have you been all my life?” He whispered against my lips as he held me, my boobs squishing against his chest. “Working in a cafe?” I joked. “Never again..” He said with a look that made butterflies fill my tummy. While Eric worked in his home office, I went off to the supermarket to get a few groceries, I wanted to make us home made popcorn for a movie night that I planned in his bedroom. As I drove my cart down the aisle, I noticed a guy in a black baseball hat watching me but he quickly turned away when we made eye contact. I ignored that and went ahead to pay for my stuff. I was putting my shopping bags into the passenger seat when I felt the strange urge to turn back and caught the same guy taking a photo of me. I got scared and rushed into my car and drove off home. When I returned, I found Eric hurriedly packing up files into his suitcase with a worried expression. “What’s happening!?” I asked dropping the shopping bags. “Isabel..” He said and when he looked at me, I saw fear in his eyes. “She tried to kill herself!” Oh. My. God.“I did this.”Eric said, watching his unconscious daughter on the bed, her wrist was bandage from the deep cut she made in suicide attempt.“You didn’t! I did!” I lamented, feeling awful.“No! You did the best thing!” He said, holding my arms. “I was too hard on her, she’s just a kid..”“She’ll be fine, okay?”“If we had taken her on the vacation as well like you suggested…”“She’ll be fine.” I repeated, squeezing his hand a little.Just then, Isabel shifted on her bed and opened her eyes to us.“My darling! You’re awake..” Eric quickly rushed to hold her in his arms.“Daddy..” she muttered, wincing as she tried to sit up.“I’m sorry my gummy bear, daddy will never you leave you again, I’m so sorry, forgive me.”He continuously said as he held her to himself, shutting his eyes.I went teary with the way he loved his daughter, I wished I had a Dad that loved me this way, a dad that never left.Kate recently moved in with Mr Marcelo, they were moving quickly in their relat
It took me a good few seconds to find my words. The mother of Eric’s child was standing right before me!“I don’t know what you’re talking about.” I said, trying to act oblivious.“Oh please, let’s not play dumb.” She scoffed. “Eric couldn’t find some model or a grown up to fuck?”Her harsh words made my ears tingled.“Excuse me, I have to leave.” I muttered and hurried to the driver seat door.“Do me a favor, when he’s fucking you tonight, moan that you saw Dana Gilbert, the love of his life and the mother of his only child.”She said and then cat walked away in her red bottom heels.I was left speechless.I sat in my bedroom, in a state of many emotions but regret topped it all. Eric never spoke of Isabel’s mother and I hadn’t really thought about her but meeting her unlocked so many deep thoughts.“Hey baby..”He said, trying to kiss me but I stepped back. He looked surprised, he just returned from work and came up straight to my room.“I saw Dana Gilbert today.” I told hi
Eric and I stared at each other probably thinking the same thing; why was Dana at his door? “Stay here.” He ordered me and rushed away but after contemplating for a moment, I followed him. I needed to know why she was here. “Oh there she is— Dana Gilbert clapped as I stepped into the lounge. She was at the door and Eric was obstructing her from coming in while Greta stood at a corner watching. “I thought I told you to stay back.” He scowled at me. “Seems she’s not a lap dog like the others.” Dana laughed. “Quite the silver fox you’ve turned into, fucking little girls and— “What are you doing here?” He interrupted. “I came to see my daughter.” She shrugged, like it was a casual thing for her to stop by and see the girl she abandoned for years. “What daughter? My daughter?” “Our daughter!” She snapped at Eric. “You’re not my mom.” Someone said suddenly and we all turned to see Isabel. “Isabel, my darling..” Dana clutched her invisible pearls and pushed Er
I still hadn’t told Lisa about Eric especially now that we weren’t on speaking terms which was why I least expected her to be at my door with Eric in my room and on my bed!“Lisa! What are you doing here!?” I half whispered, blocking her entrance.“Why are you whispering and let me in! Is he in there!? He’s in there isn’t he!?”“Who are you talking about!? No one’s in there!” I lied but she didn’t believe me so she shoved me aside and entered .“Lisa! Stop it!” I snapped, following her wherever she checked for him. She checked the kitchen, beside my couches, beside my TV set and then headed to the bedroom.“You’ve been fucking some rich guy and I’m gonna find out who he is!”She said as she entered my bedroom and I was relieved that Eric wasn’t in sight.“Where is he!?” She twirled.“Will you stop this Lisa!? There’s no guy here!”“You’re lying! An Aston Martin brought him here an hour ago! I saw it!”How on earth did she know that!?“Have you been spying on me!?”“As if!”
I watched Eric pace around, making calls on the phone for the pictures to be taken down. This was a mess! He had tried to never let his personal life out there, he had a reputation to uphold and this could damage it. I valued my personal life also, I didn’t want to be publicly known as a mistress for hire. I didn’t want my personality centered around being Eric’s paid mistress! “I’m being followed.” I told him as he ended his seventh call. “Followed?” He asked, concerned. “Yes.” I nodded. “I didn’t want to alarm you but during the vacation, while I was in a mall, there was a guy wearing a cap taking pictures of me..” He stood in silence for a moment. “You should have told me, Liv. You can’t keep things like that!” He said in an angry tone. “Like I said, I didn’t want to alarm you, I thought it was nothing but I think I’m still being followed.” Eric exhaled and tossed his phone on the bed. He looked at me with a some sort of scolding look. I didn’t like it. “You should be carefu
I opened my eyes to a cold dark room, my head throbbed painfully from the hard hit. I tried to massage my temples but I noticed my hands were bound in a rope. I have been abducted!“My, my, my, look who we have here.”A familiar voice said in the dark, making me gasp.I watched curiously as a figure surfaced from the darkness. It was Jeremy!“Jeremy!” I gasped again, frightened. He laughed darkly as he walked closer to me. I tried to move away but I was stuck.“You don’t know how long I’ve fantasized about this, me and you here.” “Where is this place!” I asked, looking around.“It’s an old farm house owned by my cannibal uncle.”He said and that sounded so creepy. “Let me go!” I shouted.“We’re in the middle of nowhere Liv, best you save your strength, no one’s gonna be saving you, not even that old lover of yours.”Of course, he knew about Eric! He must have been spying on me too! Wait, what if…“You sent Rob to drop those followers and gifts, didn’t you?”I asked,
I shivered in Eric’s strong arms as I was taken home in a limo. The police had arrived just in time, I couldn’t even think about what would have happened if they hadn’t, Jeremy almost raping me kept me in a perpetual state of distortion, but, everything was okay now. I was with my man and Jeremy in police custody.“I thought I would go mad. I wondered where you were or what you were doing, if you were crying…” Eric said in a low shaky voice.We were on my bed, cuddled up as he kissed my wet hair. I had a very much needed cold bath but couldn’t eat dinner because I wasn’t in the right frame of mind. Eric had been by my side since he carried me away from that creepy old house. I could still see the fear and worry in his eyes.“How did you find me?” I asked.“I got Rob arrested, he confessed to working for a Jeremy Grayson and I had Jeremy tracked down.” He explained to me.I exhaled, grateful that I was found just in time.“I was so scared. I thought I’d never be free and he tried
I knew Eric had contract relationships with other women, they were the ‘others’ that he never spoke about but then, meeting one of them had me dismayed . How did she even know who I was or that I was there? Was she following me? God, no, not again. I still hadn’t recovered from the trauma of getting abducted by Jeremy.“I’m sorry, I really have to go.”I told her hurriedly.“Wait.” She held me back and her cold touch irritated my skin.“I’m not trying to hurt you or anything, I just want us to be friends.”She said.“Friends?”I asked, confused.“Yes. I want to help you.”She told me and tried to touch me again but I moved back.“Help me with what?”“With Eric.” She said lHe’s not as good as you think he is, he is a sick man.”“Excuse me—I didn’t want to hear whatever she had to say. I had enough problems already.“Please, don’t tell him that you saw me here, please..”She begged as I walked out of the bathroom.Would there ever be a normal day for me as Eric’s contrac
A Vacation. That was what I needed. Not a father/daughter relationship with a man that abandoned me before my birth and went ahead to have a family elsewhere. He sacrificed my happiness for his and that was honestly not easy to forget or forgive. I’ve refused to see him after the test and didn’t even wait for Eric to book me a flight before booking one with Lisa. I had sent a short text telling him I would be gone for a few days. Lisa had suggested a one week stay in Utah, she had a very rich Aunt who was a fortune teller, she was once married to a prince in Africa but they had no kids, she got all of his inheritance after his death and relocated to Utah. I just needed to get away from the everyday drama. “Isn’t Eric upset you travelled without his knowledge?” Lisa asked as our ride made a turn towards an estate. “He’s not the boss of me.” I sighed, looking out the window. “I know but he’s kind of like your… Daddy.” I squeezed my eyes shut and tried not to cr
“What if I made a mistake?”I asked Lisa as she greedily ate one of my vanilla cupcakes . I just reopened my bakery and was still contemplating on fully moving in with Eric.“About moving to California with that jerk? Nope.”She replied, casually.“I don’t know, Lis, I feel like things might be weird between Eric and I again.”“Things like what, Liv? Do you know how many girls would kill to be with Eric? By the way, you know I’m launching my own show next week so I need Eric as my launch guest.”“Eric doesn’t do things like that. He hates publicity.”I told her.“Oh please, he’d break all the rules for you.”She winked at me and I held back a wide smile.“I’ll think about it.”“Thanks bestie. Now, can I have another of your wonderful cupcakes ?”She asked and I shook my head as I handed her another.“I’m meeting Anson today. Eric wants us to discuss the DNA test.”Lisa looked up from her phone, a bitten cupcake held to her mouth.“Do you want the test done?”She asked
I got a call from Lisa that she was sick and needed me to drive her to the hospital so I hurried over to her place.I was driving towards the city hospital but suddenly, she asked me to pull over at a restaurant to get some food which sounded weird at first but then I had to.“Happy birthday, Olivia!”I was startled by a few familiar faces that greeted me as I entered the restaurant which was decorated in a pink birthday theme.“Oh my God.”I gasped, greatly surprised.It was a surprise party! For me!I had forgotten my own Twenty second birthday!“Kate!”I squealed, excited to see her after weeks. She was present amongst other few friends.She smiled, hurrying towards me and we hugged.Mr Marcelo was present too!“Happy birthday, Olivia.”He told me with one of his gentle smiles. He was really a good man for Kate as they both were glowing together.“Thank you, when did you guys arrive?”“This morning, we stayed at a hotel until Lisa called us here to surprise you!”Ka
I couldn’t reject the sixth date request from Sean plus I was already feeling guilty about how I spoke to him the last time he was here and I couldn’t even pick up his incessant calls or reply his texts. Accepting this date was the best way to apologize to him. “I cannot wait for you to move to California with me, there’s this really nice sea food restaurant around my office, you’ll love it.” Sean told me as we ate lunch together in a nice peaceful restaurant. “When are you moving back there?” I asked him, sipping from my drink. “Uh, couple weeks.” He shrugged. “That’s enough time for you to pack up right?” He asked and I paused for a moment. “I think.” I replied, unsure. “You do want to move to California, right? It’s a really good place for you to start again and I’ll be there to— “Sean, I’m still thinking about it, alright?” I said, quickly as I dropped my cutleries. There was a small scowl on his face before he forced a smile back. “You
The look on Eric’s face was similar to the one he had when I told him about Isabel and her therapist, Edwin. He was super mad, his attractive features all tight and forbidding. He must have gotten the wrong idea of the situation.I opened my mouth to explain but he smashed the bouquet to the ground and spun around, stomping away.“Eric, wait!”I called after him.“What the fuck, Liv!”He shouted, angrily.“Eric, it’s not what you think!”I held his arm, turning him around to look at me.“Who’s he? Your new man? Your new Daddy? You replaced me?”He spluttered, his eyes red and glassy.“Calm down, it’s not like that!”“Fuck!”He muttered, pain painted hardly on his face.“Eric, listen to me, look at me..” I touched his hard face, trying to calm him down.“He’s just a friend, we didn’t have sex, it’s not what it looks like.”I assured him and his eyes slowly softened.“Liv, is everything alright?”I heard Sean ask.“Yes Sean, everything is—I was interrupted by the swi
When I was little, I would draw imaginary pictures of my Dad, wondering what he looked like, if he had blue or green eyes, if his hair was black or brown or blonde. My mother never spoke about him even when I asked, all I ever wanted was to meet him and now, he was right in front of me.“Olivia, you’ve grown so much—“Stop!”I snapped, halting his movements towards me.He could be lying, I’ve never met my Dad, I didn’t know what he looked like and neither should he know what I looked like because he left before I was even born. He shouldn’t even know my name but then, there was this unexplainable familiarity I felt between us.“How do you know my name?”I asked, scowling deeper.“Because I’ve been trying to contact you for months now, I only just met an old friend of your mom’s and I—He stopped, his bright hopeful eyes turned dull with sadness.“She’s dead.”I told him, almost choking on my words.“I know.”He nodded, looking to the ground, his expression regretful.“Wel
Everything I did, I did for her, now it was all for nothing, pointless. My mom died, after everything, she died.Kate had to cancel her honeymoon flight to attend the funeral which by the way, was a brief one and the tears were unending.We returned to my apartment to pack up my stuff, I couldn’t live there anymore, memories of my mom were everywhere, I had to move.“Liv, someone’s here to see you.”Kate told me a few minutes after I settled in.It was Sean.“Sean.”I called, receiving his hug.He felt so nice and warm and his cool cologne tickled my nerves.“I’m deeply sorry for missing the funeral, my flight was delayed..”“It’s fine. I promise.”I told him, reflexively splaying my hands on his chest.We couldn’t take our eyes off each other for seconds until Kate faked a cough.“Okay, I’ll go make dinner.”She winked at me and left.Sean and I chuckled and went ahead to sit.“So uh, how’s California?”I asked, trying to start up a conversation.“Nice.”He shrugged.
When I got to Eric’s house, I met him in the gardens staring at the roses with so much attentiveness that he didn’t know when I was directly beside him.“Eric.”I called and he jumped a little before turning to me. What was he thinking about?“Just three days and it felt like three years.”He muttered, his eyes taking in all of me.I noticed his eyes were sad and had dark circles around them like he hadn’t slept since I left. In fact he looked thinner and a bit pale.“You didn’t call or texted so I assumed you didn’t want to see me.”I shrugged.“Why didn’t you call me to pay for your bakery reconstruction ? You spent so much of your money doing that.”He asked.“I wanted to do it myself. I had the money thanks to you.”I told him.He looked at me for a moment and then exhaled.“Let’s go inside.”He said and held my hand. I hesitated for a moment before following him.We sat in the lounge in different chairs and I kept looking out for Isabel’s appearance but it didn’t c
In about five hours, Eric was in Las Vegas and there was an immediate search for Isabel. It was dark and raining outside as we stayed in doors hoping for the best outcome of the search."Any news?"I asked Eric who has been dead silent since he arrived. He sat alone at the diner deep in thoughts and that made me feel really unsettled, coupled with the fact that Isabel was missing, everything was a mess."None."He muttered, clenching his jaw."Baby, I promised, she'll be found..""When?"He asked, turning to me, his gaze was harsh."Soon."I assured him. He exhaled and shook his head."If only you had listened, if only you would just respect the boundaries I set for the safety of my daughter none of this would have happened." He told me and those words left me speechless for a few seconds."Eric, this isn't my fault." I told him."Then is it mine?"He asked, his eyes red rimmed. His attitude was beginning to scare me."You know what? It is actually mine, I let you dictate