Magda’s fingers were intertwined with Ares as they walked along the pier.
Jake had grumbled about them getting out of the car and had called in three more people as back up but they were all discretely out of sight. Even Jake had disappeared from view and she was relaxing in Ares’ presence.
They’d been flirty and laughing all evening and dinner had become a silly affair with Ares telling her naughty jokes to try to make her blush and her reminding him she lived with Dimi Lykiaos and nobody had a bigger potty mouth than her.
Now however he was focused on another topic.
“A BDSM parlor. What exactly did you do there?”
“Fetish play.”
He came to a dead stop, his eyes rounding incredulously. “Like what?”
“Never intercourse but I had one guy who paid me a grand more than once to lick peanut butter off my body. There was a man who simply liked feet. He paid me five hundred bucks a se
Magda was sitting in Ares’ office of his building in LA on the sofa while he was in the hall outside. The only light coming from a couple of lamps were on aside from the dimly lit hall which was filtering in through the partially opened door. From what she could gather someone had used a taser on the security agent who worked the desk overnight and the other security desk who was doing rounds had made a call to Jake and then went radio silent and they couldn’t find him.Now, Magda was tucked into the office after Jake had scoped it out and said it was the safest place for them to be while his team sorted out what was happening. The door ajar she could hear Ares arguing with Jake.“We’d be equally as safe on the boat.”“Unless it was a diversion tactic and the plan is to get you away from me and the team. I can’t keep you safe if I don’t know have eyes on you and until I know what we’re dealing with, I would prefer to keep you close.”“How much longer until you complete the sweep?”“At
“I hate him,” Magda sniffed against Darya’s shoulder. She had returned from the gym, agreed to coffee with Angelo in the afternoon and was sitting on the floor in the kitchen. “Why did he call me now after I agreed to go out with Angelo?”“I’m still trying to figure out why you’re going out with a giant beefcake of a man.” Darya snickered, he’s not even close to your type.”“I’m avoiding my type. There has to be a reason all my dates wind up the way they do.” She exhaled. “How are you feeling today? Yesterday you told your parents to go fuck themselves. Any regrets?”“Not a single one.”Magda’s phone rang again and she looked to Darya.“Answer it, Mags. You’ll be wondering ‘what if’ if you don’t. You don’t have to see him or go out with him again but for your own peace of mind, answer it and then be d
Tuesday morning Ares was ready to pull his hair out. He’d given her the day to rethink the words she’d said to him but by this morning she hadn’t so much as texted him. Was she really so pissed off about him not calling she would end things without allowing any explanation at all?It was six in the morning and he was outside her house. Jake was distracting the security guards by arguing with them over their slack behavior and he managed to slip past them and knocked on the door. He could hear someone moving about inside and muffled speaking and then the dog yipping when he knocked again.“Magda!” he yelled her name on the other side of the door. At the very least, she was going to hear his side of the story and if after this she was truly done, he knew he had to respect her decision but he wasn’t giving up without her knowing the truth of what happened. He heard the curse from one of the women and then frantic movement, “sweeth
“How do I look?” Magda asked Sienna nervously.“Gorgeous, of course.”Sienna grinned at her from where she lay reclined on Magda’s bed amid a collection of clothing. “I can’t believe you agreed to go out with him after the coffee thing.”“It wasn’t his fault,” Magda turned sideways to look at her reflection in the mirror. “The girl dumped the entire coffee on him.”“Mags, he took his pants off in a coffee shop.”“He had a burn on his thigh.”“He wasn’t wearing underwear.”“He covered himself with a napkin.”“The fact he can cover himself with a napkin should have you running in the opposite direction,” Darya quipped as she re-entered the room.“His thigh was the color of a strawberry,” Magda grunted as she applied the lipstick Darya passed her.“Can I point
In the back seat of Miklos’ limo, Magda was wedged between Sienna and Ajax and was happily sipping a glass of prosecco. Sienna and Ajax were discussing their shared love of books and reading while Darya was pushing Miklos to teach her the ways of his life.“I’m only saying, if you let Dimi do it, then any woman should be given a fair shake,” Darya wasn’t backing down.“Darya, Dimitra herself does not enjoy the work in the warehouse.”“I want to whip a dude until the skin peels off their back,” she said bluntly.Magda groaned, “Miklos, she had a half bottle of vodka before we left your place. She’s drunk. She doesn’t mean it.”“Yes, I do. I really want to cause pain which will not result in my sub coming all over himself.”Miklos choked on his own spittle as Dimi roared with laughter and Magda and Sienna both shook their heads at Darya’s antics. &l
Darya frowned at her. “What do you mean?” “I went to the bathroom and Ares was waiting for me inside. He was paying girls fifty bucks a head to stay out of the bathroom until he knew I’d go in.” “Are you kidding me?” Darya jumped off the table and stood in front of her. “Are you okay?” “The woman who interrupted our date last weekend was the woman who tried to murder his mother by pushing her down a flight of stairs because she was obsessed with Ares and thought his mother was in their way. She escaped from her psychiatric facility and went straight to his mother’s house.” She knew her eyes were as wide as Darya’s were. Her friend covered her mouth and spoke through her fingers. “Didn’t you say his mom is a paraplegic?” She nodded sadly, “yes apparently caused by this freak and then to make matters worse, his mother’s condition got worse Friday night. Basically, he had a psycho stalker on his hands and his mother who was having signifi
Magda followed Ares into the house and felt her stomach flop in amazement at the incredible place he called home.She paused in the foyer and looked around, her eyes as wide as pie plates, she was sure. Her parents were wealthy but this place was next level and she did a slow turn in the space incredulously.“Ares, this is –” her words trailed off as she looked around.“I hope it’s a good loss for words.” he chuckled as he tossed his keys carelessly into a dish on a side table.Two staircases wound around the circular foyer they were in to reach the second floor but where one of them stopped on the second floor, the other continued up to a third floor. The ceiling felt it was stupendously high as she looked up at the black chandelier hanging from it over the entrance. The floors were a stark white marble tile beneath her feet. She had a strange urge to take a running start and then slide across the expansive hall.
Ares had left her to get into the tub on her own. This felt a very seductive segue to spending the night together, she considered, as he had lit some candles and dimmed the lights in the bathroom before giving her a few moments to slip under the bubbles which he had made sure were plentiful.Her legs were still trembling and for all the attempts at flirting and bravado she’d had egging him this evening, now she was facing the very real knowledge she was going to sleep with a man, actually have intercourse with a guy, and it happened to be the one she’d been fantasizing for over a month. Yet, for as nervous as she felt, in her gut she knew this was right for her. She had no misgivings about what she was doing, only about the actual act itself. Dimi telling her and Darya she had bled was making her nervous. God, she prayed it didn’t hurt.He had offered her a glass of wine before slipping out of the tub and now she was wishing she had taken it as she su
CMagda held Ares’ hand as they came down the stairs to the cacophony of lively chattering. It was well after nine and their friends had allowed them to sleep for a long time but eventually Dimitra had enough and she’d burst into their bedroom jumped on the bed and threatened to drag their naked bodies down the stairs.Ares had been annoyed with the intrusion because he said, he’d been happy to simply lay there and watch Magda sleep. Dimi had called him creepy and then had given them five minutes to get their butts down the stairs.When they reached the bottom he grimaced, “I’m really regretting letting them all stay here.”She giggled as she rose on her toes to kiss his pouting lips, “be nice. Eventually they will all go home and it will be only the three of us here,” she paused, “unless you invited my parents to move in, in which case, we need to have words.”He put his ha
Magda giggled as Ares tugged the t-shirt, he’d just put on her, right back off her. He had been such a gentleman to avert his eyes when he’d had her down to her underwear but now his gaze was intense as he surveyed all he had uncovered. He frowned at the lace panties.She knew he was feeling all kinds of emotions knowing she was wearing underwear and clothing another man had bought for her, a man who had admitted wanting her and had even spanked her. He was too respectful to ask the questions she knew he really wanted to ask and she felt very much like she needed to reassure him. He was kneeling between her thighs on the bed, his hands at her hips as he stared down at her and she smiled.“I missed you, my love,” she whispered softly. “All week long, all I kept asking was when could I come home to you.” She tugged one of his hands and pulled him so he was laying atop her again, wrapping her legs around his and holding hi
Chapter 56: Clearing the AirMagda waited as the group of people in the room all exchanged glances and then her mother gave a loud sigh. She cast her mother a stunned side eye. Even her mother appeared to be annoyed with her question. Was her mother on board with murdering her cousin?“Jasper isn’t sane,” Lois said slowly. “We gave her a few options but she was truly quite difficult.”“Mom,” Magda spoke quietly, “she is my cousin, your niece.”“She is my niece but she is insane.” Lois retorted, a flash of her previous controlling attitude coming to surface. “She planned to assassinate you. She deserves all she has coming to her and then some. I would feel sorry for her if she hadn’t been very forthcoming about how much she plotted all of this. This wasn’t a sick person acting out based on chemical imbalances in the brain. She was aware of everything she was doing
Her eyelids felt as if anchors were holding them down and she heard muffled voices as she was carried through the dark of the night into the front door of Ares’ house. Ajax gently lay her onto the sofa. She could hear her mom kneeling right in front of her, felt her brushing her hair off her face.“Magda, please open your eyes. Maybe we should call a doctor,” Lois’ voice was crackling.Magda shook her head and forced her eyes open, “I’m fine. I’m really tired but fine. Mom, I’m so sorry.” She whimpered as she looked into familiar green eyes. “I didn’t mean to hurt you.”“Oh sweetheart,” her mother cupped her cheeks, “it’s all my fault. I’m sorry. You have nothing to apologize for. I will make it all up to you. I’m sorry.” Her mother had tears streaming down her cheeks.Magda was fairly certain she had never seen her mother cry be
Magda came down the stairs in the late afternoon hating the way her chest ached. She wanted to go home. Alvar wasn’t allowing her to leave because Jasper had tried to hire an assassin. Jasper. Her cousin. The only person on the planet who could understand what it was like to be subjected to a mother like Lois because she had Lanie. Yet, it would appear the woman hated her for escaping her mother’s thumb. How could a woman Magda loves so much hate her with equal passion? She didn’t understand. It was her cousin and it made no sense and yet, there they were. She wished she could ask her why but she also knew with Dimitra in charge back home, she wasn’t going to tolerate the fact the woman had paid to have her kidnapped and asked for her to be murdered. Dimi was going to take a pound of flesh and then some.She went to the patio and frowned to see nobody sitting there. She looked to the beach and it was also empty, not even the guards which
Lois was out of her chair and in Jasper’s face, yanking her away from Darya with a force Ares was impressed with. She was shaking Jasper hard, making the woman’s head wobble like a bobble-headed toy and she was shrieking at her to tell them where Magda was.He saw Dimitra wave at him to intervene and he shrugged. If Lois wanted to smack the girl around, who was he to stop a family situation? He frowned as Lanie moved in between Lois and Jasper, irritated the woman was putting a stop to Lois’ assault on the woman. However, he was unprepared for Lanie smacking Jasper hard across the face, causing blood to appear on her lip.“She is your cousin, your blood, and your family! How could you? All week long pretending to be concerned and sad when you were behind it all!”Jasper wiped the blood off her mouth and yanked herself away from her mother, “nice, mom. Hitting your pregnant daughter.”“You kidna
Magda woke in the morning, her eyes feeling gritty and tired. She rolled to her side to find Alvar sitting on the edge of her bed.“Creepy much?” she whispered as she pushed her hair off her face.“Good morning,” he smiled softly at her. “How are you feeling this morning?”“Like a barbarian slapped me around and left me to cry in a dungeon.” She glared accusingly.“I apologize for my anger last night. You were warned about being disobedient but I went too far. I am sorry.”“You hit me.”“You’ve been spanked before,” he cupped her cheek gently, his eyes sadly surveying her.“It’s not my kink.” She snapped back glaring at him and when his eyes widened knowingly her mouth fell open as she considered his words. “Oh my god.”He winked at her. “Figure it out?”“You were the one
“She said a man named Alvar?” Ares was confused. “And this guy hates me?” He was trying to tone down how pissed off he was, Dimitra had waited nearly ten hours to tell him Magda had called. She’d called the night before and she had not told anyone until this morning. It was five am and they were in Miklos office at the compound and he was pacing circles. Darya was furious with Dimitra for not calling her right away as well and she was currently sulking in an oversized armchair, swatting at Kostas each time he tried to comfort her. He tore his gaze away from them, “she said the guy who took her has hated me since I was a kid.”“Yes.”“Because I told his cousin to abort our baby and she died during the abortion?” Ares scratched his temple in disbelief.“It’s what she said.”“Dimitra, the only girl I had sex with while in high school, and there was only on
Magda dialed out Dimitra’s cell phone number, her heart pounding so hard in her chest she was certain the guards up the beach and Estella who was watching her from the patio behind her could probably hear it. She had her backs to everyone as she stared over the water.“Dimitra speaking. Who is this and how did you get this number?”“It’s Magda and I have it memorized.”“Holy fuck! Mags. Where are you?”“I don’t know. Is everyone okay?”“We’re fine. We’re trying to locate you. Are you hurt? Injured? Are you safe?”“I’m safe. I’m not hurt. I’m on an island somewhere. I’m being fed and taken care of far better than most kidnapping victims,” she whispered quietly, wiping a tear off her face at the knowledge she had made contact. “A man named Alvar has me. I don’t know his last name or if it&rsquo