Asher’s POVI felt May’s eyes on me but I tried not to look in her direction. It’s not as if I didn’t want to look at her in that black clothes she was wearing, clothes that looked as if they were made to fit her body perfectly.“Damn, she look so good in that top and skirt.” I told myself, and even though I had an uninterested look on my face.I’ve never seen her wear things like this before, really, and I couldn’t help but look at her twice, when I first saw her sitting there at the bar, and even while she went dancing on the dance floor, I had watched her, even though I tried to make it look like I didn’t.When that ass came behind her and started dancing, I had unconsciously folded my hands in fists beside me, before noticing that and unfolding it. The last thing I wanted was to have to explain to Brent; who still didn’t know May was here, who I was looking at, and why.He had gotten to know what I did after I asked him to find me a beautiful woman, and he had been so angry I used
May’s POVConfused?Certainly, I was very confused, and all I’ve been able to think about all weekend and all day today, was Asher’s action at the club, beating that man so much he was bleeding, and would have gone to jail that night if he wasn’t who he was.Why? That was the question that kept coming to my mind all day.For one, he had dragged me, given me a divorce paper, and told me his opinion about my being without a job, and telling me I was a gold digger, why had he bothered with me then, why had he fought with that man because of what he had said, when he had said more than that. Why had he?..“May, are you all right?” I heard someone asked me and I jerked out of my thoughts to see Nora staring down at me from in front of my desk.Damn, I had been so invested in my thoughts I had forgotten I was at work. Nodding my head, I said. “Oh, yeah. Sure. I’m all right.”She gave me a look, then she asked. “Did you receive my email?”I started to nod, but then I stopped when I realized
Asher’s POVI watched as Gary’s fingers lingered on May’s forearm, and I felt a sense of discomfort crawled through me. Seeing his touch, an unwelcome connection to her, it pricked at the edges of my nerves. But who was that touch unwelcome to? Me or May?What I was feeling wasn’t jealousy, no, not at all; it was a strange feeling of frustration, and if I was being honest, I didn’t even know what it meant.“Are you trying to get this man too?” I wanted to ask her as I stared at them, but I didn’t, I couldn’t actually. We were in a meeting after all.My jaw clenched involuntarily as I observed the way May stood there with Gary frozen, her eyes flitting between Gary and me.I asked myself if she might need my help, if she feel trapped by his grip! Did she feel my gaze boring into her, questioning her presence here, why she was working here, intertwined with this man?I knew I had run her here when I told her she wasn’t adding anything to the society, by not working at all, so she had ta
May’s POV“Because you’re my wife, still, May. I haven’t signed the stupid papers, that’s why.”Those words weren’t at all what I expected Asher to utter at all. I knew him to be a cold man that shielded his emotions, but admitting that to me, it confused the heck out of me, adding to all the confusion I had been feeling with him since.I looked at Asher to see if I could read his thoughts, but I couldn’t do it, and that bugged me to the core. What was he thinking about right now? What was he thinking in his head as he sat there looking at me as well.I had to be very careful though, I told myself when the thought of what he had said to that guy at the bar the weekend before came to my mind. “Let me tell you something you don’t understand, you bastard. You see this woman here, she had only allowed you to touch her because she thought I was watching, and she was probably trying to make me feel jealous.”Maybe that was what this was about, and he was just trying to see what I would say,
Asher’s POVI woke up drenched in sweat from an X-rated dream, and May was the subject of that dream. What the heck was really happening? Why was I having all these thoughts and now, dreams about May?I didn’t want her or anything, so why did I have wet dreams about her? I had never had wet dreams since I was a teenager, and even then, but was never this intense.It was a dream about that day at the club, with her in that room with me, sitting across my lap with our tongues in each other’s throats, only this time, we didn’t just stop at first or second base, we went all the way to the third one.Groaning, I pushed up from the bed and looked down at myself to see that I was at attention, and the thick head was drenched with either precum or sweat.Swallowing the lump that formed in my throat, I adjusted myself in my sweatpants before sitting up and rubbing my hand on my face. As I did that, my mind went to May, and I wondered what she was doing at that moment. Was she sleeping peaceful
Asher’s POVI stood at my office, staring sightlessly out the window as I thought about what Brent said to me. He was sitting right behind me in one of the chairs from across my desk, but right now, I didn’t want to face him.“You really shouldn't turn away from me, you know that right?” he said behind me and I almost grunted. What was he talking about? I didn’t turn away from him because of his words, I just turned to think about it.Or maybe that was what I did, but he shouldn’t blame me. He would have probably done the same thing if he was in my shoes.“I'll keep telling you this, May isn’t the woman you think she is. I'm sure you can already tell from the void she's left in you, except you don't want to admit it,” he said.“What void are you even talking about,” I asked, turning to look at him over my shoulder. I was looking at him as if he didn’t have an inkling of what he was spewing out of his mouth.Brent shook his head and gave me a look I caught before turning back to the wi
Asher’s POVI hated it when people kept me waiting, but what I hated more was then arriving an acting like they had done nothing wrong.“Well, you’re just a bit earlier than I am.” She said and I gave her a cold glare. Just because she was a beautiful woman didn’t excuse her attitude. And if I was being honest, she wasn’t that beautiful to me. I glanced at Brent and he shook his head at me, telling me without words not to say a word.“Can we at least talk about why we’re here now?” I asked. The only reason why I was here was because I wanted to appease my mother and do something to surprise her for her birthday. It was why I was meeting this woman, she was a baker and had a shop downtown. She made one of the best carrot cakes, which happened to be my mother’s favorite.The issue was, she was hard to book because she was always already booked for half of the year, and it was why she was being pompous about things.“Yes, we should.” She said, glancing at the wristwatch she was wearing.
Asher’s POVI slammed my hand against my desk when I saw the newspaper my secretary brought in, and I wanted to ask her what made her think she could show it to me. But maybe she had done that because she didn’t know I was divorced.For some reason, the public hadn’t seemed to get hold of the news yet, and it wasn’t as if I sat my employees down and talked to them about my personal life.“This is crazy.” I whispered as I stared at the photo on the second page, as my secretary had brought it to me. It was a photo of May and Gary having lunch with a headline that read: WHY IS MR. CAMPBELL’S WIFE SEEN EATING WITH ANOTHER MAN? IS THERE TROUBLE IN THEIR PARADISE? OR IS SHE LOOKING TO BE IN A POLYANDRY?“I have to call the…”The door of my office dragged open and Brent walked in. “Have you seen the news?” he asked me as he held a copy of the newspaper I was holding in hand.Damn, of course he had seen it too, which meant that my father had most likely seen it as well, and shown my mother. F