A few days later, Ricky sashayed into Jade's office, smiling slyly as he looked around the same room he had been in a few months ago when he'd first met Jade.
"Mr. Mears, I promised to pick you up today you know?" Jade feigned making a face, pushing back the rocking office seat and making to stand up.
"No no, seat. Please. There's something so damn sexy about watching my woman work." He stopped her with a wave of his hand, pulling out his phone and taking a shot.
"Well well, Mr. Mears, a woman in power turns you on?" She turned around in the seat, her legs crossed, skin glowing from the dress she had worn which was mainly made of net.
"Everything about you turns me on, baby. What's up? You said you were going to pick me up after work." He took the visitor's seat and she stood, walked around the table and sat on the sofa next to him.
"And yet you came yourself, what if I had a surprise?"
He snapped his fingers and winked. "Exactly why I
The slow music blaring from the speakers was loud enough to drown the doorbell, and so the deliveryman who had stood there for over thirty minutes was already about giving up and placing a call to the employer who had sent him, when one of the security men called her over the phone. Jade had just returned from the bathroom, her thoroughly washed body wrapped in a bathrobe, her butt glued to the seat in front of the vanity where she made herself busy drying her hair. She was in that position, listening to music which added to the noise from the hair dryer, when her phone rang. Her security officers' calls were always treated with urgency, and as usual, she was quick to pick it on the first ring, swiping to the right and placing it on loudspeaker. "Good evening, ma'am. There is a deliveryman here who has been outside for quite some time. Do I send him back?" Jade searched herself; she hadn't ordered anything, nor had she requested for any delivery.
She was more stunning than any Cinderella. Even better in the flesh than what he had imagined in his head, Jade's outfit suited her like a duplicate skin made specially for her. He had been at the party venue, a hall which held a fountain in front, sipping at his champagne and resisting the urge to call her when she arrived with the regality of a Queen. And damn, it was an arrival worth every wait. Her presence caused an uproar alright, because more than any painting of Monalisa, she was perfect to the core. He had made the right choice in what he had asked the designer to create, but damn was it her grace and aura that made everything this magnificent? Because he had seen it on the maniquine that had her body figure and it hadn't been this good on the moulded work. Jade Kimberly stirred every region of his body and mind as she walked into the brightly lit hall, the tiny studs catching every visible attention. With his blood pump
For a flicker of moment, Ricky read the contemplation in her eyes, but in the next, his sweet old girlfriend was gone and her palm smacked his arm. "Are you crazy?" She shook her head, making a tsk sound. He laughed, displaying the fullness of his white teeth which glittered more beneath the chandelier. "Jade Kimberly, you do realise that your desire to smack my arm increases each day? If you are into BDSM, just say so and perhaps I may give you the privilege to tie me up and have your way with me." A beautiful sexy smirk accompanied his words, and she shook her head severally. "You are incorrigible. I'm leaving you to chat with some of our partners before I go crazy." For a brief moment, he held her arm, running his thumb through the soft skin of her flesh. "Trust me, keeping your distance doesn't make it go away. I've tried it with you before." That low bass voice of his was intoxicating, she gasped, forcing her eyes to sto
More powerful than the hottest of flames... Phenomenal, beautiful, overwhelming... She felt emotions gather as the thought struck her head with the force of something violent and undescribable. Her heart pounded heavily as she danced with him, a slow, intimate dance that stole her breath from her. One might think that after everything she had done with Ricky, something as simple as a dance wouldn't mean anything to her. But it still set her heart aflames, and filled her head with so many thoughts. "It feels good to hold you, dance with you in the dark." He whispered to her, his palm cupping her waist more intimately to himself. The partners and the investors and their employees... Everyone in fact ceased to exist, living in another space and leaving them in their own world where only the both of them mattered. The world blurred, and they didn't even notice when the rest of the party joined them on the dance floor, the waters fr
Jade's phone rang earlier than her alarm the next morning, the loud volume of the ringtone pushing her violently away from the throes of passionate dream she had been having. She ignored it at first, enjoying her sleep a little too much to disturbed. With a sigh, she picked the pillow and placed it over her head, drowning the noise and returning to her beauty sleep when the ringtone stopped blaring into her ears. The second time it rang was two minutes laters, and she twisted and turned beneath the sheets, waking Ricky whose arms were around hers in the process. "I think you should get that." He muttered in a sluggishly hoarse voice, tapping her gently. None of them had slept early the night before. After the dinner party which had ended around midnight, they had been busy exchanging pleasantries with their guests for virtually an hour, and even when they had eventually taken separate cars to his apartment, they had ripped off each other's cloth
Raquel Anderson, her manager was displeased.It didn't matter that Maxwell had used his influence to ensure that deep information about her family remained classified, or that the admission that she was involved with Ricky had been accepted positively by the public, or that the stocks of The Global had gone up and international affiliations were asking to invest in it.She had downright thought it was a bad move, and had done nothing to disguise her displeasure with the situation."Look, I know I signed a contract. I won't violate it for anything. But this is my life, and this is honestly what makes me happy." Jade explained, setting the table for lunch.She and Ricky had decided not to attend the conference themselves, but had sent their legal representatives who had assured the public that their involvement wasn't going to affect the professional business they were carrying out.And so to avoid the reporters who were looking for them entirely, th
It wasn't more than five minutes later that Jade heard Ricky's sleepy husky voice calling from up the stairs, followed by the quiet sounds of his bare feet padding across the floor. "Jade?" He called, his voice panicky. On waking up, his brain still in a state of drowsiness, he had involuntarily reached for her warm body as he usually did when he woke up, only to be met with emptiness. The bed had still been warm though, the side of the bed unmade, as though she had got up in a hurry. Worry had driven him to look for her immediately, and when he hadn't found her in the bathroom, he had taken the hallway, wondering if she had gone outside for some air. The thought of her feeling suffocated with him irked him, but that of hearing her sobs from his living room sent his heart pounding in fear. Had he done something wrong? Jade didn't know what to tell him if he asked why she was crying, and ther
Ricky waited for her to sleep deeply before pushing himself off the bed and donning a housecoat. He padded downstairs to the kitchen, pulled out fresh vegetables which his housekeeper had bought from the last grocery shopping, and proceeded to start preparing a meal of lasagna. She had seemed to enjoy it a little more than the others, and he decided to try his luck. Twenty minutes later, he had a plate of the meal garnished to taste, such that it would as appealing to the eyes as it was to the nostrils. As well as the tongue. He carried it upstairs in a tray, placed it on the nightstand and shut the blinds against the setting dusk outside. After placing a bottle of cold water and a glass beside the covered plate, he perched at the edge of the bed and tapped her gently. "Huh?" She stirred at the first contact his hand made with her body, opening her eyes slowly. "I brought dinner for you. Think you can seat up