Total pages in book: 83
Estimated words: 77220 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 386(@200wpm)___ 309(@250wpm)___ 257(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 77220 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 386(@200wpm)___ 309(@250wpm)___ 257(@300wpm)
She cut the connection and put the phone back on the bedside table calmly. You could have cut the silence in the room with a knife. Then she looked at me expressionlessly.
“You’re in a relationship with Robert?” I asked incredulously.
She shrugged, a careless, infuriating gesture. “A girl gets lonely. Why shouldn’t I? He’s been good to me.”
I felt as if she’d thrown a bucket of cold water over my head. I stared at her. She looked so hard. So distant. This was not the Savannah I knew. “What was last night all about then?”
She pulled the blanket around herself and jumped out of the bed. “Last night was a mistake. Can you please get dressed and leave?”
“A mistake?” I repeated sarcastically.
“Yeah, a mistake,” she returned aggressively. “I felt sorry for you. You didn’t know about the baby. It took me a very long time to get over it, so I did my part to help you get over the shock.”
I got out of the bed, pulled on my boxers, and faced her. “I wouldn’t exactly call last night a mistake, my dear. I think last night could be put under the very satisfying fuck category. Well worth the money. The check is in the mail as they say.”
“How dare you? I’m not a whore.”
“I never said you were. I’ll give you some time to consider the idea that perhaps we can come to a mutually beneficial arrangement. Budgets for development projects are inevitably underestimated as you will find yours is. Having looked at your figures it’s a given you’ll need more money in the near future, and I need a reliable booty call contact for my little black book.”
“Fuck you, Max,” she yelled.
“Didn’t you do just that last night and it sure looked like you enjoyed every minute of it too,” I shot back.
“Get out of my apartment,” she raged.
“Certainly, but let me remind you of something first.” I walked over to where she still stood clutching the blanket to her heaving chest. Deliberately, I stepped into her space causing her instinctively to step back. I backed her up until she was pressed against the wall. Holding her tense gaze, I placed one palm flat on the wall beside her and used my free hand to reach down and cup her pussy hard through the fabric.
She gasped with a mixture of shock and undeniable arousal.
I smiled coldly. “Yeah, that’s right. This pussy is mine for the taking, and I’ll be around whenever I feel like it… and you won’t be saying no, will you, baby?”
I bent my head and licked her throat where I could see a pulse beating madly. There was crushing pain in my chest, but laughing softly, I turned and walked out of the bedroom. I pulled my wrinkled clothing out of the dryer and got into my pants, but wadded up the shirt in my hand. Pushing my socks into my pocket, I shoved my feet into my shoes. My keys were where I’d dropped them by the door last night.
I retrieved them and threw one last look at the bedroom door, but it remained steadfastly shut. I held on to what little pride I had left and walked out of her apartment.
The drive home was a pensive one. I was furious with her and jealousy was burning me up inside, but at least I now knew why she had not come to the trial. I also had some more insight into why she thought I had cheated on her. She had seen some photos in my desk. I tried to rack my brains and think what she could possibly have seen that made her mistake them for an affair. She was always unnecessarily jealous, but … were there photos from the office party? Had I gotten too close to one of the women at work?
I frowned. Even so, I never kept photos in my desk.
Belatedly, I realized I should have followed up on that line of conversation, but admittedly we had both become distracted. There was so much information I now needed to sift through in order to make some sense of what had happened.
My hand tightened on the wheel. She was still sleeping with Robert.
Well, it won’t be long before I destroy him so completely she won’t want him. Having tasted her body again, there was no way I was not going to have her, and I did not care what underhanded methods I had to use to accomplish my goal.
14
SAVANNAH
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=My2FRPA3Gf8
-wrecking ball-
I stood frozen against the wall as I listened to Max walk out of my apartment. My heart felt as though it was going to pound right out of my chest. What had I done?
I pushed my hand through my hair as the memories of everything that had happened came racing back. I felt my cheeks grow hot as I recalled how I had responded to Max’s touch. It had been too much like old times for me to resist. All it had taken was one touch. It had always been that way. But everything I knew about him and after four years of convincing myself I was over him, I felt embarrassed to think he still had that power over me.