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Forty-Six: More Blurred Lines
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ILLICIT AFFAIRS Forty-Seven: Secrets
LISA“I'm an illegitimate child,” he told me casually and my jaws figuratively dropped to the ground. Of all the things I was expecting him to say, this was the last one, in fact, this wasn't on the list at all.I wasn't expecting him to say this and I did not believe him at all because who would, nothing about him screamed illegitimate child at all. Just like nothing about you screams bloody assassin, my subconscious mocked me.“You really don't expect me to believe that, do you?”He shrugged casually, “no, I don't but the fact that you don't believe it doesn't mean that it's not the truth.”“Come on Axel, I don't understand why you feel the need to make me have leverage over you but it's really not needed, I told you what I told you because I wanted to, not because you forced me so you don't have to make up a lie about yourself just to make me feel better that I shared a weakness with an enemy.”“I don't care about you enough to try to make you feel better because you told me somet
ILLICIT AFFAIRS Forty-Eight: Night Out
AXELWe drove back to school in silence. The Question and Answer session was already over when we returned to the venue so we just slipped into the car and drove away. Nobody said anything during the drive and just like I was thinking, I was sure Lisa was thinking about the same thing, about the vulnerabilities that we both shared with each other back on the field. We both knew we crossed a line we shouldn't cross, a line that'll blur the dynamics of our relationship but I just wanted to strike a balance, she had blurted her vulnerability out in a moment of weakness, and knowing Lisa and what she thinks of me, I was she'd always have a nagging thought at the time back of her mind that I was going to use that piece of information against her.I wasn't an unfeeling monster so there was no way I’d use that against her but she wasn't going to believe me so I had to make it a truce.I had to tell her something about me that I'd never told anyone. I've never shared a relationship with an
ILLICIT AFFAIRS Forty-Nine: Never Gonna Happen
AXEL“The shipment is coming in barely 6 weeks,” Prince pointed out from where he was sitting, “do you have everything under control?”I glared at him, making sure my eyes conveyed what I really wanted to do to him; twist his neck and yank his head off his shoulders.“I don't remember ever poking my nose in the affairs of C47,” I replied curtly, hoping he'd get the gist and his nose out of this conversation but it seemed I was forgetting who I was talking to.Tell Prince not to do something and that was the thing he'd make sure to do.“Well, C47 isn't directly your business but this shipment concerns all of us,” he replied casually, “I hate to admit it but if it should flop, C47 would be affected badly.”“You’re lucky you're my friend, if not, I’d have pulled out your tongue a long time ago.”“Save your love language for your soldiers please, I'm not interested in them.”“Bastard.”He lifted his glass in a mock cheer, “never denied it.”I poured from my third bottle of beer into the g
ILLICIT AFFAIRS Fifty: Arranged Marriage
LISAI was home for our monthly family dinner even though I didn't want to go. I mean, I've always wanted to steer clear of going home to avoid having a conversation or confrontation with Angel. Because that always happened any time I was in the same space with Angel. We were currently sitting at the dining table with Tricia and I sitting across Angel and Steff with dad sitting at the head of course. Tricia’s excited chatter filled the room and I was doing my best to keep up with her talks while Angel kept scowling at intervals. It was obvious that she didn't like the idea of Tricia going on and on about her designs and the new things she had learned during the past week. “That reminds me,” Angel started in an unusually loud voice that immediately drowned Tricia’s own as she turned to dad halfway through the meal, “I have something important to discuss with the family.”I snickered under my breath at the same time Tricia leaned to whisper into my ears, “maybe she's pregnant because
ILLICIT AFFAIRS Fifty-One: Sisters’ Moment
LISADamn!Fuck!Shit!I stared at Angel and she stared back at me, gaze unwavering and a blank look in her eyes.Fuck!I decided to play smart. I decided to play Angel’s games knowing fully that she was a smartass and she might only be playing a mind game.I hide my fear with a snicker. “What are you talking about?”“Don’t play dumb, Lisa, it's unbecoming of you.”“I'm not playing dumb, if you want me to understand you, then maybe you should learn to be more vocal.”She chuckled slightly and she took her time to chew her food before looking at me again.“Are you going to tell me that you were not with Axel at Kay’s show?”My frown deepened, hiding the fear and panic that was starting to bloom within me.“Axel Ivanov?”“We both don't know another Axel apart from him.”“Kay’s show?” I said the word with enough confusion to confuse even the surest man and I made sure that my eyes remained locked on hers. Looking away was part of my weakness and I wasn't the type to show any weakness,
ILLICIT AFFAIRS Fifty-Two: Avoiding Him
LISA“You've been avoiding me, Red.”It was neither a question nor an observation, it was a statement and my heart lurched in my chest at the voice and Axel’s presence. He was right. I had been avoiding him like a coward and I realized that wasn't the way out of our situation. I couldn't go on avoiding him forever and I have to be upfront about what I wanted with our relationship.I turned around to look at him and my heart did skip a beat when I saw him. I had almost forgotten how sinfully handsome he was and now that he was dressed casually, in black jeans, a tee shirt, and an unbuttoned shirt with rolled-up sleeves that made butterflies take to race in the pit of my stomach.Damn! He was too handsome and I was badly attracted to him.“What are you talking about?” I feigned ignorance with a little smile on my face.“Come on, Lisa,” his voice was hard and rough, “you know what I'm talking about.”“No, I don't, just because we've been so caught up with classes and we've not had time
ILLICIT AFFAIRS Fifty-Three: He Found Me
LISA"You seriously need to be arrested for the way you've actually managed to wrap yourself in all those baggies and keep your body away from us like this."That was Tana's way of hyping me up and telling me I look hot and pretty in my long body con red gown that stuck to my body like a second skin. Even I knew and was certain that I was attractive and my gown was dangerous and provocative. Dangerous and provocative. I looked at myself in the mirror, looked at how low my cleavage ran and how sinfully hot I looked in this excuse of a gown.I couldn't wait to see Axel's reactions to my gown.I paused at the sudden thought in my brain. I wasn't dressing up for Axel. Why would I even dress up for him? I've managed not to think about him since the last time we were together after he dragged me off to his house after he cornered me for avoiding him all week long and he had made heavy on his promise of requiring more space to carry out the wicked things he wanted to do to my body as he ma
ILLICIT AFFAIRS Fifty-Four: An End To This
LISAHe pulled me into his arms as the slow music started to play and everybody started to dance with their partners.One of his hands encircled my waist and pulled me closer my flattening on my lower back while the other intertwined with my hand as our bodies started to move slowly to the slow music. My heart wouldn’t stop racing in my chest at our close proximity which wasn’t even anything. We’ve been standing in closer proximity before, especially those times when we did not have our clothes on and he was busy driving my body and mind to the edge of insanity with the skillfulness that was his hands and months. But there was something about this, about his hand on my lower back and his finger pad that was moving absentmindedly over it, about his hand that was intertwined with mine as our bodies glided slowly to the music. There was something euphoric about it, something beautiful that made me lightheaded, like made me feel all fuzzy inside, that made me feel a warm feeling in the
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