I sat opposite him and watched in nerve-wracking silence as he carefully sipped from the cup of latte he had ordered. He also asked that I make one for myself and sit with him.
“Tastes better than the ones I have every morning in my office,” he told me and I smiled nervously, trying not to stare at him, but he was so handsome to the point that one had to take several glances at him to comprehend his attractiveness. Like seriously, how can one man look so damn good? “I’m sure you’re surprised to see me,” he said and I didn’t bother denying it. I nodded. “I would have been here earlier but I had a series of unending business meetings,” he sighed. He looked stressed, I could see it in his beautiful green eyes. I felt like somehow easing his stress. “Well, you seem like a very busy and important man,” I finally spoke, trying to appear calm, but my voice came out shaky. He stared at me for a moment and then, readjusted in his seat. “I remember asking you for a date.” I almost choked on my latte when he said that. “Um,” I coughed, tensed. He waited patiently for my reply. “I’m...” I stopped, not knowing what reply to give. Going on a date with a man like Eric was not as easy as going on a date with a high school boy. He was no boy, he was a man. A handsome, powerful and wealthy man. He…intimidated me! “Here,” he brought out a card from his pocket and gave it to me. “Call me when you’re ready, okay?” He said, his tone and eyes were gentle. “Okay,” I nodded, holding the card in both hands. I locked up the shop and he gave me a ride to my house. I was embarrassed when we stopped at my apartment. It was a shabby-looking old story building and I was sure he was unimpressed by it. “I hope you give me a positive reply soon,” he said, touching my hand carefully. I swallowed! My heart threatened to fly out of my chest when I felt his touch. “Goodnight, Sir,” I whispered and got out of the car with jelly legs. I turned around to look at him and he smiled sweetly at me and waved as his car drove off. My heart squeezed of joy. Sundays were off days and I spent most of the day doing chores and watching movies. I was on my sixth episode of Power when Lisa’s text came in. LISA: Dress up, we’re going out. I groaned. This was my only free day and I wanted to spend it alone, watching TV in comfy pajamas. LISA: I’m going on a date with Jeremy and I feel like my head is going to explode. I need you with me! I had a bad feeling about third wheeling on Lisa and Jeremy’s first date, considering the fact that he had made a move on me at her Dad's birthday party. I shouldn’t even be present on their very first date but then, Lisa Lowe never takes no for an answer. The venue Lisa texted me was a fancy restaurant in the middle of the city. She was waiting for me in her car parked at a corner when I arrived. “What took you so long? Jeremy has been in there for hours.” “I'm sorry! I had a hard time picking out what to wear,” I told her the truth and she eyed me from head to toe. I had dressed up in a black stretchy dress and my hair took hours to make. “It doesn't matter, as long as I look good. It's my date, not yours.” I blinked at her statement, unsure of what to say next. How can you love someone so infuriating? “Let's just go in already,” Lisa groaned and pulled me along with her. As we walked into the restaurant, I could see Jeremy sitting on the table close to the window. “I am so sorry for keeping you waiting. My friend, Liv, needed a ride here so I had to wait for her,” Lisa started the second we got to Jeremy and I almost rolled my eyes. “That's all right,” Jeremy said with a smirk, his eyes fixed on mine and I quickly looked away before Lisa would notice. “Liv, this is my boyfriend, Jeremy Grayson. Jer, this is my friend, Liv,” Lisa introduced as we sat. “It's nice to meet you, Liv.” Jeremy said while presenting a handshake that I took but quickly pulled away after he poked my hand with his index finger. The date was as bad as I thought it would be, maybe even worse because Lisa kept squealing and smiled the whole time. She was nervous, but relaxed a little when I touched her hand below the table. I do that to calm her down sometimes. Jeremy kept watching me the whole time and I was so worried that Lisa would notice, but thankfully, she didn’t. It was hours before the date ended. They said their goodbyes and Lisa and I rode away in her dad's car. “How do you think that went?” Lisa asked curiously as her driver drove us. “Good,” I lied. I didn’t want to pop Lisa’s balloon, although she did that to me many times. For instance, when I was in a relationship with a popular hockey player in college, she constantly mentioned how I would never be enough for a guy like him and the relationship was doomed. I had to break up with him when I caught him cheating with one of Lisa’s childhood friends, Jenny Hawkins, who is a Victoria Secret model. I have a deep gut feeling that Lisa planned it, although I had no way to prove it. It just felt like the kind of thing she would do just to prove that she was right. Seriously, how am I still friends with her?“Shut up!” Kate gasped in surprise when I told her Eric Ferraro was in the cafe two days ago.“I’m serious,” I giggled and Kate screamed a little before slapping her mouth shut.“What’s going on, Ladies?” Mr Marcelo asked as he appeared from his office.“It’s ladies’ talk,” Kate told him and he blushed. He was down bad for her. Kate was very pretty. She’s blonde and slender, and her big blue eyes were captivating, not to mention that she's packing one hell of an ass behind those curves. She used to be a freelance model in college before she had Kendall, and after that, she retired.“Okay, just don’t keep my customers waiting,” Mr Marcelo said with a smile and returned to his office.“You know Mr Marcelo has a crush on you, right?” I told Kate and she blushed, “Seems you like him too.”“He’s nice and he's a cutie. What’s not to like?” She shrugged and we giggled. “So, about Eric Ferraro. Girl, I so wanna be you right now!”“But Kate,”“No, Buts. He wants you. He drove all the way fro
“Mr Ferraro, this is absurd!” I blurted out as I kept reading the document in my shaky hands. “Two thousand dollars every month for this?!” I almost shouted. “Plus a weekly allowance of six hundred dollars, to encourage your performance,” he added. He looked confident, like he was absolutely certain that I would like the idea. I actually did not. At the bottom of the document was a dotted line for me to sign. He actually expects me to sign this? I thought to myself. “I don’t think—” “Please, Olivia, don’t give me a reply now, just think about it. I’ll give you time,” he pleaded. “Why does it have to be like this? I could just be your girlfriend,” I told him but he shook his head. “It has to be like this. It’s a business. You perform a task and I reward you.” “What? I’ll be like an employee to you. That’s so strange, that’s not..,” Dare I say it, “That's not love.” “No one is talking about love. I want you sexually, and my house needs a woman to run it.”
“Greta!” The girl screamed as I tried to understand the entire situation of Eric having a daughter! Why didn’t he tell me?“Isabel…”An old lady called, entering the scene. She must be Greta, the lady Eric had told me would settle me in. She looked nice but her expression was guarded, her grey hair was in a short curly bob.“There’s a stranger in our house!” Isabel told Greta, giving me a dirty look.I was lost for words, I couldn’t say anything.“You must be Olivia,” Greta said after assessing me briefly.“Yes,”I nodded.“Who’s she?” Isabel frowned.“A… friend of your Dad’s” Friend? That was far off from what I was to Eric, but it was better than calling me his mistress in front of his daughter.“That’s a lie,” Isabel folded her arms, “She’s another one of them, right?”What? What did that mean?“Isabel, go to your room, now!” Greta ordered and Isabel snarled and stomped away.“I’m Greta, the head staff,” Greta introduced herself.“It’s nice to meet you,” I told her, nervously. I w
“Did you forget my birthday!?”Lisa snapped as soon as I picked her call. She has been calling non-stop since morning and the incessant buzzing of my phone had woken me up.“No, Lisa. It’s tomorrow, I didn’t forget.”I groaned, feeling a headache already as I sat up and scratched my itchy eyes.“Where are you!?” She asked, suspiciously. I never spoke to Lisa about Eric and I had no intentions of ever doing that. Aside from the fact that the contract stated strict discretion, Lisa would be very mean about my decision to be a contract mistress to Eric.“At Kate’s,” I lied quickly.“And why didn’t you tell me you quit your job at the cafe?”“How did— I didn’t want to bother you with that.” I told her, hoping she would buy it.“Whatever! I’m heading out in a few minutes to Queen’s Mall. I need you to come with me and pick out my dresses!”Not again. She was the most indecisive person I knew, she would spend the whole day at the mall!“Lisa, you’ll have to go without me. I need to be at t
What would I do now?Isabel was being kissed by her therapist! A grown man!Do I go in and stop this or just walk away?. I contemplated for minutes with a racing heart and eventually, I decided to walk away and talk to Isabel later about it. It wasn’t the best idea but it was what I could settle for.Dr Reynolds informed me of my mom’s surgery procedure, I held her scaly hands with hope because she was finally getting her treatment! I couldn’t wait to see my mom all better like I promised her!Against my initial plan, I texted Lisa to meet up at the mall, when she didn’t reply because she was still mad, I bought her favorite soda and went ahead to the mall to apologize to her.“What are you doing here?”She frowned immediately she saw me approaching her on the jewelry aisle.“Lisa—I tried to apologize but she held her hand up, shutting me up.“I forgive you.” She said, like I had actually offended her. “I got you your fav soda.” I smiled, handing the soda to her . “I hate it
I woke up to beautiful roses on my drawer. It was such a beautiful sight to wake up to. I picked up the note and read it. Beautiful flowers for my beautiful lady P.S You make a cute drunk and I’m downstairs in my office if you want me. -E And then I remembered that I was brought home drunk from Lisa’s party, but I took only a few sips! I groaned, feeling a slight headache. I took my bath and put on a short white silk robe and went downstairs to Eric’s home office. “What a lovely sight.” He adjusted his glasses as walked in, his eyes were fixed on my full cleavage. Damn! He would make a hot professor. “Good morning Mr Ferraro.” I teased as I slid into his lap and kissed him. “I have a zoom meeting in a few minutes but it can wait.” He told me as his big hands gripped my butt. There was a laptop and a stack of files on his table. “You work too hard.” I complained. “I’m not sure about that but I’m sure how hard I am right now.” He drawled. O
I still felt shaky from seeing the pictures of Jeremy kissing me in Isabel’s phone. When did that happen!? I remembered being dizzy at Lisa’s birthday party, I was drunk but I hadn’t drank much, Jeremy had brought that drunk and—I gasped, Jeremy!He roofied my drink! He kissed me while I was unconscious!I was so angry, I paced around my room, gripping Isabel’s phone in my shaky hands.I needed to tell Eric… but, could I? Was it best to tell him?I could just confront Jeremy and get him arrested.But what about Lisa? I’d be causing a rift in her relationship and she seemed so happy with him.Despite we weren’t on speaking terms, I didn’t want to hurt her. So, I deleted the pictures and went on about my day like I hadn’t seen them.“How’s Isabel?” I asked Eric as we ate dinner. He wasn’t eating, he was just tossing around his steak with his fork.She had been in her room all day probably crying.“She won’t eat dinner..”“This must be really hard on her.” I sighed.“Do you t
“I did this.”Eric said, watching his unconscious daughter on the bed, her wrist was bandage from the deep cut she made in suicide attempt.“You didn’t! I did!” I lamented, feeling awful.“No! You did the best thing!” He said, holding my arms. “I was too hard on her, she’s just a kid..”“She’ll be fine, okay?”“If we had taken her on the vacation as well like you suggested…”“She’ll be fine.” I repeated, squeezing his hand a little.Just then, Isabel shifted on her bed and opened her eyes to us.“My darling! You’re awake..” Eric quickly rushed to hold her in his arms.“Daddy..” she muttered, wincing as she tried to sit up.“I’m sorry my gummy bear, daddy will never you leave you again, I’m so sorry, forgive me.”He continuously said as he held her to himself, shutting his eyes.I went teary with the way he loved his daughter, I wished I had a Dad that loved me this way, a dad that never left.Kate recently moved in with Mr Marcelo, they were moving quickly in their relat