Ares rubbed his forehead as he waited for Magda to make the next move.
He’d fucked up. He hadn’t meant to lose his temper with her but her constant attempts to push him away when he knew, deep down in his soul, they were meant to be together was frustrating as hell. He pulled a drawer open on his desk and looked in as a single knock hit his door.
Jake walked into his office and flung himself down on the sofa. “I don’t like being your messenger boy.”
“Consider it a punishment for being such an asshat yesterday. You searched her purse. How did she look?”
“Tired and sweaty. She was leaving the gym. She was surprised but the look she shot me across the parking lot was something else.” He paused and grinned, “she flipped me off.”
Ares chuckled, “she has quite a temper.”
“Which makes me worried for you. She could snap and stab you.”
Ares grimaced at hi
Arriving home from the Laskaris compound on Monday, Magda felt emotionally raw. Dimi’s family were scary as hell and after a hellish breakfast with her parents and then Dimi having an emotional meltdown in the car from Miklos’ new pursual of her, Magda felt she was carrying the weight of her friend’s sadness.As she exited the car, she noted the personal assistant who had met her outside the gym yesterday standing on her front step. Immediately she bristled with the intrusion of her privacy. How dare they?“What the fuck are you doing at my house?”“Mr. Winter asked me to deliver this,” the woman held out a note, her fingers shaking as she extended it towards Magda as if inherently aware the woman was about to blow.“I don’t give a shit if he asked you to deliver it or not! How the hell did he get my home address and why are you trespassing!” Magda’s emotions were raw and the woman visibly recoiled from Mag’s wrath.“Uh don’t shoot the messenger, Mags,” Dimi called out from behind her
Standing outside the restaurant Magda took three deep breaths and followed the girls in. When Dimi whispered the woman standing beside Ares was one of Miklos’ ex lovers, she felt a pang of annoyance. She couldn’t help but think perhaps he’d done this to fuck with Dimi. Why flaunt her husband’s mistress in her friend’s face? This was horrible and cruel and now she knew he was fighting dirty. Well, she could fight dirty too.She met his gaze directly and saw the cool response on his face. He was pissed off at her. She knew it instantly and she didn’t know why but as she regarded the woman on his arm, she didn’t care. He was purposefully trying to hurt her friend. He was going to pay.His eyes raked her from head to toe, narrowing when she leaned forward just enough to flash a bit of side boob as she rested her clutch on the table.“Eat your heart out, you snake,” she thought viciously.“Ladie
She didn’t care she had makeup on. She splashed cool water on her face and reached blindly for paper towel. The door to the bathroom opened and a hand put the serviette in hers and she offered a meek thank you to the person who had entered.She looked up and saw Ares leaning against the door and she grimaced. “I’m sure the sign on the door says women.”“It does,” he nodded, his eyes pleading. “Can we talk?”“In a restaurant bathroom?” She sneered at him. “No. In fact, not here. Not anywhere.”“I’m sorry.”“You should be.” She forgot herself for a moment and shoved his chest hard, “what kind of fucking games are you playing?”He grabbed her hands and pulled her close, his blue eyes searching hers. “I’m sorry. I panicked. In panicking, I came to a stupid conclusion.”“What conclusion?”&l
He had called her three times after her words to him on the front porch the night prior. He’d called her five times already today. He knew was behaving like a crazed maniacal stalker and he was helpless to stop himself. He suddenly wondered what his mother would say to him for his own behavior.It was Tuesday evening and he didn’t usually meet her on Tuesdays but damned if he didn’t want to go to his mama like a small boy. He grabbed his coat off the coatrack at his office door and walked out of the office.“Ares,” Jake was heading in his direction. “Where are we off to?”“My mother’s,” he grunted at him.Thirty minutes later he was walking up his mother’s front steps and briefly closed his eyes as the feeling of home overwhelmed him. He stepped into the house and felt some of his anxieties melt away. Where his mother was and where he felt his father most, would always remain his favorite p
She was fucking terrified. They were in Miklos’ club and they’d been busted and while Dimi and Darya were tough as nails, she was not. She was shaking like a leaf between her friends while Miklos and Kostas Masalis eyeballed them like they were enemies of the Laskaris family and ready to be punished for their transgressions.First, they’d said they were going to search them as if they were spies for the government and now she’d said too much admitting they were spying to find out if he was fucking a girl in the club and the girls were ready to kill her themselves. She was too drunk. Far too drunk. She’d been trying to drink the misery of her situation with Ares Winter away and too much prosecco later, she was wasted out of her skull. Her feet felt numb and her hands were sweaty. Now the girls brought up she was a virgin in front of Miklos and Kostas and the two men were staring at her as if she were an alien. It was evident Dimi for
The contract was signed. Dimi was gone. Nothing was ever going to be the same again. All their hard work to allow them the freedom to come and go and escape the confines of their families were for naught because Dimi was gone.She and Darya were curled up on Darya’s bed with Jinx between them after crying their hearts out.“I miss her already,” Darya’s bottom lip trembled.“Me too,” Magda whimpered.“She said she wouldn’t be able to call for a long time.”“I know.” She was going to start sobbing again. She rolled to her back. “We need to get out of here.”“We can’t,” Darya moaned. “The press got wind of our address. They’ve been outside.”“At least Miklos’ guy he had stationed here called it in and they immediately sent a full team for us. Though they think Dimi is here so once they realize she’s not, the
She’d agreed to dinner with him. After riding multiple waves and laughing and simply enjoying the sunshine and the surf, Ares had asked her to have dinner and she’d agreed. She knew in her heart of hearts Dimi would have pushed her to go.Now she was pacing in the living room, Jinx giving her dirty looks for disturbing her relaxation and feeling her nerves creeping up on her again. Miklos had tripled the security at the house but she had let the man currently at the end of the driveway know she was expecting Ares Winter.A single knock on the door made her jump nervously and she gave one last kiss to the top of Jinx’s head and moved to open the door. She stepped outside, not quite ready to let him into their space.Ares stood there in a pale blue suit which was almost silver in color and a white shirt opened at the color. No necktie was present but he was wearing a pocket square which was a blue which was almost perfectly matching his eyes. She
Magda’s fingers were intertwined with Ares as they walked along the pier.Jake had grumbled about them getting out of the car and had called in three more people as back up but they were all discretely out of sight. Even Jake had disappeared from view and she was relaxing in Ares’ presence.They’d been flirty and laughing all evening and dinner had become a silly affair with Ares telling her naughty jokes to try to make her blush and her reminding him she lived with Dimi Lykiaos and nobody had a bigger potty mouth than her.Now however he was focused on another topic.“A BDSM parlor. What exactly did you do there?”“Fetish play.”He came to a dead stop, his eyes rounding incredulously. “Like what?”“Never intercourse but I had one guy who paid me a grand more than once to lick peanut butter off my body. There was a man who simply liked feet. He paid me five hundred bucks a se