Chapter 14
Two days later on the beautiful night Charles took Aliza to dinner in one the best fancy restaurants in the city that he owned and proposed to her with a beautiful diamond ring. Aliza was bolted out of the blue. Her life turned into a fairy tale with the advent of Charles Rodriguez and she couldn't ask God more, staring at the beautiful piece of jewelry. With tearing eyes Aliza accepted the proposal of Charles and felt her to be one of the luckiest girls in the world. That night Aliza did not sleep in her quarter. She slept beside Charles in his bedroom. Moans released repeatedly as Charles smooched her with fervency. He tilted her head for a better axis and deepened the kiss exploring every corner of her mouth. Slowly she followed his movements and their kiss became more intense, filled with desire and passion. Crawling down his hands Charles explored every sensual curve of Aliza with his vociferous arms. His hands traced her buttocks circling them followed with a squeeze. "Mmm" another moan escaped from Aliza. In the presence of moonlight and the midst of nature, they indulged in a hot make-out session in the balcony attached to Charles's bedroom. It was nine in the morning and it was a Saturday. Aliza was still enveloped like a creeper in the arms of Charles. He pressed his lips on hers to wake her up from the sleep. "Mmm" Aliza moaned with delight with her eyes still closed in drowsiness. It was a smooch of care, belonging and most importantly possessiveness. After a few minutes he pulls a little apart and asks her in a snicker. "Do you have any plans of getting up, my sweet munchkin? Charles forced Aliza to sit and pulled her to his lap. He ran kisses from her cheeks, chin and throat reaching her breast bone hungry, chivalrous and in passion. Aliza couldn't rescue herself from the seductive kisses of Charles. His name escaped her in moans like rain which in turn stimulated their make out session. He squeezed her breast and ripped her top when there was a knock at the entrance followed by the direct opening of the door and the person they saw at the ingress got both of them lose breath out of their lungs. "Mom" Charles called his mother in utter shock. Arianna diverted her eyes to the floor. "I'm sorry, I thought my son was single and I need not knock at the door while entering his room but I guess I should have thought a bit more deeper when he brought Ms Stelwart to Edith's marriage." She snickers to Charles and immediately closes the door. Charles ran a series of profanities in his breath running his hands through his hair. After both of them looked presentable, Aliza opened the door and was about to sneak out of the house from the back side door of the kitchen but Arianna's cheery voice stopped her. "Finally I see my son settled in a capable woman's care." She then looked at Charles. "I was passing this way, so I thought I would better inform you in person than call you. Guess I did it right." She mocks in an arresting smile staring at Aliza top to toe in admiration. "This weekend we are organizing a family dinner at the house. Edith along with husband and kids, Henry will also be joining. I think it is time for you too to introduce Ms Stelwart to the family, Charles." Arianna suggested. Charles looked down at his mother in seriousness but with a firm nod. "Ms Stelwart, please do join us on Friday evening." Arianna invited Aliza and kissed her cheek. "Sure mam." Ari waved her hand in dismissal. "I do not think there is a requirement of formalities anymore between you and me. You can call me Ari and I would call you Aliza. Isn't it good Charles?" She tried to pull the leg of her son in a mockery but Charles was always the staid faced man. "I will bring her for the weekend, mom." **** Charles made her feel hot every day with his salacious kisses and fondling movements but they didn't do the actual deed as yet. As the months progressed grave questions crossed Aliza's mind. She knew Charles wouldn't touch her without a promise of a commitment. But now they are engaged. What is preventing him from touching her? Was she manipulated in this whole deal with a hidden motive and the most appealing occurrence strikes her head. It was an example. In the two years Aliza worked for Charles she did not hear or see a woman enter his office with lust filled motives. There is no newspaper till date which describes him as a Lothario or a skirt chaser though he had explained to her in her work nature that she was supposed to send gold bracelets to his girlfriends after breaking the relationship. Today she had declared to herself to find out the actual reason behind his reservation. At that time she had no doubt in fact she was happy to enjoy being no jealous fiancee of Charles Rodriguez unlike other girlfriends of billionaires. But now as she analyzed the point trembles shot from her heels to her head. Is he a gay? ****** Aliza was setting all the files she had finished working to the right side corner of her desk so that she could approach Charles soon after he came to his desk. He was busy in a meeting for the last hour. He would arrive soon and immediately ask her for the coffee. Sometimes Charles is like a child. He wants new designs on his coffee every day. Aliza recalled their conversation a few months ago and laughed aloud. Aliza wasn't able to sleep the night. Today she wanted to craft two birds making love on a branch of a tree, an indirect way of suggesting to him to proceed further in their relationship. A plan strikes her and she is determined to achieve her goal. They often kissed and the kisses were always passionate, intense and filled with desire. Everyday she was engulfed in wet dreams of Charles making love to her. She was waiting for the day when her dreams will turn true. Her Apollo was a man who respects women. After work Aliza walks to a bar. She never touched alcohol till date but having a peg or two doesn't do much damage and it was necessary to ask Charles about his true nature. For the last two days she had been trying but Aliza couldn't boost up her courage to question him on the unquestionable. ***** The next morning she opens her eyes in a cozy bed covered in white linens. She could smell Charles' scent all around her. Did she accomplish her deed? Her naughty mind questions her and she bites her lip to arrest the smile. Immediately her system goes to an alert as she notices an angry Charles typing something on his laptop. Her heart skipped a beat in trepid staring at his pernicious aura at the same time Jim jams crawled her nerves looking at his sexy figure. How can a person experience two opposite feelings at the same time? He was looking so hot with a black cotton shirt and gray track pants on him. His eyes were covered in glasses. Since when did he start wearing glasses? Probably she did not know many things about him. Her mind countered. There were light shadows covering his face giving him a rugged look of manliness. Aliza licked her lips with desire. Immediately a sharp pain shoots her head and she hisses. She looks around and peeks down at the plain white shirt covering her body. A shiver ran down her spine. What did she do yesterday? Why was she covered in the shirt of Charles? She remembered till she took the first two pegs but afterwards even though she fetched her mind for answers nothing came out except blankness. "Had nice fun with Johnny Walker?" Charles spoke the words typing something very seriously in the laptop. "My headache is like someone is punching on it." Aliza holds her head and complains. Charles grinds his teeth and looks at her with his eyes flaring red. A pit went down the belly of Aliza assimilating the fire in the stance of her fiancé. He lifts the receiver of the intercom and orders a cold. "Get me a glass of lemon water with a tablet of Tylenol." For two minutes, Athena was standing in the bedroom with a tray and looking at Aliza with pity filled eyes. Aliza yelled in her head to Athena please tell me what happened yesterday. On the contrary after Aliza finishes drinking the water with the tablet Athena leaves without speaking a word. Charles presses the button on the remote and the door instantly gets locked. Her heart was about to jump off its rib cage as soon as the door was locked. What is he going to do to me now?Chapter 15Aliza played with her fingers looking down at the floor in anxiousness as Charles walked towards her in slow tormenting steps. "I'm not a gay as you think. I'm as much attracted to you as you are to me if that is the doubt you have." Aliza looked at Charles bolted out of blue. How did he know her inner feelings? Charles ignored Aliza's facial expressions and answered the unasked question of her. "You blurted everything to me yesterday night in the intoxication."Walking to his dressing mirror, he pulled out a cigarette from the pack and lit it. Puffing out the smoke facing the window he explains to Aliza everything about the veracity of his emotions locked up so long in his kernel. "I never abused women and sex but I had my physical desires." He cleared his throat in an unspoken guilt. "I am not a virgin." Charles declared blinking his eyes to clear the shade of dampness. He never felt so vulnerable towards any woman till date except his mother and sister. But Aliza was an
Chapter 16Three months laterIt was six in the morning during the peak winters of California. The sun hadn't yet arrived in the east and the sky was still dark. The office of Richmond Industries was completely empty. Because of the extreme winter the office hours have been reduced from morning ten to evening five instead of nine to six. Every one of the staff was raining praises to the kind hearted CEO a week ago when the change of timing was announced. It was very much before the working time. Pulling her long coat more together Aliza sprinted towards the entrance of the stylish superstructure. The security at the entrance greeted her with a salute. "Mam, Good Morning! So early?" The forty year old Buffy bodyguard Samuel greeted and asked Aliza with curiosity. "It is the year end time Samuel, some last bit of errands are still left over to run." Aliza replied to him in a clipped tone.Samuel nods to Aliza with a pleasant smile. Nobody doubted her in the office. She had been worki
Chapter 17The temperature in California had dropped to a record low this year and the clothes Aliza was putting on did little justice to her trembles accompanied with the heavy downpour. She had forgotten her long coat in her quarter while re-reaching the office in a hurry. A sleek black Lamborghini Urus rushed through the gateway but Aliza stood rooted to her feet. It was a do or die situation to her.Aliza felt humiliation and shame for her helplessness. Guarding her last ounce of courage she yelled to the passenger window at the back of the car. "Sir I am not disloyal, I did not commit the breach." The car shifted its path and went away from beside her at full speed splashing the muddy flashes of water on her already wet dress.The next moment a white van stops a few feet away from beside her and two men in blue walk towards her. "You're under arrest Miss Aliza Stelwart for committing breach of contract in divulging secret information about The Richmond Industries to foreign firm
Chapter 18Charles immediately looked up as he heard the bullet sound. One of his bodyguards fired a man who tried to aim a bullet at him. The lucky rogue escaped the shot to his heart but his leg fell injured. He ran to a white Skoda parked just two feet away which sped in a record speed as soon as he sat in it. But justice always wins in the end, one of Charles's security already recorded the vehicle number.Looking at the corpse of Aliza, Charles turned out like a lifeless soul. He felt numb gazing down at her with zero emotions but tears ran out of his eyes like a never ending rain. He simply got up from beside her and stared around blank at the people who were gazing at him with concern. The head security understood that his boss was unmanageable and tried to help him to the car to drop him at his parents house but Charles stopped him."Where are you taking me? My Aliza is lying there injured. She needs to be taken care of. I cannot just leave her and go to work." Charles pointe
Chapter 19"Are you sure about this Jack?" Charles immediately dialed Jack's number and asked him to be agitated. "Sir, as soon as I received the call from you, I directed all my men to different parts of the world. This photo was taken by one of them in Boston. As soon as I received the picture I directly sent it to you." Charles gulped the glass of water placed on his desk. He closed his eyes for a few seconds and tried to calm the eccentric beats of his heart.Charles tried to analyze the situation. The body when he was found in front of the hospital was completely covered in blood. To be truthful he hadn't seen the face of the lady but due to the shock he was already in, his eyes might have deceived and misinterpreted her to be Aliza. Among the most shocking coincidence was that the lady's physique exactly matched Aliza's. That is why probably Larry and even his bodyguards misunderstood her to be Aliza.Settling down he ran his hands on his face tiredly and took the phone back to
Chapter 20"Charles, please let me go. My son is sick." She cried praying to him. The hands that enveloped her so guarded fell to the sides as he gazed down at her in a blow. A faint nod of his head in asking her the question the most dreaded..... his eyes stare down at her in shock. Aliza replies looking down to her feet. "Yes, Asher is sick and he is my son."Charles's hands formed to fists making the knuckles turn white as he digests the heart wrecking truth revealed to him. In a numb feeling breakdown he walked to the window turning his back to her and blinked his eyes repeatedly to clear the dampness. "Leave" he shouted and Aliza sprinted out of the door without a turn back.FlashbackTwenty one months AgoAfter the morning of their love making Aliza was busy setting the file for the next meeting. The work was very busy as it was the time Richmond Industries was launching their new clothing line. Charles was continuously occupied with the meetings but he sent Aliza away so that s
Chapter 21Flashback continues.That day Aliza did not pick up any of the calls of Charles after getting to her quarter. Charles went very busy. Meetings lined up one after another so that he couldn't go and see his fiancee. He was very anxious about what happened to Aliza. She wouldn't pick up his calls or even answer his messages.At night eleven there was a knock at the door of her quarter. Aliza knew who the person was and though she had no intention to see she had no chance to avoid him. She signed the contract and couldn't quit the company, failing which she had to render a massive amount as penalty to the firm. Within a fortnight there is a huge wall built between them accompanied by immense damage in their relationship. How could she get cheated so ruinously in her life? Marrying a mafia leader....what would be the fate of her and her unborn children? How long would she survive with a constant churning in her heart of their children's lives always in danger? How could she live
Chapter 22Charles returned to California desolated. His beautiful thoughts shattered after he heard the word 'son ' come out of Aliza's lips. How could she move on this fast with already a son in her way? Was she cheating on him? Did she ever think of him after leaving? Was he the only one among them to fall in love and suffer? Why did she cheat on him (her fiance) for Larry who was just an acquaintance for her?Charles wanted to ask her about the list of all these questions that created a turmoil in his mind but as soon as the word 'son' fell out of Aliza's lips, everything shattered around him and his mind went blank after that.Outwardly he was a man with every happiness in the world and dreams fulfilled but the world did not know his heart was like a barren land with no single plant to fruit. With an empty soul and zero happiness in his life Charles diverted all his energy only on business. He worked hard night and day and the Richmond Industries which was already #1 in United S