Total pages in book: 54
Estimated words: 49114 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 246(@200wpm)___ 196(@250wpm)___ 164(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 49114 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 246(@200wpm)___ 196(@250wpm)___ 164(@300wpm)
So far to appease me and assuage his guilt, he’s been bending over backwards to stay in my good graces. He’d lost most of his friends because of the divorce and his associates weren’t too far behind. No one wanted to be on the wrong side of a scandal like this.
It shows what kind of woman my mom is. That she could send such a rift through the business world without uttering a word. A woman who never played in the arena herself but who’d treated everyone she came in contact with, with love and respect.
I imagine that it’s the wives of those men who’ve since distanced themselves from dad that were responsible for that particular turn of events. Good for them. They didn’t want their men falling prey to her or someone like her.
I watched her now as she fawned over him and wondered how someone as intelligent as he is could not see this for what it was. How could he not realize how dangerous the changes she’d made in him were? What more does he need to lose before he wakes the hell up?
She hadn’t convinced him to cut me out of his will or the business yet, but I’m sure that’s next on her agenda. I aim to get ahead of her there though. To cut her off at the pass.
Not that I need the old man’s money. Like I’ve said, I’ve made plenty on my own. But I’d be fucked if she’s gonna get what’s rightfully my mother’s, the woman who’d stood by him through the lean years.
I could strangle dad for putting her trough this, but I’ll get even more pleasure from making this bitch suffer. And suffer she will when I pull the rug from out under her. And kick her ass out in the cold the way they’d done mom.
I had to stop my thoughts there and work on my breathing which was never at it’s best when I get riled like I am now. Any more of this and I’ll end up showing my hand way too soon.
I was saved by the old man who intruded on my thoughts and none too soon I might add. I looked at him with none of what I was feeling showing on my face.
“Son I hope you’ll accept my invitation and stay for dinner. It would be good for Elaina to have company her first night in her new home. Poor thing, I don’t know any young ladies of her age.”
I wasn’t sure I could trust myself around a knife and fork at the same table with them. I warred with myself over the decision. I did want another look at the girl just to be sure that whatever I’d felt at the sight of her was an anomaly.
But a whole hour or more over dinner was pushing it even for a consummate actor like I’ve learned to become. Still, I felt the pull, to be around her, to see her. To smell her! Fuck!
This can’t go on. Whatever lure these women may have, which as far as I’m concerned is completely missing from the mother but comes off the daughter in droves, I wasn’t about to give in to it.
Luke
Just then she came down the stairs and I hated the sudden feeling of the relief I felt. I even breathed easier now that she was back. “Maybe some other time. I promised mom I’d take her to the theatre this evening.”
Lisa’s mouth tightened unattractively, but she kept her lips sealed which was good for her and I. If she ever lost her mind enough to say one word against my mother in my presence all bets are off.
I got my one last look under cover of saying my goodbyes. She’d changed into a summer dress that showed off her shoulders and showcased her tight little curves to perfection.
No doubt that was her intent. I wonder who was the prey? I noticed then how slight she was, like a delicate bird whose bones I could snap with the flick of a hand.
But it was the look in her eyes before she looked down and the wild beating of the pulse in her throat that I was more interested in. “It was nice meeting you Elaina, I’ll see you soon.” I took her hand deliberately and again she gave much away.
I hid the silent grin as I turned and walked away towards the door calling out my goodbyes to the other two. I didn’t breathe easy again until I was in my car and well on my way away from there. Away from her.
I was a mixture of anger, lust and confusion. Anger at myself for wanting her, and confused because it wasn’t supposed to happen. The lust was rather self-explanatory. She was after all an exotically beautiful girl.