by Angel Devlin
Looking up I saw an extremely guilty looking face.
“Are you Gavin?” I ask. “Not middle-name Gavin, but romantic letter writing Gavin?”
“Funnily enough I was just coming to tell you… erm, yes. Sorry, it’s me.”
I placed a hand on my hip. “And did you think this was an amusing joke?”
Finn vehemently shook his head from side to side. “No, I meant every word.”
“You… you like me?”
“Yes, Ella. I do. A lot.”
I held myself steady against the wall. “Fuck. I need some time to process this, okay? It’s a lot to think about.” My head was reeling.
“But do you like me too?”
I nodded. “Yes, I do. But I can’t do this right now, okay? I need to re-read the other two letters from you, and then get ready for this date tonight.”
His eyes searched mine. “You’re still going on it?”
“Yes, it’s not fair to cancel. At the very least I owe them a nice meal, even if I’m going to be turning them down. On Valentine’s Day. I’m evil. The poor person.”
He tilted my face up to his. “You’re not evil. You’re lovely. I will do my bodyguard bit and then later, we talk, okay?”
I nodded again. It was all I was capable of right at that moment. “Okay.”
We walked back to our own rooms. How the hell I managed to not run after him and beg him to take me to bed I had no idea, but I had principles and my manners said I need to be nice to X. Goddammit, I really loved his sexy words. He’d make a good writer. I was just sorry for him that I was in love with Finn.
Later, I stood at Finn’s door dressed in my gold dress. Part of me considered wearing something else, but then I realized I wanted Finn to see me in it. I knocked on his door but there was no response. Pushing the door open I found he wasn’t there.
He was supposed to be driving me to my date. Where was he?
A knock came at the front door. Sighing, I went to open it. To find Finn on the other side.
“Why are you knocking on our own door?”
He answered by pushing me back against the wall and capturing my lips with his.
Holy mother of God.
It couldn’t be?
Never.
Could it?
He broke off.
“Are you X as well?” I asked on a husky whisper.
“Could be.” He answered. “What would you say about it if I was?”
“I’d ask why you were talking when right now you were supposed to have your hand fisting in my hair and the material of my dress in your other hand.”
We never made it to the restaurant after all.
Chapter Seventeen
To: [email protected]
From: [email protected]
Date: February 15, 2019
Subject: Happy Valentine’s Day???
Dear Ella
I hope you can forgive me for the naughty subterfuge I engaged with, with Finn, in order to get you to your perfect match. I made him complete an application form and he was perfect for you, so I decided to go along with his dastardly plans! It was super fun, I have to admit.
Anyway, I wish you the very best and hope you’re very happy together. I’m sure you will be. I’m amazing at my job!
Love, Grace.
Chapter Eighteen
Ella
I woke up as Finn brought me a coffee to bed. His fingers trailed up my cheek just like his letter said they would.
“Did you mean everything you said in your letters?”
“Yes. You need a room for your dressmaking, so I don’t keep getting pins stuck in my feet. It’s highly annoying.”
I threw a cushion at him. “That’s not what I meant.”
He smiled. “I know, and yes, I meant every word. And I’m already halfway through writing my own book. It’s about a man who has to live with the most irritating roommate ever and how he plots to kill her.”
I narrowed my eyes at him. “As long as it’s fiction.”
He took my mouth with his and we enjoyed a long leisurely kiss.
“So, what do we do next, dearest future wife?”
I laughed. “God, did it make you cringe that I wrote that?”
He lifted something out of his pajama pocket and dropped to his knees beside the bed.
“Ella Cassidy. I have lived with you for a while now. I know your faults and your dreams and I’m in love with them and with you. Would you do me the honor of becoming my dearest future wife?”
I had tears in my eyes and could barely speak.
“Seriously? This is not a joke?”
“It’s not a joke, Ella. We can take our time, but you’re mine. So what do you say?”
I nodded my head as tears rolled down my cheeks. “I say yes, Finn. I love you too. I say yes.”
He placed the ring on my finger. It was slightly too large, but I didn’t care. We could sort that later. Right now, I wanted the morning he promised in his letter.
Snuggles and sexy time with my dear future husband.
Who knew? He’d been right there all along.
THE END
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Harlow’s story is next, Together Forever, ready for St. Patrick’s Day in March.
Jodi’s story will follow soon!
FOREVER TOGETHER
Chapter One
FERGUS
This castle was the shit. Mainly because there were lots of nooks and crannies you could hide in. Or so I thought…
“Fergus McDermott, put your dick back in your pants and get to rehearsals right now.” Janie screamed at me in full banshee mode.
The domestic I’d been boning tried to hide her face behind the curtain. To be honest, I could have done with her doing that during our fuck, but my dick had seen her tits and wanted into her warm, wet pussy. Luckily, I’d just managed to shoot my load before our promoter had arrived to spoil my fun.
“Aren’t you supposed to meet my every demand? I needed to get off.” I said, wiping myself on the woman’s panties and handing them to her. “Souvenir?”
“You’re an absolute shit, Fergus, and your last PA and most of the ones who went before her satisfied the needs of your cock, hence why you don’t have another one… yet.” She looked at her watch.
I knew that face. Janie Locke was a badass who looked like Cate Blanchett. She had shoulder-length blonde hair, chiseled cheekbones and balls of steel. I’d torment her to a point but knew when to quit, usually just before her knee threatened my balls.
“What are you up to, Janie?” By now I’d left the woman under the curtain and started following Janie down a long corridor of this massive castle.
She turned to me and gave me an enigmatic smile. “Oh, sweetie. I’ve called in the big guns. Your new PA will be here any moment.”
She cackled with laughter.
“You’re so welcome, Fergy. Now get a shower and over to the arena.”
Looking at her face, I felt like I’d already had a shower. A cold one.
What was she up to now?
Chapter Two
HARLOW
When I looked at my cell and saw JANIE on the handset, I braced myself. My best friend was a music promoter with hardly enough time to eat or sleep, never mind call, so if she did, she’d either got an SOS from me, or there was an emergency her side. We made a pact to have one evening a month where we always called each other for a catch up, and this was not that date.
I didn’t have an emergency, so my heart lurched as I answered.
“Everything okay, bestie?”
“No one died, though they fucking might soon. I need you. On a plane. Because he’s done it again. His fourteenth PA. I’m going to get him castrated.”
I giggled while I breathed a sigh of relief. “Let me guess, Fergus McDermott.”
“The one and only.”
Janie regaled me with tales of Fergus and his many personal assistants on her monthly calls. He
was a total bad boy. His dick needed bathing in bleach. If fucking was an Olympic sport, he had gold for sure. I loved hearing about him even if he drove my friend insane. Because I knew what guys were like. I had five older brothers.
“So what’s he done this time?”
“We’re on our way soon to that huge gig in Dublin and he’s just fucked and then fucked off the latest assistant. So…”
“Not a chance.”
“As you’re between jobs right now…”
“I’m having a sabbatical while I consider what I want to do next.”
“You mean, you don’t want to come see me, all expenses paid, in Dublin. Stay in a castle that’s like something out of a fairytale. Meet a hot rock band and get VIP tickets.”
She’d got me now and she knew it, because I thought the Black brothers from Blackthorn were a girl’s fantasy dream team. Yes, I had imagined having them both in bed, and at the same time, I’ll have you know.
“And what do I have to do for this so-called all expenses paid dream trip?”
“You just have to be Fergus McDermott’s PA for the week and whip him into shape. That’s it.”
I spluttered. “That’s it? You want me to tame the wild stallion in a week?”
“You have five brothers, you’ll have him trained in a day.”
“So basically, you want me to come be his assistant, but rather than assist him, you want me to get him in line?”
“Yes, so we survive this concert without a fucking lawsuit because I just know that the minute we’re there he’s going on a shagging tour of Dublin.”
“I’ll bring my chastity belt.”
“Oh please. That’s the other reason I’m asking you. You’ll be immune from his charms because we all know you want to be in a Sean and Seamus Black sandwich. Keep your stalker tendencies tampered down when you get here, but feel free to give them both your phone number before you leave. Just no shenanigans until after the concert.”
“Who says I’m coming?”
She made a whooshing, crunching noise. “Oh what’s that? Seems my line’s breaking up. Crrshhh. Sorry, babe, I can’t hear you. The tickets and all other information will be following shortly and I’ll see you in Dublin in March. The concert is on St. Patrick’s day. Gotta go.”
The call ended.
I scrubbed a hand through my light brown, wavy hair. Once more after talking to my friend I felt like I’d been hit by a tornado.
One minute I’d been thinking about whether getting out of my pjs was actually figuring into my day, the next it looks like I’m travelling from New York to Dublin to stay in a castle for a week.
If only I were a princess and not a New Yorker having a career and identity crisis.
Chapter Three
HARLOW
Oh my god! My cab pulled up outside the mansion I was apparently staying in after sweeping up a long driveway, through vast grounds. The place had a lake! A suited gentleman met the cab and took my luggage away informing me it would be placed in my room if I would just like to check-in.
A friendly blonde receptionist took my name and gave me directions to my room. It was a good job that the keycard had the details on it because I was far too entranced with the building I was in. Was this real? I smiled at everyone I passed on my way to my room although I had no idea who any of them were. I didn’t spot any members of the band and I wondered where my best friend was, having expected her to have met me on arrival. I knew she wouldn’t have had time to meet me at the airport, but I thought she could have at least been at the hotel. I didn’t know what I was meant to be doing. My feet were sinking in to the sumptuous carpet as I reached the door of my suite. A suite!
I put the keycard in the slot until it flashed green and then I pushed open the door… and gasped. The room was decorated in deep greens and burgundies. A deep emerald-green plush carpet covered the floor. There was a King bed and a dark wooden ornate desk. An enormous window was covered with voile and drapes and as I used the mechanism to pull them back the window revealed a view of the estate and gardens. It was to die for. Collapsing with a happy sigh onto the leather sofa in the living room area of the suite, I saw that on the coffee table was a hamper containing some chocolate covered strawberries and a bottle of wine with two glasses. A note was on the table and I recognized Janie’s handwritten scrawl.
Hello darling! Welcome to Dublin! I hope you have the BEST time. Hope to catch up, but I'm busy as balls, so if we don't, know that I love you. Enjoy the castle, and the show! Xx
Seriously! She’d brought me over here and she might not even see me? I was going to kill her. This smacked of a total set up Janie style.
Stuffing a strawberry in my mouth, I wandered around the rest of my suite noting that my luggage had been placed at the side of the closet. I unpacked and then poured myself a glass of wine and changed into my pajamas. I was in a different time zone and exhausted from travelling. As the wine hit my system, I decided to give in to the sleep my body craved and to wonder what was in store for me here in this massive castle and this foreign country later.
A loud knock at the door, startled me from my sleep. The clock said it was 18:13. I’d been asleep for over three hours! Maybe Janie had changed her mind after all and had finally deigned to come see me. I jumped out of bed and pulled open the door.
At the other side stood Fergus McDermott.
He pushed past me and strode into my suite. I followed him as he walked through, removing his clothes as he went further into my suite.
“What the fuck are you doing?” I yelled.
Fergus turned around next to my bed and smirked. He was tall, with dark hair close-shaved to his head and a chin full of stubble. He was a rock star all right, indicated by the fact he was wearing shades inside on a day where the sun had yet to shine, given that it was March in Dublin and dull outside so far. The forecast was rain all week. A thick chain hung around his neck.
Fergus continued to strip off until he was down to his boxer briefs. I’d give him the fact that his body was to die for. All ripped, with a trail of hair that ran down toward that ‘V’ and into his boxers. He had a sleeve of tattoos and more on his neck. God, that must have hurt! He got under my comforter.
“Come on then, new girl. Lose those pjs that cover up that hot bod and let me show you how to suck my cock before I fuck you senseless.” He winked.
I slowly walked over to the chair next to the bed and sat down in it. “I’m already senseless, I’ve taken a job as your new personal assistant,” I replied. “Now get out of my bed. Who knows what you’ve got crawling on yourself that might transfer.”
He bellowed with laughter.
“Well, well, well. Most new staff either run out crying, run out threatening me with a lawsuit, or they get in the bed.” He winked. “Looks like you’re going to be a challenge.”
“So is that all you came around for? For me to do your frat-boy style initiation test? Only I was asleep. It’s been a long trip.”
“Well, I need food and Janie told me my new PA had arrived.”
My jaw dropped. “There’s room service, right? You just pick up the phone.”
He shook his head. “No. You’re my PA. You pick up the phone.”
“I don’t start until tomorrow, pretty boy.”
I saw him flinch at that. Fergus was not marketing himself as a pretty boy, but a rough badass rock star.
“You’re getting me confused with the Black brothers.” He almost snarled.
I shook my head. “No, darlin’. I could never get you confused with them.” Sighing, I puffed out my chest and breathed deeply.
“Oh God, no. You don’t have a crush on those jerks do you? Is that why you took the job? Thought you could bag yourself a Black brother?”
I bristled. “I came here because my best friend asked me to. She says, and I can see it’s the truth, that you need some heavy handling.”
“Oooh.” He wiggled his eyebrows. “Janie is so right about that.”
; “I’m going to ask for a larger salary to cover the therapy when I leave here after this week’s out.”
He trailed a finger down his chest circling each nipple. “Yeah, you’ll need it for the withdrawal you’ll have. I’m like a narcotic, baby.”
I was getting cold out of my bed in the air-conditioned room and as my stomach rumbled, I noted I was hungry too. Standing, I walked over to the unit and turned the heat up.
Then I walked back over to the bed. “Get out and fuck off back to whatever hellhole you crawled out of.”
Fergus pouted. “But I’m comfy, and I want to stay. I like you. I feel like I’ve found a brand-new friend.”
Chewing on the side of my mouth I wondered how to play this. It was perfectly obvious to me that I was a new challenge. That he wanted to either get me to shag him, or to drive me away. That he had some kind of game going on to torment Janie. Perhaps he didn’t really want an assistant at all? I needed to get to know him better even if he was going to chat shit most of the time. By the end of this week I would find out what made Fergus McDermott tick and I’d get the clock finely tuned. For now, I’d drive him batshit crazy as he tried to work me out.
Walking around the other side of the bed, I stripped off my pj’s, flashing my naked body briefly at Fergus and then I climbed in bed pulling the comforter up over my cleavage. His eyes had gone so wide I thought his eyeballs were about to fall out.
I grabbed the room service menu and started to peruse. “You’re welcome to stay for food and hang out until I decide I want to go to sleep, which I can’t imagine being any time soon due to jetlag and the nap I already took. We can get to know each other before I start my PA duties tomorrow. You can answer the door because I’m not decent.” I flashed him my tits. “Also, touch me and you’ll learn just how good I am at martial arts.”