“I was only fifteen when we got married. He was much older than me.” Heather rolls her eyes. “My dad sold me to him.”
“Are you freaking kidding me?” I didn’t mean for the sound of my voice to be so raised.
“No, he would yell at me that I wasn’t worth the money he paid for. I was his property to do with as he pleased. He would use my body when I fitted his needs, he would beat me for just about everything. His words were the cruelest.” Just then I realized something.
“Okay ladies come with me.” The walls around the elevator were mirrors. I walked and stood in front of the mirror. I could see the women behind me. “I see a crazy woman. I see someone who has nightmares with a crazy shadow that taunts me. I want to remember everything I forgot. I feel sometimes I’m not good enough for the man in my life.”
I look in the mirror and see Candy looking at herself. She walks up to the mirror almost like she wants fight with what she sees.
“I see a broken woman. I am a sexual object. Men don’t want me for my brains but my body.” Candy then backs away from the mirror.
“I’m Nicola I have a name.” She walks closer to the mirror and strips off her shirt. I try to hid my shock as we see her back. It’s all marked up. “I’m by blood my father’s daughter, but he is not my father. He’s not my teacher. I am the daughter to a father that died on the cross for me.”
Wow. I think I get who she’s talking about. I watch her put on her shirt. I’m shocked by her words. How awesome is that? Robin walks to the mirror next.
“I see a fat woman who has no brain. I see a useless human being.” Then she backs away.
“I see someone broken and not worthy of love.” Heather is the last to look in the mirror. I walk to Candy first. I stand behind her.
“I see a beautiful woman who doesn’t hide behind what happened to her. She’s strong and won’t let anyone see her as a sexual object because it’s her choice to be who she wants to be, smarts and all.” I walk to Nicola next.
“You do have a name Nicola and its beautiful. You do have a father who loves you unconditionally. If I’m right, he loves us all.” I move to Robin.
“You have the body you were gifted with. Scars, curves, stretch marks that are all yours. Hello, look Robin.” I point to her in the mirror. “You gave birth to a beautiful baby boy, you are not useless. You have a greater purpose and that boy needs his mother.” I then turn to Heather.
“We are all broken in our own ways. Look Heather. I see a woman who’s already loved and knows how to love in return. You’re here because of your daughter. She must love you and you her.” She smiles. I look around the room and some of the women are wiping a tear from their eyes and smiling.
This right here is where I need to be. Helping others is my purpose. I want to use what broke me to help other better themselves.
“What about you Cara?” Robin states.
“I don’t know yet about me. I’m getting there though. It’s going to be a process. My demons are still fighting me and my story isn’t over with yet. I just have to figure out what my demon is in the first place.” I tell them the truth and we begin walking again.
“What should we do when we doubt ourselves?” Nicola asks and I have to think about this. I want to say something right.
“Write it down. Like in a journal and the next time you’re here talk about it. Don’t hide what is bothering you. I mean I know we all do that. I’m the worst at it. I seem to only hurt myself more by hiding my issues. What’s worse is it pushed those that want to really be there for me away.”
“Is that what you’re doing Cara? Pushing loved ones away.” Heather’s now walking beside me.
“Yeah I am. It’s possible that I pushed my boyfriend into the arms of his ex-girlfriend. She’s a really pretty blond. He kissed her on New Year’s Eve at midnight.”
“OMG! Are you for real. I hate men that do that. They can’t drop kick their ex’s to the curb like trash. I mean they’re an ex for a fucking good reason.” Robin was about to lose it.
“Yeah well she’s friends with his friends so it’s hard to just get rid of her.” I hear Robin sigh.
“I mean really. They don’t have to shove it in your face. He’s moved on and so should she. What was his excuse for kissing her?” I stop to think about what or if he told me anything.
“She kissed him.” I think is what he told me.
“What really! What a liar! Come on think about it no man lets a woman just kiss them. Oh I’m sorry her lips just fell on mine. He wanted her to kiss him or he kissed her.” I never thought about it that way. Did Jordan play me by kissing her?
He did say he would be home late. Maybe I should stop by the office and surprise him.
CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN
JORDAN
I have been fighting a battle all morning with Courtney. If she doesn’t stop sending my people to do these crazy things we will never figure out the first task she gave us.
I had told Maria to let Niki into the building. I need to talk with her about everything. I marked the pages of that damn scrapbook that I need to talk with her about. Today was the first day that I looked at it all. There are some pages of inappropriate photos in this book. I’m ashamed that I even brought it home.
I now understand why Cara dressed the way she did the other night. I saw the one photo in the book before, but not in it entirety. I mean there was a whole section of photos of Niki wearing a black little number and red lipstick. Hell, they were photo’s I had taken for the fun of it. I’m thankful she didn’t put the ones up where she went down on me.
I don’t think Cara would ever be able to get those out of her head. I need to check if Niki still has those because they need to be destroyed. I don’t need them coming back to bite me in the ass.
I was so uncomfortable about my meeting with her that I didn’t even take a lunch break. I was smart and picked up a decent breakfast. Which is a good thing because I’m not hungry.
I jump when there is a knock at my door. It’s after one and I know who’s here to see me. I don’t even get up to open the door because as luck would have it my phone rings. I go to answer the call from Matt as Niki walks in.
“Hey Matt,” I gesture for Niki to talk a seat.
“I got word back that I should have the results sometime later today.”
“Awesome thank you.” I hang up the phone and look at Niki. She’s in this long coat and knee high boots.
“Hello Jordan, you wanted to talk with me.” She crosses her legs on the couch and I watch the coat ride up.
“Yes, I wanted to talk with you about a few things actually. First thing would be about you and Travis.” Let’s start there.
“Me and Travis,” she laughs. “What about that?”
“Well, I want to know if you had a relationship with him while we were together.” She stands to her feet and takes off her coat. I check out the outfit she’s wearing. I’m a little puzzled by it. It makes her look like a slut.
Niki walks past the couch towards me and I put my hand up to stop her, but she ignores it. I watch her take a seat on the edge of my desk. She reaches across me shoving her breasts in my face and that’s when I see it.
She grabs the book she gave me as she sits upright. I push my chair back and stand to my feet. I move closer to her and grab the chain around her neck. I pop the clasp in the back and bring the chain forward pulling up the necklace.
“I’ve kept it safe for you Jordan. Looks to me that you noticed I was wearing it.” My fucking high school class ring. Really?
“Why wear it now?” I watch her run her hand up and down the chain I’m holding. She sinfully smiles.
“I wanted to remind you of better times Jordan.” She slowly licks her bright red lips. “Did you know some of these pages if you rub them together will pull them apart from the spine of the book.”
Niki flips to one of my tabs in the back of the book. She then slowly licks the tip of her finger with her tongue and rubs the
pages together. I thought something looked off with them. The page then bends at the spine and she opens it.
I’m horrified to see what’s in the book. Well, that answers my question about her having those damn dirty photos. I take the book out of her hand and try to correct the page.
“Why would you give me this Niki?”
“Because you like these things Jordan. I mean I know you probably don’t have anything like this of Cara. I don’t think she would be naughty enough to suck that cock of yours. I loved the taste of your dick on my tongue.” Niki stands and I watch her tug up her skirt. She puts her hands on her hips and then drops her red thong to the floor.
“Niki, damn it keep your fucking clothes on and take a seat on the couch. Go back over there now. Away from me. I don’t want you anymore. Hell, this is already gone too far.” I keep my head turned until she sits back down.
“Fine! What the hell am I here for Jordan. I mean you don’t want me. I’d be happy to fuck you.”
“No Nicole I don’t want you. I’m not interested anymore. I have Cara and I’m happy.” I catch her out of the corner of my eye sit on the couch.
“I don’t believe for one second that your happy Jordan. I mean you did kiss me back a few weeks ago.” Is she for real?
“I did no such thing, Niki.”
“Believe what you want to believe Jordan. Your tongue caressed mine for a moment. I know Cara has lost her ever loving mind and you need to settle with a good woman. I can treat you right Jordan.” She crosses and uncrosses her legs flashing her cunt to me.
“Niki for the love of all things keep your damn legs closed.”
“What you don’t want to see my beautifully shaved pussy. You used to like it.” Oh hell.
“I don’t want or need to see that. I need to know about you and Travis.” She puts her legs together and takes a breath.
“Tell me what you know?” I don’t want to be going round in circles with her.
“You fucked him while we were dating. Which means at the time, my cock was not good enough for you. I know for a fact now that you cheated on me with two different men.” I watch as she smiles.
“Oh, my dear Jordan. Your cock should be worshiped. However, you were too busy to play with my pussy the way it desired to be played with. Can’t blame a girl for filling her needs where she could.” I try to hide my disgust. That’s just nasty. I hope it was only the two men.
“Moving on to another topic. This book was a terrible gift.” She frowns and for a moment I think she might start crying.
“It was a great fucking gift Jordan and cost me a pretty penny to get made. You better appreciate it.” Now she’s mad at me.
“I’m lucky as fuck Cara didn’t see the nasty pictures you secretly added to the book. I mean really.”
“You were thrilled when I allowed you take photos as you were cumming into my…” I waved my hands to shut her up.
“Niki I was dealing with so much and wasn’t in the right state of mind when those photos were taken. I had asked you to destroy them not long after and you disobeyed me.” I’m pissed.
“Well I like them and I won’t do that. You want to punish me for keeping them then be my guest. Spank me. I know you like to do that. I mean Cara does need to see the dirty things you like. I should point them out to her. I’ll keep my mouth shut if you fuck me.” I’m about to lose my temper.
“I will never fuck you again Niki. I don’t want to catch anything from your nasty black hole. You want the stupid truth about that night, Niki. I had been drinking and goofing off with the boys before I came to your bed. I wanted to see if you were really as slutty as everyone was telling me. I regretted treating you that way.”
“You used me. So what. I want to be whoever you want me to be. I want to be in your bed Jordan. Let me love you.” This was a waste of my time.
“I don’t want you! I don’t love you! I love Cara with all my heart and body. Nicole, I want you to leave her alone. Stay away from her. No more games or this will come to bite you in the ass.”
“Whatever, you can’t stop me.”
“Nicole, I mean it. You will regret anything you do or say from here on out.”
“Fine Jordan. I’ll be a good girl.” Thank fuck. “May I leave now?”
“Yes.” I watch Niki go to the door and she unlocks it. Damn her for locking it in the first place. I run my hand over my face. I’m extremely hot from my anger.
CARA
I’m excited about what happened earlier that I need to talk with Jordan. I get to his office and Maria isn’t there when I walk in. It's Friday and she normally forwards her work afternoon and goes home.
I start to walk down the hall and freeze when I see Niki walking out of Jordan’s office again. She smiles at me. Her outfit is defiantly slutty. I wonder why Jordan would have her here alone in his office. I can see her holding on to a coat.
"Awe, lucky me to see you come by. I might as well be the one to tell your crazy ass the truth since Jordan is afraid to. I mean he's worried you might fall apart."
"What the hell are you talking about?" I cross my arms over my chest to stand my ground and she steps closer to me. I instantly smell a hint of Jordan on her.
"Cara, poor Cara, he’s being soft with you. Jordan needs a real woman to please him and he's been coming to me. He asked me to come here to satisfy him." She licks her lips slowly.
"You're lying. I do a damn good job at that." She smiles at me and my heart tightens.
"Ask him, but he'll just tell you another lie. I just had his beautiful cock buried inside me. He won’t want you for a long while now. He’s extremely satisfied with my body. I mean I guess if you want to try to rouse his member you can, but good luck with that. He’s probably super tired.”
“You’re a liar Niki?” I walk passed her practically shoving her out of the way.
Jordan's office door is slightly open when I get there. I walk in to see him sitting at his desk. He looks flustered.
"Hey, pretty girl." He says looking at me. I'm not sure if I should ask him about her or not. "Come here."
I walk closer to Jordan's desk and that's when I see it. A red thong in the trash and they aren't mines.
"Are you sleeping with Niki?" I demand my answer. Jordan looks in the trash can next to his desk and then to me.
"Cara Mia, I'm not sleeping with Niki. I asked her here to talk to her about the drama going on." I hear what he says, but how can I believe him. My chest hurts so much.
I can't do this. He must think I’m the stupidest woman on the planet. It’s no wonder he told me that he might be working late. He wanted some alone time with her. How could he do this to me?
I run my hand over my promise ring and then slide it from my finger. I take a few steps closer to the desk and sit my ring down. "I can't do this. I don't know what to believe. I'm going to go stay at Amber’s."
I turn to walk out of the office. I hear a loud crashing noise behind me and before I make it to the door Jordan has his body against my back. He slams the door shut and I watch him lock it.
"You're not going anywhere, pretty girl." He growls in my ear and then spins me around quickly. He pulls me by my wrist a little hard.
"Jordan I'd like to leave please, I can't do this. I need time." He stops and glares at me. His reaction to me frightens me. I need to wrap my mind around everything.
"I don't think so. We're going to talk this out and right now you need to hush that pretty little mouth of yours and listen." Jordan quickly grabs my promise ring off his desk and moves us to the couch.
He takes a seat and let's go of my wrist only to latch on to my left hand.
"Fingers out Cara." I hold my shaking hand out because right now he scares me. "First of pretty girl, if you ever hand this ring back to me we're done. I gave it to you because I was already in love with you." Jordan looks up at me as he slides the ring back on my finger. "Second, strip."
"Excuse me," I don't want to have sex, not after she was here.
Jordan stands to his feet grabbing the bottom of my dress and pulls it over my head.
I had changed to the dress after being with the ladies. I wanted something comfy and free on my body. Plus, I love simple dresses, always have.
"I asked you to strip and I think I told you to hush. Unless I need you to answer me, your job is going to be to listen to what I have to say. This is my time to talk." I watch him pull his shirt off and then unbuckled his pants. His cock was hard when he tugged down his pants.
"We are not having sex! I don’t want to touch you after you’ve been with her." I shouted without meaning to. Jordan looked at me as he sat down. Before I could protest he grabbed the top of my lace boy shorts and then pulled them down my legs.
"Spread your legs, pretty girl. Listen carefully. I would never touch Niki with my cock if she was the last woman on earth." I had no choice but to listen to the sound of his voice. After I had done as requested Jordan ran his fingers between my legs. "Seems to me you want to tell me, no, but your body betrays you. You’re so fucking wet."
I was wet and I knew it, but I didn't really want this. He was just with her and just knowing that broke my heart. Jordan rubbed my clit just a little causing me to moan.
"Please," I don't know if I was begging for more or asking him to stop. Jordan did stop and pulled me onto his lap. He adjusted his dick and I kept myself propped up.
"I won't force you to do anything, but I'll ask. Cara, "his eyes were wide and showed heavy emotions. My heart squeezed at the sight. "Put me inside you." Huh.
I was shocked. My body begged me to do it, but I kept thinking about Niki and her thong in the trash can.
JORDAN
God if I fucked this up then she's gone. Stupid fucking Niki. I should have paid closer attention to her, but I wanted her out of my office and away from me. I watch Cara, she is so damn conflicted, but what else do I have left.
I asked never once thinking she would actually do it. Her little hand reached out and gripped my cock. She looked from me to her hand, please I silently begged her. Cara shifted a little and then she did what I was hoping for. She put me just a little bit inside her pussy.
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