by Briner, Rose
Seriously, he thinks I work for them? Wouldn’t I have money if I worked for them?
“The question is, can I trust you? How do I know you aren’t involved in whatever is going on here, Jayden?”
He shrugs as he moves to sit beside me on the bed. “You can’t be sure of that, Mireya. But know this, I would never do anything to hurt you, I care about you,” he says as he takes my hands in his. Either he’s a really good actor or he really does care about me.
I sit there for a while and stare up at him. I don’t think he’s involved in this, his eyes give me the impression he’s scared something bad will happen to me.
“All right, I just hope that I don’t regret this,” I start before stopping and squeezing my eyes shut. His lips on my cheek have my eyes flying open and searching his. He nods encouragingly at me. “I’m not involved, how can I be when my sister went missing a week after she met Hayden? He said he was taking her away on a magical weekend getaway and she never came home. All I got was a note saying that she left and to not look for her. When I tried to ask your brother about it, he did everything he could to keep me away from him. I think something happened to her at Prosperity Agency,” I reveal to him. I’m waiting for him to start laughing and tell me how stupid I am to fall for their game, but he doesn’t do that.
“How do you know she was at Prosperity Agency?” he asks. Some of his anger is starting to fade and I can see I clearly have his attention.
“Because the girl at the front desk told me that I looked similar to one of their clients. When I asked if she got a good job, she told me she got the best one. But I don’t think it was a modeling deal. I think something bad happened to her,” I tell him as tears well in my eyes. I don’t know what I’ll do if Jayden is involved in this, if he is, then I know I’ll never see Katrina again.
“I think you might be right. You know all those clubs my brother owns? Well, he uses those to scout for women to take to Prosperity Agency. I think that place is more than a modeling agency,” he reveals, he looks like his mind is moving a million miles an hour right now as he looks away from me to stare across the room.
“Well then, what is it then if not a modeling agency?”
“I believe Prosperity Agency is a front for a human trafficking ring. The issue is that I’ve never been able to get close enough to confirm that. But I do think that this is bigger than just my brother. Someone else is involved and that’s why he’s trying to get me kicked out of the company. He wants to take control so he has all the power in this family. That’s why I needed you, I haven’t been able to take him down for human trafficking so I need to prove to the board I’m stable enough to remain in control. He’s trying to discredit me by saying that I’m a playboy who wants to throw everyone’s money away, the board said prove him wrong or I’m out.”
Now everything is starting to make sense. He needed me because he can’t take his brother down. “So you aren’t involved then?”
“No,” he says slowly shaking his head. “Why do you look confused?”
“Because the girl said that both Mr. Leopold’s would be there tomorrow to meet the new girls. I told her I was going to come by to see them tomorrow at one. I never had any intention of going before you yell at me again.”
“Son. Of. A. Bitch,” he growls as he gets to his feet.
“What is it?” I ask as I watch his pace to the other side of the room and beat his fist against the dresser.
“The other person isn’t me, the other Mr. Leopold would be my father. It all makes sense now, why Hayden is always talking about him and going to Seattle. That’s part of the reason why I was always going there, I was hoping I would get to see him so I could confront him and find out if he is involved in all of this.”
“So what do we do now? We can’t let them get away with this, we have to do something, they have my sister,” I plead with him.
He turns suddenly to face me, “I’m not sure yet. First, we need to make sure I remain in control and take away that part of his plan from him. Let me deal with this, you can’t be involved.”
“But why not?” I ask getting to my feet. “I’ve gotten further into this than you’ve been able to. Don’t you think we can use me to your advantage now that I know everything?”
“No,” he growls at me.
“But why not?” I ask again, coming to stand before him. “We have a chance to stop this, we have to do whatever we can to put a stop to this,” I beg him as I grasp his upper arms.
“You can’t, I won’t allow it. Francisco knows who you are now and he knows what you mean to me, Mireya. He’ll do whatever it takes now to get you and give you to Hayden and my father, the fact that you are my wife will just make this all the more sweeter for them. They’ll kill you, Mireya, and I can’t allow that to happen.”
They’ll kill you.
Chapter Nineteen
“I can’t just sit back and do nothing, Jayden. They have Katrina, she’s all I have left. Without her, I have no one, I have to fight to save her. If I don’t, I’ll be alone,” I tell him sadly as I turn away from him. I see I’m going to have to figure this one out on my own.
“You have me, Mireya,” he declares forcing me back around to face him.
My eyes search his as I stare up at him, his eyes no longer blaze with anger. There’s something else there, something else that I can’t place.
“Sure, I have you for another month Jayden. But what happens when that month is up? You're going to be gone remember? That’s what you said and I won’t have anyone,” I tell him sadly.
“I can’t let them take you, Mireya. I can’t let them take you, because I’m in love with you and them taking you would rip out a piece of my heart,” he declares. I recognize that look in his eyes now, he loves me and he’s scared they’ll take me away from him.
I’ve never been in love before, but as I stare up at him and warmth floods through me and straight to my heart, I realize that I love him too. I knew I felt strongly towards him, but I just now realize that what I’ve been feeling for him is love.
“You do?” I ask him as I move myself to sit closer to him. I place my head against his chest and listen to his heartbeat. The way he’s breathing, I can tell he means what he said as his arms move to engulf me and crush me closer to him. For the first time, I feel wanted and safe. I feel like I matter to someone. That someone cares enough about me to keep me safe and take care of me.
“I do Mireya, and I know this wasn’t the best way to start a relationship, but I would love to stay married to you after this is all said and done and we can get to know one another as we grow a future life together. After we find your sister, she can be involved in our lives and I just know everything is going to be perfect,” he says as he strokes my hair with one hand and kisses the top of my head.
“Okay,” I tell him, pulling my head back so I can stare up at him.
“Yes?” he looks down at me hopefully and all I can do is smile back up at him.
“I love you too,” I whisper. “I didn’t at first. You offered me a way to have money to find my sister and that’s why I agreed. But as time has gone on, I’ve come to realize I love you. I think it was that night on the beach. Never in my wildest dreams did I think I would find someone like you. Didn’t matter to me that we would never really be together, that moment we shared together was really special to me and made me realize just how much you truly mean to me, Jayden.”
“I feel the same way, Mireya. Since the moment we met, I’ve told myself I can live without you, but that night on the beach made me realize that living without you in my life and by my side would be the death of me. I need you by my side, you make me a better person. You complete me,” he declares as he brings his lips down tenderly to meet mine. He doesn’t deepen the kiss as he pulls away from me. “Let’s get through tomorrow and then together we can decide how to take down Hayden and get your sister back. One way or another we will get her back.”
He leads me over to the bed an
d gently pushes me down against it. I hold my breath as he covers my body with his and tenderly kisses my forehead before he leans down and slowly kisses me. This time is so much different than the other times, there’s no rush to take our clothing off or to complete one another.
Instead, he takes his time licking the seam of my lips as I open them for him, inviting him inside. He doesn’t move to allow his tongue to meet mine right away and he continually licks the seam of my lips while pressing himself against my center. I whine impatiently when he doesn’t allow me to kiss him, making him chuckle.
“Patience, my dear, I will give you what you want when I’m ready to give it to you,” he tells me as he smiles down at me.
He pushes himself up on his hands so he can stare down at my body.
“Please, I need you,” I beg him shamelessly as I lower the top of my dress and reveal that I’m not wearing a bra.
He groans as he moves his head down to take one of my tits into his mouth so he can suck it vigorously and bite my nipple. I scream out into the empty room as he moves to the other and does the same thing.
“So eager tonight, aren’t we?” he teases as he lowers himself down a little so he can grasp my tits with both hands and squeeze them together. When he moves his head back and forth between both of them as he squeezes them tightly together, I almost cum on the spot. Instead, I take his distraction and use it to my benefit by using my hands to wiggle the rest of my dress off. I then tilt my hips up enticingly towards him so he can feel the heat of my body.
He stops and lets go of me as he sits back on his heels and stares down at my body, noticing that my dress is now completely gone from my body. When he doesn’t make a move to do anything, I take my own breasts in my hands and squeeze and pull on my nipples as I stare up at him. I lick my lips as he watches me, enjoying his eyes on me as I feel my own tits. I’ve grown so much in the time we’ve spent together, I still have a long ways to go, but now I feel comfortable touching myself in front of him and asking for what I want.
“If you don’t hurry up and fuck me, Jayden, I might just have to do it myself,” I tell him as I move one of my hands down my body and run it down past my stomach and dangerously close to my center. He captures my hand before it can make it there and holds it above my head so I can’t reach myself. I humph in annoyance.
“That’s for me to do and not you,” he declares, using his free hand to undo his belt and attempt to push his pants down. I’m eager to feel him inside of me, so I use my feet to help him push his pants down far enough for his erection to spring free.
This time he doesn’t tease me as he uses the same hand and brings one of my legs up so it rests next to his hip. He doesn’t let me have my hand back as he continues to hold it above my head. He then pushes himself deep inside of me and holds himself still. He feels different this time, this time I feel all of him.
“Tonight, I’m making you officially mine for the first time, Mireya Leopold. My beautiful wife,” he says tenderly as he hardens his grip on my leg and proceeds to fuck me.
There’s something about having my hand above my head that turns me on more than I’ve been the last few times we’ve fucked so I bring my other hand up on my own and use it to grab his hand. He stops for a moment when he thinks I’m going to use my hand to force him to let me go, but when he moves his hand, I clasp mine together and stare up at him. He starts to move his hand back, so I nod at him and he grabs both my hands in his one and continues to fuck me.
He feels so good with no condom, I feel him going deeper and deeper into my body, filling me up completely. Mind, body, and soul as we become one for the first time. This is the first time I’ve truly felt us become man and wife.
I want to have him restrain both of my hands, so I move my leg so he’ll let it go and he stops fucking me so he can stare down at me.
“What is it?” he asks, letting go of my hands.
Instead of answering him, I move my hands apart and tilt my hips up towards him. He smiles when he realizes what I want and moves both his hands up so they hold mine. This way, brings his body even closer to mine, just like I want and I smile up at him as he enters me once more.
This way is so much deeper since he has to use his lower body to fuck me and can’t use his hands on my hips to pull me closer to him.
“Fuck Jayden, fuck me harder,” I beg him when he doesn’t go fast enough.
His blue eyes blaze into mine as he rams into me and I tilt my head back to scream out my pleasure. I don’t care who hears me right now. I want the entire world to know just how much I am in love with Jayden, and I make that clear when he pushes me over the edge.
“Fuck Jayden, yes!” I shout as my eyes come up to meet his.
“Oh God, Mireya!” he shouts back as I feel his semen fill me for the first time. He just seems to go on and on forever as he slowly pumps his hips into me as he continues to cum deep within me.
I’ve never been so happy and scared at the same time. What if I get pregnant and he decides I’m not really good enough to be a billionaire’s wife? What will I do then?
I can’t sleep after that. Long after Jayden falls asleep, I sit there on the edge of the bed staring at him, worried about tomorrow and our entire future together. He makes everything sound so easy, but in the world where I live –the real world- nothing is ever really that simple.
What if tomorrow in front of the board, we fail to keep him in control? Or afterwards at the ball, what if he decides Vanessa is better for him than I am?
So many things could go wrong tomorrow and I’m petrified that one of those things could come true. Tomorrow morning could change everything.
Chapter Twenty
“You look fine, Mireya, stop worrying so much. Just be yourself and everything will be perfectly fine,” he says as he smiles down at me.
We are standing outside his office right now, the place where I stalked him for days. Someday I’m going to have to tell him the truth about how we met up that day we ran into one another. I don’t know if he would ever look at me the same knowing that I stalked him like a crazy person so I could get closer to him. If someone told me I would be in married and in love with Jayden, I wouldn’t have believed them.
I smooth my hands down the front of my black slacks and make sure my purple blouse is still in perfect condition. I look like a million dollars, but right now I feel anything but that way. I’m scared they’re going to take the company from him and he’s going to lose everything. He will be devastated if he loses his business and I don’t know if our new found relationship would survive a loss that catastrophic.
I look up at him and smile as he stares back down at me. Today his blonde hair is slicked back and he’s wearing an expensive charcoal gray suit and new shiny black shoes. He looks like the billionaire I first met. Dressed like this, he’s not the man I’ve come to know and love, he’s in his element here and that just further makes me falter on us making this work. He’s not the simple guy I’ve come to know and love, this is Jayden Leopold. Businessman, leader, CEO. He belongs with someone like Vanessa that can look and act like they belong here.
I don’t dare tell him what’s going through my mind right now. The last thing he needs is my insecurities to drag him down on a day like today. He needs me to remain intact and in one piece or everything will fall apart.
“I’m ready,” I tell him, putting on a brave face and nodding once as I turn to stare at the building before me.
Today, it’s empty, there aren’t hundreds of people running to and from the building trying to keep meeting dates and deadlines. There are only board members here and myself, Jayden’s new wife.
Stepping out of the elevator and into his office for the first time, I stop to have a look around the luxurious space before I follow behind him and towards the boardroom. The second he opens the door and steps through, everyone stands to greet him. This is the first time I get my first real look at the board in investors and directors that control Jayden’s future fa
te.
I flinch when I notice that not only are Hayden and his mother here, but Vanessa and Francisco are here as well. Shit, now standing there with his fresh suit, Francisco looks just as powerful as Hayden and Jayden do. Now I see why Jayden said I need to stay away from him. Standing here today and watching him move around the room, I know I’m going to stay the hell away from him at all costs.
“Welcome everyone be seated,” commands an older gentleman. His suit doesn’t look as nice as Jayden’s but he looks just as powerful as he does. When everyone is seated, he continues, “We’re here today to determine if Jayden is in the right state of mind to continue to run this company.”
“We’ll open with arguments against why Jayden should remain CEO and then we’ll hear from Jayden himself and anyone he wishes to speak on his behalf,” says the older man as he gestures to Hayden across the room and seats himself in his chair.
The second Hayden stands from his chair and adjusts his tie, I hate him even more than I did before this moment. He looks so sure of himself that he’s going to get rid of Jayden. Not if I get my way he won’t.
“While my brother has run this company successfully for the past few years, you should all be aware that my brother has not made wise business decisions. He’s made several trips down to Seattle on the company's dime all so he could find women to occupy his time with,” to my horror he throws down a pile of photos of Jayden embracing different women. My eyes fly up to meet his and he looks ashamed of his past behavior.
“You see board, he’s not stable enough to remain in power. He’s making business decisions that are impacting the company and he can’t keep himself away from women long enough to get any real work done. Just ask Ms. Toleo, he even dropped her without notice so he could run off with another woman,” he looks pointedly in my direction and I force myself to remain strong and not remove my gaze from his. He thinks he’s going to intimidate me, well that’s not going to work.