by Z. Stefani
“No more rules, Mr. King.” she shook her head.
“Just one- no other man but me.” he warned her and she nodded.
“That’s easy enough, since I will not be having sex until I find the man I want to marry and then actually get married to him.”
“You mean when you find your future ex-husband.” he grinned.
“Why would you say that?” she pouted.
“If you’re going to wait until your wedding night for sex that means you’re going to wait just long enough to find out that your new husband can’t make you feel the way that I make you feel. I know exactly how you like your sex” he slid his hand up her thigh, pushing her gown up as he went, “and I know you’ll divorce him before the ink is dry on your wedding license. Then you’ll come running back to me.”
“You think so?” she asked spreading her legs a little further apart.
“I know so.” he said as the tip of his finger slid under the edge of her panties. “Now that you’re my fiancée I get to burn all of your panties.”
“I thought you said it was just a ring?” she asked, confused by the sudden glimmer of hope that she felt.
“It is just a ring, a ring that ties you to me.” he answered as the tip of his finger toyed with her opening for a moment before partially sliding in.
“Until the saboteur is caught?”
“Yes.”
“Then what do we do? A huge public break up?”
“No, we’re not going to publicly break up.” he thrust his finger deep inside of her and she arched her hips off the bed.
“Quietly break-up?”
“No breaking-up.” he had just bent to kiss her when his cell phone rang. Normally when he was with Heaven, he ignored his phone, but there was a chance it was Fritz with some information.
“Yeah.” he spoke into the phone. “Shit! We’re on our way.” he barked then looked at Heaven with an unreadable expression on his face. “We have to go.”
“Where?”
“Your place.”
“Why? What happened?”
“Someone broke into your house.”
***
Intruder
After an intense ride to Heaven’s house, they jumped out of the car and walked through the small front yard. Julian headed towards Fritz who was looking at a window on the side of the house, while Heaven went towards her front steps.
“Oh no.” Heaven shook her head as she neared the open front door and then looked into her ransacked front room. Her jewelry was dumped in the middle of the floor and over five hundred dollars was scattered across the room.
“The police should be here any moment.” Fritz said as walked towards him. “I’ve checked every window and none of them have been tampered with. The back door is still locked from the inside and again, no evidence of tampering. I believe the point of entry was through the front door.” they turned to see Heaven storming towards them with a look of pure fury distorting her pretty features.
“This wasn’t a robbery, some of my expensive jewelry as well as the petty cash I had locked away are scattered across the floor.”
“This is definitely your saboteur.” Fritz said then pointed to the window behind him and Heaven saw a computer printed picture of her and Julian, exactly like the one that had been passed around the firm. “Here come the police now.”
***
The woods across the street from Heaven’s house were dark and suspiciously still, and neither the police officers, the private detective, nor the lawyers saw the dark figure crouched behind the monstrous tree watching them. The dark clothing blended with the black shadows that twisted around the trees and the low breathing was covered by the hum of the slight breeze that rustled the leaves. The saboteur sat still as stone, delighted by the scene and listening to their every word, enraptured by the empowerment of invisibility.
***
Unfortunately there was nothing the police could do, without the identity of the suspect. Their hands were tied and after an hour of getting nowhere, they finally left. Fritz on the other hand knew just what to do, his reason for coming to Heaven‘s house in the first place was to install a security system. So he waited until the police finally wrapped it up and left the premises before he installed it. After he was finished he taught Heaven the different functions of the security keypad from the outside to the inside of the house and helped her set up her pass word. Fritz then informed them that he would be installing a few surveillance cameras around her house tomorrow before he jumped into his truck and left for the night.
“Let’s go to my house.” Julian said holding her hand.
“No, I have to clean this up.” she said looking around at her ransacked house, feeling her anger begin to spark. “I can’t wait until we find who did this.” she sneered then suddenly heard the familiar sound of her mother’s annoying car horn and ran over to the window to pull the curtain to the side.
The white limo pulled in front of Heaven’s house and a half a dozen women stepped out of the car, one at a time. They all wore matching white spandex mini dresses and had cleaning supplies in their hands. Last but certainly not least to emerge from the limousine was her mother, dressed in a hip length white faux fur coat with a bushy collar that dominated the lower half of her face. She also had a ridiculous hot pink and white striped miniature top hat perched off to the side of her perfectly black coiffed hair.
“Aw shit, who called my mother?” Heaven shook her head, already knowing her mother would start with her dramatics, but still happy to see her none the less.
“Where are you, my precious, darling daughter?” Sybille cried as she walked up the front steps, two of the women holding the front doors open for her as she walked through. “Oh my poor baby!” she cried when she set her eyes on her disheveled daughter, then wrapped her arms around her and held her close for a moment before pulling back. “I want you to just sit back and relax, mother will take care of everything.”
Heaven sat at her dining room table with Julian as her mother made a fresh pot of tea for them and the women began working their magical cleaning skills across her house.
“I should be helping. “
“Nonsense, you should be resting. You have had a traumatic week and I insist you let us handle It.” her mother said setting a cup of tea in front of her.
“Fine.”
“And Brutus should be here soon.” Sybille said, her sister had already informed their most reliable security guard at the brothel, to sit at Heaven’s for the night.
“Mom, I don’t need Brutus guarding my front door.” she shook her head ready to object.
“Well call your aunt Coco and talk to her, she made the arrangement.” Sybille said knowing how her daughters mind worked. Heaven would assume Sybille was being over protective with her usual dramatic flair, but Coco wasn’t the least bit over dramatic and only made moves she felt were necessary.
“Brutus is a good idea.” Julian added and Sybille smiled from ear to ear.
***
They walked into her bedroom and Julian locked the door behind them. He then proceeded to check the windows, all the while stripping down to his pale grey boxer shorts. Heaven quickly stripped down to her bra and panties then slipped on a red cotton nightgown.
“Why are you putting that on?” he asked in disapproval and she shrugged.
“Because there could possibly be some freak-show pervert watching us right now.”
“No one can see us and I’m stripping it off you before you get in bed.” Julian finished then sat on her bed and leaned back against the headboard. Heaven walked over and sat on the edge of the bed, her back to him and her head down looking at the ring on her finger.
“It’s been a crazy week.” she said absently. “From the debut of our sex tape to our fake engagement.”
“We could always wait a few days before we go back to work.” he slid his hand up her thigh then under the skirt of her nightgown.
“No, I want to get it done and over wit
h.” she answered, if she was ever going to face her co-workers again, it was now or never.
“I agree.” he said, his finger sliding lazily over her panty covered sex.
“Besides, we need to find out who’s doing this and since the saboteur is our co-worker, it will be easier to figure it out at work,” Heaven said looking back at him. “One of those people in that firm did this to us and tomorrow we will look directly at them, maybe even bump into them, but still not know who it is.”
“Shush,” he sat up wrapping his free hand around her waist as the hand under her dress slid up to caress her breasts. “I’ll be right there next to you and there’s no way I am letting anyone touch a hair on your pretty head.” he kissed the side of her head. “Now come on you need to get some sleep.”
“There is no way I’ll be able to sleep any time soon.”
“I know how to put you to sleep.” he grinned watching her get up and then strip her nightgown off. He slid back to make room for her then tapped the space next to him, she walked over to the bed then stopped and quickly removed her bra. “Good girl.” he whispered, delighted that she voluntarily bared her breasts. The moment she laid down on the bed next to him, he bent his head to kiss the tips of her breasts, his hand sliding into her panties and his talented fingers immediately went to work on her sensitive sex.
***
Julian watched Heaven sleep, thinking of the crazy events that had forced him to give her the ring. What that ring stood for was as torturous to him as it was comforting, and he was still unsure of his feelings. He was by no means ready to settle down at this point in his life, but at the same time he was not ready to let Heaven go either. He hated the thought of settling down with just one woman, but he hated the thought of Heaven being with any man other than him. He didn’t want to marry anyone but he refused to let Heaven marry anyone other than him. He was being selfish and he knew it but had no idea how to settle the duel with himself enough to compromise.
***
Julian took the long way to work, stopping to get them both a coffee. They took their time to enjoy the beautiful morning before finally going in. In the elevator Julian could see Heaven’s nerves begin to fray and took her hand in his.
Heaven could feel Julian trying to pump his strength through his hand, reminding her that he was there to face it with her. She felt a comfortable silence sweep through her body and she exhaled the breath she had been holding for far too long. When the elevator door opened her courage faltered and she pulled her hand from his. She also made sure she was one step ahead of him as they walked down the hall. As she suspected, every available eye on the floor was trained on them, watching their every step. Julian ignored them, and Heaven wondered if he even noticed. She on the other hand had found herself returning a few dirty looks.
She took a good look at the people around her and felt an intense fury begin to develop n her. What had she been so worried for? Maybe it was the shock of being exposed in such a crude fashion wearing off that had her seeing things so differently now. Or maybe it was the fact that deep down she really didn’t give a damn what these people thought. They didn’t pay her bills, put food on her table or a roof over her head. They had no say over her life, they made no decisions for her and they damn sure had no right to look down on her. Who did these people think they were?
***
Heaven walked into the cafeteria, fully aware of the stares she received. Gloria and Reese sat at the far table, silently gawking as Juliette rose from her seat then stormed past Heaven on her way out of the cafeteria. Lila on the other hand was staring at Heaven with brimming hostility, her eyes narrowed in anger as she walked the short distance between them.
“I’m surprised to see you here today, and at the scene of the crime no less.” Lila said snidely, her smug smile making the hairs on the back of Heaven’s neck rise up in defense. Heaven had the best intentions, deciding to not engage in the catty woman’s provocations. Instead, Heaven continued to make her coffee, refusing to show the ignorant woman any emotion or let her know that she was getting to her. “But I do give you credit Ms. Deville, I mean I would have never been able to show my face at this firm ever again after everyone I worked with saw me having sex with my colleague.” Heaven felt her poker face begin to slip and the energy it was taking to not retaliate against Lila was causing her hands to shake. She knew that eventually this confrontation between her and Lila was going to happen, but now was not the time, right now she needed to finish making her coffee and leave before she smacked her. “Now everyone knows the prudish Ms. Deville is not so prudish after all.” she taunted her and Heaven stood there feeling her adrenaline pumping through her, trying desperately to control her temper. “You may have fooled everyone else, but you never fooled me, I knew you were an undercover whore all along.” Heaven finally turned to look at Lila, tempted to slap the smile off her face.
“You sound really jealous, are you mad because I had sex with Julian or is it because Julian won’t have sex with you? Maybe you should focus less on me and think about what it is you’re doing that turns him off so bad.” she said with a calmness that turned Lila’s cocky smile into a dramatic scowl.
“If I turn him off so bad, why have we had sex so many times?” Lila asked.
“Lying only make you look more desperate.”
“It’s true, you can ask anyone, matter of fact, ask Julian himself.” she said with enough self-assurance that Heaven believed her and it took all of her might not to slug Lila on the spot. “I don’t need a tape to prove I’ve had sex with him, unlike you.”
“That’s because everyone knows you’re a slut.”
“Actually, they think you’re the slut,” she shrugged “I’m not the one with the sex tape. Now we are even beginning to wonder if you worked so hard to get to the top so quickly or were you such a good little whore for Julian that he promoted you.” she finished with a smile so smug it was Heaven’s undoing, she saw a sudden flash of Julian and Lila together right before she felt the last of her restraint explode and she drew her arm way back before slapping her with a force hard enough to take Lila to the floor.
“Oh shit!” Gloria gasped.
“Damn!” Reese yelped in shock, both of their mouths agape and their eyes wide with disbelief. “Did she just-”
“Yes she did!” Gloria shock turned to a smile and Reese followed suite. They had been waiting a long time for someone to smack Lila right in her condescending mouth. “I’m jealous, I would have loved to slug that disrespectful bitch.”
“Me too.”
Lila sat on the floor, her tight skirt had ridden up her thighs and she held her bleeding lip while Heaven stood above her, her fists clenched as she stared down at her.
“You little bitch!” Lila hissed, looking up at Heaven with fury in her eyes, but steadily scooting back from her. “I will have your job for this!”
“Go ahead, you know as well as I do I will have another job in a minute and then I’m coming back here to kick your ass! And for your information bitch, I‘m engaged to Julian King!” she held up her hand, flashing her diamond ring before she stormed out of the cafeteria and headed straight to Julian’s office.
***
Julian had run to the restaurant down the block to pick up the food her ordered, he had set up a private spot for them in his office, complete with her favorite CD and a bottle of red wine. He wanted Heaven to relax today and had all intentions of taking her mind off the stress. He was just coming back into the office when he saw the commotion going on in the cafeteria. He saw his father speaking to Lila, who had a bright red mark across her face and drops of blood down her lip.
“What happened?” Julian asked as he neared the crowd, seeing his brother speaking to two of the secretaries off to the side.
“She attacked me!” Lila cried.
“Who?” Julian asked
“Ms. Deville.”
“What?” Julian was ready to go find Heaven but his father held his arm.
; “Hold on.” Ayden said as they watched Ian step towards them.
“Well those two secretaries say differently.” Ian said to Lila who raised her brows in confusion.
“Excuse me?”
“They saw the whole thing and they are positive that Lila shoved her first.” Ian informed them.
“Liars!” she yelled turning to the two secretaries and saw right through the look of concern on their faces. Lila clearly saw the joy they cleverly masked. “You lying bitches!”
“No badgering the witnesses.” Ian informed Lila.
“So then it’s settled.” Ayden said.
“What? No! Ms. Deville attacked me first!” Lila yelled and Julian raised his brow.
“Do you have any witnesses?” Ayden asked.