Rub Me the Right Way(193)

“It’s always been on the back burner with me since I was career oriented. But they are so cute, and Cole is crazy about Larisa.” Brett smiled in the dim light coming from the wall, and I stared into his eyes. “How do you move past what happened?”

“Time,” Brett told me as he tugged my body against his. “Lots of time and I am sure lots of talking for them. Perhaps fighting. They had the hard part of everything since I just stepped away and quietly divorced Rayna. I had to get over it in my own way, but now it feels like it was never anything, to be honest.”

“I can see that,” I replied as he kissed me. There was just a strong love between all of them, and that was it. “I love you.”

“I love you,” Brett whispered back as we settled in bed to fall asleep.

I was in between homes with this man, but I’d never felt more secure in my life. We had a beautiful holiday with his family, and I met Rayna and her new husband, a wealthy oil man that doted on her every need. The brief nature of her marriage to Brett was evident in the way they interacted, and I could see how fast she’d moved on.

It was the morning after she left that Brett took us out to eat in town. It was a beautiful lodge style restaurant, and I helped to get Declan in his seat as Brett sat beside me and made sure that the kids were both safe. We chose an early dinner for the sake of the two children, and the sun was settling slowly out of the window as I took a long look. I’d had a chance to speak to both Cole and Larisa one-on-one and was feeling much more comfortable now.

Larisa told me that she was in love with Cole from the beginning but that they were just friends for a long time. Once she went through a rough breakup and slept with Brett, everything started happening quickly, leaving her very confused. She admitted to being in a bad place when she was involved with Brett for the second time and was so relieved that they worked through everything as well as they did. She and Cole were thrilled with their life and family, and she didn’t look back into the past at all now. In fact, she was happy that Brett had found somebody to love like he did me and excited for our future.

It was at that dinner that Brett knelt to the floor, taking me completely by surprise. We’d been together for six months at this point, and it seemed fast as he asked me to spend the rest of my life with him. I stared down at him, glancing at the ring in the box that shimmered in the light from the room before I stared into his eyes. Once I told him yes, Cole teased him a little about the whirlwind relationship but it was with love as we all laughed.

Brett wrapped his arm around me as Larisa looked at the beautiful band encrusted with diamonds. “I need to give this girl some babies before I’m too old. I’ve not wanted that with anyone else.” Cole and Larisa shared a look as I blushed and giggled, feeling his lips against my hair.

We finished our visit and moved on to New York, where the size of the city caught me off guard. Everything was bigger, and there were so many people on the streets. It was much more fast paced than Los Angeles as a home and business, but I was the assistant to Daniel, and I loved working with him. He’d guessed about Brett, and I from our first meeting and the ring on my left hand was no surprise to him or the staff. Better yet, neither did anybody else because that’s how it was in New York. The company was too busy making millions, and Brett loved working from home as he watched all the locations.

We went out a lot here. There was always something open for dinner, maybe a play to see but I loved it all. We decided to get married in the Spring in The Hamptons on the beach with just some family and friends around. It was intimate and beautiful with the sun setting as we kissed for the first time as husband and wife, keeping it quiet that I was three months pregnant with our son at the time. There was a big dinner and reception outside afterward where we danced and chatted with the guests, and I was over the moon. I was so happy, and I felt complete in my life now.





Epilogue



Ten years later, I replaced my manager when he retired. Our son Nathan was now nine and his twin sisters Olivia and Avery five and Brett worked from home and cared for them. We were more in love than ever, traveling to see Cole and their family of four kids as much as possible. It wasn’t necessary to fly to California to see Mom since she was in New York as well, making herself known in the art world.

We still cherished our time together at night when the kids were sleeping, and it was blissfully quiet. We’d make love for hours on those nights, just being a little quieter than before. The girls were grumpy if they didn’t sleep enough. Brett made sure to go away with just me at least once a year as well, somewhere where we could revisit the past.

I never knew that my life would turn out this way, but I wouldn’t change a thing. I had everything I wanted and needed, feeling the love in my life every day.

The End

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Crave Me: A Billionaire Boss Romance


PART 1




Landon


I read the paperwork, fuming at how much my soon-to-be ex-wife, Nadine, was asking for in our divorce. She had the best fucking lawyer in New York, who was well known for going for blood as it was without the ridiculous fees. She wanted the Manhattan apartment and a massive sum for alimony, and all after a mere five years of marriage.


I had been a partner in the Morton and Jones law firm for fifteen years, starting off the street fresh out of law school when I was twenty-five and climbing the ladder quickly. Nadine wasn’t around during that time, since she’d hooked her greedy claws into me after I’d been a partner for years, so I didn’t see why she deserved half of my fortune. New York divorce laws could suck my cock.


The true love of my life had been my first wife, Madeline. We were married for just one year when she died in a car accident while carrying our unborn daughter.


The loss crippled me, and I contributed that to my fast climb in the business. I became a workaholic after the accident, as well as what some would call a manwhore. I was young, rich, and good looking, and the women virtually fell at my feet. Why not take advantage of that and keep my dick busy? There was a long list of women who were regularly in the gossip columns, talking about how I just tossed them out of bed when I was done without any compassion. I was clear about what I wanted with every one of them, so they had no reason to bitch about it.


They still did, but I noticed that the women didn’t stop lining up. Nadine had gotten under my skin somehow, but she was beautiful with bright blond hair and bright turquoise eyes. She had an incredible body as well as an insatiable sex drive, and I hadn’t seen her greed through all of that. I’d been too taken with her youthful energy.


I learned a lot about that, sitting here reading line after line about what she wanted from me. Even if she got it, I was a billionaire due to my job and the various investments I kept caught up on, so I would be just fine. I was just disappointed in myself, having given love another chance after losing my family so many years ago. I’d wanted one with Nadine, but she let me know two years after we married that she wasn’t interested in one any longer.


Forty wasn’t the end all to that, but the idea of letting another woman in after what Nadine was doing to me was questionable at best right now. I knew sex was a part of my future, because, quite frankly, I took great care of myself and still looked good. Women assured me of that fact every single day.


I pushed the papers aside and reminded myself that this would work out, no matter what. Nadine had been quick to point out that I’d cheated on her once I realized that this was going nowhere, but I knew she had done the same. Nadine had been involved in an affair well before I was, and I was ready to just agree that we’d messed up and call it a day, but she was trying to benefit from all my hard work. I glanced at my monitor, seeing that it was approaching five o’clock on Friday. I didn’t have set work hours, but today I was caught up and needed a drink. I had a new assistant starting on Monday who would be a great help to me, so I decided I deserved to hit happy hour and relax a little.


I shut everything down and packed the papers into my briefcase before I left for the day. I sent a text out to some attorney friends asking them to meet me, figuring we could make a night of it.


I chose a corner bar that offered good food and drinks, selecting a table in the corner as I looked around the room. It was filling up and there were some beautiful women here, making me relax as I ordered a whiskey from the waitress. I was watching her ass when she walked away before my gaze moved back to the bar to see a gorgeous brunette woman sipping from a glass of wine. I narrowed my eyes when I realized it was the woman starting at my office next week, looking quite different than she had during the interview I conducted with some of the other partners. Granted, she’d been attractive and smart as a whip that day, but tonight she looked sensual and somehow soft as she laughed. Her little black dress brushed her mid-thigh, and my eyes roved down her muscled calves before I looked back into her face. Her eyes looked greener and they popped with the dark makeup around them, complimented by the gloss on her full lips.


“Picking out your victim already?” Mark, my buddy, asked as he slid into the booth and loosened his tie.