Don’t Poke The Bear

Chapter 15 Jack Owen

POV Jack Owen

The next day I woke up with a banging head ache and I wasnt sure if I’d even slept at all. I went to the gym and then to the office and my assistant said that Miss Archer was on the phone. I had spent the night before tossing and turning thinking about Frankie and her mad family. I wasn’t sure if I wanted to keep my distance for my own safety or if I liked the excitement. I had spent the past few years bored out of my mind and I was desperate to settle down and find the perfect wife that would be the perfect mother and start my own perfect family and I really thought Frankie was the most perfect woman I had ever met but her family was totally f****d up. I had dumped women for less but I hadn’t stopped thinking about her since the day we met and that had to mean something. I finally built up the courage to answer my phone and to hear her lovely sing song voice you would think that nothing had happened the night before. “So you’re still alive?” I asked and she laughed “it took a lot of convincing but she let me live this time. I’m calling to apologise for the way I treated Bunny last night in front of you and Ashton” I was shocked there was no mention of the other crazy sister kicking the doors off its hinges or the other one with a gun at the dinner table. “I would still like to see you tonight for our date” she said and my mind was racing. “Listen Frankie maybe that is normal for you but last night was a bit much for me.” There was a beat of silence between us “I’m sorry Jack, Mamba shouldn’t have arrived like that but she’s calmed down now. She’s just passionate” what on earth was she talking about “Frankie.. she arrived by helicopter and she looked like she was going to kill you” “Jack she wouldn’t really hurt me… she was just angry” “who is she?” I asked and she took a deep breath “she has a very important job I can’t discuss it but she’s great, you’ll love her once you get to know her” “I’m not sure I want to” I said “what about me Jack? Do you want to get to know me?” My mind was racing. “Yes.. I’m just a bit shocked by it all” I could hear myself giving in to her but I wasn’t sure why. “let’s go out tonight Jake” she said in a flirty voice “alright.. yeah I’ll pick you up” I knew I didn’t sound enthusiastic but I was all over the place. “no I have a better idea.. why don’t I come over to your place?” I liked her style, she was basically saying she wanted me but I still wasn’t sure if I still wanted to be with her but I went along with it anyway.

That day was slow and I was shattered so I left the office early and went back to my place for a rest. My housekeeper had left me some food but I was still in bed when Frankie knocked on my door at exactly 8pm. At least she was punctual. I was only wearing shorts and T-shirt and when I answered the door she looked rather disappointed. “Eh hello” she said as I invited her in but she didn’t look happy and I immediately regretted agreeing to see her again. Yes she was great but I was totally turned off by all the drama with her. Which was surprising considering how much I thought I liked her. I think I had been so distracted by how mothering she was to every body that I had built her up in my mind to be my absolute soul mate but as she walked in and I took her coat I already wanted her to leave. Although she looked great but my need for her had almost vanished. She literally exhausted me. All I wanted was a nice quiet life with a nice quiet woman and I knew that Frankie and I weren’t right for each other. I asked if she wanted a drink and we hardly spoke two words to each other. She sipped her whiskey and she could feel the tension between us. “Are you alright?” She asked and I nodded my head “good” she said as she placed her glass down on the coffee table and that’s when she lunged at me. It was out of the blue and she was sexy but I had already checked out. This wasn’t what I wanted, but I’d never turned away a pretty girl before and I wasn’t about to start now. I kissed her the way she was kissing me and it was kind of hot, but it wasn’t as good as I thought it would be. She climbed on top of me and I could feel her rub her p***y against my groin. She was moaning against my lips but I had nothing for her. I was only wearing shorts and she could feel that I wasn’t hard. She pulled away “are you sure that you’re ok?” She asked and she looked concerned and confused. Obviously a beautiful woman like Frankie had her choice of men and she’d probably never had this problem before “yeah I’m fine. Why don’t we go into the bedroom” I said as I got off the sofa. I took my T-shirt off as she slowly walked behind me. My apartment was completely silent and as we got to my bedroom and I wondered why she was going through with it because we were both clearly uncomfortable She took all of her clothes off and I slipped my shorts off. The sight of her naked body obviously gave me a hard on, I’m a red blooded man after all, but the spark between us had disappeared. She crawled up my bed towards me and started to kiss my chest. I could hear cars passing by outside and the silence in my bedroom was deafening. I was uncomfortable by how intimate she was trying to be with me so I grabbed her by the shoulders and lay her down on the bed and got on top of her. We kissed for a few minutes before my phone started to beep and I’d never been so glad to have had a call before in my life. “I better get that” I said and she slowly nodded her head. I was hoping it was some kind of emergency but it was my brother Ashton. “I’m at your door! let me in” he said and I wondered what he was up to now. “Calm down, give me a minute” I hung up the phone and turned to her “Ashton is at the door he needs to speak to me, it’s urgent” she nodded her head again and then she let out a long loud yawn. I couldn’t believe how I had gone from obsessed with her to wishing I had an emergency so I could get rid of her. She obviously felt the same way because she looked bored and tired. I got up and pulled on my shorts and answered my front door. Ashton burst in as soon as the door opened “you’ll never guess what?” He said and if he had interrupted us about to have s*x when I was still in to her I would have killed him but now I wanted to kiss him. “What’s up?” I asked and he was giddy with excitement “I spoke to Bunny today, she said that Wolfie called to apologise to her for last night and Bunny definitely thinks that Wolfie is jealous that I’m dating Bunny and that I might have a chance with her. Bunny said she can’t continue dating me if it hurts her sister. Do you know what this means? Jack it means that I have a chance with Wolfie and that my plan to make her jealous has worked” he was almost out of breath by the time he’d finished talking and I felt like the worst brother in the world. I was about to sleep with her without giving him a second thought. “Listen Ashton, you need to calm down. I’m not sure everything Bunny says is true. I mean look how her family react to her and that other sister Mamba turning up like that, obviously Bunny must have exaggerated how Wolfie had treated her or she wouldn’t have been that angry. Maybe she’s exaggerating about this too.” I was standing there in nothing but shorts with an enormous hard on and lip stick all over my chest and lips when he finally calmed down and looked at me “Jesus Jack, are you here with someone?” He asked as he looked at Frankie’s coat and handbag on my sofa. “I wish you would have said you were here with someone. I wouldn’t be going on like this if I’d have known you had company. I’m just excited about finally having another chance with Frankie” His smile faded when he heard Frankie say “you don’t have a chance with me” I hadn’t heard her come in. She was standing in the doorway in nothing but my T-shirt and I could feel the blood drain from my face. Ashton looked at me and he started to scream insults and I didn’t blame him. I tried to calm him down but he carried on and Frankie turned and walked back into my bedroom. “Please listen to me Ashton, I’m sorry. Frankie and I got to know each other but I stayed away from her because of you and the way you feel about her but then you started seeing Bunny and I thought you were over her. Then after seeing her this weekend we decided to meet up but nothing has happened and nothing is going to happen. I promise I’ll never see her again. I love you, you’re my brother I don’t want to hurt you. I don’t want to fall out with you over a woman. She means nothing to me” He was a good kid but I’d never seen him this worked up before “it’s too late, you’ve already hurt me. I never want to see or hear from you again” he stormed past me and I wanted to kick myself. He slammed my front door and as I was just pulling myself together Frankie stormed past me and she was fully clothed, she picked up her coat from my sofa “I heard what you said don’t worry you won’t see or hear from me again either” as she slammed the door on what was the second person to storm out of my flat and my life that night I sat on the sofa and smiled. I knew Ashton would come to his scenes and I was glad to be rid of Frankie and her family once and for all.