Sinfully Yours

Chapter 4

It was one thing to be rejected once, but three times! She was doing something to his ego. It wasn’t as if he hadn’t been rejected in the past but that was before fame, fortune, and beauty. What does he have to do? scream, pay attention to me! Once, he asked her out for lunch, she said no, maybe because of pride, not wanting others to think she is climbing her way to the top. He wouldn’t mind her taking advantage of him. The second time, he sends her flowers, with a note asking her out yet again, this time it hurts as he put some consideration into it: you got three surprises, two more to go. Be ready by 9 pm for the next one—well with help from the internet. He thought that women like flowers and being romantic and he hadn’t done romance for a long time, they know who he is, sleeps with them, bought them expensive stuff and it was over. A third time, he sent her jewelry, he thought women like jewelry...after all, she was looking at it. But it was sitting on his office desk when he came in. It was nothing to him considering he had brought women things that are more expensive than this. It’s driving him crazy. It was Friday night and he had no food in his fridge, he hadn’t planned on staying long, perhaps he should call for assistance. He took a car and drove to the supermarket.

“What the hell?” He says to himself, the supermarket was close. Maybe he should have brought his assistant to do tasks like this for him, he drove further and further out of his geographic area until he was able to find one that closes at ten, only ten minutes to do his grocery.

“I’m sorry, sir, but we are about to close,” said a security guard.

“It's okay Max, I can take h—” she stops, Alexander too himself was surprised, what are the odds? If this is fate, then why is it so hard to get her to like him? Did she have a boyfriend, was that it? She scans and bags his item and he inserts his card to pay for his stuff and she frowns...yes, it's a regular debit, no black card. He left the store but he was waiting for her outside. She cautiously approached him, did she think he bites? Well, he may have acted irrationally towards her, but only because it frustrates him that he can't read her.

“Is there anything I can do for you?” She asks.

Yes, two things. “Are you seeing anybody?” She nervously smiles. He hadn't meant to ask but he had to know why she wasn't being receptive. Was he too forceful?

“Let me drive you home,” he says.

“Okay,” she answers. He was taken aback, he'd ready to argue his case, he wasn't expecting her sayings yes. They got into the car. A full three minutes in she wasn't talking, only staring outside watching the street go by.

He was watching her, in his eyes she is beautiful but he had met many beautiful women before, what's so different about this one? He is conflicted, don't know if he should date her or f**k her.

“So, last semester of college, are you excited?”

“Uh-huh.”

He can never get a full sentence out of this woman.

“You are very mysterious,” he says. She smiles a real smile. She had a beautiful smile, her eyes sparkled.

“I don't think I'm mysterious, reserved maybe,” she clarifies.

A woman with self-awareness, was it possible to fall even more? They drove through the remainder in silence, finally, they made it in front of the building.

“Thank you, Mr. Sin, and...Goodnight,” she says.

He didn't want to let her go, watching her leave, knowing he was to wait until Monday to see her again. What did he have to do? Must he dragged her to his place, how long until someone starts to notice she is gone? He never felt this possessiveness towards any woman. And then these tangle in him, he wants to taste her, in more cases to know what's sets her apart from the other, then the overwhelming tendency to protect her, to possess her both physically and emotionally. And an idea came to him, silly maybe, but he had to try. For now, he had to say goodnight. Later that night as planned, he went to the club and Lana came over. This was his plan, to have her come over, dressed as Adrianna which he didn't disclose that part to her as far as she knew, this was foreplay, even though he knew in her mind she must think he is weird in a kinky fetish type way and he didn't care. He pays her for that and they have a nondisclosure agreement, so she can't repeat this to anyone. All she had to do was the usual and dance for him. He didn't know what the effect would be but if the same feeling he gets when he's around her happens, it meant he was bored with his lifestyle and she is his first, which is a f****d up thing. And if he doesn't respond, it can only mean her...only her.

“So, is this the only way to keep you, pretending to be someone else?” “I don't mind foreplay,” she assures. Right now, she was pretending...to be okay. Did she think she had a claim over him just because she'd been around a bit longer?

“Thanks for your time, I gotta go,” he says.

“Wait a minute, I did all this, the least you can do is take me back to your place” she trailed her finger up and down over his shirt.

“I'm not interested,” there is finality on his tone but she didn't seem to get the hint.

“Come on, or are you not…” her eyes linger over his manhood, “as they say you are.”

Oh, he was packing alright and he was knowledgeable about it, still, the reason she lasted so long as she didn't know it, is because he hasn't slept with her. He only finds it amusing and he had places to go. He left. In his apartment alone, Alexander begins to realize he hasn’t slept with one girl during this week, not that it hasn’t happened before but usually it's because he is locked away in a destructive work zone not owing to the fact he was too busy chasing someone. Saturday morning, he got a call from California, he had been AWOL and they weren’t aware of any business trip, he was needed by Monday to sign a paper and the task cannot be delegated to anyone but the CEO. So he asked for a favor from his bodyguard Jack, who had a friend who specialized in surveillance. At this moment, he was conscious of what he was about to do is wrong and one of the many things that would later cause him to lose both himself and his heart. Later that night, He drove by her place of work and he didn’t know if she would be there but in favor of taking the chance anyway. He was missing her. How can he miss someone he’d just seen last night? The idea that he wants her badly, needs her close to him is agonizing—but the thought of seeing her with someone else was even more excruciating. In his eyes, she was already his, he just needs to conquer her, this would be easy if she comes willingly. It was about time for her to come out and what would she think to find him waiting on her, would she find it disturbing?...it will only be one time. He won’t do it again. She was closing in and oh, god she was with someone, a boyfriend? A coworker? He had to get out of there before he did something barbaric.

“Mr.sin?” she saw him, there was no way out.

“Hello!” he says innocently.

“What are you doing here?”

“ I forgot to buy milk and was coming to get some but I didn’t get here on time,” he lies.

“Hello, Mr.Sin, it is nice to meet you,” the unknown guy greets, holding out his hand to him, "I'm Henry." Alexander gave him a cold stare before he quickly pretended to be friendly and returned the greeting.

She was staring at him, more like inspecting him. Are you reading me?

“Ready to go,” the guy named Henry says.

“I can give her a ride,” he imposed. “I have something to discuss with her anyway, pertaining to work,” he added when he saw a whisk of confusion on the boy's eyes.

“It's okay, thank you,” she said to the boy who had whispered something in her ear. He felt the urge to pummel him in his face but control, he must retain control. The boy left, and he felt more at ease. When they both had settled down in his car, he was both stunned and delighted to hear her start the conversation first.

“I don't want to pry, but don't you have someone to do those things for you,” she stated with wonder.

“It was a spontaneous visit,” he speculates how much he should tell her without revealing himself.

"Nowadays, you can do your grocery shopping online and you get same-day delivery."

“I know, I don't like people knowing where I live," he says truthfully, again, he found himself calculating. Her destination was getting closer and closer and he wanted to stall knowing he won't see her until he comes back Tuesday. That was too long. If only he could slow down the time. When he was sixteen, he dropped out of high school and left home to begin his future, he started a company from the ground that is now worth billions. As it happens, in times of desperation and debt, he stayed persistent and determined, having meetings with intimidating investors at eighteen. At the moment in a car with a woman, and he doesn't know what to do to make her stay without scaring her away. He seized the door handle just when she was about to open it, in a now or never moment, he crashed his lips into her. Her lips bring warmth and happiness, he savors the taste. He couldn’t make out her facial expression in the dark but by her body language, she was caught off guard.

“I gotta go, thanks, bye, um bye.” Okay. he’d kissed a lot of women before, this reaction was the first. Didn’t she enjoy it? Should he have been fierier? He didn’t want to scare her away yet he scares her away.

“Wait,” he wanted to say, but by then she was already inside. It took him twenty more minutes in front of her building to gather up the courage to leave. It is nine-thirty in the morning and Alexander is sitting at the head of a long table in the meeting room at Sin media’s headquarter in California, he had to be there to sign the paper, closing the deal. He wished he could be somewhere else, although this was important also, and he had eyes on her, so no need to worry.

“It was nice doing business with you,” the older gentleman says.

“Likewise,” he responded.

On Tuesday he made it to New York, except he faced another problem, the director was back from his vacation. As calculated as he always is, why didn’t he check the time the director was supposed to come back? He won't be able to see her and have her across him for six hours and it also gave him more excuses to add to his list of why he has her monitor. He needed more time to get acquainted with her, enough to be able to call her without an excuse or go see her without appearing like a creep. He didn’t know what to do, he wanted her both ways, the overwhelming force to be closed to her means he would take it any way he can. The first method wasn’t working...maybe she is not looking for a relationship, that would leave him to pursue her as a f**k buddy and she doesn’t seem like the type. f**k. he didn’t want more reason to drive her away, still, he had to try and if that didn’t work...he didn’t want to think about what he would do next. The madness within him would surface and he’s already doing something wrong, having his investigator watching her every move and reports to him because showing to everywhere she was would seem more than coincidental.

“Aah, Alex you back so soon,” Mr. Cole says.

“Yeah, I have unfinished business here,” he replied, thinking, as it was his last day here and he had no more excuses for being on the fourth floor, he would make his intention known to her.

He found her in the hallway next to the water dispenser, he grabbed her by her elbow, firmly but not enough to hurt her And pulled her all the way to the elevator, he pushed her against the wall just as it closed leaving just them two. He traps her with his body pin against hers so she wouldn't and couldn’t run away, he lightly strokes her bottom lip with his thumb, reading her face for any reaction, she glances at his lip and that was the sign he needed to go in for a kiss. This time he kissed her with more passion and poured in the word he wanted to say to her, “I need you.”

He broke away from their kiss, leaving her breathless, her lips were now swollen, an indication of how much he indulged in it...Her sweet lip.

“I want you,” he says, as he cupped her face with both hands, scanning her face with pleads. “I want you badly.”

“Okay,” she nodded her head in acceptance.