Tangled Allure: A Forbidden Affair's Journey

Chapter 2

I knew he was right, the guy had freaking cheated on his wife with me and I didn't know how to actually handle that.

"He's definitely going to ask you to keep it on the down low if s**t hits the fan, every social media platform looking to make a quick buck or get a quick break will be out for blood, Cookie the home wrecker doesn't sound too great."I groaned.

"No s**t Murdock, North Times will have a field day with anything they can get on me." I sighed knowing I had to keep my mouth shut about this, none of it could get out, too much was at stake.

And I didn't want the honor of being dubbed a homewrecker I was too good for that. "What will you do?" My friend asks me and I knew only one thing.

"I'm obviously going to act like it didn't happen, I can't risk anything and too much is at stake." Murdock hugs me.

"You're gonna be okay." I smile and nod to him.

We make our way out of the storage closet and onto the main work floor. "Were you too shagging in there or were you helping Murdock get a sense of style." One of the irrelevants on the floor spoke.

"Please refrain from saying things that will get you these hands." I replied and he immediately walked away. No one could pick on my chubby best friend except me, he was a die hard lover though love never really loved him.

I'm sure he would find his one guy someday, like I would believe that crap anyway. I left Murdock at his section and walked to mine, I knew I had to prepare for the inevitable which was having to face Kol.

Time passed and I finally felt a little better, the building was huge and going to every department would probably take the whole day, so I figured I would just relax, do my work hopefully go home early enough to catch up on some much needed streaming.

"Hey you ready to go, the workday is done, we could grab a few drinks." I knew Shawn wanted to use me as bait to attract guys. When ever we went out Shawn would use me as bait, Hilda as the sober one to get her home and Murdock would be saying he's with me.

"No thanks, I'm not in the mood of convincing men to sleep with you because you're too lazy to look effortlessly sexy." He glares at me and I chuckle. "I swear one day I will burn that mop of curly hair." I laugh as he walks away.

I never needed to use any product for my hair only shampoo and conditioner, traits of having a mixed heritage, I inherited the best hair plus a lot of other cool things, like being born among trendsetters.

I cleared up my desk and walked toward the lift with Murdock. "See, evasion works." I nod and we make our way out of Xalvic Inc. Maybe it wouldn't be so hard to avoid the new CEO.

After shopping for groceries, I got home and started on dinner, I could order out or have dinner at a restaurant but that's just a waste and nothing beats a home cooked meal.

The doorbell rang and I turned off the stove to check on it, who was at the door, I didn't expect.

"What are you doing here?" I asked the man standing in front of me. He was a past I didn't want to recall, a man I hoped I'd never see again.

What was my life turning into, one surprise after the other, couldn't I just get one day of peace, the universe was really against me right now.

"I came to see you Marls, I miss you." I sighed knowing what he wanted and

I wasn't going to cave and sleep with the ex who broke my heart after two f*****g years of a relationship.

"Go home Mark, to your wife and kids, I want nothing to do with you, nothing at all." I didn't want to relive all those memories of him and I, his wife eventually found out and came to tell me to leave her man alone.

At that time I knew I didn't want to be dubbed the home wrecker. "No I can't okay, I want you, let's talk about us, you can't just forget two years of us, we had everything and you threw it away." I couldn't believe his accusations.

"I didn't throw anything away, I didn't want to ruin your children's future, I didn't want them to grow up knowing the reason why their parents broke up was another woman daddy loved.

I couldn't do that to them and I will most certainly not do that to myself." I pushed the door to close it and he put his shoe at the post to stop it.

I sighed as he forced his way in. "I'm not doing this with you okay, I'm surprised you even know where I live." He chuckled. "I couldn't let you go, I hired someone to follow you." I groaned hearing that.

Why couldn't he just leave me alone, why couldn't he just be happy and satisfied with his family. "You're a CEO of a great company Mark, your reputation, and everything else is needed to keep it that way, so unless you want me to get a restraining order on you I suggest you leave me the f**k alone." I spat out but he ignored it.

"And you think that will stop me, Cookie you were mine once upon a time and I will have you again, I told you I could leave them all behind and give you the life you need, give you everything." Mark was officially deranged.

"How could you ever think like that, you're not the same man I knew Mark, you've changed and I'm definitely sure I don't like this version of you, I won't be the reason your wife and kids are left without a husband or father." I was never that cruel and I would never want anyone to grow up like I did.

"Cookie just think about it, we could finally be happy, you and I could have everything we ever wanted." He spoke taking my hand caressing it gently but

I wasn't falling for it, no I couldn't. I yanked back my hand and pointed to the door. "Out!" He sighed. "I will be back, I'm hoping you would've changed your mind." I scoff looking at him, I was never going to change my mind.

"Never going to happen so just get out." I was now by the door, I opened it for him before he could walk out he placed a kiss on my cheek. "I love you." He whispered but I definitely didn't love him back, how could I.

"Goodbye, Mark." I assert and he walked out, the door finally closed and I held on to the small table beside me, I had to breathe having to see him brought back a lot of unwanted memories.

After I calmed down, I walked back to the kitchen to finish my meal. If anything was going to help me right now was a good meal. I finished cooking and showered, yet again for the second time, my doorbell rang.

I wore my favorite kimono and walked to the door.

"Evening Cookie." I could feel a headache coming on as I looked at Kol by my door. "You smell bad what are you doing here." He slightly staggered in and I closed the door behind me.

"Im not drunk if that's what you're thinking, just needed to get rid of the stress." I didn't know what was going on with him, I had avoided him all day and now he was in my apartment again.

"I was going to have dinner you can join if you want."

Somehow I couldn't stay away from Kol, all the signs told me to run for the hills and never look back, but with Kol it wasn't like that.

I was attracted to him which I shouldn't be, the more I try to remove myself from him the more it gets harder to do it. I didn't know what to do about that. I could figure out as much as the next person that Kol had anger issues, and his life wasn't all that perfectly balanced.

So he drank every night, making himself a borderline alcoholic yet still functioning somehow. I felt this need to just help him, but if I did that it would mean I'd get sucked up into his life too.

I sighed and helped him take off his blazer. "Why didn't you go home?"

I question and he sighed. "I wanted to, then I remembered the shitty life, I have there and I wanted to be here so badly, no one expects me to be the best in anything." I knew pressure in becoming a CEO but that rest I had no idea.

"Okay, you can stay the night." He smirked making his features devilish, I was attracted to this man, like a moth to a flame, he was irresistible.

"Thanks." We sat down in the small dining room of my apartment in a comfortable silence eating. He had questions I could see it in his eyes.

"Did you know?" He asks. "Know what? If it's about you being my former boss's son, no I didn't, I wouldn't have slept with you if I did." He chuckled.

"Now that you know, will you turn me away?" I didn't know how to answer him, he was my boss now and I would always have to report to him at work, after that our personal lives didn't have to mix.

"Professionally yes you're my boss, personally no, I can't have whatever this is or was because you're my boss and you're married." He scoffs making me look at him.

"What makes you so sure you can uphold that?" I quirked a brow. I didn't know what he was getting at, I was sure I didn't want to find our either, so I stayed silent and ate my meal. He didn't say anything after that and kept eating. I cleared the table and cleaned the kitchen.

He was going through the movie selection on the ty, he no longer had his tie and his shoes were by the shoe rack by the door, he was making himself at home and that wasn't a good thing.

I walked into the living room and plopped down on the couch, he pats the place next to him and I ignore him.

"Things go better when you listen Cookie, now come sit here before I lift you up from there myself." He orders and I rolled my eyes but obliged.

"Better." I was next to him and my head was on his shoulder. "I love your hair." He buried his nose in my curls and inhaled like a creep. "You and a lot of people Kol." I remark and he chuckles.

We watched the movie and I tried my hardest not to fall prey to the s****l tension between us. I could feel his hand on my back, they were rough and I wanted the feeling.

My mind kept telling me not to fall for him, to not need his touch.

"Kol." I moaned his namne as his hand slithered up my thigh. "Tell me you don't want it?" He whispered in my ear. "I-." He flipped us over on the couch and he came up on top of me.

"Tell me you don't." My mind was hazy and I couldn't think straight, his hands on my skin, his c**k grinding on me. What do I do?

Kol pov....

"Tell me you don't want it?" I whispered in her ear, I wanted her and I knew she wanted me too, the attraction was undeniable, after having s*x the first time I wanted more of her, but realization set in, it was a one night stand and I had a wife.

If even I could call her that, we didn't seem all that happy and in love anymore, we weren't the two who got married and were happily in love, she didn't feel warm anymore, she didn't give me goosebumps anymore, most of all she didn't give me love.

Meeting Cookie in the bar, I didn't expect it to end up like it did, I had never been with a woman like her before, I knew how the s*x worked but I never explored this. Yet with her it was different.

Every part of her was intoxicating, meeting her at the company only made the feelings that I wanted to go away come back and hit me like a wrecking ball, that's why I found a wrecking ball, that's why I found myself by her door, I craved for her, every part of and damn everything else.

"I want you." She whispered back and I hungrily kissed her, I knew she couldn't resist the feeling we got from each other. It was undeniable.