An hour later, they already had the dress, shoes, and some accessories—which, of course, she hadn't wanted Christian to buy, but had to accept because he pleaded too much.
They had been walking around to distract themselves and were now entering a small but beautiful coffee shop.
Like the gentleman he was, he quickly got out and circled the car to open her door. She smiled at the gesture and couldn't help but recall memories of Dominick…
"Damn you," the blonde muttered under her breath.
"Did you say something?" Chris asked, frowning.
"Me?" she let out a nervous giggle, "Of course not! You're imagining things."
She took his arm and began to walk. She breathed a sigh of relief when he nodded and started walking with her, but not before locking the car.
Without wasting any time, they entered the café…
They sat at a table near a window that overlooked a garden full of red roses. To their right, a group of university students chatted about how boring one of their professors was, while to their left, a man was giving instructions to a young woman who was typing on a tablet.
She smiled.
How she would've loved to go to university, to live a normal life—a life like any young woman her age. It's not that she was interested in partying all the time, but at least having the opportunity to… She shook her head with a small smile. Her sacrifices were worth it.
She looked at Christian as he flipped through the menu.
He looked very focused. Jade studied him, as she always did when he was distracted—she always found something new in him. His blond hair was neatly combed and trimmed. His thick eyebrows, his blue eyes that were now reading the menu intently—he was a tall man, almost as tall as Dominick, very handsome. She often wondered why he didn't have a girlfriend. She smiled; any woman would want to be with him. He was a gentleman, thoughtful… Everything a woman could want.
The waitress arrived with a radiant smile.
"Hi, I'm Leila and I'll be your waitress today. What would you like to order?"
"I'd like a sandwich with…"
Dominick
He stood on the balcony of his room, staring at the distant buildings, lost in thought… Lost in memories. Recalling a time when he was happy, when he and his brother had an unbreakable bond. A time… when she was his whole world.
He took a long sip of his drink as a faint smile formed on his lips.
"Would we have had kids?" he found himself asking aloud.
He had wanted to be a father. There was a time in his life when he truly wanted that… To build a family. Now it was just a memory in his mind, because he had no intention of having children anymore—much less starting a family.
He turned around, left the glass on the table, and picked up his phone. It was 6:39 p.m. He went to the bathroom, washed his face, and headed to the door, leaving the room.
On autopilot, he made his way to the elevator. He texted Gregory to tell him to take the rest of the day off—he wouldn't be needing him.
Minutes later, the metal box opened in the lobby and he stepped out. Jade's unmistakable laughter caught his attention, and he clenched his teeth when he saw who she was with. Christian was smiling at her, clearly enamored, while holding some shopping bags… That caught Dom's attention, and without thinking twice, he approached the traitor of a brother—and her.
"So, you went shopping. How sweet. Planning to buy her with that?" he asked, letting out a mocking smile. "Not surprised, Jade."
Both Christian and Jade stopped laughing when they saw him.
"Dominick…?"
"Shut up. I'm not talking to you," Dom snapped, cutting off his brother.
"Don't talk to him like that, Dominick. And I'm asking you to leave me alone," she sighed in frustration. She didn't want to argue with him. She'd had a pleasant afternoon and she wasn't going to let Dominick ruin it. "I'll pretend I didn't hear that. Chris, let's go."
"You're not going anywhere. Especially not with him," Dom growled, grabbing her arm. Jade struggled.
Christian immediately intervened, pulling her away from him.
"You better walk away, Christian," Dom hissed in a threatening tone. He was about to lose his patience.
"I'm not going anywhere. Jade doesn't want to go with you and I won't let you do whatever you want," Chris said, standing up to his brother.
"You're pathetic." With one pull, he yanked Jade toward him. "She'll never be yours, because she's mine. And you're a fucking traitor who doesn't deserve her."
Jade tried to break free from Dominick, but he only tightened his grip. The girl frowned at his words. Christian's eyes widened in shock.
"Stop talking nonsense…" Christian exclaimed, visibly affected by his brother's words. He didn't want Jade to find out what he had done years ago—not from Dominick's mouth. He knew very well that the topic of infidelity was delicate for her, and he feared losing the image Jade had of him…
"I won't be part of this," Jade elbowed Dom, who released her immediately. She walked away quickly so he wouldn't have time to follow her. She fled straight to the elevator.
"I'll say this one more time—stay away from her or you'll regret it," Dominick threatened his brother, fists clenched.
"I'm sorry I can't give you that," Chris said between clenched teeth. "I've tried to be cordial with you, to talk, maybe… fix things. But you simply refuse to listen, and I'm getting tired of it."
Chris was a patient, calm man… Time had made him that way. But he was getting fed up. Everyone had limits—and he was no exception.
Dom let out a sarcastic laugh.
"What do you want me to do? Forget everything you and that damn slut Jazmín did to me? Hug you and call you brother like nothing happened?" He shook his head.
Christian knew, in that moment, that any hope he had of fixing things was gone. He saw it in his eyes—the hate, the resentment… all of it.
"The right to be called my brother was lost the moment you decided to crawl between the legs of my fiancée."
He turned away, angrier than before, as memories of how happy he had been—and what could've been—flashed through his mind.
Chris cursed under his breath. He wanted his brother's forgiveness and he was going to fight for it, but he wasn't going to step aside—not when it came to Jade. He had been in love with her for a long time…
Dominick got into the elevator. Any desire to go out had vanished the moment he saw them together… When he stepped out—on a floor that wasn't his—he realized he had pressed the wrong button. He was about to return when Jade's voice stopped him.
She was talking to an older woman. She said goodbye and entered her room. The woman left, and Dominick didn't waste a second—he entered as well. He opened the door slowly and saw Jade standing, smiling at her phone.
He rushed to grab her from behind, covered her mouth with one hand and the other grabbed her waist, pinning her arms in the process. The phone fell to the floor shattering into pieces. Jade was alarmed for a split second, fear gave way to rage when Dominick's signature scent gave him away.
That scent had stuck in her mind, and, impregnated her on several occasions...She struggled but to no avail because Dominick forced her to walk until he pulled her against the wall.
"I've got you right where I want you" he whispered hoarsely in her ear, making her freeze. "I'll take my hand from your mouth, and if you scream..." he pressed her against the wall... I'll have to be... severe," he threatened.
Jade flinched at the tone of voice he used, sighed deeply and hissed:
"You're going to get off me, leech, or I'm going to hit you so hard that it'll hurt your grandchildren" Jade stirred, and he pinned her harder against the wall.
"I only take blows if they're from the waist" he guffawed, making the blonde angrier.
"You're a fucking kid!" she accused, losing her temper.
"I told you not to yell" he repeated, lowering one hand to the hem of her uniform, with one leg he pulled her legs apart, his finger started to move up her thigh.
"But... what... what... what are you doing?" She hesitated, frightened, her voice dropped a few octaves and she felt helpless with her legs half open and Dom's finger running up and down her thigh....
"I warned you and you didn't listen to me" he assured, sticking closer to her if that was even possible, for Dominick the situation was damn exciting. So much so, that just listening to her breathing agitated, and shuddering from the rose, his member began to awaken under the thin fabric of her panies.
"Stop touching me" he demanded, or tried to, his whispered voice was far from having the effect she wanted.
"I'm going to sail between your legs...
he purred in her ear, "I'll push aside your panties and I'm absolutely sure they'll be soaked" Jade gasped as she heard him, and inwardly cursed herself for that.
"Isn't that right, Jade?"
"You're a fucker" she whispered as Dominick slid a finger down her inner thighs, Jade's heart began a rampant pounding.
"And you're going to feel what this fucker can do to you..." his finger went to meet her underwear, Dominick nimbly pushed them aside and she couldn't help but moan when she felt him slip his finger easily into her slit.
"Dominick..." she gasped, jerking her head back as he touched her pink button.
Dom smiled pleased to have her in that state, she let out moans that she wanted to be quiet as he continued to move his finger skillfully.
She clung to the curtains, as she trembled in his chest, biting her lips to avoid moaning loudly.
"You're a bastard" she moaned, Dominick kissed her neck, some beads of sweat fell free on her forehead.... His erection pricked Jade's back, who moved restlessly to meet his fingers, Dom inserted a finger in her vagina that made her scream with pleasure...
"I am anything you want" he whispered in her ear, increasing the penetrations of his finger inside her. "Moan Jade, moan for me" he ordered, adding a second finger that left her on the verge of succumbing to him. Was painful pleasurable.
As much as she wanted to refuse to obey his command she could not, the moans came with a life of their own from deep inside her, she would not take any more....
"Cum Jade, do it, my petty Jade... cum on my fingers. Do it for me" he said, increasing the intensity as he felt her walls contract around his fingers. "Damn, I think I'm gonna go crazy, you're fucking tigth"
"Damn you!" she exclaimed, as the eminent orgasm shook her violently, Dominick kept stimulating for a few more seconds until the spasms became less. He withdrew his fingers from inside her and turned her over, licked his fingers under her watchful gaze, and smiled as a flash of lust passed through his eyes.
She let herself fall against his chest.
"I loathe you" she exclaimed in a whisper.
"And I want you, it's pretty much the same thing, isn't it?"he smiled.
Dominick, in a boldness that was no longer like him, wrapped his arms around her legs and back and carried her.
"Don't think I'll sleep with you" he reminded her, closing his eyes, still enveloped in the haze of pleasure. "So don't get any funny ideas"
"I am well aware of my powers of persuasion" he assured her, dropping her on the bed. His erection hurt like hell, he was dying to be inside her.
"I don't think so" she smiled, without meaning to.
"I do, and my proof was my fingers inside you giving you pleasure a few minutes ago" he climbed on top of her, placed himself in the middle of her legs and when he was about to kiss her, his cell phone rang, he took it out and saw a message from Maximiliano shining on the screen:
«We have problems, I'll wait for you at my office»
He got up annoyed, he had lost a golden opportunity. He knew perfectly well that what he had done in that room was an extraordinary breakthrough....
He went into the bathroom and looked at himself in the mirror, then at the erection squeezing his pants.
"Oh Jade, look how you leave me...."
he hissed, smiling. And to his surprise it was a genuine smile, not a mocking or sarcastic one as usual....
He came out of the bathroom and stopped dead in his tracks when he saw Jade curled up in a ball and completely asleep. He frowned, and walked over.
He smiled, placed himself at the level of her face and whispered:
"Soon Jade... soon you will be completely mine" he kissed her cheek and left the room ready to find out what the heck was going on....