Twenty-three minutes after Cooper walked into the small business and convinced the new object of his affection to give him another chance, it was finally time to get her all to himself and drive her home.
"Alright Cooper, let's get out of here."
"After you." Standing up and motioning for Natalie to go first Cooper took a moment to admire her body again. He was starting to make a habit of that.
Instructing the driver where she lived, even though they already knew, Natalie sat back in the seat of the fancy car owned by the mysterious man seated beside her.
"Thanks for waiting, I know you must have been bored." Natalie was more glad that he waited to drive her home than she was letting on. Her feet where killing her, it was too busy of a day for her to be running around in the heels that she stupidly chose to wear.
"Nah, I liked watching you, Darling." Cooper winked at her, getting turned on when her cheeks flushed red and she quickly turned to face the window in an attempt to hide it.
When they pulled up to the small apartment building, Cooper was quick to jump out and run around to hold the door open for Natalie. He allowed her to go ahead of him and he followed close on her heels so she would have no doubts that he was expecting to follow her upstairs and inside.
Cooper had a mental checklist in his head of everything wrong with the building. The first thing was how lousy it looked from the outside. The next and probably most important was the lack of security to get into the foyer, if it could be called that. There was no lock on the front door, anyone off the street could follow her in at anytime.
"You can wait right here if you want, I live up on the third floor, its quite a walk up the stairs." Drawing Coopers attention away from the unlock-able front door, he realized that Natalie had stopped at the base of a staircase and was talking to him.
"I love exercise." Cooper joked, and started up the stairs to end any sort of rebuttal she might have. After seeing the state of the building so far he had to see what her apartment looked like.
They didn't make conversation as they made the trek, Cooper could clearly see that Natalie's feet were bothering her. He was pleased that she had enough sense to not take her shoes off and walk up the decrepit staircase in bare feet. But the fact that she had to walk this far everyday had him enraged in a way he wasn't used to.
"This is it." Natalie mumbled quietly when they arrived at her front door.
Just as Natalie put her key in the key hole there was a loud ruckus from somewhere down the hall. Knowing exactly what it was, Natalie gasped and quickly opened the door. Pulling Cooper through, she slammed the door behind them and turned the lock just as there was a bang on her door and a few yells on the other side.
"I'm sorry about that." Natalie was a little startled, but she was used to it. Her neighbours got drunk a few times a week, they would yell and make passes at her when she would walk past their doors on her way home from work or school. "The people down the hall are a little loud."
The banging on the door continued loudly. Cooper could hear the neighbours drunkenly yelling out her name along with a few catcalls and profanities.
He's going to kill them.
"What the hell are they doing out there?" Cooper questioned out loud as he reached for the door intending to confront the men on the other side.
"No! Don't go out there. Sometimes they get a little rough. They'll go away eventually .. just don't open the door, please. They aren't always like that, just when they've been drinking." Cooper's blood was boiling at the sound of fear in her voice.
He's definitely going to kill them.
"They get rough with you?" He questioned, trying to calm himself down With deep breaths between each word. 'Calm down Cooper'. He thought to himself. 'You don't want to scare her yet.'
"Please Cooper, just have a seat. I'll get changed and they should be gone by then." Natalie stood by the door until he turned to walk into the small living room, just incase he tried to open the door again. Not knowing that Cooper was seconds from picking her up and moving her out of the way.
"Ok, fine." Cooper mouthed tightlipped. 'I'll see them later anyways' Cooper was already making plans for them in his head.
Now that Cooper had turned around he could finally see the inside of the apartment. It was atrocious. But somehow seeing her things everywhere made it seem better. He could tell that she had tried her best to make the small ugly space bright and feel like home, it was almost cute for what it was.
The first thing Cooper saw was the lack of space it was an open concept living room and kitchen area, not even enough room for a table. There was a small TV against one wall and a love seat barely big enough for two people across from it.
"Make yourself at home, I'll be right back." With a final look back at the front door Natalie turned and went to her bedroom.
"Take your time!" Cooper yelled back, not paying her much attention as he pulled out his phone to make a call. He instructed the man on the other line to come collect the rowdy neighbours. He wanted to deal with them personally.
With the bedroom door closed Natalie was able to drown out the sound of the banging on the door and really think about what she was doing. She had brought a strange man into her apartment, she'd never done something like that before. But she really liked Cooper and she definitely owed him a second chance.
"Where are we going to go tonight?" Natalie yelled out the bedroom door. Realizing that she hadn't done laundry in a few days she was now limited to the clothes she could wear and had to dig something out of the back of her closet. She grabbed a floor length summer dress that showed off, in her opinion, too much cleavage.
"I know a place with the best food in town." Cooper answered back with a grin.
When Cooper's men arrived a few minutes later the banging on the door stopped and he was able to relax. He was sitting on the couch and he spotted a picture on the small coffee table of a young Natalie sitting beside two older boys, he was told that she had siblings, this must be them. They looked familiar, he hoped that he had never met them through unfortunate and violent circumstances.
'She will never have to come back here.' Cooper was admiring her smiling face in the photograph when the woman finally emerged from her bedroom.
"Wow, you look great!" Cooper was stunned by the sight of her.
"I forgot to do laundry yesterday, this is the only thing I could find." Natalie was blushing again.
"Gorgeous, darling." It was slowly becoming Coopers new life goal to make Natalie blush as much as he could.
"Um, I think they left, if you want to head out now?" Natalie was unaware of the fate that faced the poor fools who dared to anger her dinner date.
Cooper used a guiding hand on the small of Natalie's back as a poor excuse to finally touch her bare skin and he led her out of the apartment and then the building.
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Dangerous Daddy
Romance"Hey-" the attractive man began to yell as he climbed out of his car. He assumed the woman would see his face and know who he was. But there was no recognition. The stranger didn't know that she almost got hit by Cooper Grant. When he saw her face h...
