My Shadow

Love In Bloom Or A Business Deal?

Gideon
I talk to Mia rather than her going back to cooking since her hand is still hurting from hitting Ashley. She has a COO Josh Bingham who is going to be involved in the talks on the New York Mia's restaurant. We sit down and discuss what my thoughts are and how they want things to go. Mia is definitely the owner but she definitely needs some guidance from her COO and her brother put him in place to assure she has the best to advise her and he is damn good. We sit down with an attorney he hired and again he got the best. We have a deal worked out and they will come to New York to look over places for the new restaurant. After Bingham and attorney Howard leave I ask Mia to stay for dinner. We are in my suite and it is more private here since the paparazzi got wind of Ashley being punched by Mia over lil ole me. My mom and dad called after seeing the news about it in New York. My sister has met Mia and said that Ashley started the fight no doubt because Mia has bodyguards and won't swing on people unless they need to feel pain.

Mia
After the meeting and we all got what we wanted Gideon asked me to stay for dinner with him in his suite. Jose and I didn't work out, because he didn't want a commitment and I did. He started seeing a few other girls who were getting free head shots from him and they gave him something for those. We kept our agreement going but he kept his promise to keep his exploits away from my building. We keep talking and the more we talk the more we learn about each other. We aren't exactly made for each other, but there is an attraction physically. He has commitment issues and admits to them, but I am still interested in him because let's face it he is an Adonis. When he leaned in for a kiss I am a goner. It was a great kiss and we both wanted more than just kissing. I would love to go further, but I'm not ready to be a one night stand for anyone. So I decide to go home at this point.

Gideon
I could have gone further, but I felt some resistance to my hands moving down her body so I stopped. I kept kissing her and she said she needed to get home and get up early the next day for her pancake breakfast for a wedding. She invited me to join the fun if I wanted to. A wedding pancake breakfast isn't what I really wanted to attend but I decided to go to be with her.

Mia
Gideon showed up early and actually pitched in and helped set things up. I think the bride was going to break things off  with her groom because of Gideon. He was just being charming but she took it the wrong way until he kissed me in front of her and told her he was taken already. I played along and she went and found her groom and she left Gideon alone. I can't say the same for the other women and some of the men. We had a great even and ate a wonderful breakfast. We then had lunch and dinner during my wedding cake preparation. We had three cakes that needed special attention because of certain ingredients and what they wanted. Gideon was helping as much as he could. Mostly being a gopher. All three cakes were done and delivered to their venues. Then we got more cake orders. Paparazzi got word of Gideon decorating wedding cakes and got photos of him putting the cake topper on the cakes for us. His security and mine moved the paparazzi out of my building. Jose even got photos and that made me mad at him. He told me that was part of his job to get photographs to make money off.

Gideon
We finally give the paparazzi what they want and it's photos of Mia and I together. Even her wedding photographer took photos of us together. I decided to get copies of the ones he took of us together holding the cake topper. We had a lot of fun without it getting too serious. She treats me like I am just Gideon the guy who likes her food. I guess being around her brother Christian she has found out that treating him like a brother and not the billionaire that gets followed by the paparazzi all the time. We compete on buying or takeovers now and again and we have decided to play the game without becoming mortal enemies. I take Mia to her house close to her work and it has a lot of security around it like it's announcing that someone wealthy lives there. I kind of laugh until I realize that she would need this no matter where her home is at.

Mia
Gideon was shocked at how close my home is to my businesses. He saw all the security as well and was concerned about it advertising that a wealthy person lived there. I told him that I would have the same kind of security no matter where I lived. I took him of a tour of my home and he wasn't surprised at what it looked like at all. I showed him my kitchen and dining room. The house was an old boarding house that Elliott remodeled, but he kept the style of the original home. Everything might be updated and upgraded but they are either original from the old house or remanufactured pieces. Elliott had some major wood rafters go in and get the photos and drawings of the old wood carved stairs and fireplaces. Then bookcases cabinets and window seats were everywhere. Bulletproof glass was everywhere now. Even the stained glass was bulletproof. It took a year to do everything. Gideon stayed the night with me. We couldn't stop kissing.