Red

CHAPTER 23.

"Ruff."

I narrowed my eyes at the Doberman, he lick his lips and then turn over on his side. I knew what he wanted when he automatically lift his leg which showed the skin underneath, he wanted me to rub him there with my foot. His comfort spot.

Huffing, I decided to listened to Salt just for the sake of making up for the lack of time I haven't been spending with him and gave him his heart desire.

He closed his eyes as he laid on the floor cushion of the room after a few rubs and just like that I watched as he fell asleep.

Breathing a sigh, I decided to let some air in from the balcony while I made the bed. It was another bloody afternoon and with my thighs, which was healing up a bit after three weeks, I decided to lay off on the investigation for now.

In regards to that, I was able to save some of the audio footage from Lorenzo's meeting and with a bit more intel to go, I could call in Nava and closed the observation.

"Miss. Lopez!" Xamuela burst her way through the open door, dressed in a bathing suit with glasses position over her forehead.

I raised an eyebrow at her as I shuffled the pillows on the bed and grinned at her cuteness as she put her hand akimbo.

"Yes Xamuela what is it?"

She giggled as a not so sleeping Salt rushed over to her and licked her legs. Rolling my eyes at the spoiled dog, she said.

"Can we go to the pool today pwease. I need to feel the sun on my skin."

Taken aback by her words, I helplessly grin and with my hands thrown up I replied. "Okay ma'am, I hear you just give me five minutes to change."

She smiled and then she left with Salt who clearly didn't give a fuck about me anymore.

Girl stop sounding bitter..

Not paying my inner girl any mind, I decided to don for the pool in a yellow three piece bikini set.

The color was too golden on my skin as I tied the triangle bikini top to cover up my small breast with the string neck ties and then tied it around the back.

Along with matching bikini bottoms, it poorly did the job of covering my wide fat backside and knowing that my scar would be out, I paired it with a high leg cut sarong that feature a tie string closure at both sides.

With a new found novel that I founded in my suitcase that I hadn't touch as yet, I decided to indulge in it for the remaining hours of the pool session because I wasn't planning on going into the water.

Exiting out of the house to the neatly cut lawn where Salt spend most of his time with Lorenzo puppies, I walked around the corner of the mansion to the backyard where the zero-entry pool was at.

Lorenzo was, surprisingly there and I felt the nerves running over my system as he laid on the lounge.

He was stilled dressed in his office wear, white long sleeve shirt with the buttons on the wrist pop open, a black tie was hanging loosely around his neck and he grip the strands of his hair as he chatted into the phone.

I was not expecting him to be here...why...

Xamuela spotted me and yelled. "Can you play catch with me pwease Miss. Aurora."

I couldn't say no, even if I wanted to. Those eyes of hers were to damn innocent.

Why was I allowing her and Salt to bend me to their will?

"Fine." I swallowed down the nerves and decided to walked pass him toward the empty lounge seat that was a seat away from his.

I felt his eyes burning into my back as his deep voice slip into his phone and with my eyes slightly closed I prayed to God he would forget about the drunken time that happen two nights ago.

This was the first time, I was seeing him since then and I didn't know why I was panicking inside.

Resting the book on the seat, I went to the entry of the pool and breathed a sigh as the water began to rise around my body as I walked towards Xam.

She threw the ball and I stretch my hands above my head and shifted to the side as the ball came my way and with much struggle seeing that I was sore in my thighs, I fell into the water sideways.

The water slips into my ears at that time, I stood up immediately and rub a hand down my face to wipe away the water.

I coughed as it went down the wrong pipe and with Xamuela laughing whole heartedly at me, I scream.

"It's pay back time!"

And just like that we threw the ball back and forth, laughing and screaming out who lost and fighting at the chance to win. Even through the soreness, the sight of the toddler laughing makes me happy.

Feeling a bit drain, I left the pool, passing by a busy Lorenzo who was currently typing on his laptop.

The breeze picked up as I walked by him and I couldn't help but took his masculine scent in as it brushes against my nostrils.

Brushing my fingers through my curly hair that has now shrunken in length due to the water, I swing my legs up on the lounge and rest my back on the surface to get comfortable.

I flap open the pages of the novel and focus my attention on the descriptive words, printed onto the pages.

It calmed me as my eyes went back and forth across words, the scenes became a reality just beyond my mind and I smirk at a line that the character said that sounded gold.

Soft breeze kissed my skin then and I paused as his presence came up beside me. He sat into the empty seat and from the corner of my eyes, I watch as he took a glance at the cover of the book.

"Lust in fire? an interesting book to read don't you think."

Don't look, don't look...

I told myself as his after shave without question dominated my senses and clouded me which placed a hazed over my eyes as the book I was reading became uninteresting in a matter of seconds.

I didn't like the control he had over me, it was getting fucking irritating how at just his mere presence my body seems to melt and only wanted to become a prisoner, locked in chains to his gaze.

I couldn't help it even if I tried, my eyes found their way to his dark ones. Heat. It locked me in and without saying it out loud, my lips pulled open a bit as soft air escaped them. He saw this and then dropped his eyes to them slightly.

The muscle in his throat dropped up and down as he rasped. "Hmm?"

Clearing my throat as my heart raced up at the thickness behind his tone, I found myself doing something that I haven't done before and that is stuttering. "No-not really I-"

He quirk a brow and scan his eyes over my face. He bit his lower lip and in a low pitch which flutter my stomach, he replied. "Really..."

"So you haven't read this part which is directly in chapter ten, paragraph three, line six: Fucked, in regards to my feelings, I found myself..." His voice drifted to a lower octave as he held me into his gaze.

It drew me in, my body shivered and I felt my clit beating at each movement of his Adam's apple which moved slowly. Up, down.

"Parting ways that is my thighs, his breath trailed the very core of my skin and it without help flushes. My arousal was evident between us. An inward scream of my lust for thee, will always be, since day."

I felt my skin flush and I thank the heavens that the darkness of said skin concealed the blush I was feeling.

"Miss. Aurora can I get something to eat, pwease." Xam snapped me out of the heated trail of a building cloud of lust that was storming behind his eyes.

I quickly left the lounge to part ways out of his presence and with Xam holding unto my hands, I cursed inwardly for the fact that as a result to my wet bikini, my thighs would rub together which automatically cause my backside to jiggled with my walk.

And as I glance over my shoulders, I notice that his eyes was now permanently glued to the flesh.