After Hours: Short Stories

Chapter 1: Mira and Ran

Featuring: Michael B Jordan as Detective Marcus Ranulph.

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Mira stood outside Marcus's apartment. She was leaning on the door her feet were killing her. It was already after midnight. Good thing his building was relatively safe. One of Marcus's neighbors had buzzed her in. She had just come back from work.

'Delicious Spreads, we put the simmer in your food' Mira scoffed out loud thinking of the name and slogan of her workplace. She had been serving champagne that cost more than her salary to rich old men at some business mixer. She looked at the state of the floor outside Marcus's apartment and decided against taking off her shoes. She had been waiting for Marcus for almost an hour now. But she was keeping her temper in check. She had a plan and today Marcus would commit to their relationship or she was walking.

Mira wiped the palms of her hands in turns on her short black and white lacy cocktail dress. Her hands were getting sweaty from holding her coat. Her boss was a pervert and they mostly catered to just as perverted old men. The girls were all hired on looks and where treated to spar treatments every two weeks. There was also a website where clients could select the girls they wanted at their party. Mira was grateful she was in the lineup almost all the time. The clients never touched the girls but the way they looked at them disgusted Mira, but her job paid good money plus the tips were great. You just had to smile and pretend you worshipped those sick bustards and they rained money on you. Her family didn't approve neither did Marcus but her job allowed her to live a decent life. The downside though they all had to wear these short, seductive dresses to keep their clientele happy.

Although Marcus didn't like her job, that was how they had meet. They had been an incident at a function. A high profile guy had collapsed and wound up dead in a bathroom. Detective Marcus Ranulph had been one of the detectives to show up at the scene. Everyone there had been questioned. Marcus had questioned her.

Mira couldn't deny the attraction she had for Detective Marcus Ranulph and when he asked for her number she had given it to him. The guy's death had turned out to be natural causes a heart attack. Marcus had called her a couple of days after and like that their on and off again relationship had started. They were constantly fighting and breaking up but somehow they would make up again.

"Hey babe...I'm so sorry." Marcus Ranulph said as soon as he got to the top of the stairs and saw Mira standing outside his door. She looked so sexy; he loved the pink lip gloss she used. It made her lips look plump just waiting for him to kiss them. He was sure she would be pissed. He knew she had been waiting for him outside his apartment for over an hour. When they made plans earlier he had insisted she come to his place.

"Hey Ran..." Mira said with a huge smile on her face. Marcus couldn't understand it. He had been sure it would lead to one big blow out. But she looked happy. He loved that she called him Ran, the short version of his surname. Now that he looked at her though that dress she was wearing was too damn short.

"I thought you said you were at work." Marcus said it more as a statement his eyes glued to her thighs.

"Ran my feet are killing me, can we talk inside please." Mira said doing her best to keep her temper in check. She had lost count on the number of times they had argued about how her job had her dressing.

Marcus went over to the door his jaw clenched tight. He didn't like it when that Hugh Hefner wanna be had his girl dressed like this. He hated other men looking at her. It made him go crazy.

As soon as they got inside, Mira kicked off her shoes and plopped onto the couch. Marcus's apartment was a bachelor pad through and through. Exercise equipment was lying around all over the place. Boxers and shirts hung off every piece of furniture. Today though Mira was too tired to scold him on the state of his apartment. All that would change though real soon, once she moved in. Marcus didn't know it yet but he was going to say yes to her moving in with him. Mari thought with a huge smile on her face.