A Billionaire in Shining Suit (TBB 4)

Married

Chapter 20 - Married

ZACHARY DANVERS

Zach sat on his laptop as he went through the new line of sportswear.

He discarded some of the ideas and prepared a quick email.

He sorted through the list of emails his secreatary had forwarded to him. He was lucky enough to snag Melissa.

She was a fifty year old woman who wanted to stand on her two feet now that her son's were happily married. Her husband had died a few years ago and she had loads of free time on her hand.

That woman nagged him constantly about his food and his lack of sleep and too much into business but the woman made his life easy.

Sending a quick text about canceling all the charities and parties he was invited to, he grabbed his now cold coffee and sipped it.

He could feel her eyes on him but he still kept his eyes trained on his laptop.

As long as he didn't look up, she won't ask him any questions.

Fifteen minutes later, his finger froze as he felt her presence behind him.

"Hmm, I didn't know playing solitaire is business."

"It is." He said and cleared his throat.

She sat down on the sofa in front of him.

"We have to talk." She said the words that he dreaded. He knew she wouldn't let it go. Now she wanted to know every dirty little secret of his life.

Yeah. As if that will happen... not.

"Look here - "

"I'm married." She blurted out.

It took him a whole minute and his laptop to fall off his lap to register what she said.

"Oh shit." She yelled and hurriedly picked up the now useless laptop.

 "Are you crazy?" she asked and looked at the broken laptop.

"I'm not but you are. How can you spring that up on me outta nowhere."

"i said we need to talk."

 "I thought it was about mom."

"I wouldn't talk about Cassandra since you tried to shut me up every single time I tried asking about her last night."

 "Last night.." he trailed off. "I slept with a married woman." he muttered in a trance.

"Okay, that sounds bad."

"It is bad." he stood up. 

 Zach didn't know why but that one sentence seemed to have put fire in her eyes.

"That's bad." she murmured softly but there wa so much anger that Zach couldn't help but take a step back at that.

"Of course that's bad. I mean, he's my husband. Why would I try to save my life when my dear husband's out there. Why do I need to run away when he would just tie me up and have the best sex of his life. Whipping my back was just a foreplay, isn't it? It's so much fun that i didn't have enough tears for that. And oh, the knife was the highlight of my evening. The knives were the best thing. You know it was such a rush when he was making cuts on every inch of my body. And did I tell you about the times he'd shoot people right in front of me. That's just the life I asked for, isn't it right? I mean why would I run away from that when i shold stay married and loyal to the best man on Earth."

"I didn't mean it like that." he mumbled

She seemed to calm down at that.

"I'm sorry. Look, we've already taken a step ahead. And for the first time I want this. I want you, Zach. And I felt that you should know this about me."

Zach couldn't help but feel a bit of hope about them.

He strode towards her and encased her in a hug .

"I'm sorry. I'm sorry for everything you've been through. You've no idea how much I wanna kill that bastard."

She snuggled in and tightened her arms around him.

"You don't have to. I don't know how long I'll have to stay here. Might be that I'd have to stay here forever. I won't impose on you. I'll be here for a few weeks then I was thinking about getting a job in Sydney and getting an apartment. Syd can get my papers from my brother."

He pulled back.

"One, you're not imposing. Second, if you wanna take a shot at this why not just move in with me."

She opened her mouth and then closed.

"We're already staying together and we've had it all worked out. C'Mon Kari say yes."

"Okay."

"Hear me out, we'll - wait did you just say yes?"

Pushing on her tiptoes she pressed her lips to his.

"Yes."

"But you're still married."

"He's a wanted criminal. Once he's caught, I'll file for divorce."

Zach didn't know what to say about that. It could take years. But it didn't matter since she was here and he was already falling for her. He'd take whatever he could get at that moment.

He sat back and pulled her down on his lap.

"So you into bondage, eh?"

"No. We were high school sweethearts and then we married. It escalated pretty quickly. I didn't know anything about him. He was the school's bad boy and I thought I could change him. I didn't know how bad he really was. He was the worst."

Taking a deep breath she rested her head on his shoulder.

"The high wore off and I just couldn't find myself to love him anymore. We just sort off drifted apart. The sex became a chore. He got frustrated that I couldn't get off. So he wanted to try this.

"Bondage was fine. It was something new and it brought a bit of spice. Twice but then again we were back to not being in it.

"He started trying new things and eventually it got worse for me. He started hurting me. And it just got worse and worse until he started slicing me. The bad thing was he got off on my pain and he didn't care about me. It was about him by then and I didn't want it anymore."

He could feel the anger rising. Hers as well as his.

"Don't you worry now, luv. We're in this together. And I swear I'll take care of you."

By the way she nuzzled his neck, he found himself content right there with her in his arms and hoped they stayed just like that forever.

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