Choosing Her Lover
Chapter 13
*****
I wake to sunlight streaming over the bed. My view is blocked by Ryan, standing over me, offering me a mug.
“You like coffee on a morning?” he asks.
“I sit up to take the mug from him. “It’s one of the food groups.” I grin.
When was the last time I woke up in a man’s bed?
He sits by me, sipping from his own cup. He doesn’t speak, but repeatedly, his glance strays my way before he looks away again, smiling.
The obvious question finally looms. “What time is it?”
“Ten to eight.”
“Jeez! I’ll be late to work!”
“Hey, calm down. I’ll drive you there.”
“I can’t go like this….”
“The shower’s through there….”
As it is, Ryan delivers me on squealing wheels to Haswell Building at two minutes to nine,
And as I swipe my entry card, James Alexanders is coming in right behind me. He must have seen Ryan drop me off and he wears the kind of half-smile that says he knows exactly why I am wearing yesterday’s blouse and a rapidly painted-on expression of dignity.
“Morning, Kirstie.”
“Morning Mr Alexanders.”
*****
That evening, walking the dogs on the beach, Ben jogs up to me, and Scruffy barges in to meet up with my canine gang again.
“Hi.” he puffs, bending to rest hands on knees for a minute as he catches his breath. “How are you? Great to see you again.”
“I’m fine.” In truth, I am a little uncomfortable. The speed, and for that matter, the direction in which my ‘relationship’ with Ben is progressing is unnerving me. He seems to believe that we are a lot closer than I do, and I am not at all sure that I want to take things with him any further.
What’s a safe topic of conversation?
Oh, yes….
“I was surprised when I met Charlotte at work and realised who she is. You and your brother aren’t much alike, are you?”
He frowns. “Sorry? You’ve met my brother?”
“Yes, I saw him with Charlotte in the lobby a few days ago.”
“Oh, I didn’t know that. He must have been picking her up.”
“Er, no. They were on their way out actually. I would never have taken the pair of you for brothers….”
“I don’t think we’re that unalike, are we? I know he’s a lot blonder than I am….”
Blonder?
“No, the man I saw was dark; much darker-haired than you. “
He shakes his head. “Mike’s blond, very blond. He looks like something from a toothpaste advert. You know, the kind with the sunshine-healthy family, all corn-fed, and eating wheat germ and yoghurt.”
Mike….? Not James then….
Time to tread carefully….
must be my mistake. I saw Charlotte with a tall dark-haired guy and assumed that it
It was the Haswells. Beth Haswell is
Definitely my mistake
shut
running on whirring red-hot axles. The Charlotte I met was
for changing the
“She seems nice.”
“I suppose.” Ben shrugs.
Doesn’t he like her?
very pretty isn’t
Mike certainly thinks so. She’s a bit
burst out laughing. “You
sideways.
*****
man enters the lobby. He is tall, although not overly
sinks as
Oh, God. It’s him….
Alexanders’ friend from the Club. Am I going to be seeing
This could be embarrassing.
me, his brilliantly blue-eyed gaze sweeping
doors, he abruptly slows, turns and looks back at
rude, but do we
We met two or three years ago. You were with your
at me for a moment, then his face clears. With the most charming of smiles, he stabs a finger
my lapel badge. Moving closer, he peers in and grins. “Ah, Kirstie.” He laughs. “I see. Nice to meet you
this amazing looking man fucking my brains out in a threesome with his friend
with anyone if you have an
eyes. “Sorry, of course, you’re new. No, don’t worry. They know
friend said
You’ve met
just the other
grins.
yes. He
it. He’s a good man; one of
Dom, isn’t he. If you cut him in half,
wrong there. Gotta go Kirstie. See you around.” He heads back to the lifts, turning back as
What a great guy….
Shame he got married….
*****
I prefer to get out for a while for a change of air, so I head for the coffee bar over the
into space and
up. It’s Charlotte, carrying a
says.
my chair to make space as
might as well take the opportunity to get
“Sure…. er….”
eyes me over her coffee. “Something
over my words. What can
Ben’s your brother-in-law, but I barely
He’s not shut up about you
dozen times and had a couple of dates. Please don’t get the wrong impression about where
it’s my impression that
from
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