“Oh ok.” She answered him, picking up the folder and skimming through its content. It was the revised contract, containing the changes they had discussed the other night.
“I will leave you to review the contract. If you have any questions, feel free to contact me. If all is in order, you know where to sign.” He stood up from his seat and excused himself, leaving her with the file.
She was examining thoroughly the contract in her hand when she heard Jacky entered her office after David left her a while ago.
“What was that all about?” Jacky asked, also curious why the big boss paid her a visit.
She waved the file in her hand, showing it to Jacky. “Just brought me the contract that I need to sign.”
She nodded in understanding what she was talking about since she already told her all about it. “So, are you going to sign it?” She sat down on the edge of the table, taking a peek at the contract on the table.
“You know I have no choice now. I already gave him my word.” As much as she wanted to back out of it, she could not. It was not in her to retract on her word.
“Anyway, admit it, this is a good deal. It was not as if you are getting nothing from this arrangement.” Jacky pointed out the obvious.
“Yeah, I know that.” She finished checking the contract and found that all was in order. All she was left to do now was sign it. She took her pen and poised it on the dotted line. With one deep breath, she scribbled her name and placed her signature on the available space.
She shoved the folder into the hands of Jacky. “Give this to Mr. Anderson before I changed my mind and ripped it in half.”
She could see the smile on her friend’s face as a sign of approval of her action. “You’ll see, this is not a mistake. This arrangement, I believe will be good for you.” Jacky left her to deliver the contract to David before she acted on her threat.
Maybe Jacky was right. She decided to stop worrying too much. If she was being honest, Alex was not the enemy here, but herself. Maybe it was time that she let herself loose and just see how she would benefit more from this deal. It was time to have her fun.
Alone again in her office, she dialed another number that she had saved on her home screen. It was a number that she would be calling frequently from now on.
“It’s done. Now what?” She asked him, once he answered his phone.
“Now, we are officially a couple.” He simply answered her, smiling widely, quite satisfied, knowing she already signed the contract.
“Oh! You look fantastic.” She told Jacky, who was going out again with Marcus tonight.
Until now, she was still wondering what was their relationship status. They went out on occasion, she came back in the morning, but she claimed that they were not a couple.
“Oh, I’m not looking for fantastic. I want hot, desirable.” Jacky corrected her. “I want Marcus to drool over me during dinner. I want him all over me before the night is over.”
She certainly looked hot and desirable. She sometimes wished she could be as daring as Jacky when it came to her sexuality. Casual sex without commitment. Without the worries of being attached. She wished she could be as vocal as her friend about what she wanted and needed.
The only time that she dared to do that was more than a year ago, but she believed she could not do that again. Not after that night.
She might look tough on the outside, but she knew herself. She easily got attached and when she did, it would be hard for her to let go. Because she did not want to be left broken again if it ended.
“Ok. You are hot and desirable in that dress.” She conceded to feeding her friend’s ego.
“You also looked great, but if you want to look hot, you better change,” Jacky commented on her dress, scrunching her eyes and nose to stress how much she disliked what her friend was wearing. “You looked like you’re going to a trial rather than going on a date.”
“No, I’m not.” She knew Jacky was exaggerating, but her friend was right, she did not look hot in her dress. It was a good dress if she was going out with a client and not on a date to impress.
She too was going on a date with Alex tonight. After she called him this morning about the contract, he insisted that they should meet tonight to get to know more about each other. Their story must look believable to his family and hers for this arrangement to work.
She suggested that they just exchanged information through an email, but he said that it was too impersonal. They also had to work on their chemistry when they were among other people. If they were to pass up as a couple, they should not look stiff when they were together.
“Be honest with me, don’t you find Alex even a bit interesting?” Jacky knew the answer to that. She had seen her friend got fired up every time Alex’s name came up. She knew her friend when she was being defensive. It only meant one thing. She was deeply affected by him.
“Yes, I think he is. But I find all my clients interesting.” She answered Jacky using her logical thinking. She was not lying about that.
“Let me rephrase my question. Do you find Alex attractive? Like you want him to bang you as if there is no tomorrow.” Jacky stated, putting a great emphasis on her last sentence. “Don’t you ever fantasize about having hot, wild sex with him?”
She was not shocked by Jacky’s crude words. She was used to it, but she was not sure how to answer her question without lying to her friend. If her friend only knew that she already did and it was not just in her fantasy.
“No need to answer that. It’s all over your face. You know you can have sex with him and not fall in love. Look at me. I just enjoy the ride.” Jacky wanted to encourage her friend to loosen up. To slightly live on the edge because she was too uptight.
Jacky was not exactly built this way, but her experiences in the past slowly changed her. Just like her friend, she was scarred by love. But it did not stop her to enjoy life. She just did not believe in it anymore. Without love in the equation, she was not expecting much.
“It’s not that easy for me.” She tried to explain to Jacky that she was not sure if she could do what Jacky was doing.
Just looked at what happened to her. One night with him and he became the star of her every dream. What more if she would allow that to happen again. She was afraid that she might eventually develop some feelings for him.
“It can be. You just needed some practice. Falling in love is just a condition in the mind. All you have to do is shut it down.” Jacky wished that her friend could truly find true love if that was what she was destined to have.
But for now, Jacky wanted her friend to live a little. Life was meant to be explored, to have fun. She hated seeing her friend wasting her life away. Devoting her life to her work and her cause. Not that there was something wrong with it. But it should not be her only life.
“I don’t know if I can do that.” She was still hesitant about what Jacky was suggesting. She believed she could not have a casual fling with Alex without becoming emotionally attached to him.
But six months of playing the role of his girlfriend. Constantly being at his side. Could she also fight the attraction she always had with him? Then again, maybe Jacky was right. Maybe she could use this time to purge him out of her system.
New Book: Back Home to Marry Off Myself
Loredana’s father left the family for his mistress, leaving them to fend for themselves abroad. When life was at its toughest, her father showed up with “good news” after 8 years of absence: To marry off Loredana to a paralyzed son of the wealthy Mendelsohn family.
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