“I carried three weeks over from last year. I have eight weeks I’m supposed to take this year, and I already used two up in March. Every other week he forces me out for a couple of days because HR is hounding him. Something about nepotism babies shouldn’t work as hard as I do.”
“I thought you worked for Phineas.”
“Phineas’ firm is one of our biggest clients. We do have more than just him in our books though. His father, my father, Adil’s father and believe it or not, Denise’s father, are all buddies.”
“Your father is a lawyer?”
“Yes. My mom is a psychiatrist.”
“Really?” She should have guessed.
“What do Adil’s parents do?”
“His father is an investment banker. His mother is a stay-at-home wife. They are both mostly retired. She . so much more from Adil. They both came from very wealth backgrounds. He was a millionaire before he was a teenager. grandfather once gave him a yacht as a birthday present, and I think he was seven or eight? Unlike the Perez family who are stupidly wealthy but hoard it away, his family spend it like they could die tomorrow and yet never seem to run out.”
“Can I ask you a question?”
“Sure.” He followed her to her apartment as the doors opened on the elevator. “You can ask me anything.”
“The first day I met the three of you in Phineas’ office, he made a statement, and I keep thinking of it.”
“He said a lot of bullshit. He was trying to make himself sound tougher than he is because he knew he was about to destroy your world and if he wasn’t a bastard, he might not have been able to.”
“He said his father cheated four times.”
“Ah and you’re wondering about Sandra staying.”
“Yes.”
“He did. When they were first married he cheated, and she forgave him. He cheated again when Phineas went to cr !lege. He went through something I guess and slept with two three other women. One of the women was a twin and it’s unclear if she used her twin or not for one of their dates. It took him about five years to win Sandra back. They went to counselling every week for three or four years and they still go now once or twice a month. It took him to lose her to realize what he lost. Phineas was furious with her when they got back together but Mr. P has been for the last sixteen or so years, completely devoted to her. They remarried ten years ago, I think.”
“I don’t think my mom knows this because one of the reasons she is working for them is because he’s so devoted to his wife and she was tired of being chased around the kitchen at her other jobs.”
“He is devoted to his wife, but he’d be the first one to admit, he thought since she took him back the first time, she’d never leave.”
“Why did he cheat?” she let Beni into her apartment and kicked off her running shoes. “You said it happened around the time Phineas went to college?”
“Yes. Idiot. He somehow thought his son being a hot college student made him less of a man and so he needed to prove he was still hot, young and sexy. Classic midlife crisis. It really put Phineas off on anyone who would cheat. He watched his mother cry over a broken heart. It was bad enough he cheated but one of the women was a friend of hers. I remember my mother cornering my father in the library at the house ith a filet knife and told him if he ever did to her what Phin Sandra, she’d gut him. My Dad laughed, told her the warm was well-heeded, carried her to bed and that was that.”
“Do you look like your mom or Dad?”
“My Dad through and through in looks and a lot of his intellect and the way he sees things other’s miss, but lave my mom’s squishy heart. I’m always worried about feelings and sentiment and how things will impact my emotional state.”
“I think, it sounds like you’re a perfect blend.”
“I like to think so.” He startled her by lifting her up and setting her on the kitchen counter. “Now. How about, before we google some antique shops, we practice this kissing thing a bit more.”
Adil eyed Phineas and folded his arms over his chest. “What do you want me to do about it?”
“You’re not the least bit upset?”
“No.”
“No why should I be? Did you not read what he said?”
“He said he kissed her!” Phineas rose from behind his desk and glared out over the city.
“She wanted him too. She told him,” he looked at his rone. “she wasted too much time on one set of lips, and she wa try others.”
Phineas turned his head slowly and grunted, “and?”
“And she’s going to a club tonight with her friend Suki. Beni got the name. I’m going to give her my lips to try. You should join us. Let her try yours too. By the end of tonight, maybe we’ve all had a kiss from her, and she will be on her way to getting over Kyst and under one of us.”
“It doesn’t bother you he kissed her?”
“No. It won’t bother me when you kiss her either.”
“Why?”
“Because I know when she kisses me, she’ll love it. She’ll be begging for more.”
“He said they dry humped.”
“Bet she wasn’t dry. Our girl isn’t going to be able to go a long time without physical connection. Kyst trained her I think to be his little sex kitten. His fuck up makes her ours.
“She isn’t ours,” Phineas grimaced. “She’s going to be mine when you both manage to mess it up.”
“How?”
“Oh, Beni will probably ask her one time too many how she feeling, probably right before an orgasm. You, you’ll probably tell a dirty joke when she’s least expecting it.”
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.