Cornelius' POV
Grabbing her shoulders, I made her kneel before me, my fingers tracing her plump red lips.
I couldn't compare her to Suzy but ooh well beggars can't be choosers. With her fingers grazing my area, she reached for the zip while I got comfortable on my swivel chair as she started to work her magic. Before she could get to my briefs, someone barged in my office surprising not only me but my secretary.
"Yuck! I'm sorry, I didn't know. Oh God, that image is forever engraved in my mind!" she shouted.
"It's okay Liv. We'll continue this later," I spanked her ass watching her shyly get out of my office.
Standing up and zipping my pants, I plopped in the seat behind my chair crossing my fingers with a smirk.
"To what do I owe the pleasure?" I smirked.
Lydia uncovering her eyes making sure that Liv was gone and I had my pants on, welcomed herself across the opposite seat where Liv and I were on.
"Mr Powers," she smiled and I arched a brow. It must have been an emergency huh? She never addressed me by my name. Hell I don't think she knew my name to begin with. She always termed me as a brute, a manwhore, a scumbag, a filthy bastard and so on and so forth.
"We've never seen eye to eye I know that but since you insist on earning my forgiveness for wrecking my life, an opportunity just presented itself. It's easy now, you just have to pretend to be Justin," she faked another smile and I felt confused.
Insisted? I never insisted on earning her forgiveness since she splashed vodka on my face! Wrecking her life? Her ex boyfriend was the one who wrecked her life, whatever that meant, not me! I was a victim of circumstance whose only mistake was getting in bed with an engaged man.
Chuckling a bit, I looked at her languid eyes rubbing my chin with my finger,"You are really serious? Ms Hayden I gave up on earning forgiveness from you a long time ago. What makes you think that you can barge right in my office ruin a perfectly good time and ask me to what? Pretend to be Justin? Who is Justin to begin with?"
Biting her bottom lip infuriatingly and clutching her beige handbag so tight she leaned closer, "Justin is the boyfriend you took away from me. I can't believe this! What kind of person are you? You slept with my boyfriend without knowing his name? You know what, forget it. It was stupid for me to ask for your help"
"If it was stupid then why the hell are you still here? You know your way out right?" I lashed out watching her walk out my office.
Mmmh, there was something about her that intrigued me and scared me at the same time. And about her boyfriend, it was a one time thing. A mistake that I committed when I was drunk.
With my mind still in the clouds, my cell rung and I picked it up seeing Chance's name pop up on my screen.
"Buddy we have a problem"
"You know everytime you call I always expect bad news. What is it now? You need help hooking up with a woman? Or lemme guess your brother is back and you are scared of talking to him?"
"Actually it's about you"
"What? What is it now?"
"Your Aunt Vicky is here in LA, she wants to talk"
Shoot!
"That...is bad news. Ok do this umm you can always tell her I'm in Italy on business matters and convince her to go back to New York"
"Conner she's right infront of me and my phone is on speaker"
I hung up. Damn it Chance!
Victoria Powers aka my aunt aka Cain and Nicole's mother, wasn't supposed to be here. At least I didn't want her to be here. I loved her like a second mother. Technically she was my mother since I learned how to talk. She treated me like one of her own and I was grateful for that, unlike my biological mother who left without saying a word leaving me in the care of dad to raise me.
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"Mmh you boys are still the same idiots," Aunt Vicky lashed as Chance and I sat on the couch opposite her armchair.
"Aunt, you should have called. We could have picked you up," Chance said and I nodded in agreement.
"You could have picked me up? When? When you spend your time hooking up with every girl on the street"
I hated when she treated us like kids. I was a grown man and I knew why she was here. She was here to keep on a leash, make sure that I didn't handle my dad's death badly by drinking just like Cain had resorted to. But to be honest, the pain was fresh. Having had to see dad's body in a coffin evoked so many painful emotions that at times I felt like drinking was the only solution to forget but no alcohol just intensified the pain which is why I chose pleasure to forget about it.
"So how long do you plan to stay? I mean Cain and Nicole need you right?" I asked trying not to seem like I wanted her to leave.
"I'll stay as long as you want me to. Perhaps Cain is still mourning and Nicole is all the way in Germany and then there is you, Nel. The hardheaded guy who shuts everyone out"
Nel, I hated that name! Before I contradict her my phone buzzed and a private number popped on my screen. I declined the call muttering a sorry to my aunt.
"Aunt is not like that. It's just that..." Before I could finish my statement, my cell rung. The same number?
I picked up the call with one particular word catching my attention.
Mafioso!
ZADE"Wait, wait, wait. The woman you've been seeing has amnesia, a kid, a boyfriend and now she has miraculously gotten her memories back? Forgive me for laughing but you were never cut out for love. Wait and dad disowned you? Seems like you have yourself caught up in a jam bro", Sawyer's voice came from the other end of the line as I carried my duffle bag into my truck looking at the mansion one more time.I sure as hell wasn't going to miss this place in the least bit.I hit the road and with Sawyer at the end of the line maybe the way to the airport wouldn't be that bad.I needed someone asshole talking to me about my mistakes so that they could dim out everything I felt at the moment.The fire station was going to be constructed under the supervision of Falcon, a man I had no doubts was more than capable especially after I had ensured everything was in order before I left.While I was going back to San Francisco a couple million dollars poorer well I had done what needed to be do
CLAIREZade was back and he was standing in my living room gazing at me as well as the other pairs of eyes that did.A ginger haired woman with two kids stood by the corner with her husband who still couldn't drop that look of I think I've seen a ghost.There was another blonde woman with the same same look...then another woman...then Zade, my parents and then him and everything didn't make sense.I opened my mouth to say something but the words wouldn't force themselves out as I looked at the man who stared at me the way Zade did.Like I was his entire world.Like I meant a lot more than I knew. And I especially couldn't breathe when I realized he looked exactly like Axel.Axel's father.But why was he staring at me like this was his first time doing so? Like he couldn't believe I was standing in front of him and Axel either.I didn't want to cry.Axel was in his room if he had heard any noise he would start making a ruckus and God knew I wasn't in the right mind to calm him down be
CORNELIUSFreedom.I never yearned for it. I never even wanted in the first place and here I was a two week free man.My family had really done it pulled all their connections enough to make sure I would only spend two years and some months in prison and not more.And when I had left prison with quite a nickname, my operations didn't stop.My life was rotting away anyway the least I could have done was taking a job that befit me as who I truly was.And I must admit taking down gangs while in prison was no easy feat. It had started as some sort of thing between me and Javi.I had saved him. Against my butter judgement I had saved him from the Gatos earning a week in solitary. A cold place that I rightfully earned and from then on I was fighting criminal gangs in prison killing a few just so I could end up in solitary alone like the monster I was.One year past and suddenly I was some hero to the inmates only they didn't know I did what I did because I wanted to punish myself because I
ZADEWhen I saw her the only thing i had thought about was how much fun I would have taking off that dress of her body and kissing every inch of her skin till I had enough of her.And when I had gifted the kid a saber plastic sword and he had hugged me I had wanted him to be part of my life too.I wanted both of them to be in my life and yet funny how life was a bitch waiting for the right moment to strike.The Smith sisters and other women getting too clingy for me to bear, I had gone upstairs.I loved attention. Attention from women but the only attention I needed at the moment was from the woman who's heart had swelled the minute her son cut the cake and took a fist of the cake before anyone could get a slice.On my way to Claire's room, I had almost stumbled to Vienna Smith which prompted me to hide in the next room.The next room didn't get any better when I heard the footsteps coming my way with so much urgency I had to hide.An unfortunately for me the only hide-able place arou
CLAIRE "Your skin is glowing", Riley commented, I hid behind the comment by trying to seem busy with the ingredients laid in front of me."Must be the new serum you got from the market the other day", Vienna Smith added taking another balloon in her hand.I preferred to remain silent for lack of a better lie to come up with. I couldn't just tell them that he you guys know what? I've been sleeping with Zade Cutler since last week and I've been fucking enjoy it.We've fucked in my own shop at the old observatory that's near completion, in his car and ooh did I mention he has a cabin just for us?If the that didn't shock them, then definitely telling them that I had been reckless enough with Zade not to use protection definitely would.Plus I wanted Zade and I to be a secret. If anyone got news of our relationship then people would talk and even if I wasn't majorly dependent on what people said for me to exist, I still didn't want the town to pressure me into something I didn't want.I
ZADEShe regretted it. If the empty space next to me didn't say so then I didn't know what did.Part of me still mad that she had gone without as much as leaving a note, the other part of me was still reliving what happened last night over and over again like it was all a dream I had woken up from.I fucked women ofcourse I had fucked them but what Claire and I had was way beyond fucking.Her moans, me grunting, her pussy against my dick and the feel of it. Damn it was like a vise grip holding me tight rendering me weak until using protection flew out my mind the minute I kissed her.Some part of me know she might have regretted it, the part that had decided to call it to a halt when I realized we might have gone too far but leave it to my dick, the one thing that had led me where I was at that moment to make a rash decision.But I didn't regret it. I would never regret it because it might have been the best might of my life and I was not joking when I said that.Come to think of it,