Magda’s fingers were intertwined with Ares as they walked along the pier.
Jake had grumbled about them getting out of the car and had called in three more people as back up but they were all discretely out of sight. Even Jake had disappeared from view and she was relaxing in Ares’ presence.
They’d been flirty and laughing all evening and dinner had become a silly affair with Ares telling her naughty jokes to try to make her blush and her reminding him she lived with Dimi Lykiaos and nobody had a bigger potty mouth than her.
Now however he was focused on another topic.
“A BDSM parlor. What exactly did you do there?”
“Fetish play.”
He came to a dead stop, his eyes rounding incredulously. “Like what?”
“Never intercourse but I had one guy who paid me a grand more than once to lick peanut butter off my body. There was a man who simply liked feet. He paid me five hundred bucks a se
Magda was sitting in Ares’ office of his building in LA on the sofa while he was in the hall outside. The only light coming from a couple of lamps were on aside from the dimly lit hall which was filtering in through the partially opened door. From what she could gather someone had used a taser on the security agent who worked the desk overnight and the other security desk who was doing rounds had made a call to Jake and then went radio silent and they couldn’t find him.Now, Magda was tucked into the office after Jake had scoped it out and said it was the safest place for them to be while his team sorted out what was happening. The door ajar she could hear Ares arguing with Jake.“We’d be equally as safe on the boat.”“Unless it was a diversion tactic and the plan is to get you away from me and the team. I can’t keep you safe if I don’t know have eyes on you and until I know what we’re dealing with, I would prefer to keep you close.”“How much longer until you complete the sweep?”“At
“I hate him,” Magda sniffed against Darya’s shoulder. She had returned from the gym, agreed to coffee with Angelo in the afternoon and was sitting on the floor in the kitchen. “Why did he call me now after I agreed to go out with Angelo?”“I’m still trying to figure out why you’re going out with a giant beefcake of a man.” Darya snickered, he’s not even close to your type.”“I’m avoiding my type. There has to be a reason all my dates wind up the way they do.” She exhaled. “How are you feeling today? Yesterday you told your parents to go fuck themselves. Any regrets?”“Not a single one.”Magda’s phone rang again and she looked to Darya.“Answer it, Mags. You’ll be wondering ‘what if’ if you don’t. You don’t have to see him or go out with him again but for your own peace of mind, answer it and then be d
Tuesday morning Ares was ready to pull his hair out. He’d given her the day to rethink the words she’d said to him but by this morning she hadn’t so much as texted him. Was she really so pissed off about him not calling she would end things without allowing any explanation at all?It was six in the morning and he was outside her house. Jake was distracting the security guards by arguing with them over their slack behavior and he managed to slip past them and knocked on the door. He could hear someone moving about inside and muffled speaking and then the dog yipping when he knocked again.“Magda!” he yelled her name on the other side of the door. At the very least, she was going to hear his side of the story and if after this she was truly done, he knew he had to respect her decision but he wasn’t giving up without her knowing the truth of what happened. He heard the curse from one of the women and then frantic movement, “sweeth
“How do I look?” Magda asked Sienna nervously.“Gorgeous, of course.”Sienna grinned at her from where she lay reclined on Magda’s bed amid a collection of clothing. “I can’t believe you agreed to go out with him after the coffee thing.”“It wasn’t his fault,” Magda turned sideways to look at her reflection in the mirror. “The girl dumped the entire coffee on him.”“Mags, he took his pants off in a coffee shop.”“He had a burn on his thigh.”“He wasn’t wearing underwear.”“He covered himself with a napkin.”“The fact he can cover himself with a napkin should have you running in the opposite direction,” Darya quipped as she re-entered the room.“His thigh was the color of a strawberry,” Magda grunted as she applied the lipstick Darya passed her.“Can I point
In the back seat of Miklos’ limo, Magda was wedged between Sienna and Ajax and was happily sipping a glass of prosecco. Sienna and Ajax were discussing their shared love of books and reading while Darya was pushing Miklos to teach her the ways of his life.“I’m only saying, if you let Dimi do it, then any woman should be given a fair shake,” Darya wasn’t backing down.“Darya, Dimitra herself does not enjoy the work in the warehouse.”“I want to whip a dude until the skin peels off their back,” she said bluntly.Magda groaned, “Miklos, she had a half bottle of vodka before we left your place. She’s drunk. She doesn’t mean it.”“Yes, I do. I really want to cause pain which will not result in my sub coming all over himself.”Miklos choked on his own spittle as Dimi roared with laughter and Magda and Sienna both shook their heads at Darya’s antics. &l
Darya frowned at her. “What do you mean?” “I went to the bathroom and Ares was waiting for me inside. He was paying girls fifty bucks a head to stay out of the bathroom until he knew I’d go in.” “Are you kidding me?” Darya jumped off the table and stood in front of her. “Are you okay?” “The woman who interrupted our date last weekend was the woman who tried to murder his mother by pushing her down a flight of stairs because she was obsessed with Ares and thought his mother was in their way. She escaped from her psychiatric facility and went straight to his mother’s house.” She knew her eyes were as wide as Darya’s were. Her friend covered her mouth and spoke through her fingers. “Didn’t you say his mom is a paraplegic?” She nodded sadly, “yes apparently caused by this freak and then to make matters worse, his mother’s condition got worse Friday night. Basically, he had a psycho stalker on his hands and his mother who was having signifi
Magda followed Ares into the house and felt her stomach flop in amazement at the incredible place he called home.She paused in the foyer and looked around, her eyes as wide as pie plates, she was sure. Her parents were wealthy but this place was next level and she did a slow turn in the space incredulously.“Ares, this is –” her words trailed off as she looked around.“I hope it’s a good loss for words.” he chuckled as he tossed his keys carelessly into a dish on a side table.Two staircases wound around the circular foyer they were in to reach the second floor but where one of them stopped on the second floor, the other continued up to a third floor. The ceiling felt it was stupendously high as she looked up at the black chandelier hanging from it over the entrance. The floors were a stark white marble tile beneath her feet. She had a strange urge to take a running start and then slide across the expansive hall.
Ares had left her to get into the tub on her own. This felt a very seductive segue to spending the night together, she considered, as he had lit some candles and dimmed the lights in the bathroom before giving her a few moments to slip under the bubbles which he had made sure were plentiful.Her legs were still trembling and for all the attempts at flirting and bravado she’d had egging him this evening, now she was facing the very real knowledge she was going to sleep with a man, actually have intercourse with a guy, and it happened to be the one she’d been fantasizing for over a month. Yet, for as nervous as she felt, in her gut she knew this was right for her. She had no misgivings about what she was doing, only about the actual act itself. Dimi telling her and Darya she had bled was making her nervous. God, she prayed it didn’t hurt.He had offered her a glass of wine before slipping out of the tub and now she was wishing she had taken it as she su