Chapter 6 - Niccola Fairchild

Niccola Fairchild

I still can’t believe my eyes as I look over my shoulder to find Cole here. His name is Cole, of course, it is, a name as beautiful as he is. Why didn’t I do my homework when it came to my mother? In my defense, how could I have known my mother would marry someone like him? Her usual targets are older men, almost dying men, men who will leave their fortune to her because they think she will take care of them. What a joke.

“What is going on?” Steph asks, and I snap my head around, looking at her, trying to pretend everything is okay, but I can feel his eye on me. “Do you know him?” She asks, lifting her chin slightly, pointing at Cole.

“Shhhh,” I say, pulling her by her wrist to the corner of the room away from prying eyes and ears.

“Hey, you’re hurting me. What the hell is going on, Nicci? You have been on edge since your mother introduced you to her husband.” She says, and I close my eyes for a second, and when I open them, it’s like Steph can read my mind.

“BAR GUY, DING DING DING, ONE NIGHT STAND GUY, DING DING DING, BEST SEX OF MY LIFE, DING DING DING.”

“Oh my God, that’s him? The guy from that night?” She whispers as she looks over her shoulder, and I nod, covering my face with my hands. Of course, the only guy that has made my insides turn and I regretted not telling my name, or anything about me, is getting married to my mother this weekend.

“I can see why you…” she says, smiling, and I shake my head slightly, trying to forget the best night of my life. The night that changed my vision on men in suits and now… This… “What are you going to do?” Steph asks, and I frown.

“Nothing, I am not going to do anything,” I let out, and her eyes widen slightly as if I had just grown another head or something. “There’s nothing I can do, he is going to marry my mother, my freaking mother, arghhhhh,” I let out in frustration, “She’s going to make a big deal out of this and make me see him as my stepdad,” I let out as I gag, and Steph laughs.

“I think you should go powder your nose and compose yourself, this is only gonna get worse,” Steph says, and I nod, agreeing with her as I remember the seating chart for the dinner.

“Any chance we can sit me next to my mother?” I ask as I walk away, and Steph shakes her head as I walk towards the restrooms. As I was creating the seating chart, I placed myself next to Mr. Sutcliffe because, in my mind, nothing would be worse than sitting next to my mother, but now… Why? Why is this happening to me? If I believed in God, I would be thinking this was a sick joke on his part, but no, I did this to myself.

As I apply my red lipstick, I watch as the door behind me opens and Cole steps inside. My entire body freezes as he locks the door behind him, his eyes lock on mine through the reflection in the mirror.

“So, Niccola,” Cole says, and it’s like his voice sends a chill down my spine, and my entire body stiffens as I watch him walk to me with his hands in his pockets. His entire presence commands respect and attention, as if the air surrounding him moved at his will. How is it possible someone can have a presence like this?

“You shouldn’t be in here,” I let out as a whisper and the corner of his lips raises as he stands inches away from me. Oh my, this is dangerous. My entire body is calling for his as the memories from that night invade my mind. The way his hands moved up and down my body…

“Shouldn’t I? Maybe I should be somewhere else? Like inside of you?” He says as he leans closer to me and whispers in my ear, and I try to step back, but I am pressed already against the sink. Cole’s hands steady me as they rest on my hips, and his eyes meet mine. How can someone have eyes like those? It’s like they are a pool without an end.

My entire body shivers at his touch as his hand moves to my face and then behind my neck, tangling his fingers in my hair on the back of my head, and pulls, exposing my throat while his lips meet the sensitive skin on my neck, making me moan as my hands rest on his arms.

“That’s it, moan for me,” he growls as his lips meet mine with a powerful and seductive kiss, sending me into a spiral without end.