Chapter 14
“Torrie, I don’t know what to say to all of this,” she withdrew her hands and stepped backward. She could feel Janka wanting to push forward to offer her two cents and waved her back, “but you need to know, I’m never taking him back. They were together multiple times over an eleven month period. This wasn’t a one–time runken mistake, which even then I’m not sure I could forgive. It went on for months. They had sex in my house while I was sick upstairs in my bed. On my kitchen counter.” She saw her Torrie frown at her words, “I might be kind and a bit na?ve but I’m not ever going to forgive him.”
“But she seduced him.”
“I’m afraid his inability to control his penis around a seductress is no longer my concern. He hurt me. I can’t ever forgive either
of them.”
“You say this now but once he is free.”
“He may be free, but she won’t be,” a deep voice spoke behind them ending Torrie’s sentence with decisive firmness. “Hello, love, I’m sorry I’m late,” a warm kiss pressed to her cheek coupled with the deep scent of spicy cologne with the soft words whispered in her ear made her shiver. “Play along.”
She turned her head a fraction and met the humor–filled ones of Isaias Machado dressed impeccably in a dark suit with a crisp white shirt. She immediately felt the air get swept out of the room, or perhaps it was her only her lungs. She looked around and noted every woman appeared to be gasping. No, it was the room. He was a gorgeous man. Her panties were dampening by the
second.
“Machado,” Trent voice was barely controlled with his irritation. What brings you to our daughter–in–law’s show?”
“Liesl, did you not tell me you were divorced?”
“I am very much divorced,” she shot him an annoyed glance as his fingers rested on her shoulders. She looked at Janka who had moved to her side, out of Isaias’s purview.
Janka mouthed, “oh my fucking God!” and swung her hand as if it were on fire. Elsie was clutching her chest as if wearing pearls. She fought her laugh at their antics.
Her friends were all in. She decided rather than punch him for assuming she was a damsel in distress, she half–turned into his arm and wrapped her arm around his waist stepping closer to him and opted to kiss his cheek. “Isaias, have you met Trent and Torrie McGrath. They are my ex–in–laws and came to wish me well this evening.”
“Liesl,” Trent stared at her, “can we talk outside of this room please?”
“Why? Anything you say to me will be repeated verbatim to my boyfriend,” she felt his laugh rather than heard it. He wasn’t balking at the boyfriend term. Good. He started it. She was going to run with it. Give an inch, take a mile. Tonight, she was playing by Sandy’s rules.
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“You don’t know who he is.”
“Yes, I do.”
“Do you?”
“He was one of my very first customers,” she smiled up at him and her breath caught at the endearing way he was smiling back. He winked at her and kissed her forehead. “He bought one of my pieces when I was still in art school.”
“It hangs in my office to this day. We recently reconnected and when I realized she was the woman who had painted the scene which inspires me every single day, I couldn’t help but pursue her.” He squeezed her hip tightly, “I mean, talent, brains, and this stunning beauty. Your son was an idiot to let her go but his loss is my gain.” He grinned wickedly, “it seems a pattern for him
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lately.”
“You went after her to
get
to our family.”
snuggled
into
I
him
She “Um,
actually.” approached sculpting again and use his chest for inspiration. She rested her hand against his pec and resisted the urge to squeeze it.
his chest.
Damn
he was
solid marble.
like
She
had a
strange urge
to take
- up.
“You what?”
“Yes. a restaurant. I
In
rest was history.”
saw him
there and said
hello. I
couldn’t resist.
I soon
recognized him
as the
to buyer
my piece and the
other piece we
purchased back
then
hanging in her
den.
She loves
- it. She’ll be here
soon.
She was
“My mother has the extremely excited to know you still paint.”
*
“Why are you doing this Machado?”
Trent glared at
him.
Liesl admitted she wanted to know as
well the
but
ma
an
simply
gave
a
shrug
and smiled.
trade a diamond dirty glass. “Only a fool would
and hold onto it,
go.” you never let it
for
When
presented with
such gift,
you
don’t let it
slip away. You grab
and
The
serious. As Perhaps, she
over
down her chills running up and the word ‘never‘ had strange emphasis on
a sudden realization Liesl had at his words, Janka and Elsie’s
eyes widened her head. Deeply. was in
spine. They were
maybe
dark, ominous and decidedly
she’d bribed the
wrong billionaire.
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Antwoinette Anderson
Oh
yes babes you’re in his spider web now lol
Visitor
I think I would want to bribe the wrong billionaire
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