Passionate Ashes (3 page)

Chapter Two

Jada looked at herself in the mirror and smiled, examining her new maid uniform with open admiration. It was a modern twist on the typical maid outfit, keeping the same black and white color scheme but creating a much more form fitting black shirt and shorts with white trimmings. Her ass took a little bit of work trying to fit into the shorts, but when everything was zipped and buttoned, her ass never looked better.
 
She started to wonder why Darrius would ever leave her.

Thinking of Darrius suddenly sent a small pang of emotion through her chest.

Her and Darrius were best friends for years before they embarked on a relationship, which happened to be one of Jada's best. Their days were spent crying because of how much laughter they couldn
’
t suppress. Their chemistry was also pretty incredible, especially when they would spend weekends with their curtains drawn, exploring each other
’
s bodies and finding ways to please each other that neither would have imagined.

But to Darrius, it was all replaceable.

To Jada, it was everything.

The break-up came as a shock to her when one day Darrius just flat out stopped answering any of her calls. After hours of panicking, Darius shows up at her door with an expression that Jada had never seen before. He broke the news like someone who was trying to remove a tooth would do. Quickly and with a huge amount of pain.

For the week after, Jada was a disaster.

But with a new job on the horizon, Jada found her spirits being lifted. Especially as she admired her perfect figure in the full-length mirror.

He's the one missing out.

And sure enough, he was definitely missing out. Jada had curves in all the right places, with a thick bottom and a charming smile, she was a force to be reckoned with.

Damn, I should wear this shit out one day.

She grabbed her bus pass and ran out into the humid, sunny Miami morning. She locked up her tiny apartment and hurried over to the bus stop, afraid that she was cutting it close on time. On the way there, she expertly dodged a cracked out homeless man and also avoided stepping on what seemed to be a used heroine needle. Ah the joys of living in downtown.

Jada was used to it.

Growing up in a torn household was rough, and so was growing up with parents who were heroin addicts and crack dealers. It was a childhood no one wanted, but many had to live with. It provided Jada with little stability and no one to look up to. Instead, she forged her own path, working her way through community college and earning a degree in business administration. Graduating was such a great feeling, but reality slapped her soon after.

Job prospects were rough.

It was an unfortunate truth that was making things so much harder than they needed to be.
  
A college degree wasn
’
t what is used to be and now finding a job was becoming damn near impossible. With a student loan, rent, and other monthly bills, Jada couldn
’
t afford being without a job for more than a week. So working as a maid was more than anything she could want right now. She
’
d worry about her dreams and aspirations later.

It took her about forty-five minutes to get to the house, but when she did her mouth dropped open. She suspected it would be a large house when the bus took a turn towards Star Island, the home of all the rich and famous.
  
The bus wasn
’
t allowed all the way in so Jada had to walk from the entrance, passing many mansions on the way. But when she arrived at Connor
’
s mansion, it was in a whole other world compared to the others.

The architecture was like nothing Jada had ever laid eyes on before. The mansion took on a more modern frame, with sharp edges and glass walls strewn throughout. The color scheme of slate gray, black and white didn
’
t feel very homey at first but quickly grew on Jada. The four-story behemoth was framed by perfectly manicured lawns that were a plush emerald green in color, a huge marble fountain sculpted into the shape of a koi fish, a few roaming peacocks waving their brightly colored tails in the air, and four pristine Bentley's parked out in the front, their hoods reflecting the glittering sunlight.

It was absolutely ridiculous. Jada was absolutely stunned and felt really excited to call this place her office.

Then she realized she was the one in charge of keeping this theme park clean.
Shit
.

She walked up to the front and climbed up the steps to the impressive glass doors. She reached up and chimed the doorbell, which rang out across the whole property. She wasn
’
t even completely sure this was how she was supposed to get inside.

Maybe there
’
s some underground entrance they smuggle the help through
, she thought to herself, readjusting her shorts so that her lacey pink panties weren
’
t being sneaky and peeking out the top.

It took about five minutes before someone opened the door.

“
You must be the new maid,
”
said the woman who swung the door open. She had beach blond hair that hung loosely in perfectly done curls over her perfectly done tits.

Also, she looked oddly familiar.

Jada was already annoyed, but she did her best to not show it. She forced the most pleasant grin she could afford.

“
Yes, mam. My name is Jada Roman, nice to meet you,
”
she said while extending out a hand like most normal people would do in this situation. The woman just turned on her heels and walked away, her sun-dress catching the window on her bitch turn. She began calling out behind her,
“
name
’
s Shannon, start in the kitchen and work your way up.
”

Jada watched as she walked away, her heels clicking over the extremely expensive and perfect flooring.

Holy dick, that
’
s Shannon Gold! From the Into the Furnace movies!

Jada was never a fan of Into the Furnace.

Jada didn
’
t even know where to begin, so she walked into the grand foyer with eyes as wide as a lost fawn. She looked around, hoping for some hint as to where the kitchen was but instead she just couldn
’
t stop marveling at all the expensive and hand-crafted furniture that decorated the huge, white room with a glass ceiling that allowed an ample amount of sunlight to shine down on the marble floor. It was like walking into a dream. She was so caught up in it all that she didn
’
t notice Connor walking in through a side hallway.

****

Connor had heard the exchange between Jada and Shannon and knew he had to go in and do damage control. When they first met, Shannon used to be very down to earth and treated everyone with respect, which was something Connor always found so admirable. These days, she found joy in stepping over the less fortunate. So Connor threw on a pair of light blue gym shorts and a t-shirt with the sleeves cut out and headed for the foyer. From the hallway, he could see Jada admiring everything around her. He smiled to himself, watching her wide-eyed expression. He also couldn
’
t help but notice how incredibly attractive Jada was. Her ebony skin gleamed underneath the light reflected down from the glass ceiling, and her deep brown eyes were welcoming, even from where Connor was.
  

Connor also couldn
’
t help but notice Jada
’
s other
…
assets.

His eyes wandered to her perfectly plump ass but his thoughts immediately went back to Shannon. He was a loyal man, but Jada was a stunningly beautiful girl and temptation was a hell of a bitch to ignore. Especially when he was married to a drug-addicted monster.

He strode through the hallway, a smile growing on his face. Something about Jada made him feel good.

“
You must be Jada,
”
Connor said, walking over to greet her with an enthusiastic smile and a friendly wave. Jada, who had just dealt with a class five bitch, was taken aback by Connor
’
s warmth. She was also taken aback by the perfection Connor embodied. She never found herself incredibly attracted to white men, but Connor literally made her mouth drop open just the slightest bit. She felt herself admiring his confident strut, the way his toned body fit in his tight gym clothes, how his captivating green eyes just invited even the hardest person in. It was as though, the house mixed with the man, literally took her breath away.

She was so taken aback, she realized she never answered his question.

“
Yeah, I
’
m Jada. Your new maid, can
’
t wait to start dusting! Beautiful eyes, eh I mean house. You have an incredibly gorgeous house.
”

Jada had a way of over-talking whenever she got nervous, and now was definitely one of those times.

“
Thanks, I have to admit, your eyes are quite breath-taking as well,
”
Connor replied, a hint of flirtation behind his words. Jada found her smile growing. Hearing that from such a fine specimen of man sent a familiar tingle down her spine. She had to look away from him, feeling as though if she kept looking any longer she might just throw him to the ground right then and there and ravage his body.

“
Um, Shannon, she told me to start at the kitchen and move up from there?
”  
Jada said, looking around quizzically for the kitchen. Connor took note and shook his head apologetically.

“
Yeah, I
’
m sorry about that. My wife has a tendency to be a little rough around the edges. Please don
’
t take it personally; I know I try not to.
”
He said, apologizing for his wife
’
s behavior. Jada internalized this, remembering that their marriage was all over the blogosphere since last year. She resigned herself to accepting the fact that Connor was eyes only and hands off, unless she wanted to incur the wrath of a Hollywood starlet and rumored drug addict to boot.

“
But yeah, the kitchen is right this way. In fact, let me give you the grand tour.
”

“
I don
’
t think I have that long in my lifetime,
”
Jada joked, hoping Connor would understand her sense of humor. And sure enough, he laughed.

“
Well then let
’
s hope they come up with the elixir of eternal life.
”

Connor wasn
’
t that great with the jokes.

The tour fortunately didn
’
t take their whole lives. It only took about thirty minutes to cover everything from the ten walk-in bathrooms to the small petting zoo in the backyard, right next to the full-sized tennis court.

“
So what did ya think?
”
Connor asked, popping open the orange juice container and pouring her a glass as they stood next to the jet black marble island inside the gargantuan kitchen. Stainless-steel appliances that seemed to be able to do anything from keeping your food cold to writing up a kid
’
s science report along with beautiful accent tiles placed strategically throughout.

It was a dream.

“
When can I move in?
”

“
As soon as you choose which bedroom you want.
”

Jada laughed, her neck arching back in the moment, shining underneath the light. It was beginning to make Connor excited. He recognized how beautiful Jada was earlier, but now there was a primalistic emotion taking over. He started seeing how
hot
she really was, how her breasts seemed to have just the perfect fullness to them, how her lips were always being met by her tongue as she licked them wet, how her hips were just the perfect size to grab on to.

You can take mine,
 
Connor thought. His eyes suspiciously darted from the top of Jada
’
s breasts back to her pearly white smile.
 
The things I would do to you.

All thoughts of Shannon were being pushed to the side as Connor was beginning to imagine their bodies touching, their sweat and scents mingling as they fucked like animals over the kitchen counter.

“
I
’
ll take a bathroom at this point,
”
Jada joked, innocently leaning forward on the island and unconsciously revealing more of her copper brown skin.

Holy shit
.