Seduction: Book 4 (Strong Young Women Series) (15 page)

Kelly stood to take another bottle. “You know there is enough room for us all here. We could just sleep overnight and go home tomorrow,” she suggested.

“”Yeah, the bed is big enough if we wanted to just take command of this room,” Evelyn agreed. “It’s
extra king size after all.”

Jes smiled. “I’ve never slept with other females before,” she said. “Life as an only child,” she clarified.

“Same here,’ Evelyn supplied. “Not the only child bit, but the only girl.”

Kelly lifted her hand. “Only child too, but we did a lot of sharing beds with Ana in college. Most
ly when we were drunk,” she said remembering the numerous times they had gone wild after a lot of studying and tests were over.

“As long as none of your men try to kill me, I’m game,” Stefano agreed. He moved to one side of the bed and pulled the bedding down.
He gingerly got in the middle of the sheets, balancing his wine glass carefully. “Two on this side, and the other two on this other side,” he said pointing.

“I need to use the bathroom first,” Ana agreed and went to take care of business.

“I should get rid of the make-up otherwise I’ll regret it in the morning,” Kelly said following Ana into the bathroom.

Jes was already fast asleep. Evelyn and Stefano looked at her and laughed. Stefano got down and picked her up, then placed her on the bed.

“I’m just going to finish my glass, then join you guys,” Evelyn told him as he stepped back into bed.

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Gabe walked back into his living room. He wasn’t sure if the men in his living room would be amused at what he had seen. They all wanted to go home and had been wondering why neither Stefano nor the women had made an appearance for the past couple of hours.

“Is something wrong?” Manuel was the first to see him and ask.

“Not exactly,” he hedged. “Just don’t over react or you could all be in trouble,” he told them. “I’m speaking from experience.”

“Just spit it out, bro.” Manuel couldn’t think of what Gabe could mean. But it couldn’t be that bad if he was not in a panic, right?

“They are sleeping.” When no one spoke he went on. “Together, as in the same bed.”

“Is someone going to say something here?” Mitch asked. “Are you all not concerned with four women sharing a bed with one male?”

“He’s gay,” Rafe told him.

“Ah….” He cleared his throat. “I don’t mean to be rude or anything, but is he
straight gay or bi? I mean does he dabble on both sides?”

Manuel growled at him. “Watch it man.
Haven’t we been over this already?”

“No need to fight,” Gabe said coming to stand in between them. “Mitch, Stefano isn’t interested in women
in the biblical sense. At all. Trust me, I know.” He looked at his sister’s boyfriend and new friend and wondered if he was listening. “Does that answer your concerns?”

Mitch stepped back and nodded.

“And Manuel, you can’t blame the man for asking. At least he did, I didn’t.”

Manuel sni
ckered. “Yeah, I still remember the day you got drunk at the club and she ignored you like yesterday’s garbage at that charity event.”

Nate and Rafe followed with laughter and Gabe shook his head as he took his seat back.

“Well,” Rafe said. “I better go and carry my fiancee home.”

Gabe laughed. “I wouldn’t do that if I were you,” he told him with a huge grin. None of them want to go home.”

“You said they were sleeping? Didn’t you?” Nate asked.

“So how do you know they don’t want to go home?” Mitch asked
frowning at him.

He lifted his legs up and placed them on the coffee table. He gave them all another huge and satisfying grin. “They might have communicated in another way,” he said.

“Which is?” Rafe asked.

Manuel
leaned against the couch. “I see Stefano’s work all over this.”

“It wasn’t his handwriting on the notice that was on the door,” Gabe replied.

“Whose?” All four asked.

“It’s probably best if you saw it yourselves,” he suggested. They stood still for a few seconds, then all rushed towards the bedrooms. They didn’t have to go far. The first bedroom had a note stuck outside that was almost falling off the door.

Only one penis allowed at a time.

As for the rest
…of the penes,

JESAK will see you tomorrow.

“Who the fuck is Jesak?” Mitch asked.

“Well, if only one penus is allowed, we can all go in one at a time,” Nate suggested.

“And see who Jesak is?” Rafe asked again. “You think someone by that name is in there?”

Manuel laughed. “Initials. J. E. S. A. K. It’s the five of them in there,” he said shaking his head.

“No wonder why Gabe was relishing this,” Rafe said wishing he could get him back.

Nate laughed. “He sure seemed to be having a jolly good time.”

Mitch placed his ear against the door. He couldn’t hear anything. So maybe they were really asleep. But if not, they could be in trouble for peeping in.

Manuel looked at Mitch as he straightened up.
“I doubt it’s locked, but besides, even if you wanted to, you can’t go in there. Already one penis has been accounted for.”

“You’re not helping,” Mitch growled.
“And I’m not sure I…this is so fucked up.”

He shrugged. “Sorry, but he does have a pen
is. I know that for a fact.”

Nate stepped in between
them. “Okay, let’s not get carried away. We might as well peek in, and settle for the night. Either here, or you can come back in the morning,” he suggested.

As they looked at each other and nodded in acknowledgment, Mitch who was closest to the door, opened it slowly and they all stood at the do
or and looked in to see five bodies huddled together, snuggled, spooning, without a care in the world. It was like seeing five little babies cuddled together.

When they heard someone stir
ring, they quickly closed the door and moved away.

“I don’t remember this being a sleepover,” Rafe grumbled as he took his seat next to Gabe. “And don’t even make a snarky comment,” he warned him.

Gabe shrugged and brought the bottle he was holding to his lips. “What would I say?”

“That he can’t even celebrate his own good fortune on the night of
his engagement?” Manuel suggested.

“Hindsight is 20-20, bro,” Nate told him.

“Not that I could have stopped her from coming here,” Rafe told them. “She was intent on coming to tell Ana. Not that I begrudge her that, but …”

“You would have liked to
be in bed with her. Yeah, yeah, so would we.”

“Mitch, you didn’t just say what I think I heard?” Rafe asked.

At Gabe’s snicker, Mitch grinned, realizing how his words had come out. “Well, not with Kelly. I have my own woman who keeps me occupied enough that I don’t have eyes for any other woman.”

“And you just didn’t spell out that you are sleeping with our sister, I hope?” Nate asked.

“She’s a sensual woman.”

“Okay, my bed is calling me,” Gabe said getting up. “You four can fight it over for the three remaining bedrooms.”

“Mitch gets the couch,” Manuel said walking towards the bedrooms.

“Why me?”

“Only because you dared give us graphic details of you and our sister having sex,” Nate said joining Manuel.

“And besides, you’ve roughed it out in the army before,” Rafe advised him. “This here,” he said patting the seat beside him. “Is like a feather bed, compared to whatever hard surfaces you’ve been on before.” He stood and followed his two brothers. He grabbed a pillow and a light blanket from the linen closet and threw them an Mitch, who caught them with his good reflexes.

He grinned and made his ‘feather bed’, then settled down for the short night. Short, depending on what time they finally woke up.

Thirteen

It had been a great fourth of July and Evelyn was finally relaxing in her relationship with Mitch. He wasn’t so bad after all. A bit over possessive, but not too bad really. She wanted to surprise him.

Hopefully she wouldn’t get to his office and find him off the premises. With him you could never tell, although he had said he was trying to add more responsibility to his second in command. Evelyn had yet to meet him. He had been on some long assignment somewhere, top secret, Mitch had said. After that she hadn’t questioned him.

She passed by Gina’s desk. It was empty. Strange. She was usually at her desk the few times she had stopped by. It was a little after lunch time, maybe she had taken a late lunch. Evelyn shrugged and saw that Mitch’s office door was ajar. She pushed it open and stood frozen in the doorway.

It was true. All men are dogs, she thought and turned away.

“Fuck, Evelyn…wait.” Mitch pushed Gina away and rushed towards Evelyn, but she had already disappeared and taken the elevator. He reached the doors as they closed and watched her hold the close button while he tried to push the button to call the elevator back to open it’s doors.

He had never been so frightened in his life. He watched tears slide down her cheeks and swore, hitting the wall hard with a tight fist.

He heard footsteps then a few seconds later some of his men joined him by the elevator and saw the huge dents already made by his fist. None of them said a word
as he continued swearing. Finally he came to his senses and walked back to his office where he found Gina still in his office.

“Out,” he shouted and he was glad when someone dragged her out. He picked up the phone and told his men that manned the front desk do a lock down. “And get me Jack or Chuck. Make sure one of them is with Evelyn,” he said into the phone.

“Uh boss. She ran out of the door and both Jack and Chuck ran after her.”

Mitch swiped all the contents on his desk off, onto the floor, then hit the nearest wall. “I need everyone not on an active case to go looking out for her. Make sure she doesn’t
come into any harm, and I don’t care what she says. Take her to my penthouse. Just keep her safe, okay?”

His men rushed out and Mitch wondered what he would do if she
was harmed. He wouldn’t want to live at that point. Her brothers would surely kill him. And with his blessing too.

“Mitch,” Gordon said coming into his office. “What’s going on? I heard a scuffle and then saw some of the men running out of here.”

“It’s Evelyn,” he said and sat down in his chair. He gripped a pencil on his desk and broke it into two, then threw it on his desk. What he needed to do was break Gina’s neck.

Gordon took the seat opposite him and waited for his boss to tell him what he needed him to know.

“She was here a few minutes ago, and saw Gina kissing me.”

Gordon sighed.
“And assumed you were into the kiss too?”

Mitch nodded his head and rubbed his forehead in frustration.

“What’s your plan, boss?”

Mitch hissed his frustration. “I need to go and find her. Problem is I have no idea where to start. She could be anyway, but one place she won’t be going back to is my penthouse.”

“Her house perhaps?”

“Or one of her brothers’
apartments.”

“She wouldn’t do anything stupid with that lunatic still on the loose would she?” Gordon asked.

“I doubt she’s thinking straight right now. And it’s all my fault,” he told Gordon.

Gordon raised his eyebrow at
Mitch’s statement.

“When Gina kissed me, out of the blue. I froze. She’s Steve’s little sister and I never thought she could do something like that. Hell, she knows how I feel about Evelyn.”

“Mitch,” Gordon called out to him. “Everybody was aware of Gina’s feelings towards you except maybe yourself. “Even Steve warned her several months back not to do anything stupid. At the time Evelyn wasn’t even in the picture. And Gina had just been with the company six to eight weeks then. Didn’t you see how she followed you like a puppy?”

“Fuck,” Mitch said. “I thought she was just grateful for the job, and was being an efficient
assistant.”

Gordon shook his head in the negative.
“Where is she now?” he asked Mitch. “She wasn’t at her desk when I came in,” he commented.

“Don’t know and don’t care at the moment.” He stood up. “I need to go.”

“At least wash the blood off your hand,” Gordon cautioned Mitch.

Mitch looked down and was surprised to see the blood on his fist. Some of it had already dried. He walked into his bathroom and quickly washed
his hand. He patted his hands dry and found Gordon pacing his office.

“Something wrong Gord?”

“Only that Gina is claiming you kissed her first,” he said with a grimace.

Mitch swore.
“I don’t have time for Gina or her untrue stories. Just hold the fort while I try and get to Evelyn.” He strode out of the office and rode down the elevator, meeting some of his men who had clearly been waiting for him. “Any word?”

“Yes boss,” Luke said as he started walking beside Mitch. “Both Jack and Chuck caught her and
Jack caught a cab with her. Chuck came back and followed them in his car.”

“Is she at the apartment then?”

“She refused to go there. The only place she agreed to go to was her house, so they are on the way there.”

“Why are we still here then?” he asked.

“August has the vehicle running outside,” he told him.

They rushed outside and
Luke opened the door for Mitch, then ran to take the seat on the passenger side. August gunned down the car, already knowing that his destination was his boss’ girlfriend’s house. He had never been there, but he knew the address and had an idea of where it was. Besides the trusted GPS most new models had these days were a blessing.

Never having lived in a big town before, he was glad his boss had insisted that they all take extensive defensive driving training. Driving in New York was crazy even at the least busiest of times. He was glad this wasn’t peak hour yet. Although by the time they made it, it could well be.

Mitch saw Jack and Chuck sitting in their truck as August screeched to a halt right behind them. He appreciated his speed and was glad they hadn’t caught any traffic cops on the way over. He stepped out of the truck and went to meet Jack and Chuck who were already climbing out.

“Is she okay?” he asked.

“She didn’t come to any harm, but sorry boss, she refused to follow your instructions.” Jack stopped a few feet away wondering if they were in trouble for not forcing the issue.

“What did she say?” he asked.

“She didn’t stop crying. I didn’t know what to do. If it weren’t for that…” Jack stopped not knowing what to say next.

“That’s okay. She can be hard headed. I understand,” he told them. “It’s my fault that she was crying.” He sighed and looked at her front door. “Anything else I need to know?”

“She won’t allow us in. Wouldn’t even allow us to search the house like usual. She just banged the door in our faces,” Chuck supplied.

“Thank you.” He walked to her door and knocked. He kept knocking but nobody answered. Mitch sighed and took out his pho
ne and called her. He kept dialing but each time it rolled to her voicemail. “Evelyn!” he called out as he started knocking again. “Are you sure she’s still in there?” he asked getting worried.

“Oh, she’s there,” Jack replied and pointed to the two cars that had stopped at the end of her driveway.

“Gentlemen,” the first officer said as he walked up the driveway and stopped close to them. “What’s going on here?” he asked.

Mitch stepped up and held out his hand in greeting. “Mitch Sanders. I’m trying to talk to  my girlfriend, but she’s not opening her door.
I’m afraid that she might be in trouble.”

“Step aside,” he said to Mitch. “The owner called and said there was a disturbance going on on her property.”

Mitch shrugged and wondered what Evelyn was up to. She must be mad to have called the cops on them. Once she opened her door, he hoped to be able to talk to her and explain the small misunderstanding.

As the office
r knocked on her door, Mitch saw two more cars stop by and then saw the number of neighbors that had come out to watch the show. He turned back as he heard her door opening and took a few more steps close to the door.

She didn’t even acknowledge him. “Thank you for coming,” he heard her say. Then she asked the offi
cer to step inside and shut the door. They stood outside in the hot sun for the next seven minutes then the officer came out and called his partner. He hoped whatever misunderstanding had been there, had been straightened out.

“Mitch Sanders,” he heard the first cop call him. “Ms. Boyd claims you have been harrassing her for the past fifteen to twenty minutes. “You need to leave her property and stop all communication with her.” He turned to the other men. “The rest she said you can stay.”

Mitch lifted his hands in surrender and told them he understood. He walked off to the street and stood staring at her house. She needed to calm down, then he might have a chance to explain what she had seen.

He opened the door of the SUV as August reversed and came to a stop where he stood. Mitch stepped in and leaned back against the seat wondering how things had just skyrocketed from bad to worse. And in a matter
of a couple of hours.

He needed to strategize and find a way to reach her. He tried her phone again and it went straight to voicemail. Had she really switched off her phone? He tried her landline, her business phone. It rang and was picked up by the machine. Mitch hung up and dialed again
and again. Frustrated he dialed for the tenth time and this time left a long message, apologizing and asking for the chance to explain what she had seen.

Mitch was barely hanging up when he saw the black and whites return. Surely it couldn’t be the same officers? And she couldn’t have called them again. He was mistaken when he saw them come back from her door and walk over to his side of the door.

“Mr. Sanders, I’m sorry but we have to take you in,” the first officer said to him. “You were supposed to stop all communication with Ms. Boyd. She’s filing harrassment charges.”

“You’ve got to be kidding me,” Mitch said stepping out.
He looked at the officer with worry.

“Something must have happened, I’m not sure what it is. She’s adamant that we take you in and throw away the key.” He grinned at that. “Sorry,” he said as he became more professional. “I respect you and the men at S
anders Consulting. Have had the pleasure of working with some of them. But I’m afraid I have to take you to the station.”

Mitch shook his head and followed them to their squad car. “Call Gordon,” he said belatedly
to his men as he ducked his head and got into the backseat.

∞∞∞∞

Tired of crying, Evelyn decided to take a shower and wash the morning remains of Mitch off her body. That surely sounded like a good plan. She switched plans and decided to take a bubble bath instead. She liberally poured the bubble bath and was satisfied with the amount of foam as she stepped inside. Surely all this soap would erase his scent?

She picked up the glass of wine she had been drinking. Her third full one since she had been home. Her stomach growled and she realized she needed to eat. It wouldn’t do to die of hunger while the cheating fool lived on.

Evelyn rose from the cooling water and rubbed herself dry. She froze when she walked into her closet and found it empty. She had forgotten that Mitch had packed all her clothes when she had agreed to temporarily move in with him.

She had no intention of leaving her house for the next few days. She knew he would be out in a matter of minutes, but hey, it had been satisfying to see him being taken away in a patrol car.
Belatedly she thought how satisfying it would have been to have taken a picture and posted it on YouTube.

If only they could surely throw the key away. Had she been that stupid that he had been leading her along while busy fucking his secretary
/assistant at the office? Had she been blind to Gina’s smiles the few times she had been in her presence? Gina probably pitied her, knowing that Mitch was just leading her along. But why would Gina tolerate her man being with another woman?

Whatever, Evelyn said to herself and dialed Ana’s phone. Next she placed an order for
an early dinner. She pulled the curtain aside and scanned the driveway. Only Jack and Chuck were still there. The vehicle Mitch had come in hadn’t returned back yet. She had seen it following their boss as he was led off to jail.

She walked away and put her television on.
She switched to the news channels hoping to catch some news of Mitch being led into the police station. Sometimes reporters loitered around police stations hoping to catch some worth news. Maybe she should have called a tip to one of the news stations. Except that they would probably hound her too. She put that thought aside and glanced up when she heard a knock on her door.