The Road to Price (18 page)

“My parents just
thought it was a phase. They thought I was getting my promiscuity out of the
way before I settled down. By the time college came around, it was evident that
I had no desire to settle down with Darcy. Darcy was okay with this too She had
a boyfriend at the time and she had no desire to settle down with me either.

“My senior year of
college my father got very ill and I wasn't in any position to take over his
company. Darcy’s father offered to step in and run it for me until I was
capable of running it myself. This sounded like such an excellent solution for
all of us. He just had one condition. I had to marry Darcy first.”

Sebastian’s hands
moved through my hair and down my body as his eyes followed. It was like he
wanted to make sure I was still there.

I wasn’t leaving
him.

He continued to
tell me about Darcy.

“Darcy had broken
up with her boyfriend at this point. I had no feelings for her and I knew that
wasn’t going to change but I also needed to help keep my father’s company
running. I had spoken about this with Darcy and she felt the same way I did…
but she was Daddy’s girl. She would agree with whatever he asked of her, no
matter what.

“A week before my
father passed away I made the deal with Darcy’s father. We married that weekend
in a small ceremony on her parent’s estate. It was a business deal and her
father kept his end of the bargain. He ran my dad’s company for the next two
years and then I took over.

“Darcy and I tried
to have a real marriage in the beginning but it only lasted a couple months.
Neither of us was in love and Darcy was sleeping with her tennis instructor and
me. We decided to stay married for the sake of our families. Also a divorce
would mean vicious headlines in the press. Neither of us wanted that.

“So we stayed
married to make everyone happy but we have little to no contact. Unless it has
to do with business we don’t speak. We rarely even attend functions together.
It has worked for us, up until now.

“I want a divorce
from her. I want to show you off as my woman. I want everyone to know we are
together.”

I was stunned. A
lot of declarations were being made in this bed today. I needed time to take it
all in. Just when I though there couldn’t be anymore he said one last thing.

“I want you to
stop working for me. I want you to live with me as my girlfriend, not as my
housekeeper.”

Wow. I wasn’t
expecting that.

I also wasn’t
expecting the overwhelming feeling of love that rushed over me when he called
me his girlfriend. Okay, maybe he didn’t call me his girlfriend but he implied
that he wanted me to be his girlfriend.

I moved closer
into him and lifted my right leg over his hip. I wanted him as close to me as
possible. My chest was pressed into his and my arm moved around him to hold
onto his back.

“As much as I love
the idea of being your girlfriend and living with you, I can’t. You hired me as
your housekeeper. How would that look to everyone? Your housekeeper is now your
girlfriend? I’ve made a few friends here and they will hate me when they find
out.”

He looked at me in
disbelief. He knew I had no friends in the house.

“Okay, maybe not
friends but acquaintances. If you change the dynamic of the house things could
backfire on you.” I pointed to his door as I continued, ”those girls out there
really like you. Some might even love you. If you declare me as your girlfriend
and I stop working for you everything will blow up in your face. Most of those
girls will no longer be nice and then we will have even more issues to deal
with.”

I kissed his lips
again trying to soften the blow. I hope he realized I wasn’t saying no because
I didn’t want to be with him. I was saying no because it was what was best for
everyone involved.

He had a really
great life set out for him. He had all the help he needed and I would just get
in the way of that. Plus, I didn’t know how Darcy would deal with this. I know
they have an agreement but she has never had to deal with Sebastian being
serious with someone. This could change everything.

Sebastian
continued to gently kiss my lips as he spoke.

“If you don’t want
to I understand but don’t… don’t use those girls as an excuse. I want to make a
life with you and if you want to make a life with me too then the rest will
work itself out. I just need to know what you want.”

What did I want?
Everything he said, I wanted that too. But can I have it? Can I just forget
about everything in my past and make a life with him? He’ll never understand
about the children thing. He’ll never understand my love for Miles. He’ll never
know Miles.

Can I live my life
with someone who doesn’t even know about the most important thing in my life?
Can I tell him about Miles?

No, I knew I
wasn’t ready to talk to him about Miles yet but I did want what he was
proposing. I wanted to be his girlfriend. I wanted to make a life with him and
I wanted to live with him. Not as his housekeeper but as his girlfriend.

Screw what the
other girls thought. If Sebastian wanted me than I wasn’t going to turn him
down. He has made me happier than I have been in a long time. I would be stupid
to give that up. People fought their whole lives to feel just a fraction of
what I feel for Sebastian. I have to be with him, however I can.

I moved my hand
from his back, up into his hair and kissed him a little harder than the gentle
kisses he was giving me. When I broke the kiss Sebastian was panting and ready
for more, His erection digging into my stomach made that evident.

I wanted him too
so I was going to let us both out of our misery, “I want to make a life with
you too. I’ll move in, I’ll be your girlfriend. I want to be with you however
and whenever I can.”

I moved my lips
back to his and the kiss grew more and more intense as he was frantically
ripping my bra and panties off my body. I pulled his boxers off with just as
much eagerness.

His hands roamed
all over my body. My hands couldn’t decide where they wanted to touch first,

Then Sebastian’s
cock was entering me and I forgot about anything and everything else. I just
focused on Sebastian and the way he made love to me.

The next few weeks
flew by. Sebastian and I were inseparable. I stopped working at the estate and
moved my things over from the employee’s quarters to his bedroom.

Any doubts I had
about our new arrangement quickly vanished.

Sebastian treated
me amazingly. He was the most attentive boyfriend I could have ever asked for.
I was starting to realize how lucky I was to have found him. If I would have
stayed in Georgia I might have missed out.

He also took care
of talking to the girls.

Two days after we
decided to try a relationship, Sebastian sat down with all of the girls. I
wasn’t there so I don’t know what all was said but from what he told me, they
were all pretty understanding. Everyone but Vanessa.

Vanessa went off
on Sebastian and said demeaning things about me. Sebastian reminded her of the
contract she signed. Apparently Vanessa and the other girls received a
different version of the contract than I did. She understood fully what she was
getting herself into when she signed her employee contract. He made no promises
to her or any of the other girls.

So she quit.

I wish I could say
I felt bad for her but I didn’t. I was glad that I wouldn’t have to deal with
all the idiotic things she would say. I was also glad I wouldn’t have to worry
about her throwing herself on Sebastian. I knew he wouldn’t reciprocate but I
still didn’t want it to happen.

I had spoken a
little to Rachel and Michelle over the past few weeks; they seemed to be really
happy for me. It was obvious I was in love with Sebastian. They also explained
how they had never seen Sebastian this way. It was obvious to them that he
loved me too.

All in all,
everything was going great. The joy Sebastian gave me helped fill the void Miles
left. It was still there but it was easier to ignore the pain when I had
Sebastian to focus on.

I was looking over
myself in the mirror that was attached to the wall in Sebastian’s closet. I was
wearing a blue, floor length cocktail dress, beautiful navy
Louis Vuitton
shoes
and a beautiful diamond necklace that was loaned out from the jeweler for
the evening.

My hair was down
in loose waves over my right shoulder. I had on a decent amount of make-up, at
least more than I usually wore, and I wore a set of diamond earrings that
Sebastian gave me earlier this evening. I have never owned something so
expensive before but Sebastian insisted I have them.

I heard a noise
come from the other room and when I looked up Sebastian was standing in the
doorway. He looked so handsome. He was wearing a standard black tux but
Sebastian made everything he wore look like it was made just for him.

He walked over to
me while I was still facing the mirror. Standing behind me, his eyes met mine
in the mirror and he leaned down to kiss my shoulder.

“You are the most
beautiful thing I have ever seen. I am going to be the envy of every man in the
room tonight.” His words made me melt. I knew there were going to be women much
prettier than me at this event, but the fact that he thought I was beautiful
helped me not to be self conscious of my appearance.

He wrapped his
arms around my middle and rested his chin on my shoulder. We spent a few
moments just staring at each other. I was so lucky to have him in my life.

“We should get going,”
Sebastian said to me as he let go of my body. I instantly felt a void on my
body from where his hands were a second ago.

“I’m ready, I just
need to grab my purse.”

I turned around
and started to leave the closet when Sebastian grabbed me by the hips and
thrust me into his body.

His lips came down
to meet mine and I was lost in him. Every brush of his lips on mine sent
tingles throughout my body. My breathing started to get harder and I could feel
my insides starting to heat up.

Just when I was
about to ask him to fuck me in the closet, Sebastian broke the kiss and let go
of my hips. I was panting hard and breathed out, “that was so unfair. You got
me all riled up and now your just going to leave me?”

Sebastian chuckled
lightly and replied, "I told you, we have to go. This is a big night for
me and we can’t be late.”

He took a step
towards the doorway and continued, “We’ll finish this tonight, I promise. It
will be good for you to feel a need for me all night. It will make it even
better when we finally do have sex.”

He was such a
tease.

We were off to a
big celebratory event at one of the most exclusive hotels in Miami. Sebastian’s
company had just signed a massive deal with a huge oil company in Europe. It
meant positive things were ahead for him and the party was to celebrate what
the next year would bring.

This would be our
first public outing together. Sebastian and Darcy were still married in the
public’s eye, and I wasn’t allowed to announce I was his girlfriend or hang on
him all night, but he wanted me to go for support. He let Darcy know that I was
going and surprisingly she was happy for him.

I grabbed my purse
off the dresser in Sebastian’s room and turned to exit the room with him.

“Ah, ah, ah,
Honey. Aren’t you forgetting something?” Sebastian said in a teasing voice.

I looked at him
skeptically. I couldn’t for the life of me think of what I could be forgetting.
I quickly looked over my appearance to see if I was missing something crucial
but I wasn’t.

“I have no idea
what I could be forgetting. Enlighten me?”

He shook his head
in a mocking tease to me as he spoke. “Your pill. Today is the first day you
can start your birth control. I’m sick of wearing condoms for you so you better
start your pills tonight. I can’t believe I went along with this to begin
with.”

Oh yeah, my pill.
I had gone to the doctor’s office the morning after Sebastian and I decided to
be together. When she asked if I have had unprotected sex since my last period,
I had to tell her yes. I wasn’t allowed to start a new birth control until we
were positive I wasn’t pregnant. She wrote me a prescription for the pills and
told me I could start them once I started my period.

I filled the
prescription immediately and then came home to tell Sebastian the news. He
wasn’t too happy he had to wait several more weeks to claim what he called “His
pussy.”

It had been hard
on him the past few weeks, especially since I started making him wear condoms
if he wanted to have sex with me. I explained to him that I had already risked
it too much with him and I wasn’t going to continue. I hadn’t told him when my
period was due but he wasn’t stupid.

A few days ago he
approached me to ask if my period had come yet. Our first time was twenty-three
days before so he knew if it hadn’t happened yet it should happen any day now.
I told him that the day of his party was the day I should get my period. I
needed to tell him something so he would lay off me for a few days.

The truth was, I
was already late. As of tonight I was six days late. I kept trying to push off
all thoughts off my period and possible pregnancy but Sebastian made that hard.
Him bringing up my pill again quickly made my stomach flutter and my head
become dizzy.

I wasn’t feeling
sick from morning sickness. No, I was feeling sick because deep down inside I
knew. I knew I was pregnant and the minute I took the test my life would
officially change.

I also knew I
wouldn’t have another baby. I would not do that to the memory of Miles.

Sebastian noticed
the change in my face right away.